Liberatory Care Practice Lab
A generative learning and practice hub for liberated care & healing.
Knowledge Sharing ~ Skill Building ~ Relational Practice ~ Experimental Containers ~ Collective Healing & Reclamation
Liberation Occurs in
Community
The Practice Lab offers a collective ecosystem for mental health providers, care workers, community healers and cultural workers to learn, experiment, and build liberated healing & care systems.
Members will learn about and practice implementing anti-oppressive, abolitionist and liberatory structures, systems and institutions rooted in healing justice, transformative justice, harm reduction, mutual aid, BIPOC liberation and sovereignty, queer & trans justice, and disability justice. This is a space for community devoted, accountable mistake makers, brave rebels and loving carers committed to building better approaches to care, support and healing.
Inside The Practice Lab
Become a Labmate!
Subscribe to the Liberatory Care Practice LabSpace
The LabSpace subscription offers labmates a build-as-we-go collection of multimedia offerings to deepen their liberatory care practice. What types of content can labmates look forward to?
Short form video lessons
Longer educational posts
Podcast episodes
Guides, workbooks, informational resources
Practice rituals & experimental challenges
Periodic live, online LabSpace gatherings
Connection to other providers fostering liberatory care & community
Discounts on all other Practice Lab offerings
Things we haven’t imagined yet!
The LabSpace is a way for us to connect, share, and equip in a way that is sustainable and in alignment with our values. LabSpace is a not a membership community, though you will be able to engage with other Labmates. Labmates should not expect to be bombarded with excessive content. Liberatory care is practiced with intention & experimentation over time, which is very hard to do when there are several new things released every month. We will also create in a way that is responsive to what Labmates request and patterns we notice developing within LabSpace.
LabSpace is for all types of care providers and healing practitioners who’s care-work is dedicated to the creation of life-affirming care and healing ecosystems.
Subscription fees:
Monthly: $16/mo
Annual: $175/yr
LAB WEEK!
A week-long liberatory praxis immersion.
Once or twice a year, healers and carers are invited to come together to learn and workshop key liberatory principles and practices. Each LAB WEEK! will concentrate on a theme or topic relevant to community-communicated needs and desires surrounding support, care and healing.
Lab Week Includes
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A series of 3 (or so) webinars and other educational media designed to create an emergent and expansive knowledge base, dynamic community responsive strategies and embodied tools for co-creating liberatory healing futures. All Lab Lesson series include intersecting and multi-layered principles, practices and relational dynamics for decolonial, anti-oppressive, abolitionist and liberatory care and healing.
Most Lab Lessons will be held live, online. There will be instances where a Lab Lesson is pre-recorded and available on demand. All Lab Lessons will be available for limited replay for registrants.
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LAB WEEK! will wrap up with a live 2-hour workshop for participants to integrate and synthesize what they have learned so they can co-create “next steps,” projects and initiatives for their business or group.
Participants are not required to attend all Lab Lessons before joining the Synthesizing Workshop. However, participating live or watching the replay will make the workshop experience great! The workshops focus completely on the content provided in the Lab Lessons. -
We offer a pay what you can pricing model for LAB WEEK of $75, $95 or $105. Our goal is to offer a high value and transformative service at a low barrier price. Those with greater access to wealth that wish to contribute toward the cost of someone else to join is welcome to pay the Redistribution Rate of $155. This would allow us to offer a $50 scholarship via mutual aid to those with lower access to wealth.
Each LAB WEEK! is capped at 60 participants
Experiments in Possibilities
Experimental labs and transformative projects providing a container within which to hypothesize, build solutions, test strategies, obtain feedback, fail forward and refine. These offerings occur in small-medium sized cohorts in partnership with community members.
Experiments we love to run and are skilled at include:
Mapping accountable care within and between care centers
Ethics and Care Standards that honor the sovereignty, dignity and autonomy of the provider, receive and community
Reclaiming to innovate: gathering our own experiences, wisdom, skills and resources to move them out of the medical/mental health industrial complex as we create new care systems. This often involves mapping impacts of interventions; documenting our own histories through oration, art, movement and other media; conducting regenerative and collaborative research to demonstrate what works, how it works, how to preserve integrity of what works while offering paths to alternatives, adaptations and new creations.
We also enjoy facilitating workshops that help practitioners transition more smoothly into liberatory care or deepen their already existing liberatory movement work.
Contact us to invite us to collaborate with you on a project you have in mind.
Ominira Labs sponsored Experiments in Possibilities will be announced here and via email. Be informed by joining our mailing list.
Open Lab Sessions
Join us for our open lab sessions where you can ask questions, share learnings and get support. Lab sessions are like “office hours” meets “help desk” meets “group coaching.” Open Lab is a the perfect space to troubleshoot, get additional resources and engage in collective ideation to help you and your group move forward. Bring a snack, your big ideas and stuck points!
Open Lab Sessions occur on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 2pm MT (1pm PT/3pm CT/4pm ET) unless otherwise posted. Plan to meet for 60-75 minutes. Registrants are asked to share some details about their Open Lab Session topic during the registration process.
Each Open Lab Session costs $10/per person. Each session will be capped at 7 participants.
Still unsure about what the Practice Lab is and why you should participate?
Maybe this will help!
The Practice Lab is akin to a collaborative internship or a group apprenticeship for emerging anti-oppression and liberation builders. You didn’t begin counseling when your core classes ended, right? No, you participated in a lengthy internship followed by pre-licensure supervision. The Practice Lab provides a similar container for fumbling, growing and refining.
Most people try to implement anti-oppressive practices, alone, after just reading a few books, or they rely on DEI initiatives that continually fall short of liberatory change. Anti-oppression projects are successful when they are done in a relational and communal setting and process. Flying solo is a recipe for more of the same ‘well-intentioned’ reforms that don’t move the needle. Having an environment of support, mentors, teachers, peers with a diverse set of skills, experiences and knowledge will provide a generative launch pad for noticeable change.
Practice Lab FAQ’s
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You’ve read the books. You’ve taken the training. You’ve done some personal work. Now it’s time to practice!
This is a space for:
Anyone that provides physical, mental/emotional, relational, spiritual or cultural care for others as career or community role. Due to the nature of our mission to create life affirming mental health care systems, much of our programming will encompass mental, emotional and relational care and healing.
Providers that are personally active in their own anti-oppression journey. This means they can demonstrate a base knowledge and lived experience of: anti-racism, anti-queer/transphobia, anti-ableism, anti-classism, decolonization, anti-imperialism, etc. This is not a space that teaches introductory information on the existence of oppression.
Individuals, groups and teams that want to implement transformative strategies with guidance and accountability, but can’t afford private consulting or coaching.
Folks ready to challenge themselves and the systems they work in.
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Each service in the Practice Lab has a slightly different cancellation policy. See the details of the services to learn the policy.
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We do not offer CEs at this time. We are considering offering CEs for Psychologists and licensed counselors. We will provide an update if we can determine a harm reductive way to provide them.
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The Practice Lab is for anyone that provides professional or community support, care, and/or healing. We focus a lot on the Mental Health Industrial Complex and mental health care in a decolonial abolitionist framework.