Pink Therapy News
Keeping YOU in the FrameMay 2011
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Greetings!
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It's been an exciting and intense month for us here at Pink Therapy. We're completing the beta testing of our new Directory (see below) and have finished the first wave of fundraising for our International Scholarship Fund (again more below).
I've been to Guernsey to train Relate Counsellors on the Channel Islands and next week I'm going to be presenting a free public lecture on Therapy and it's Relationship to Homosexuality at Nottingham University and it would be lovely to see you there. More details about booking are here.
The week after I will be presenting at the World Association for Sexual Health in Glasgow on the importance of preparing all clinicians for the diversity of the populations they serve. Sadly the conference is too expensive for me to attend in full and so I'll be flying up and back for the day but hope to network whilst there.
We also have our Pink Therapy away-day coming up where all the Clinical Associates get together for a 24 hour intensive of discussion and eating down in Hastings. One of the highlights of my calendar!
It's been very gratifying to see that pretty much all of our courses and workshops over the past few months have sold out ahead of time and I would encourage you to book early if you see something you like the look of as places are very limited on our events.
Dominic DaviesDirector |
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Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy -
Sept 2011 - June 2012
|  Are you a qualified counsellor, psychotherapist or clinical or counselling psychologist? - Are you interested in specialising or adding a specialisation in therapeutic work with sexual minority clients to your work?
Are you flexible, motivated, and committed? 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: Core Tuition at our popular Continuing Professional Development training events A tutorial group - meeting monthly, 9 meetings per annum (54 hours group training/tutorials) on a mixture of weekends and Fridays. This will be training supervision and is envisaged to include some developmental and experiential work as well as clinical discussions about clients or professional 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 training, group supervision and of course of working with a wide range of sexual minority clients Indicative content is likely to include familiarising participants with nurturing and conflictual discourses of gender and sexuality, working with psychopathology and severe disturbance, understanding more about your own sexual development and it's implications for therapeutic engagement, working with erotic feelings in therapy, understanding abusive experiences and their impact, LGBT health issues, non-pathologising approaches to working with sexual compulsiveness.. Clinical Work Students are expected to work with at least two sexual minority clients per week, and if you don't currently have gender and sexual minority clients in your caseload, we can offer advice and guidance as to how to find some clients. 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. The course has now received Accreditation from Middlesex University and some of the core modules are also endorsed by BACP and COSRT.
Click here for more information
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International Summer School
4-9 July 2011
|  We're delighted to report our International Summer School is full and due to the generosity of our friend and allies, we've managed to offer six bursaries and are going to be working with people from Colombia, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Scotland and Singapore.
Many of these countries homosexuality and gender diversity is barely tolerated and in Singapore, it's still illegal. We are delighted to be offering support and information to these therapists in their challenging work and hope also to learn a lot from them!
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|  It may have taken us three years, and three separate software programmers, but it finally looks like our new Directory will be ready to go live at the point of annual renewal of membership in July.
This new system will allow therapists to create and maintain their own profiles on the site, updating anytime they want to add or tweak their qualifications or specialisms. Later this year it will be extended to include complementary therapists and become global. We hope this Directory will become the first place people looking for a non-pathologising LGBT friendly therapist will look for help and treatment.
The new system will also hide therapists sexual and gender identity from Google searches and so we hope therapists who felt uncomfortable about having that information out on the web will want to join the Directory. The Directory software is still being beta tested this month and we will email everyone in our database when it is live inviting you to sign up. One other wonderful feature of the new site will be that people will be able to register online for our training events, to download pre-course reading and workshop materials and this will free up admin time and mean you will know whether there are places left on our courses at the time you book. |
New Training Programme Online
|  Our latest programme of CPD workshops and courses is now live. We have a number of interesting events for next year, including Working with Sexual Feelings in the Counselling Room, Relationship Therapy, Working with Religious Conflict and Sexuality, Dependence and Co-Dependence in Intimate Relationships, Queer Spirituality and two weekend workshops one on Transgender and a Lesbians in Focus mini-conference.
Please check them out here: http://www.pinktherapy.com/Training_10.html
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Transgender Conference 2012 - Trans in the Media
Friday, 22nd July 2011
|  Trans Community Conference 2011 Trans in the Media: broadcast, journalism, screen & social media convened by Gendered Intelligence, in association with Trans Media Watch The Trans Community Conference 2010 is a one-day gathering featuring a series of workshops for members of the trans community from 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.
Gendered Intelligence is still calling for papers, workshops and presentation proposals for the Trans Community Conference 2011. This year we are interested in hearing about various concerns around trans identities and communities within the arenas of TV broadcast, journalism, screen and social media. These can be explored in relation to cultural and social theory, equality and diversity, politics and activism, the arts and the voluntary community sector.
We welcome proposals from all. Simply email jay.stewart@genderedintelligence.co.uk a short abstract outlining your proposed paper or presentation before 15th April and we will get back to you within 5 working days.
Registration will be available from 4th April. For more information go to: www.genderedintelligence.co.uk or e mail: admin@genderedintelligence.co.uk Central School of Speech and Drama, Eton Avenue, London, NW3 A SPECIAL EVENING FUNDRAISER EVENT 6.30-8.30pm Gendered Intelligence Film Night Programmed by members of the GI Youth Group
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Journal re-launch: Free Associations
|  We are delighted to announce that Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics has been re-launched as a fully-refereed, peer-reviewed, online, open access journal.
As many of you will know, the journal enjoyed a long period of publication under the Editorship of Robert Maxwell Young between 1984 and 2005 and many of the previously published articles and reviews can be found online either via the Pep-Web archive or on the Human Nature website. The title of the journal has been updated to include media as well as culture and the new platform seeks to provide a space of continuity for the journal's audience and contributors. To mark this, the new edition is Number 61, following on directly from the most recent online edition from 2005.
To access the journal content, please visit the website: www.freeassociations.org.uk.
A full call for papers is included on the website in the Announcements section. You can also subscribe to their blog, which can be accessed from the same site and where there will be details of events, publications etc which will be of interest to readers. To submit articles/reviews for publication, please enrol as a user and use the online software to upload your contribution. To submit an item for inclusion in the blog, please email: freeassociationsblog@gmail.com
Full details of the Editorial Board and the International Advisory Board are also included on the website
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Bisexual Jealousy Research
|  Christina Gesing is currently writing her bachelor thesis in psychology and needs your help. In her research she is investigating some factors affecting jealousy.
Often, the literature on jealousy only looks at heterosexual individuals, but it is important to gather data across all sexual orientations.
She would appreciate if you participate in the online questionnaire, which will take 10 minutes max.
Feel free to forward the link to homosexual or bisexual friends of yours, every person counts!
The study and more info here: https://gmw01.housing.rug.nl/cgi-bin/inferentie.pl?qst_id=7044
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Cervical Screening Campaign
| Call for lesbian and bisexual women to comment on the LGF's new cervical screening campaign
If you identify as a lesbian or bisexual woman over the age of 16 living in the north west, LGF in partnership with the University of Salford are running a short survey to allow women to tell what they think about The LGF's cervical screening campaign: 'Are You Ready For Your Screen Test?' As a thank you for completing the survey you can enter a prize draw to win some fabulous prizes!!
Click here to complete the survey: http://www.lgf.org.uk/screeningsurvey2
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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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