About this event
This event is included in a series of seminars organised in collaboration with the Therapy and Social Change Network.
This facilitated space-sharing offers a unique opportunity to participate in giving time to our political and sociological consciousness. It is based on the assumption that, conscious or not, you can create change beyond the therapy room, through small gestures, attentiveness, and values-led ideas — rooted in kindness and justice. The community meeting is an opportunity to take stock of your values and ideas: preserving and equalising a “brave space”. This space can serve to elicit critical thinking and harmonise values with action. Rather than creating a set of rules, this space recognises the purpose of egalitarian practices for knowledge-sharing, emergences and co-production in three intentional moments: beginning, process and ending. Here, words, silences, pauses and attentive listening are all important and – together – restore and activate our individual and collective potential. The meeting is inspired by ideas and practices from Atavar (2016), Mycroft (2019), and Kline (2021).
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.
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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.
Dr. Francesca Bernardi
Dr Francesca Bernardi (PhD, QTS, CATA) is a creative coach, artist, writer and dis/ability advocate. She trained in Art and Design education and Art therapy and has worked as a teacher and artist-in-residence in schools, alternative provision and further education. She most consistently engages in multi-disciplinary research, setting up creative environments for critical participatory work with marginalised communities. Francesca volunteers as an international board member of the Disability Without Abuse Project (Los Angeles), is founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK, Councillor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and Associate Member of CATA (Canadian Art Therapy Association). Francesca is a Visiting Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the Carnegie School of Education (Leeds Beckett University) and Arts Therapies at the University of Roehampton, Francesca is also a translator (QUB; Routledge).
Dr Francesca Bernardi PhD, art practitioner and community artist, scholar, activist and founder of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK
