About this event
This event is organised by the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union (PCU) together with many other counsellors and psychotherapists. We are campaigning against the unfairness and anomalies of the SCoPEd framework and pressing for a review of the way it is being implemented. The alignment of SCoPEd columns with membership body levels, despite the lack of genuine equivalence, has created unfairness, confusion and uncertainty for many therapists, and is already having a detrimental impact on our professional status and potential income.
We are disappointed by the failure of BACP, in particular, to engage in any meaningful way with the concerns raised by so many of its members. It has ridden roughshod over the very reasonable request for a grandparenting scheme for senior accredited members, and ignored the concerns of registered members whose professionalism is put in doubt by the competences ascribed to column A.
In her keynote speech at the event Caz Binstead will put SCoPEd under an ethical lens, to ask the question: does SCoPEd – in its aims and execution – live up to the values, principles, and qualities we aspire to as a profession?
Attend our event to take part in a discussion about:
- Why the adoption of the SCoPED framework is having a negative rather than a positive effect on the counselling and psychotherapy profession
- Whether or not SCoPEd can be re-purposed into something useful – and if so, what?
- The campaigning efforts that are being made to try to address all of this and how you can support this
Join the ‘PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING UNION’ through this link: www.psychotherapyandcounsellingunion.co.uk/join
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.
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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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.
Andy Rogers
Andy Rogers trained at the University of East Anglia, completing a post-graduate diploma in person-centred therapy in 1999. For many years he managed counselling services in further and higher education, and now runs a private counselling, psychotherapy and supervision practice in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Andy has been an active participant in the Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy since the mid-2000s. He is co-author of the fifth edition of First Steps in Counselling (PCCS Books, 2021) and has published several articles, blogs and book chapters on the politics of the psychological professions and the person-centred approach.
Website | www.andyrogerscounselling.com
Caz Binstead
Caz Binstead is an experienced therapist, supervisor and facilitator/visiting lecturer working full-time in private practice. As a community relational activist, she believes in working for, and representing, the everyday ‘therapist on the ground’, and is an advocate for providing safer spaces for all human beings to be seen, included and respected. As part of this, she has been involved with campaigning against the SCoPEd project since early 2019.
She specialises in the growth and maintenance of both ethical and thriving practice and was instrumental in the creation of the Private practice Toolkit, at the BACP, and acted as the private practice executive divisional lead, on the project. Caz is also co-author of the forthcoming book Relational Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counselling Private Practice: Solidarity, Compassion, Justice (released by Routledge on November 26th 2024).
Caz is co-lead for #TherapistsConnect – an open community of therapists from across the world, whose main aim is to broaden conversations around therapy and build greater connections between therapists. The platform is upheld by its values, including the notion of ‘compassionate activism’, and has held conferences, debates and events, centred around ‘seeing’ all therapists (in all our differences), and giving them a voice.
Website | www.cazbinstead.com
X | @cazbinny
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