Pink Therapy News
Keeping YOU in the Frame
April 2010
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Greetings!
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I hope you all had a Happy Easter!
I can't believe where the time goes, but it was good to be having a bank holiday break that's for sure!
I've worked every Saturday in March - two of them giving seminars to London based LGBT counsellors (volunteers and in private practice) and then Lyndsey Moon and I were in Belfast last week running some training workshops (the Supervision of SMT and the first two days of the Essentials), we're delighted that the organisation tool up the invitation from an independent researcher to evaluate the two day course and I'm excited about seeing the results. The remaining weekend was one of our Associates meetings which we have three times a year. Amongst other things we worked on the Re-accreditation criteria for our Accredited Sexual Minority Therapist scheme and will be meeting again to finalise things - more next month on this!
I will be settling down to programme our training events for the next year over the next few weeks. It's going to be an extensive programme next year as we will resume our Cert in SMT and there has already been quite a bit of interest in this).
We're still trying to promote our International Summer School which is the six day Essentials run over an intensive week long experience and so if you know any counsellors working abroad, please do forward them this link:
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Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy
From Sat 17th April 2010
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Do you offer counselling or psychotherapy to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender clients?
Are you confident that you have had sufficient knowledge and training to work competently with sexual minority clients?
Would you be interested in updating your knowledge and have an opportunity to work on your values, beliefs and attitudes in this area?
Pink Therapy is the UKʼs leading independent specialist therapy organisation working with gender and sexual minorities and we would like to invite you to participate in what we see as essential training for all therapists who are working with sexual minority clients.
This is a six day training, spread over three weekends. We will accept bookings for a weekend unit. But we would encourage you to take the whole course.
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Running Groups for Sexual Minorities: An introduction to group work theory and practice
Saturday 24 April and Sunday 25 April 2010
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Our focus is on participants developing their own skills and interests in facilitating groups and using the opportunities provided in group work to support therapeutic growth.
Skills and ideas developed on this course will be applicable within a range of settings such as time-limited groups, support groups and therapeutic workshops.
The programme focuses on planning groups, facilitator styles, co-facilitating, group work exercises and working with diversity.
The workshop offers an opportunity to participate in 'live' mini-groups with feedback and to initiate peer support. We plan a follow up group later in the year to develop the work arising from this introductory weekend.
The workshop is suitable for: counsellors and therapists who want to develop group work; facilitators wishing to develop their therapeutic skills to work at deeper levels and experienced group workers wanting to further develop their skills and understanding with minority communities. This training is being run by our Clinical Associate Tim Foskett
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Supervision of Sexual Minority Therapy
Friday 14 May 2010
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We are offering a rare opportunity for clinical supervisors to further their knowledge and understanding of supervising therapists working with gender and sexual minority clients.
The workshop will be an interactive environment where participants can nominate issues for discussion but it will also include: - learn what is different about sexual minority therapy and discuss some common clinical issues
- exploring the complex interrelationship of sex and gender in the supervisory triad
- increase awareness of the impact of heterosexism on the supervisory process
Each seminar will be facilitated by one of our experienced clinical associates who have extensive experience of supervision or by Dominic Davies, and will be a mixture of some didactic input and discussion and informed by some guided pre-course reading
This will be a space to reflect on your practice as a supervisor with an intimate group of other supervisors. This seminar/workshop will be with Dominic Davies.
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BiReCon registration now open
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 Registration is now open for BiReCon 2010 and the subsequent BiCon
event. Please book soon to ensure yourself a place. Read this email
carefully to find out how to book if you are attending just BiReCon
and if you want to stay for the full convention.
The provisional programme for BiReCon is at the end of this email and
will be updated in months to come on the biuk and bicon 2010 websites
(see www.biuk.org and www.bicon2010.org.uk). In addition to the
keynote talks we have an exciting range of international presentations
and workshops on topics from bisexuality in the cinema and queer/bi
activism to bis in the workplace and bi mental health issues.
If you wish to register online please complete the online form here:
https://secure.10icb.org/registration/register_1.php?event=BiReCon
If you have any problem with the bookings then please email
bookings@bicon2010.org.uk
We look forward to seeing you on August 26th and will keep you updated
in the coming months.
