About this event
Setting up, establishing and maintaining a project can feel overwhelming. We start with a question – should psychological therapists even be doing this sort of work? And if the answer is yes, what do they need to know and how can they learn it? Some of the skills needed for setting up a social action project are within the skills repertoire of trained counsellors and therapists. Some are different.
In this series of conversations about setting up social action projects we discuss a case example. This example is of a registered charity, Mothertongue multi-ethnic counselling service (2000 – 2018). Mothertongue was a community psychological therapy service which offered free, culturally and linguistically sensitive counselling for people from multi-ethnic communities in their preferred languages.
In this first conversation we will talk about how Mothertongue came into being, what enabled it, and the challenges it faced. We will try to make links with the current situation. Are there lessons that have been learned that can apply to today’s social context? How is the current landscape different and what new responses are required?
RECORDING
This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.
ZOOM
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
SELF-SELECT FEE
The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.
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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
Beverley Costa
After qualifying as a psychotherapist, Beverley Costa set up Mothertongue multi-ethnic counselling service (2000-2018) for multilingual clients. In 2009 she created a pool of mental health interpreters, in 2010 she established the national Bilingual Therapist and Mental Health Interpreter Forum and founded The Pásalo Project in 2017 www.pasaloproject.org to disseminate learning from Mothertongue.
She has trained over 5,000 therapists for NHS services and NGOs, in working therapeutically across languages and with interpreters since 2013. She is a Senior Practitioner Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and in 2023 she was granted the title Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Communication Design at the University of Reading.
She has run Reflective Practice Support groups for interpreters, psychological therapists and counsellors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, and psychosocial workers. She has developed an introductory course in facilitator skills for running Reflective Practice Groups which has been delivered online to organisations in England, Scotland and Wales. She is the author of Other Tongues -psychological therapies in a multilingual world https://tinyurl.com/Other-Tongues
Website | www.pasaloproject.org
