Candice Valenzuela, MA, MFTI, YT-200 — California Institute of Integral Studies Introduction A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language. What we are getting at becomes plain: Mastery of language affords remarkable power. Paul Valery knew this, for he called language “the god gone astray in the flesh.” (Black Skin White Masks, p.9) …

Social Justice Education needs Trauma Informed Care, now more than ever: A response to “The Future of Healing: Shifting from Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement” by Dr. Shawn Ginwright by Candice Valenzuela, MA — Psychology, YT — 200 “The only way to bear the overwhelming pain of oppression is by telling, in all its detail, in the presence of witnesses and in a context of resistance, how unbearable it is. If we attempt to craft resistance without understanding this…