This event is included in a series of seminars organised in collaboration with the Therapy and Social Change Network.
In this seminar doctoral researcher Frances Basset shares her findings from a Narrative Inquiry which explored a diverse group of senior therapists’ experiences of whiteness within the context of antiracist education. Frances also shares details of the ‘Examining Whiteness ‘ groups she co-facilitates that are open to all therapists who wish to dismantle the racism and inequality that persists within the profession.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- After this seminar attendees will be encouraged to reflect on their own racial identity.
- Understand more about how racism manifests within the profession.
- Appreciate the role of co created hope in aspiring to antiracism.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- All Counsellors, Psychotherapists and trainees
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
It may encourage reflection, reflexivity and foster deeper humility.
Course Content
Organisation
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Presenter
Frances Basset MBACP (Senior Accred), DPsych Candidate, Metanoia Institute
Frances Basset has worked for over twenty years as a Psychosynthesis Psychotherapist and integrative supervisor and educator. She has worked in both the voluntary sector and in private practice. Frances is currently completing her doctorate at the Metanoia Institute. Her research explores whiteness and white identity in the context of antiracist psychotherapy education. She is a senior accredited member of the BACP and student member of the UKCP. Prior to her career as a psychotherapist, Frances was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton where she designed and led degree and master’s level courses on anti-oppressive practice across a range of health care professions. Frances currently co-facilitates four times yearly, ‘examining whiteness’ groups in Brighton and Hove. These groups are open to all psychotherapists and counsellors who want to actively address the injustices and inequalities of racism within the profession through personal and collective work on white identity, power, privilege, and complicity.
The Therapy and Social Change (TaSC) Network is a broad affiliation of people interested in exploring the interface between therapeutic ideas and practices and social justice perspectives and actions. We are interested both in the ways that counselling and psychotherapy can be practiced with social justice concerns in mind (for instance, tackling unconscious biases in the consulting room), and also in the ways that therapeutic principles and practices can be extended out to the wider social realm (for instance, developing social and emotional literacy in schools).
