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We are half way through our first four day course
with a full cohort of students undertaking our
Essentials in
Sexual Minority Therapy course. Dates have been
set for our second course and within days of them
being announced we had people booking for the
programme, due to begin in September.
The first day of the course looks at contemporary
perspectives on understanding gender and sexuality
as well as effective ways of offering therapeutic help
to gender and sexual minority clients.
Day two is largely experiential focussing in on working
with internalised oppression, and the third day
focuses on coming out. The final day explores
attraction in therapy, issues around disclosure of
sexuality to clients, and managing dual roles and
boundaries.
Participants are expected to do quite a bit of pre-
course reading and extensive post-course reading
and resources are made available for personal study
afterwards.
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A couple of years ago we started work on a two year
post graduate qualification in sexual minority therapy,
aimed at people who wished to specialise in working
with gender and sexual minority clients and who had
already qualified as a counsellor or psychotherapist.
We are getting closer to being able to recruit for this
course, and so if you are interested in knowing more,
this is a good time to express your interest!
We are looking at the possibility of having a monthly
supervision group (for 6 hours on a Friday) rather
than fortnightly for 3 hours for those people from
outside London who might be interested in doing the
programme.
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60% of all gender variant people are subjected to
hate crimes. 8.3% of visible transwomen in the
United States die by murder, versus 0.0055% in the
general population. Amnesty International reports
ongoing incidents of police brutality against
transgendered women around the world. Yet even
the United Nations does not recognize gender variant
people as deserving of equal human rights.
As with all petitions, the collection of names in itself
will not directly change things; however it is vital
that trans people AND their friends, families and
associates contribute to show widespread global
concern, and support for the idea of action to tackle
a serious problem for one of mankind's smallest and
most misunderstood minorities.
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We've been advised that an eight week group aimed
at gay men wishing to improve their sexual
relationships is being offered by
Gill Sanders and Paul Croal at the Awareness Centre
in Clapham on a Tuesday evening from 7.30pm to
9.30pm from 2nd May.
For a leaflet or further information, please call Gill on
07932 162877 or email: gsanders@uwclub.net or
speak to Paul on 07776 186414 email:
paulcroal@yahoo.co.uk
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London's Bisexual Festival is being held on Saturday
6th May from 1pm to late and will feature
discussions, games and film screenings.
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The KCC Foundation is hosting
a workshop with an American systemic therapist
called David Nylund on 10 June at Beecham Grove,
Watford
In this workshop, David will explore what does it
mean to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender within
social contexts that present simplistic, narrow,
definitions of gender and sexuality and presume
heterosexuality as the norm? Various coalitions of
lesbian, feminist, gay, and more recently queer
liberation movements have sought to address these
questions from an activist stance. Psychotherapy as
it applies to gender and sexuality has the chance of
being reshaped by over three decades of activism
and liberation.
Bookings should be made through
The KCC Foundation, 2 Wyvil Court, Trenchold
Street, London SW8 2TG
Telephone. 020 7720 7301/ Fax. 020 7720 7302 Fee
£85
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PACE is proud to be hosting a workshop with Dave
Nimmons, health activist and writer from New York
and founder of Manifest Love, an organisation
promoting new ways for gay men to be with and for
each other. This will be a workshop for health
professionals working with gay men
Dave will talk about how his work and thinking have
developed in the US and the workshop will explore
how health professionals in the UK might apply these
ideas in their own work.
For six years Dave served as President of New York’s
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community
Services Center. For three years he was Director of
Education at Gay Men's Health Crisis, the largest gay
men's prevention program in the United States. He
won a Revson Fellowship at Columbia University for
his work on gay men's values, and was a visiting
researcher at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
for his pioneering work on altruism and gay men.
Booking: Email workshops@pace.dircon.co.uk with
your name, agency and phone number or ring Robert
on 020 7700 1323.
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PACE are offering a free weekly group for gay
and
bisexual men and women exploring what it means to
be legally partnered.
For further information, contact Ange South on 020
7700 1323 or email: angelas@pace.dircon.co.uk
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Please remember to book your place at the conference now, and I look forward to seeing you there!
With very best wishes,
Dominic Davies
Pink Therapy
email:
info@pinktherapy.com
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