LATERAL VIOLENCE THERAPY SESSION

 Behavior includes:

• Gossip
• Shaming
• Blaming
• Putting down others
•  Family feuds 
• When oppressed people act out rage
• Anger
•  and frustration 
• When violence is directed at one’s own people 
• When oppressed groups turn on each other 
• Outward jealousy and envy of others 

We can see lateral violence at the Indigenous community levels. It is a ‘cloud’ that has loomed over us for years. Lateral violence has become a destructive way of life for families and communities. 

• Oppression: the unjust or cruel exercise of power or authority from one group of people over another group - a dominant group of people keeping another group of people contained or controlled.