About this event
When Intersections of Privilege and Otherness was published in February 2021, it arrived at a moment of profound social and professional reckoning. Emerging in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and alongside the global resonance of the #MeToo movement, the book challenged long held assumptions about neutrality, power, and difference within counselling and psychotherapy.
Often referred to as Mockingbird, the text created a vital bridge between the wider social world we inhabit and the inner worlds of our clients. It offered a shared language for training organisations seeking to engage meaningfully with diversity and otherness, while also giving voice to students and practitioners from minoritised backgrounds who were struggling to feel seen, heard, or held within professional spaces.
Five years on, this anniversary lecture and reflective workshop invites a careful and honest stock take.
How far have our professions really shifted?
What has changed in therapeutic practice, training, and institutional culture, and what has remained resistant to change?
Where do power, privilege, and otherness now sit in the everyday realities of professional life?
Dr Dwight Turner revisits the core questions raised by Mockingbird, not as a historical artefact, but as an ongoing ethical challenge. The session creates space for reflection on how issues of voice, belonging, and systemic power continue to shape clinical work, learning environments, and professional identities.
Rather than offering definitive answers, this workshop invites critical curiosity and shared reflection. It is an opportunity to pause, to take stock, and to consider what it might genuinely mean to move forward with integrity, accountability, and openness, five years on from publication.
Who’s This Workshop For?
- This workshop is for counsellors, psychotherapists, supervisors, educators, trainers, and trainees who want to reflect critically on how issues of power, privilege, diversity, and otherness are currently held within the professions. It will be particularly relevant for those involved in training, curriculum design, professional leadership, or who are questioning how far meaningful change has taken place in practice and institutional culture over the past five years.
RECORDING
This event 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 event 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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Dwight Turner
Dr Dwight Turner is Course Leader on the Humanistic Psychotherapy Course at the University of Brighton, and a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. Dr Turner is the author of A Phenomenology of Racism in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2025), Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Depoliticised pathways towards intersectional practice (2025), The Psychology of Supremacy (2023), and Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2021). All are published by Routledge.
An Intersectional Psychotherapist, Dr Turner is an experienced conference speaker.
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