This one-hour seminar offers an introduction to liberation psychologies in the context of social justice work. Liberation approaches were established by the work of Ignacio Martin-Baró and Paulo Freire in Latin America and continue until this day
This event is included in a series of seminars organised in collaboration with the Therapy and Social Change Network.
Course Content
Presenter
Sylwia Korsak (she/her) is a liberation practitioner working with a wide range of approaches centred around the client’s safety, diversity, and agency. She is a qualified integrated counsellor and coach. She has training and over two decades of experience in education, coaching, digital marketing, social and charity work, online activism, business ethics, and digital wellbeing.
She grew up in Poland, studied in Hungary, and worked around the world before settling in the UK over a decade ago. She is a founder of VoxelHub.org, delivering consultancy, coaching, and counselling for digital wellbeing and liberation.
In the therapeutic setting, Sylwia has experience offering trauma, grief, anxiety and depression support. She offers talking, eco and virtual reality therapy. She supports young people and adults, the LGBTQIA+ community, neurodiverse clients and clients from various multicultural backgrounds. She offers counselling in her private practice while also supporting clients who have experienced sexual abuse through Kinergy Bristol.
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).
