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The ‘Each One Teach One’ mentoring programme

Calling All Qualified and Experienced Therapists!

The Programme for this year is closed to new applicants until October 2012.

If you are an experienced Black and Asian counsellor or psychotherapists, we are looking for your knowledge and expertise to make this mentoring programme a success. We’re looking for therapists who have successfully navigated their way through the challenging and demanding training process and survived to tell the tale. As part of your role as mentor, you will be responsible for helping the mentee navigate their way through a similar process; ‘Each One Teach One’.

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Aim
Academic Year Time Frame   
Matching
BAATN Membership       
What is Mentoring?           


Aim

Our aim is simply to provide practical help and support to Black and Asian students who are still in counselling or psychotherapy training, by way of offering a free mentoring service. Please review what we're about. The programme is being run by a team of 4 therapists on a voluntary basis. More about the team here

At BAATN we understand the challenges presented to Black and Asian people who are training to become therapists, and appreciate how frustrating it can sometimes become when it seems there is little or no support for issues that are important to you. Issues arising from a training course for example can be highly emotive to ones ethical, spiritual or personal belief and value system and as Black and Asian people; we understand these issues can be overlooked. This can happen for a number of reasons;

•    Fear of the unknown
•    Unsure of how to process the information displayed or disclosed
•    Possible collusion (if tutor is also Black or Asian)
•    Preconceived stereotypes regarding Black and Asian people generally
•    Preconceived stereotypes regarding Black and Asian people in education

Academic year Time Frame

The service is set up to coincide with the academic year so will run from (November 2011 to July 2012)
Matching

The mentoring programme will facilitate trainees by pairing them with an experienced therapist. We will try to match gender, ethnicity and spiritual orientation. Being Black and Asian ourselves, we understand the importance of acknowledging ourselves holistically. We will also look to match you to a mentor who is near your local geographical area, should the two of you wish to meet. Our aim is to keep additional costs down to a minimum.

We will ask you to tell us other areas that are important to you, so we can look to offer you the best possible match. Once we have your details, we will access our database of mentors in your area and be able to match the closest mentor to your profile.

BAATN membership

This unique service is the first of its kind here in the UK for Black and Asian trainee therapists. to take part students need to have BAATN student membership.

Click here to find out about membership.