Making Space Room: Glimmer Gathering: Healing and Reciprocity
Event Type
Lightning Talk
Start Date
25-7-2025 1:15 PM
End Date
25-7-2025 2:00 PM
Description
Glimmer gathering is a trauma-informed list making practice; an excavation and unearthing of what already exists inside of you. As library and information science professionals--we, especially Black, Indigenous, POC women-- are tasked with being the expert, exceptional, and overextended---and ultimately led to burn out. Capitalism relies on us being disconnected from our bodies so that we remain pliable to extractive, depleting, and harmful cycles. Rather than giving you a prescriptive list of "what to do" to heal and break these cycles; I will offer a few suggestions and invite us to co-create a shared body of creative knowledge. Gather for a few moments to tend to yourself, and each other, in a loving container.
Outcomes
- Ground a bit and gather some glimmers to locate and metabolize joy
- Leave feeling a sense of care so that we can survive and thrive
Making Space Room: Glimmer Gathering: Healing and Reciprocity
Glimmer gathering is a trauma-informed list making practice; an excavation and unearthing of what already exists inside of you. As library and information science professionals--we, especially Black, Indigenous, POC women-- are tasked with being the expert, exceptional, and overextended---and ultimately led to burn out. Capitalism relies on us being disconnected from our bodies so that we remain pliable to extractive, depleting, and harmful cycles. Rather than giving you a prescriptive list of "what to do" to heal and break these cycles; I will offer a few suggestions and invite us to co-create a shared body of creative knowledge. Gather for a few moments to tend to yourself, and each other, in a loving container.
Outcomes
- Ground a bit and gather some glimmers to locate and metabolize joy
- Leave feeling a sense of care so that we can survive and thrive
