The Activist Practitioner

25/04/2023

Rough 5 min sketch ✍️

29/08/2021

The Activist Practitioner now has Twitter: https://twitter.com/ActivistPract

The latest Tweets from Activist Practitioner (). The Activist Practitioner (TAP) is a magazine dedicated to sharing ideas, practices, and stories about psychology and social justice concerns

29/08/2021

Our newest edition on Racial Injustice and Decolonisation is out!

https://www.activistpractitioner.com/the-magazine

An activist practitioner is anyone working in the field of mental health who feels that the traditional paradigms of psychology or mental health training and practice need to be viewed critically. An activist practitioner is someone who seeks a way to collectively confront social challenges. 

14/03/2021

"The poverty of my words gave way to the reach of your hands"
One Kiss and a Parting Haiku of Hope - Ruah Grace's gorgeous new work

26/02/2021

26/02/2021

"Feelings are fine... but they're better hidden away" - mesmerising new work by Miranda Cashin, as part of The Wugan Collective

21/02/2021

"Percepticide like a riptide at night" - the latest poetry from the Wugan Collective - Falling Off by Ruth Nelson

29/01/2021

"The rhythmic shearing away of all that's burdensome"

Resolve in Kisses - new work by Ruah Grace, produced as part of The Wugan Collective

23/01/2021

We now have an audio version of The Activist Practitioner and the Sanism issue is up. It is so incredibly powerful and has been an honour to produce this. Our enormous and endless gratitude to the guest editors and all the contributors, and to the listeners who allow themselves to be changed as a result of these stories.

We now have a Paypal link if you are able to afford to contribute to keeping the magazine running - [email protected]

Start listening

https://anchor.fm/the-activist-practitioner

The Activist Practitioner is a magazine dedicated to sharing ideas, practices and stories about psychology and social justice concerns.

22/01/2021

"And now, here, in safety, he encounters the brutality of white police/The racism, indifferent, of the lucky country"
New work, entitled Shadows and Trails, from Ruth Nelson. Written during a Wugan Collective gathering.
Image by David Noble

20/01/2021

"The language of the heart can only be felt collectively." Beautiful and mesmerising words in the poetry of Miranda Cashin.
This work emerged out of the most recent gathering of The Wugan Collective.

27/12/2020

"Things must break down in order to grow."
Lids of Resistance, by Ruth Nelson. An offering from The Wugan Collective

Raven image by David Noble

23/12/2020

"To gain anew, you must risk losing what you knew."
Miranda Elizabeth writes about uncertainty and strength in Bordertown. What's your experience of being in border spaces?

21/12/2020

"Did you notice with me the ways these obfuscated shards of brilliant light dance and tempt so mockingly?"

Beautiful, haunting and hopeful words.
Poet Ruah Grace, performs his original work "I Am Here With You."

Listen and linger with Ruah in this, the first piece of work released by The Wugan Collective

21/12/2020

The Wugan Collective was born yesterday - an intentional community of poetry and spoken word. We gathered yesterday to respond in poetry to the Sanism issue, seeking to explore healing encounters from a felt, embodied, connected perspective: We wanted to explore the bordertown of "us", rather than the separate perspectives of "you" and "me".
Ultimately there will be a poetry audiobook released for sale, with all the proceeds going to keeping the Activist Practitioner afloat.
Until then, we will release poems for free, with you as listener becoming an outsider witness to our stories of felt encounters with Sanism.
"Wugan" means "raven" in Darug. We met on Gadigal land, accompanied by ravens on the rooftops and trees outside the window. Listen for them in the poems.
Image of Raven by David Warren Noble

30/11/2020

Issue 4 is out! In this issue we look at sanism, which is discrimination against those with mental health concerns. Thank you to our three lovely guest editors from the peer support movement who helped us this quarter!

https://www.activistpractitioner.com/the-magazine

16/09/2020

"To reconnect with self is to reconnect with earth and to reconnect with earth is to reconnect with self"

Baabayn Cultural Consultation for the Activist Practitioner magazine Climate Issue

28/08/2020

"A yarn is a circle, each person fits into the circle and brings their own bit of energy in that direction" - Baabayn Weaving

12/06/2020

We are seeking expressions of interest from people with lived experience for submissions on the topic of Sanism/Mentalism.

