Sheela Ivlev
This participatory workshop draws from Occupational Therapy Disruptors: What Global OT Practice Can Teach Us About Innovation, Culture, and Community, a collection of 16 first-person stories I authored after interviewing therapists across Palestine, Uganda, Haiti, Aotearoa, and beyond. In each, community members resist supremacist systems—settler violence, medical colonialism, and structural neglect—through culturally grounded care, often with limited resources. Participants will engage with global stories, reflection, and discussion prompts to examine their own roles in systems of power, and leave with ideas for resisting authoritarianism through everyday care—whether in clinics, classrooms, nonprofits, or mutual aid spaces
