Based in Chicago
Sheila Shankar
- North America
Sheila is a queer South Asian American therapist, educator, and researcher based in Chicago. She is curious about what can happen when two or more people gather together in mindful, embodied presence to speak and act honestly. Her work centers marginalized ways of knowing/being/doing to cultivate collective healing and transformation.
Feedback Session: ‘Counter Care’ facilitated by Loren Beard and Sheila
13.10.2026, 16:00 (BST) / 19:00 (CEST) / 10:00 (CST)
Counter Care attends to the subversive, relational practices that sustain life under conditions designed to exhaust it. We work in response to systems and structures that unevenly distribute care, merging it with coercion, commodifying it, and sustaining it through devalued labor. Find out more