Social Marginalisation and Trauma: A Person-Centred Perspective Workshop with Rose Cameron

This year, in collaboration with Fiona Gregory, we are launching an exciting series of person-centred events related to working with trauma (Scroll down to read more about upcoming events in this conference series) ⬇️

This participatory session looks at how trauma may arise from living in a hostile social atmosphere; from witnessing other members of one’s marginalised or persecuted group suffer in such an atmosphere, and from collective or intergenerational trauma. It acknowledges that some clients live with the impact  of all of these sources of trauma, and, furthermore, that they may be failed by the justice system should they suffer a traumatic crime.  The session goes on to emphasise the importance of remembering this when finding one’s way into such a client’s frame of reference and ends by acknowledging that, contrary to Rogers’ assumption, not all clients are emotionally self-regulating.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• To understand how social marginalisation and hostility lead to trauma and gain some familiarity with the theories that describe this.
• To appreciate the centrality of the concept of an inner frame of reference when working with clients whose social experience is either less – or more– privileged than our own.
• To consider the implications of research showing that the ability to emotionally self-regulate is developmental.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Trainee and qualified therapists of any modality, although this trainer is viewing the issue through a person-centred lens.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• To enhance participants’ empathic understanding of –and confidence in – working with those whose trauma is related to their social status.