Pink Therapy News
Keeping YOU in the Frame
January 2009
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Greetings!
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 Happy New Year and let's hope this is a good one.
We only have a short newsletter for this month, having been closed for 2 weeks over the holidays. However, there are a few important pieces of information worth telling you all about.
There are a couple of places still remaining on the Introduction to Therapeutic Group Work with Sexual Minorities being run by Tim Foskett and Charles Neal on 31 Jan and 1 Feb. We are really keen to see more group work, including therapy groups being put on for gender and sexual minority clients and hope this training will go some way to help make that happen. (for more details click on the link)
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New Clinical Associate
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We are delighted to welcome Dr Lyndsey Moon to our team of Clinical Associates. Lyndsey has a long and wide experience in sexual minority therapy. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist specialising in alcohol and drugs. She is an ESRC funded Senior Research Fellow at Warwick University in the Department of Sociology presently researching sexualities, genders and emotion and also lectures at City University in Counselling Psychology. She has published widely and is editor of 'Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings: Radical Approaches to counselling sex, sexualities and genders' published through Brunner-Routledge.
Lyndsey is in practice in Camden and works integratively. She now brings our London based team of clinicians to twelve. Charles Neal is an Hon Associate based in Hastings and Dr Catherine Butler is no longer a clinical associate due to a change in her daytime employment, but she remains on the team as a training associate.
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Self Esteem Injury & Social Context
Saturday 28 Feb 2009
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 This day will look at the roots of homophobia (both internalised and externalised) from the standpoint of the development of self-esteem - or lack of it. Sometimes referred to as 'narcissistic wounding', the reverberations of low self-esteem play out not simply in terms of individual problems, but are a key determinant of the social politics of the gay scene. Low self-esteem arises from messages within the family of origin as well as the wider cultural context. Despite nearly four decades of gay liberation, and a widening of social opportunity, young LGBT people still suffer from low self-esteem, and it may take several generations to work through the effects of this collective history. The role of counselling and therapy is crucial to this process.
Click here for further information.
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Introduction to Psychosexual Therapy
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 March 2009
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 Now in it's fifth year, this two day workshop provides an introduction to some of the key issues in working therapeutically with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients with psychosexual concerns, as well as clients involved in Kink/BDSM practices.
The workshop will cover current models of sexual response, the classification of sexual difficulties and a brief review of the literature and then explore some of the implicit assumptions in these hetero-normative models.
By widening our understanding of sex, sexuality and sexual difficulties we will give workshop participants an opportunity to explore some of the multiple contexts (sexuality, gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion etc) that shape both clinicians and clients views of sexual difficulties and diverse sexual practices.
We will then move on to interactive exercises with the aim of helping participants develop practical skills in assessment and therapeutic interventions with individual clients and couples.
We hope that by the end of the two days, participants will feel a greater sense of confidence in incorporating discussions of sex and sexual functioning into their general clinical work and/or developing their psychosexual therapy.
Click here to find out more and see how previous participants rated the course.
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Joint UKCP/Pink Therapy Conference Working with Gender & Sexual Minorities
Friday 15th & Saturday 16th May 2009
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 Pink Therapy was asked to programme the UKCP's first ever conference on working with gender and sexual minorities. This will be a great opportunity to British therapists to update their knowledge of this emerging field and we have programmed a really interesting conference with something for everyone.
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Mike King, Dominic Davies, Dr Bernard Ratigan, Judy Yellin, Angie Fee plus workshops.
Friday 15th (evening) and Saturday 16th May 2009 Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street, London WC1N 1EH
Open to non-UKCP members. UKCP Registrants/Pink Therapy Directory members rate £115 Non members £135.
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Homoworld - Training Video
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 Imagine a world where being lesbian and gay is the norm, with adverts, shops and television a constant reminder. A world where Drag Queen Handbag Tossing is the main event at the 2012 Olympics; 95% of America's majority gay and lesbian population voted for President Hilary Clinton; the Freedom Flag has replaced the Union Jack above Westminster, and designer babies are becoming common place.
But all is not as bright and 'gay' as it would seem...
In this parallel universe the 'straights' are in the minority, in the closet, mostly tolerated but still prejudiced against and loathed by some; a world where the 'breeders' could soon be extinct; where a man and a woman holding hands in public can lay them open to abuse and even violence.
Welcome to Homoworld: A CleverMax Productions film by Catherine Butler and Neil Rees, UEL School of Psychology.
A free DVD of Homoworld is available from UEL.
Please contact Neil Rees to obtain your copy on N.Rees@uel.ac.uk
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That's all for now... please do keep us informed of specific news and developments in the field of gender and sexual minorities and we can pass that news on! |
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Dominic Davies
Pink Therapy
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