BAATN Gathering
BAATN Heart Hub for Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity
An holistic community space for students, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, therapists and group facilitators of Black, African, Asian and Caribbean heritage, who personally identify with gender, sexuality and relationship diversity and the intersection of race, heritage and culture.
Bi-monthly â‹… (in person or online)
Outline
The BAATN Heart Hub offers holistic community space for students, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, therapists and group facilitators of Black, African, Asian and Caribbean heritage, who personally identify with gender, sexuality and relationship diversity and the intersection of race, heritage and culture.
The BAATN Heart Hub exists as a replenishing collective, healing space to bring hearts, stories, dreams and dilemmas, where you’ll be met with compassion and dialogue to foster kinship and connection.
The BAATN Heart Hub invites each practitioner, who may be impacted by racism, heteronormativity and binary categorisations, to bring their own expression, life experience and clinical practice, to be supported, affirmed, inspired, celebrated and energised.
Please Note:Â We kindly request that all participants have their cameras on for the full duration of the event so that we can see each other. Please ensure that the name you would like to be addressed by, alongside the pronouns you would like to be used (if this is important to you,) are included next to your profile name.
You can, if you wish, book confidentially via the facilitators joel@joelsimpson.co.uk or kirath.gatheringtogether@gmail.com. CPD certificates that just note attendance of a BAATN gathering can also be requested. Please arrange this with the facilitators.
Please note that this is a queer affirmative space and participants must personally identify with gender, sexuality and relationship diversity and the intersection of race, heritage and culture.
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To find out about the kinds of themes or topics under discussion, as well as projects that individual groups are in the process of undertaking at some of the other BAATN gatherings, please take a look here.
Facilitators
Kirath Ghataora and Joel Simpson
GATHERING STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
Read the Statement of Purpose for all our gatherings
Venue
Online or in person
If online, via Zoom:
Zoom is free to download and use. For more information about Zoom click here.
If in person:
London LGBTQ+ Community Centre
60-62 Hopton Street, Blackfriars, SE1 9JH, London
Dates, Times and Venues
Saturday 26th October 2024– 10am to 12.30pm ⋅ LGBTQ Centre, 60-62 Hopton Street, Blackfriars, SE1 9JH, London
Saturday 9th November 2024 – 10am to 12.30pm ⋅ Online via Zoom
Saturday 11th January 2025– 11.00am to 1.30pm ⋅ LGBTQ Centre, 60-62 Hopton Street, Blackfriars, SE1 9JH, London
Saturday 8th March 2025 – 10am to 12.30pm ⋅ Online via Zoom
Saturday 17th May 2025 – 11.00am to 1.30pm â‹… LGBTQ Centre, 60-62 Hopton Street, Blackfriars, SE1 9JH, London
Saturday 19th July 2025 – 10am to 12.30pm ⋅ Online via Zoom
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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.