Workshop: Intersectional Approaches to Working with Racial Difference

In May 2020, when George Floyd was murdered, there was a huge outpouring across the world standing up for minority groups post the murder of one black man. The importance of this movement, and of groups such as Black Lives Matter, should not be underestimated, as this marked a shift across the globe in how we actually view and understand race, racism, and the experiences of the racialised other.

This workshop, which is built around the ideas presented in the book A Phenomenology of Racism, looks at the racial construct as something which impacts upon all of us. This session will therefore involve a presentation around race and its construction within a social system of whiteness, together with looking at how each one of us in turn has internalised aspects of racialised otherness. It will also include a creative exploration of systemic whiteness.

Learning outcomes:

· At the end of the session practitioners will have a better understanding of the construct of Race and will be able to discuss and explore the racial construct with their clients;

· To facilitate this level of learning, practitioners will have the chance to consider their own relationship to race and to systemic whiteness, and look at how these identities have moulded their ability, or not, to see the other.

· Practitioners will be given the opportunity to practice discussing race, and will gain some of the creative tools necessary in working with the trauma of experiences of racism;

· This workshop is designed to therefore give practitioners the tools required to become safe spaces for their clients when working with race.

Facilitator Profile:

Dr Dwight Turner is Course Leader on the Humanistic Psychotherapy Course at the University of Brighton, and a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. Dr Turner is the author of Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Depoliticised pathways towards intersectional practice (2025), The Psychology of Supremacy (2023), and Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2021). All are published by Routledge.

Price: Free to CaPPP members * There is a £10.00 booking fee to cover the catering cost of any non attendance. We ask that you only book a place if you can commit to attending the event.

Booking: This is a members only event . All places must be booked in advance by Saturday 10th October. Not a member? Join CaPPP for just £30 a year and take part in this event https://cappp.co.uk/

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cappp-annual-gathering-agm-2026

Registration & refreshments: 9.00 to 9.30 refreshments are available throughout the day

Lunch: Lunch and refreshments are included in your booking

Venue: Engineer’s House, The Promenade, Clifton Down, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3NB

AGM: Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held after lunch between 13.30 to 14.30 with the second part of Dwight’s workshop to follow. The AGM is free to all CaPPP members regardless of whether you are attending the Annual Gathering workshop. A further separate invitation to attend the AGM, solely that free part of the day, will be sent later in the year to remind you of that option.

Getting there: Do remember to use Capppchat If you would like to either offer or request a lift to any of our events.

Car – the venue has ample on-site parking and nearby free on-street at weekends.

Train – a 10-minute taxi journey from Bristol Temple Meads train station or see bus route

Bus – Bristol City Circular number 8 bus service is a circular route stopping at: Temple Meads Train station, City Centre, College Green and Clifton Triangle, this service stops outside Engineers’ House front gates every 15 minutes

Bike – there are 50 secure covered bike racks on-site and Voi electric scooter hire located 50 yards from the venue