Harm Reduction Skillshare

Harm reduction isn’t just a set of ideas. It’s something people practice every day in conversations, programs, and small decisions that help others stay safer and more supported.

In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore the core principles of harm reduction through real stories, shared experience, and practical scenarios. Together, we’ll look at:

• How harm reduction principles show up in everyday moments
• How they guide compassionate responses to drug use, and
• How they help us navigate complexity without judgment or coercion.

This session welcomes people who use drugs, peers, providers, advocates, and anyone curious to learn. No prior expertise required. Come ready to listen, reflect, and practice approaches that center dignity, autonomy, and care in real-world situations.

Why do the same drugs carry very different risks in different moments, bodies, and places? This interactive workshop introduces the risk, set, and setting framework as a practical way to understand drug-related harm and where safety and care can make a real difference.

Together, we’ll explore how mindset, emotional state, trauma, environment, and access to resources shape people’s experiences with drugs. We’ll focus especially on set and setting as places where person-centered, trauma-informed care can reduce harm, even when risk itself can’t be fully controlled.

This session is discussion-forward and grounded in real-world examples. People who use drugs, loved ones, and professionals are all welcome. No expertise required. Come curious, reflective, and ready to think together about how small shifts can support safety, dignity, and survival.

The words we use to talk about drug use shape how people are treated, how policies are made, and whether someone feels safe asking for help.

This interactive workshop explores how language can either reinforce stigma or open the door to dignity, care, and possibility.

Together, we’ll look at common terms used to describe drug use, how stigmatizing language has potential to cause real harm, and practice more respectful, person-centered ways of speaking.

Through discussion and hands-on scenarios, participants will build skills for responding to stigma with curiosity, compassion, and clarity.

This session is welcoming to people who use drugs, loved ones, service providers, clinicians, and advocates. No prior experience needed. Come ready to reflect, practice, and explore how changing our words can change what’s possible.