Pink Therapy News
Keeping YOU in the FrameSeptember 2010
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Greetings!
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Autumn is upon us already and as the nights draw in, perhaps now is the perfect time to consider your CPD for next year! We have a couple of places left on our newly accredited Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy (see below) as well as many other interesting workshops.
Damian Mc Cann, Catherine Butler and I all presented at a somewhat smaller than expected joint Relate and Institute of Family Therapy Conference last week on Dominant Discourses in Sexuality and all presentations were well received and it was a great opportunity for networking.
I was also delighted to hear that my dear friend, colleague and former supervisor Dr Bernard Ratigan has finally been honoured by British Psychoanalytic Council for his outstanding professional leadership in raising LGBT issues within the psychoanalytic community.
I'm also wanting to flag up that my dear friend and colleague Charles Neal is currently taking a sabbatical from Pink Therapy to allow himself to recover from some injuries sustained earlier in the year. He hopes to be with us again next year. He is continuing a reduced practice meanwhile in Hastings.
Dominic DaviesDirector |
Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy
1 year course from Sat 22 Jan 2011
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Pink Therapy is pleased to be able to offer the UK's only professional training course for counsellors, psychotherapists and clinical and counselling psychologists in working with sexual minority clients from a non-pathologising perspective.
We offer you:
Twenty training days over a year.
You will be part of a small supervision group - meeting more or less monthly (50 hours supervision) on a mixture of weekends and some Fridays. 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. You will also attend a 11 training days from our core training programme of workshops.
Students are expected to work with at least two sexual minority clients per week, (and we will try and help you find those clients if necessary), although 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.
We have been awarded course accreditation by Middlesex University
We have re-scheduled this course to start in Jan 2011 and will be offering it as an intensive training course at a reduced cost.
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Understanding Kink/BDSM
Saturday 15 Jan 2011 1pm - 7pm |
 BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission and sadomasochism) is perhaps the most demonized form of consensual sexuality, still criminalized in the UK and pathologised as a 'paraphilia' in the DSM. Much training material for therapists and counsellors still perpetuates negative myths about BDSM practices despite lack of evidence for any link between such practices and psychological problems.
This workshop facilitated by Dr Meg Barker co-editor of Safe, Sane and Consensual, (Palgrave) encourages participants to reflect on their own belief systems around BDSM. It examines the variety of 'kinky' practices, drawing on existential approaches to consider the multiple meanings these may have for clients. Common myths around BDSM are challenged and the most up-to-date research on BDSM presented. Attendees consider various case-studies to think about how they might work with kinky/BDSM clients, including those whose identity/practice is unrelated to their presenting problem, those who are concerned about their identity/practice, and those who regard their identity/practice as linked to the therapeutic experience. Relationships between BDSM and self-harming practices will also be explored.
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|  This workshop will explore the idea that, from the beginning of life, we construct our 'senses of self', including our sexual and gendered selves, from our experiences of being in interaction with others. We will look at some ideas about the relational nature of the 'self', drawn from contemporary approaches to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Using concepts from attachment theory, we will think about how our sense of ourselves develops initially within the context of our early relationships with others, and continues to emerge and change through our interactions with significant others throughout life.
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Loving Men
|  Loving Men at New Year is a three-day event over the new year holidays for gay and bisexual men at Buckland Hall in the Brecon Beacons. Now in its fourth year, this a great way to celebrate the passing of the year, in the company of kindred spirits, with great food, and in the comfortable splendour of Buckland Hall. There'll be a with a host of workshops on themes of making connections, intimacy between men, stretching your comfort zone and having some fun. Alfred Hurst, Dennis Carney and Sanjay Kumar from the Loving Men team will be leading the event and are experienced, creative and responsive workshop leaders.
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SEXISTENTIAL - The Society for Existential Analysis Sexuality Conference
Sat 20th & Sun 21th November 2010
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 The Society for Existential Analysis is proud to present the SEA Conference for 2010 SEXISTENTIALSat 20th November 2010 & Sun 21th November 2010 to be held at the NCVO Kings Cross www.existentialanalysis.co.ukNational Council for Voluntary Organisations Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL (nearest tube: Kings Cross) |
Pink Therapy Accreditation
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Pink Therapy offers an accreditation scheme for therapists working with gender & sexual minority clients (GSM). There are two categories of accreditation: Accredited Sexual Minority Therapist (ASMT) and Accredited Advanced Sexual Minority Therapist (AASMT).
Initial accreditation for both categories runs for three years, following which there is a reaccreditation procedure. Practitioners with ASMT accreditation may apply at any time to upgrade to AASMT status. Application forms for accreditation may be downloaded from the Pink Therapy website.
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The Body, Gender and Sexuality
Monthly, starting Saturday 30th October
| This is a group for psychotherapist and counsellors who are troubled by some of the normative assumptions of psychoanalysis and are seeking a contemporary and progressive take on clinical practice. In the first part of the meeting, in the theoretical seminar, we will discuss one or two papers which will be distributed beforehand and in the second part there will be a case discussion.
The meetings s will attempt to understand the psychic significance of sexuality, identity, self image, somatisation, self harm, and sexual addictions. They will address; the relationship between pleasure and power, the question of difference, and the relationship between sex and love. We will create a dialogue with psychoanalytic feminists and queer theory through drawing on the work of Irigaray, Kristeva, Ettinger, Bersani, Dean, Butler, Silverman, and Thomas.
It will also provide an opportunity for networking and support in a time when the radical potential of psychoanalysis is under threat both from its own institutional practices and from state regulation.
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Free to be me! Action Against Hate Crime Project
|  Take part in one, or all of our 3 part Action Against Hate Crime Project to create a leaflet resource for other young trans people who may need support around Hate Crime, bullying or transphobia.
Gain confidence and knowledge in what you should do if you have or were to experience Hate Crime due to your gender expression, or Transphobia. Learn your rights and responsibilities and work as a group to empower yourselves!
Also a place to share your experiences or fears of discrimination, bullying and transphobia, with other young trans people and experienced professionals.
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BBC Opens Archive of Gay Rights Movement in UK
| It may be of interest that the BBC has opened, somewhat quietly, a section of their website to provide an archive of broadcasts made on radio and TV since 1957 on the gay rights movement in the UK following Wolfenden. The programmes that I have so far had time to view are fascinating, highlighting just how far we have come in sixty years and, sadly, reminding us of those who had a dream but did not make it to 'the promised land'.
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Seasons of the heart - A Journey into Winter
January 22nd & 23rd 2011
|  Do you find yourself reacting differently to the different seasons of the year? Does winter get you down or buoy you up? Would you like some space to consider how and why you might respond the way you do to the weather?
If so why not come to our next weekend being held in East London on January 22nd-23rd, 2011 where you will have the opportunity to creatively reflect on these issues through music, art and poetry. There will also be plenty of time for personal reflection and sharing with others.
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Obama's video on Youtube
| And last, here you can see the message from president Obama about the teens in America who recently killed themselves after being bullied because of their sexual orientation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geyAFbSDPVk
there is also this moving video too:
http://tv.gawker.com/5663083/this-is-the-most-touching-it-gets-better-video-you-will-ever-see
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Research Request - Let's Talk About Sexuality -
| If you identify as a lesbian, gay or bisexual counsellor or clinical psychologist or psychotherapist and are interested to help an MSc Counselling Psychology student out with their dissertation by sparing an hour for an interview at a mutually convenient location, then please click link to email Yael Leinman for further information or call 079 4647 6062 (mobile).
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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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