Meg Barker and Christina Richards (BiReCon organisers, info@biuk.org)
BiReCon Provisional Programme - 26th August 2010
10.00-10.30 - Registration
10.30-10.45 - Welcome: Christina Richards and Meg Barker
10.45-11.15 - Keynote talk: Steven Angelides - The history of bisexuality
11.20-12.35 - Presentations
12.40-1.10 - Keynote talk: Robyn Ochs - Getting Bi
1.10-1.50 - Lunch
1.50-2.20 - Keynote talk: Serena Anderlini D'Onofrio - Gaia & the New Politics of Love: Notes for a 'Bi' Planet
2.25-3.25 - Workshop 1
3.35-4.35 - Workshop 2
4.40-5.10 - Keynote talk: Jonathan Alexander - The challenges of bisexual scholarship
5.10-5.45 - Panel discussion: John Sylla (American Institute of Bisexuality) and keynote speakers - The future of bisexual research and theory
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The KCC Foundation Workshop Programme with Damian Mc Cann
Thursday 13th May 2010
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 Let's Talk About Sex: Exploring sex and sexuality within couple and family relationships
What will we focus on? How will we use the time?
Let's find a language, let's know when to talk, let's learn how to talk and with whom. These are challenges that have occupied my thinking and practice as I work with couples and families grappling with issues of sex and sexuality.
What will excite me?
This workshop will explore a topic that appears to excite, disturb and also challenge couples, families and practitioners alike. Developments in thinking will be examined and participants are encouraged to bring their own practice dilemmas relating to topic for exploration.
Who is the presenter? Workshop Facilitator:
Damian Mc Cann is a Consultant Family Psychotherapist in a Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, a Clinical Associate of Pink Therapy and is also in private practice. He has extensive experience of working with same-sex and straight couples as well as families where sex and sexuality is an issue.
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Working with Sexual Minorities Workshop in Warwick
Friday 2nd July 2010
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 Recent research King et al (2009) has found that one in six counsellors/psychotherapists would agree to help a client who was unhappy about their same sex attractions to become heterosexual. They seemed unaware of all the research into the ineffectiveness of sexual conversion (aka Reparative) therapy, and whilst motivated to help a distressed client, their well meaning efforts could well result in further psychological damage.
Do you feel you know enough about the latest ideas on working in a sexuality affirmative manner with a range of gender and sexual minority clients?
This one day workshop will offer you an opportunity to reflect on your work in this area; a subject often minimised in therapy training courses.
There will be a mixture of experiential work alongside more didactic presentations and an opportunity to discuss case material.
Facilitator: Dominic Davies FBACP is a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist who has been working in this field for almost 30 years. He is the co-editor of three volumes of textbooks on the subject. Dominic was recently made a Fellow of BACP for his "outstanding contribution to the field."
This is a great opportunity for therapists around the Midlands to attend a training with Dominic and find out more about the Pink Therapy model of training
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AFTER LADIES NIGHT - PACE LBTQ Women's Workshops
On Wednesdays 6.30pm - 9.30pm 19May - 7July 2010
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 Come and meet new people and talk about things that matter
A new workshop series exploring the lives and experiences of lesbian, bi, trans & queer women (LBTQ)
This is a free eight week course for LBTQ women over 25. Each week focuses on a different topic including health, relationships, LBTQ community and more.
Donations welcomed Light refreshments provided
Contact Hilary Knack for more information hilary.knack@pacehealth.org.uk phone 020 7700 1323 (wed - fri only) |
New Road Parents Group
For parents in North-East Worcestershire with LGBT sons and daughters
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 Margaret Evans is a parent of a gay son and lesbian daughter. She has just set up a support group for parents of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans children in Bromsgrove Worcestershire, and needs to publicise the group as widely as possible so that parents in West Midlands, South West Birmingham, and Worcestershire are made aware of the support such a group can offer.
"It would be helpful to everyone if you could link to her site from your website. She am circulating as many groups as I can think of, but if you know of any others please forward this email to them also.
I have connections with Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (FFLAG) and with Birmingham Parents' Support Group (BPSG), but we need a group in Worcestershire!"
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That's all for this month, thanks for your attention, and please do send us things that have a specific relevance to people working with gender and sexual minority clients. |
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Dominic Davies
Pink Therapy
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