About this event
From its inception, Intersections of Privilege and Otherness was never intended as a purely conceptual text. Central to its contribution is the understanding that experiences of otherness are not only social or intellectual, but deeply internalised, embodied, and often unconscious.
This experiential workshop forms the companion session to the 5th anniversary lecture, turning attention inward to the unconscious dimensions of privilege and otherness.
The workshop explores how internalised experiences of marginalisation and difference live within us, shaped by personal history, social location, and relational life. Drawing on experiential approaches used throughout Intersections of Privilege and Otherness, Dr Dwight Turner introduces practices that offer gentle yet meaningful access to these inner worlds.
Participants will be invited into methods such as visualisation, drawing, and engagement with dream material, not as techniques to be mastered, but as ways of listening more closely to what is already present beneath conscious narratives. These practices create space to encounter aspects of otherness that may be held quietly within the psyche, often beyond language or awareness.
Placed alongside the anniversary lecture, this workshop deepens the inquiry by focusing on how unconscious otherness shapes therapeutic presence, relational patterns, and professional identity. It offers an opportunity to slow down, attend to inner experience, and consider how greater self awareness might support more ethical, attuned, and responsive practice.
As with the anniversary lecture, this session does not seek to resolve complexity or provide neat conclusions. Instead, it offers a held, reflective space for personal engagement with the ongoing questions raised by Intersections of Privilege and Otherness, five years on.
Who’s This Workshop For?
- This workshop is for counsellors, psychotherapists, supervisors, educators, and trainees who are willing to engage reflectively and experientially with their own internalised experiences of privilege and otherness. It will particularly suit those interested in experiential, psychodynamic, relational, or depth-oriented approaches, and those who wish to explore how unconscious dimensions of otherness shape therapeutic presence, relationships, and ethical practice.
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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