Pink Therapy News
Keeping YOU in the FrameJuly 2010
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Greetings!
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All systems are go here at Pink Therapy, it's a very busy time for us. Yesterday, Lyndsey Moon and I ran some training for the University Counsellors at Queen Mary's University in London. Tomorrow I'll be running a day for Therapy Challenges in Stratford-upon-Avon and our International Summer School begins on Monday for all of next week. We've people attending from Thailand, Singapore, Ireland (North and South), Portugal, Denmark and Scotland!
We were also represented yesterday at the Royal College of Nursing's LGBT Equality: Getting it Right event and been invited to speak at the LGBT Health Summit in September (it's a free 2 day conference open to all interested in LGBT health).
I've been helping UKCP's diversity and equalities group explore their code of ethics with regard to sexual re-orientation therapy to see whether it's robust enough to deal with complaints about attempts to change sexual orientation - it is!
Finally, I've been appalled to see the latest edition of the BACP Journal Therapy Today (Vol 21 (5) p.53 failing to mention sexual orientation and gender identity under the Accreditation audit for diversity and equality. I've written to the journal and BACP's chair and await a response.
Finally I met with my Clinical Associates last weekend and we finalised our revised Accreditation scheme creating two categories of Accredited Sexual Minorities Therapist - a standard one and an Advanced category and more information will be available on this soon.
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Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy
1 year course from Fri 24 Sept 2010
| Pink Therapy is pleased to be able to offer the UK's first professional training course for counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists in working with sexual minority clients from a non-pathologising perspective.
We offer you:
Twenty two training days over a year.
You will be part of a small supervision group - meeting monthly for 6 hours, 9 meetings per annum (54 hours supervision) on a Friday. It is envisaged some developmental and experiential work will take place in this group as well as clinical discussions about clients or clinical issues. It is not intended to replace your regular clinical supervision. The groups will be facilitated by our Clinical Associates Damian McCann and Leah Davidson both or whom have extensive experience of group supervision.
Students are expected to work with at least two sexual minority clients per week, and if you are in London, we may be able to augment your intake with clients from our low-cost counselling service where appropriate and available. These clients can either be seen at your own premises if suitable, or we may be able to help you find suitable premises. If you are already in private practice, it may be possible to use clients from within that practice. Pink Therapy is not responsible for finding clients for you though, and you should have reasonable plans for access to a suitable pool of clients. |
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Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy
From Saturday 25 September 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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Drugs, Alcohol and Sex in the City
Saturday 9 October 2010 - 1pm - 7pm
| Have parts of the LGBT community gone from 'Huggy to Hardcore, Dance floor to Saunas'? What are the latest drug trends and how are they impacting on sexual behaviours? Toni Hogg invites you to explore the complex ways in which the LGBT community use drugs and alcohol and become more familiar with the underlying issues.
The workshop will cover how to assess clients presenting with a range of drug, alcohol and sexual/sexuality/gender issues. It will provide the opportunity to explore personal and societal views and judgements we can make on substance use and sexual behaviours, and how these may impact on our client work.
The session will explore the specific function of drugs/alcohol in relation to socialising and sexual behaviours to gain a clearer understanding of the underlying issues and motivations. By gaining this insight, participants will be more able to recognise the difference between controlled recreational use and healthy choices around sexual behaviours as opposed to problematic, harmful use and sexual 'acting out'. |
Opening Doors Project:
Supporting Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered
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 In 2009/10, the Opening Doors Project: Supporting Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered, received a funding award from the Home Office to run two talking or counselling groups to focus on being LGB in a discriminatory world, and to provide support for those who were victims of hate crimes and had experienced discrimination, attack or abuse as a result of their sexual orientation. There was one group for women and one for men. The groups were very effective, one person said: "This group has brought me out of the chaos I have been in for the last year. It has given me friendship". The clients were asked in before and after surveys about stress, anxiety, depression. All said they were less stressed. 90% were less depressed and 80% were less anxious. For more detail please read the evaluation reports on:
WomensMen Thank you for all your support for this work. |
Call for participants: Ever been in an open-relationship?
This research needs YOU!
| This study looks at how open relationship is explored and negotiated upon by gay couples. We are interested in the formation and experiences that individuals go through when establishing an open-relationship.
If you have an experience in open relationships you are invited to take part in this study.
