Generation Unconstrained began its modest start as an Anti-Oppressive, Anti-Trauma, and Decolonizing year-long training for interns and staff of the Empowering Counseling Program to deconstruct U.S. White Anglo and Eurocentric knowledge and therapy.

 

To re-construct our praxis is to highlight QIBPOC (Queer Indigenous Black Brown People of Color) and non-western epistemologies (tools to know what is real), ontologies (what is real), and therapies that have been excluded – even obliterated.

 

However, today we are much more. We intend to introduce these philosophies on a broader scale. Through Generation Unconstrained, we challenge the violent ideologies we internalized, the binarisms we normalized, and the systemic inequities we perpetuate. At the same time, this welcomes us to re-member trauma, recollect the shattered pieces of our history that were strategically erased, and re-define our social work knowledge and praxis.