Sanism/Mentalism encompasses the oppression and discrimination of people with a lived experience of mental distress.

To express your interest in contributing to this edition please send a short paragraph about your idea and a short bio and then we can get in touch about next steps toward publication.

For example you might want to volunteer to interview someone or be interviewed yourself, pitch a practice piece about work you are doing, a theory piece about ideas you want to spread, a piece to enable representation of diverse community voices, thoughts about ideas that changed you, a poem or art work, etc.

We invite people from diverse and/or marginalised backgrounds to submit to this magazine. We would also like to create opportunities for authors to develop their work through mentorship or co-writing practices.

Please send your EOI's to [email protected]. Please see the website for further submission information, contact details and examples of past publications.
EOI's are due by 14 July, completed pieces are due beginning of October.
https://www.activistpractitioner.com/the-magazine

10/05/2020

Welcome to Issue 2 of The Activist Practitioner. Inside you will find: an exploration of climate change in the context of terror management, ideas on how to negate solastalgia, a practice piece looking at how clinicians can support themselves whilst supporting others, a conversation about how to find joy and peace in the midst of climate change, an interview with two climate activists on the front line, as well as creative pieces and reflections on Ideas That Have Changed Me.

We hope you enjoy the issue!

https://www.activistpractitioner.com/the-magazine

09/04/2020

From a piece co-written with Erin Bulluss of Autistic Wellbeing Consultancy, published in The Activist Practitioner.

Read the first issue here:https://d1343636-eab6-42bc-bead-0fab74379ebb.filesusr.com/ugd/2e30f7_d6d374357cc146679783ba6187e2d073.pdf

11/03/2020

Healing self, community and earth.

One of the deadly authors of this incredible piece of participatory action research.

24/02/2020

We've had a lot of brilliant submissions for our upcoming climate issue! Thanks so much to all those who contributed.

06/02/2020

Meet Max Loomes, our 'Ideas that Changed Me' Editor.

Max is an aspiring clinical psychologist, academic and science communicator. Since finishing school he has been obsessed with social justice and has consequently lead him to follow many activist positions in his spare time. These include during the Campaign for Marriage Equality, Anglican schools debacle and the 150m exclusion zones around abortion clinics.

04/02/2020

Meet Ruth Wells, our mentoring and peer review coordinator!

Ruth is an ardent feminist. She sees feminism as a path to challenging many forms of marginalisation and likes jumping up and down about these kinds of things. When she is not jumping up and down, she thinks maybe it’s a good idea to sit and think about how whiteness and privilege have shaped her life, and listen to others.

She is a gender q***r fem human who loves playing music. She is also a psychologist and research fellow in the School of Psychiatry at UNSW, where she is always learning through community based participatory action research with refugee communities. Her current projects include exploring embodied experiences of disability in Syrian and Iraqi refugee communities in Sydney from a lived experience perspective through arts based research; a group based online mentoring program to support Syrian refugee community psychosocial workers in Turkey; developing an online group intervention to promote inclusion in physical activity for Syrian refugees in Turkey; understanding how gender impacts on access to social inclusion and physical activity in Rohingya refugee communities in Bangladesh.

She has a passion for standing up for the rights and health of displaced psychosocial staff and volunteers working within their own refugee communities.

03/02/2020

You can catch our first edition here:

http://activistpractition.wixsite.com/magazine/the-magazine

An activist practitioner is anyone working in the field of mental health who feels that the traditional paradigms of psychology or mental health training and practice need to be viewed critically. An activist practitioner is someone who seeks a way to collectively confront social challenges. 

03/02/2020

Welcome to our page!

The Activist Practitioner is a magazine dedicated to sharing ideas, practices and stories about psychology and social justice concerns. We aim to provide you with a resource that introduces new dialogues about psychology beyond the traditional focus on individualism, rationality, numericisation and the psy-industries. It is published quarterly and each publication follows a specific theme related to social justice and psychology.

03/02/2020