Since 2020, when the world moved into Lockdown because of the Corona Virus, it seems that there has been a massive shift in our awareness and our approaches to issues of equality, diversity, privilege, and otherness. The deaths of George Floyd and Sarah Everard, together with the trials of the LGBTQ community and those who are neurodiverse, have meant that we have all collectively had to look at issues of privilege and otherness.

My work explores through a therapeutic lens how we might approach and work with the varying different communities who sit and reside in cities such as Bristol. This session will be part taught but also partly experiential and participants are encouraged to bring their own sense of difference and otherness for us all to explore and discuss in a safe and contained environment.

Event Learning Outcomes:

1. At the end of this session practitioners will have an understanding of how an intersectional approach to issues of difference and diversity brings their own experience into the consulting room
2. How working initially with one’s own experience of privilege and otherness then allows us to empathise with our clients
3. This session will enable practitioners to recognise where they are provoked by the unconscious material of those who are speaking about their experiences of difference and otherness
4. This will help practitioners to provide a safe enough space for their clients in order to receive the difficult stories of difference and diversity

Facilitator

Dr Dwight Turner is Course Leader on the Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Course at the University of Brighton, a PhD Supervisor at their Doctoral College, a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. His publications include The Psychology of Supremacy (2023), and Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2021), which are both published by Routledge, together with several chapters in anthologies on aspects of counselling and psychotherapy, and over 50 academic papers on everything from intersectionality in psychotherapy, to dreamwork, to Afrocentric spirituality.

A leading driver in Intersectional Psychotherapy, Dr Turner is an experienced conference speaker, including numerous keynote presentations. Dr Turner has also run workshops for a wide variety of Universities, Charities, and private organisations on issues of race, difference and intersectionality in counselling and psychotherapy. Dr Turner can be contacted via his website www.dwightturnercounselling.co.uk and can be followed on social media on LinkedIn, Threads, or on Twitter at @dturner300.

Price: CaPPP Members Early Bird £65.00, CaPPP Members £70, Non-members £75.00

Places are limited and must be booked in advance by 13.00 on Wednesday 29th Jan 2025

Registration & refreshments: 9.00 to 9.30 refreshments will be available throughout the day and are included in the price.

Lunch: Lunch is included in the price

Venue: St Michael’s Centre , North Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS34 8PD