Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy
Autumn 2010 and Spring 2011 programmes
Do you offer counselling or psychotherapy to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender clients?
Are you confident that you have had sufficient knowledge and training to work competently with sexual minority clients?
Would you be interested in updating your knowledge and have an opportunity to work on your values, belief and attitudes in this area?
Pink Therapy, the UK's leading sexual minority therapy training provider is offering a six day training in the Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy.
Award: Attendance Certificate in Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy. BACP Endorsed CPD Activity.
Attendance at individual weekends is also possible, subject to availability, but priority is given to people booking for the whole course.
Module One
Contemporary Models of Gender and Sexual Identity and Understanding the Social Context
Dominic Davies & Lyndsey Moon
- Saturday 25 September 2010 and Saturday 12 March 2011
This day seeks to help participants understand more about binary versus continuum models of sexual and gender diversity and how these interact with other contexts that clients may bring, such as age, ethnicity, religion, class etc.
Gain an appreciation of the richness and diversity that exists in the LGBT communities and the contradictions and similarities that different groups within these communities may have.
Models of Sexual Minority Therapy
Dominic Davies & Lyndsey Moon - Sunday 26 September 2010 and Sunday 13 March 2011
Will explore some of the different models of how to work with sexual and gender minority clients and therapeutic guidelines will be offered and critiqued.
The workshop will be a mixture of pre course reading, didactic inputs, experiential learning, group discussions and plenty of opportunity for participants to explore their own ideas and questions in relation to this subject as well as lgbt cultures, concepts and practices.
Module Two
Working with Internalised Oppression
Charles Neal - Saturday 30 October 2010 and Saturday 9 April 2011
'Internalised oppression' refers to the whole array of ways in which we have taken into our psyches and forms of
thinking and being, oppressive ideas, attitudes, behaviours and feelings which are mostly unconscious. These are responses to external systems of prejudice towards sexual minorities which we have all grown up with.
Clinical manifestations of these range from anxiety states to self hatred and include rationalisation, erotophobia, homophobia, denial, projection, rigidity, overextension, addictions and self harm.
Anyone working on their own sexual development, or with others from sexual minorities, needs to increase awareness of these issues and be ready to work creatively with them.
We shall examine how we have been affected personally and as professionals and share strategies for effective management.
Understanding Externalised Oppression & Multiple Identities
Havva Mustafa - Sunday 31 October 2010 and Sunday 10 April 2011
How external influences of race and ethnicity, class, age and other variables impact the devlopment of gender and sexual minority clients and how to work with these issues.
Exploring identity - Looking at our own identity, building on our knowledge of what identity means we will move into a more personal exploration of identity using an experiential exercise to discuss identities in the room.
Looking at a model of social identity formation focussed around the development of multiple identity/oppression to examine how accurately this reflects the experience of those in the room/clients. This will include a discussion of the experiences of LGB people who experience additonal oppression around issues such as race, class and disability.
We will explore what being an outsider means, the insider outsider experience and whether there are any 'benefits' of being an outsider
Healing from oppression and finding an 'authentic self'. What is an authentic self and what does healing look like?
Module Three
Coming Out
Deirdre Haslam - Saturday 12 June 2010 and Saturday 27 November 2010 and Saturday 7 May 2011
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Models of coming out and their uses
Impact of Difference (Race/Ethnicity, Disability and Age) on this process
Experiential Work
Concept of ‘Developmental lag’ and it’s implications for client work.
Implications of previous marriage on coming out
Coming out and stage discrepancy in couples
Ethical Issues and Resources
Dominic Davies & Catherine Butler - Sunday 13 June 2010 and Sunday 28 November 2010 and Sunday 8 May 2011
Disclosure and Neutrality
Living & working in same community
Guidelines and Good Practice
Therapeutic Resources
Therapist as role model & educator
Non-scene resources:
Therapy groups
Bibliotherapy
Course Fees and Booking Info
£600 for all six days (includes handouts and materials).
Individual Weekends £220 per module (for Directory members, or £240 per module for non-Directory members)
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Times
Training days are 1pm to 7pm for the Saturdays and on Sundays run from 10am - 5pm on most days are to facilitate travel arrangements for people travelling from outside of London.
Venue
The courses will take place in Central London.
Pink Therapy reserves the right to amend, change or cancel workshops or trainers at its own discretion due to circumstances beyond our control.