46th CATA-ACAT Conference in partnership with OEATA:
Dreaming us Forward: Co-creating Belonging through the Healing Arts

September 25 (pre-conference), 26-27, 2025
The Fort Garry Hotel
222 Broadway, Winnipeg, MB.
R3C 0R3

In-Person Event

Join Amanda K Gross in her workshop: Healing (Trauma) Containers: An Expressive Arts-Based Investigation with White Settler Family Members

In this interactive workshop, participants will create a small sculpture (trauma) container. Amanda shares stories and reflections from her doctoral research in which she worked with white settler family members to consider themes of anti-racism, decolonization, and deconstructing multigenerational family patterns. Amanda’s dissertation, Living (Trauma) Containers for Healing Justice, Transformation, and Collective Liberation: An Autoethnographic Expressive Arts-Based Investigation with White Settler Family Members, integrated autoethnographic, expressive arts, and arts-based methods to engage in dialogue around relevant excerpts from her book, White Women, Get Ready: How Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change.