About the Event
As authoritarian and fascist movements gain strength by exploiting fear, fragmentation, and the longing for belonging, many people are experiencing rising distress, polarization, and isolation. In this climate, it can be difficult to slow down, stay curious, and resist the simplifications that oppressive systems thrive on. By attending to values, needs, stressors, supports, and resilience practices, we can begin to see how care, accountability, and belonging might be intentionally cultivated – within ourselves and between each other. What might it look like to build stronger, more connected networks of care in a time when division and dehumanization are being actively fueled?
Join IDHA on Thursday, March 19 for a virtual workshop exploring hands-on, peer-led ways to strengthen our capacity for connection, reflection, and collective care. Drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS), systemic family therapy, and the long lineage of peer movement-created tools such as Transformative Mutual Aid Practices (T-MAPs), participants will learn how to create personal and relational “maps” that help make sense of inner experience in context. Rather than treating distress, reactivity, or extreme states as signs of something “wrong” inside individuals, the facilitator will invite a systemic lens: our inner conflicts often mirror the dynamics of the families, communities, media environments, and political systems we are living inside. The workshop will blend teaching, gentle parts work oriented exercises, and group reflection, offering a tool that can be adapted for support groups, clinical settings, and community-based work.
This event is open to people with lived experience, clinicians, organizers, and family members interested in transformative mental health and collective resilience – particularly those working with psychosis, extreme states, complex trauma, and political stress. It will be especially relevant for people curious about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and systemic family therapy who want concrete, peer-led tools grounded in anti-authoritarian, anti-oppressive, and movement-informed perspectives. No prior IFS training is required.
Register in advance via Eventbrite to join. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join.
Donations
IDHA is a small organization that strives to meet the accessibility needs of our community to the best of our ability. Our events are by tiered suggested donation to ensure we can provide closed captions on our events and other programs, though we strive to never turn anyone away. We appreciate donations of any size for those who have capacity to give..
Access
ASL interpretation + automated closed captioning will be provided. The event will be recorded and shared with all registrants. Please submit any additional access needs to contact@idha-nyc.org.
Facilitators
Sascha Altman DuBrul
Sascha Altman DuBrul is a writer, facilitator, and co-founder of The Icarus Project, a pioneering mutual aid network that reframed madness and mental illness as part of human diversity. His work bridges personal and collective transformation, integrating storytelling, systems thinking, and Internal Family Systems (IFS).
A longtime collaborator with IDHA, Sascha teaches about the intersections of mental health, social change, and meaning-making in an age of technological upheaval. Through his current project, Underground Transmissions, he explores how AI, narrative, and community care shape the future of consciousness.
He lives in California with his family and continues to build bridges between radical mental health movements and emerging forms of collective care. https://www.saschadubrul.com/