De-escalation Workshop

Xpace Cultural Centre is a membership driven artist-run centre supported by the OCAD Student Union and dedicated to providing emerging and student artists and designers with the opportunity to showcase their work in a professional setting. We program contemporary practices that respond to the interests and needs of our membership. As we program with shorter timelines this allows for us to respond to contemporary issues in theory and aesthetics, keeping an up to the minute response to what is going on directly in our community.

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In a neighbourhood which has traditionally been home to many deeply marginalized people, but is facing the pressures and difficulties of gentrification, there can be many points of tension and conflict between different residents. In this workshop we hope to provide some tools for preventing or de-escalating conflicts, including some ways to support people experiencing mental health crises. While it is not possible to manage all situations, de-escalation skills, combined with knowledge of your neighbourhood, can greatly reduce the need to involve police.
Facilitators:
Maggie Helwig is the priest at the Church of St Stephen-in-the-Fields in Kensington Market, an author, and a nonviolence trainer.
Andrea Budgey is the Anglican chaplain at the University of Toronto, an activist, and a musician.
 
 
About Xpace Cultural Centre:
Xpace Cultural Centre is a not-for-profit artist-run centre dedicated to providing emerging and student artists, designers, curators and writers with opportunities to showcase their work in a professional setting. Xpace is committed to maintaining an anti-oppressive, queer positive environment, welcoming marginalized, racialized and indigenous folks.

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