Abolitionist Education, Facilitation & Supervision
Sage M Stephanou
Sage is a highly experienced community worker, facilitator and educator with a background in Art Psychotherapy, Creative Expressive Therapies and academia. Their work is focused on liberatory methods of healing and education, using anti-colonial, abolitionist and transformative justice frameworks. Their clinical and community work is influenced by their lived experience as a working class, disabled person of the global majority (PoGM).
Sage is the founder and a co-director of the Radical Therapist Network, and currently working as a clinical supervisor, educator, and group facilitator, with a specialism in abolitionist, somatic intersectional, anti-oppressive therapeutic praxis.
Their approach as an educator, facilitator and community worker is explicitly tied with experiential, creative, socio-political/cultural and embodied group processes, and co-created healing and un/learning spaces.
Area of Focus
Anti-carceral healing and care work
Mutual aid strategies and community care practices
Somatic abolition
Transformative Justice and Abolitionist frameworks
Disability justice and healing justice
Crip theory, accessibility, and disabled-led practices
Racial justice, anti-racism and anti-colonial praxis
Developing anti-capitalist and anti-oppressive care practices
Dynamics and psychology of white supremacy, whiteness and European colonialism
History & impact of white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism in ‘health-care’
Anti-Oppression Pedagogy and Praxis
Experiences of liminality, plurality and Otherness
Marginalisation and systemic violence
Developing consensual care practices
Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity (GSRD)
Power dynamics, positionality, intersectionality & oppression
Defence mechanisms, white supremacy and (cultural) whiteness
Racial / cultural / intergenerational / transgenerational / complex trauma
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Testimonials
“Sage's supervision has transformed my relationship with justice, self and collective care. Their extensive knowledge and care enable me to feel fully seen and held accountable in my intersecting and complex identities and commitment to transformative justice. It truly feels radical.
I recommend their supervision, consultation, workshops and facilitation to everyone.”
“Sage is an exceptionally skilled supervisor, who supports me in navigating both the breadth and depth of my work with clients. They are committed to and invite the steadfast unravelling of tightly wound constructs of oppression and supremacism - while being rooted in humanity, kindness and compassion.
They embody and model the awareness and curiosity that is vital for decolonial and liberatory therapy work. The experience of co-regulation, co-exploration and practice of collective care during our supervision sessions greatly informs and impacts the space I hold for my clients. I’m truly and deeply grateful to Sage for their supervision, presence and support.”
“Sage has a gentle yet challenging approach that continues to enhance my awareness of all aspects of art psychotherapy practice; I have really appreciated the insight, knowledge and experience that they bring. Regular artmaking and somatic check-ins are particularly supportive and encouraging in our sessions. Sage’s commitment to collective care is highly motivating - supervision with them has been of huge benefit to myself, empowering me to be of benefit to the community I work alongside.”
“Sage has only been my clinical supervisor for a short while, but they have already supported me to reflect deeper on my practice as an anti-racism and justice worker, especially around holding my own boundaries. They always validate and challenge as and where appropriate. I really look forward to continuing my journey with them.”