Culture Wars?
Intersectionality, Identities and Psychotherapy
Recorded Saturday 19 March 2022
With Dr Syed Azmatullah, Dominic Davies, Alex Drummond, Rima Hawkins, Noemi Lakmaier, Eduardo Peres, Michelle Ross, Joel Simpson, Erin Stevens and Dr Dwight Turner
CPD Credits: 4.5 hours
In the context of our increasing awareness about power, privilege, race and gender politics in society, and the consulting room, Confer invites you to spend a day learning more about the concept of intersectionality, and how it impacts each of us. This event is an opportunity for psychotherapists of all modalities, genders, and sexualities to reflect on their own intersectional identities and how we might make better use of these similarities and differences within our practices.
READ MORE...Intersectionality has become a relatively new buzzword in therapy. The term was coined by an American law professor and activist, Kimberlé Crenshaw, to describe how our social and political identities combine to create different forms of discrimination and privilege depending on the contexts in which we find ourselves. These identities intersect to give us multiple advantages and disadvantages. These can be both empowering and oppressing. We will hear from some of the leading figures in the UK therapy scene who have been engaging with these issues personally and professionally.
CPD – An optional certificate of attendance for up to 3.5 hours of CPD, based on completion of a multiple choice questionnaire.
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SPEAKERS
Dr Syed Azmatullah, Dominic Davies, Alex Drummond, Rima Hawkins, Noemi Lakmaier, Dr. Eduardo Peres, MD, Michelle Ross, Joel Simpson, Erin Stevens, Dr Dwight Turner, ,FULL PROGRAMME
Dr Dwight Turner
Exploring Intersectionality in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The topic of this conference is timely. Over the past five years, we have witnessed an intensification of oppressions and a corresponding rise of civil rights protests across the world. Counsellors and psychotherapists have a duty to fully recognise the client’s lived experience of the real outer world: What is like to be a woman walking through the streets of London? What is it like to be a Person of Colour who has been stopped by the police numerous times? What is it like to be of the LGBTQ community, unable to confidently hold hands with their partner in the street? Difference and diversity require therapeutic inspection through an intersectional lens, recognising the power dynamics at play, their nuances, their complications, but also their richness, in order for us to fully start to see the experiences of our clients.
Dr Syed Azmatullah
Towards Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity – Group Experiential Session
Social primates create hierarchical structures by exchanging gestures and aggressions so that a ‘pecking order’ is established. As human beings we aspire to higher ideals such as equality and inclusivity, seeking to establish a ‘level playing field’. Yet sub-conscious dynamics still create a perceived hierarchy using a range of criteria embedded within our cultures over generations. Based on the ‘Veil of Ignorance’ concept (John Rawls, 1921-2002) a self-reflective experiential session is offered to explore our position in these power matrices, where we would prefer to be and the ‘snakes and ladders’ of social power.
Rima Hawkins and Joel Simpson
Panel – Intersections of Race and Ethnicity
Michelle Ross and Eduardo Peres
Panel – Intersections of Age
Alex Drummond and Erin Stevens
Panel – Intersections of Class
Noemi Lakmaier and Dominic Davies
Panel – Intersections of Ability & Impairment
Experiential followed by Q&A
How do you or might you now make use of your own intersectional identities?
All panel Q&A