BAATN Gathering
South Asian Gatherings
A group for practising South Asian psychotherapists and counsellors
Monthly (in person or online)
Outline
These gatherings are a rare opportunity to explore ourselves as South Asian practitioners in a free and safe space. The aim is to support a sense of our shared experience, give each other mutual support and inspire each other’s clinical practice. Students are also welcome.
Facilitators
20th July 2024 gathering – Robert Sookhan and Veena Ganapathy
24th Aug 2024 TBC
Gathering Statement of Purpose
Read the Statement of Purpose for all our gatherings
Venue
This gathering takes place online or in person. Please check the dates to confirm the location.
Online meetings take place via Zoom. Zoom is free to download and use. For more information about Zoom, click here. To download Zoom free of charge, click here.
In-person meetings take place at The Redmond Community Centre, Kayani Ave, Woodberry Down, London N4 2HF
Time
10:30am – 1:00pm
Dates
Saturday 20 July 2024 – Online – Facilitators Robert Sookhan and Veena Ganapathy
Saturday 24 August 2024– Online – Facilitators TBC
Saturday 28 September 2024 – Online
Saturday 19 October 2024 – Online
Saturday 23 November 2024 – Online
Saturday 7 December 2024 – Online
Saturday 4 January 2025 – Online
Saturday 1 February 2025 – Online
Saturday 1 March 2025 – Online
Saturday 12 April 2025 – Online
Saturday 10 May 2025 – Online
Saturday 7 June 2025 – Online
Saturday 5 July 2025 – Online
Saturday 2 August 2025 – Online
Cost
Free to Psychological Therapist Members and Student Therapist Members, £10 for Non-members.
(Click here to become a member)
Booking Conditions
- Bookings can be made any time up until 15 minutes before the event.
- Only the next two upcoming dates will be open for registration at any one time.
- If you have difficulty booking, email the events administrator
- If an event is full, email the events administrator to go on the waiting list. If a place becomes available before 5 pm on the day before the event, priority will be given to those at the top of the waiting list.
Full payment will need to be made to guarantee a place.
What delegates have said:
“The BAATN Asian Gatherings are always so nourishing to mind, body, and soul. I get so much from them, both personally and professionally. To have that safe, collaborative and co-supportive space is hugely valuable and helpful”
“I really enjoy attending Asian Therapy group, as I find the discussion very valuable, insightful and comforting to hear to my personal and professional clinical work as an Asian.”
“This is a nourishing, challenging, and enabling experience in a safe space.”
“Thank you to all participants – not least to Mehboob & Suhith – for the safety, usefulness &, I feel, the preponderant warmth & challenging authenticity of this meeting”
“Enough food for thought to keep you processing until the next gathering.”
“The group helps me reclaim and give a voice to this subjugated part of my identity”
“I thank members of the group – especially Mehboob & Suhith – & hope we can go forward together in what is proving for me a greatly instructive & increasingly necessary process.”
“What does it mean to be BOTH a black & Asian clinician in The UK? What does it mean to be EITHER a black OR Asian clinician in The UK? What changes MIGHT the above meanings undergo in an age of environmental decay & pandemic?”
“It’s important that a group like this exists where Asian people can come together and share our individual history and story of slavery, and where we can come to understand the psychological shackles of slavery and begin to free ourselves.”
“A supportive gathering. Nourishing Challenging and thought-provoking”
“I am deeply grateful for the BAATN Asian Gatherings and for the shared experiences, wisdom, and collaborative spirit of the groups’ attendees. The meetings provide a vital safe and reflective space in which we can explore and articulate what it is like to be a person, trainee, and/ or practitioner of colour living in the UK in such turbulent and troubling times.”
“The BAATN Asian Gatherings Group is an incredibly important part of my life and professional life, where I can share some challenging aspects of racism. I learn, feel valued, can engage fully, and give and receive support. There’s a profound meeting and understanding that happens for me in each group. . . I feel we are doing groundbreaking work together.”