South Dialogues: On Migrant Subjectivities & Multiplicity

South Dialogues is an event series hosted by South of Therapy in which topics relating to justice, anti-oppressive and decolonial practice, and mental health are explored. During these events, Lucia will be in conversation with different practitioners invited to share their knowledge and perspectives. After the first half, the space will be open for all participants to interact, ask questions, offer reflections, in an open forum.

[South Dialogues are free for South of Therapy Community Members, who will also get unlimited access to all event recordings: joins us here]

For our very first South Dialogues we will be in conversation with Maria Laguna, exploring topics of migration, the negotiation of multiple identities and selves, including double consciousness, issues of power dynamics and complicity (including identification with the oppressor). Join us for a rich dialogue!

This event can be helpful for both, mental health profesionnals and helpers working with migrants, and for migrants or members of the diaspora wanting a space for reflection and exploration of their own experiences.

[Ticket holders will have access to the live AND to the recording for two weeks after the event, if they can't attend on the day]

About the Speakers:

María Verónica Laguna is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, educator, and clinical supervisor based in Uruguay. Her interdisciplinary work bridges continents and communities, informed by over a decade of clinical and social work experience in New York City, where she served in transitional housing programs, outpatient clinics, and private practice. María lectures internationally on Social Work, Critical Psychology, migration, and intersectionality. She is the founder of The Bicultural Collective, an initiative supporting bicultural individuals and the clinicians who serve them, and she leads Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, a collaborative database curating events and resources at the intersection of clinical practice and activism. María is the author of two forthcoming chapters:

• “Exploring Immigrants’ Self-States from an Intersectionality Lens: Finding Liberation in the ‘In-Between’” (Nomos Verlag)
• “Critical Psychology and Ferenczi's Approach to Psychoanalysis: Two Dialects of the Same Language” (in press) (INM Editora)

Lucia Sarmiento Verano is a humanistic psychotherapist in private practice online. With a background in Sociology and Political Science, she has worked as an anti-racism trainer and consultant with mental health organisations. She has experience delivering training and facilitating reflective discussions around topics of anti-racism and decolonial thinking in mental health. Lucia is now undertaking research on the topics of coloniality and resistance as a Ph.D. student at the Birkbeck University of London.