Open relationship is not clearly understood by many and sometimes even people involve in open-relationship seems to divide greatly. By investigating individual that have the first hand experience of an open-relationship a better understanding can be form. This in turn could help relationship therapist/ counsellors to devise appropriate intervention based on these understanding to better serve couples in open-relationships.
The goal of this study is to establish a body of knowledge of individuals that engages in the practice of open-relationships by looking at their accounts and their understanding of this unique nature of an intimate relationship.
We are interested to talk to gay men who have experience in open-relationships (You don't have to be in one right now) for at least 6 months. We are interesting to talk to the party that initiated the open-relationship arrangement.
We would like to invite you to a semi-structured interview at your convenience. The interview would be about 45-60 minutes. Although there is not remuneration for participating, it could provide an opportunity for you
to look at some of your experience(s) of being in an open-relationship, what are some of the advantages or challenges that has emerged? And how have it impacted the relationship or you as a person?
Any information traceable to you will be changed. The interview is examined for common themes that occur across different participants. Findings might be published based on analysis of the interview transcripts. However any sensitive personal details will be changed to ensure participants anonymity and will remain non-traceable.
If you are keen we would very much like to hear from you and we will arrange an appointment at your convenience for an interview to take place. However if you would like more information you also are welcome to contact us.
Contact details : KC Lee Tel: 7769180946
Email: kc09uk@gmail.com
University of East London, School of Psychology
Stratford Campus, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ
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Lesbian Belonging - Loving From the Inside Out
September 18th to 25th 2010
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 Once again we bring you news of a workshop for women who love women to be held at the Findhorn Foundation. This brand new workshop:
Lesbian Belonging - Loving From the Inside Out
promises to be challenging, supportive and magical. It will make its debut the week September 18 - 25 this year.
We have attached a pdf of the poster and would greatly appreciate it if you would assist them by spreading the word about this opportunity through your networks far and near.
If it would be helpful for you, they are also happy to supply printed posters as well as an electronic version of the poster which is suitable for posting on websites. Simply contact Debbie at the email address below.
Please also feel to make contact if you have any questions whatsoever about the workshop, other LGBTQQ workshops at the Findhorn Foundation, about the Findhorn Foundation in general.
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TRANS COMMUNITY CONFERENCE
2010
Creative Responses to Education and Equality
Friday 16th
July 2010
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 The
Trans Community Conference 2010 is a one-day gathering featuring a series of
workshops for members of the trans communityfrom across the UK, as well as
professionals who work with the trans community. The trans community includes family members, partners and
lovers and friends and allies. The
conference will celebrate our diversity of identities and knowledge, as well as
the different groups, organisations and projects that our community offers.
This
year's conference hopes to take a more creative approach to the themes of
education, equalities and diversities, policy and practice, political activism
and work carried out in the voluntary and community sector. As our host is
Central School of Speech & Drama, we will be disseminating various projects
that have used art, drama, applied theatre, voice work, and creative writing as
practical measures that educate and work towards equality, including
encouraging body positivity for trans people and their loved ones, and finding
ways of getting our voices and stories heard. We will also be hearing from those who use creative tools as
a way into the education and discussion of gender diversity.
Friday 16th
July 2010 - 9am - 6pm The Central School of Speech
and DramaEmbassy Theatre, Eton Avenue London,
NW3 3HY UK This will be followed by an optional evening in the Embassy Theatre "Tit Bits": An
Evening with Bird la Bird from 7pm - 9pm For full details of
the programme please see website To book, please complete the booking form and e-mail it
to: transcommunityconference@googlemail.com as soon as possible,
but by 30th June at the latest. Please note - Booking is
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International BiReCon 2010
August 26th 2010
|  BiCon, in association with BiUK, proudly announces the first, international
BiReCon
26th August 2010
University of East London, London, UK
- Bringing together international research on bisexuality
- Showcasing UK research, activism & policy
- Building bridges between bi community & the wider world
Following the success of the first national BiReCon event in 2008 we invite contributions for the first international BiReCon from international & national researchers & academics, charities, governmental bodies & other relevant groups, LGBTQ organisations, Bi activists & members of the bi community.
BiReCon will precede the international BiCon event in 2010, which takes place at UEL, London Docklands, UK.
Registration prices for BiReCon is £100, with a discounted student/unwaged rate of £50. This price does not include BiCon registration; affiliated BiReCon attendees will need to book BiCon registration separately. BiReCon attendees wishing to book accommodation on site should pay the organisation rate (£60) or the student rate (£30) appropriately.
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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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