Workshop Details
After exploring the trauma of experiencing boarding school, and looked at the healing process, I introduce the concept of sanctioned child abuse, and the wider implications in terms of caring, or not, for the planet ie the home that nurtures us.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Understanding cultural as well as familial acceptance of boarding schools in terms of sanctioned child abuse
- Considering wider implications of ‘colluding’ with the normalisation / acceptance of boarding schools
- Trust that there are many who already understand the above and are pro-active in raising awareness
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Therapists, including those who work within boarding schools, and those in ‘helping professions’
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- By validating clients who do disclose any distress from their experience of boarding school, and by responding to silence and/or ‘I had a great time’, from understanding defences of avoidance, denial and dissocation
Course Content
Presenter
Jane qualified as a Therapeutic Counsellor in 2000, and accredited with UKAHPP in 2010 as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. In addition she has trained in Somatic Trauma Therapy with Babette Rothschild, and in the Boarding School Experience with Nick Duffell and Joy Shaverien.
Since 2010, working with adults who went to boarding school, partners of boarder, and children of boarders has been her specialised client group. Passionate to raise awareness and bring to light the abuse inherent in the continued practice of sending children away to elitist establishments under the guise of ‘privilege’, she was a director of Boarding Concern from 2012-2015, and has published a number of articles, including ‘Class, Prejudice and Privilege’ in Self & Society, the journal for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners.
