Workshop List

Workshop Descriptions Saturday

Abi Osho and Lola Jaye: Reflection on keynote talk

Black Child White Nanny – The Experience and Complexities of Cross-Cultural & Private Fostering

Abi Osho is a Visibility Coach, Author and Speaker

Lola Jaye is a psychotherapist 

Sabina Kahn: Reflection on keynote talk

Re-storying and restoring the inner child

Sabina Kahn is a clinical psychotherapist

Dennis L Carney: Let’s Play Together 

Dennis L. Carney – Therapist, Facilitator & Activist. Also, a member of the BAATN Leadership Advisory Group

Workshop Outline

“When people live in a world that devalues them because they are Black or Brown as well as dismisses their contributions to the larger society, Black Joy is and has been an effective tool that has allowed individuals and groups to shift the impact of negative narratives and events in their favour.” – Elaine Nichols.

Come along to this highly interactive workshop and participate in a range of fun, group games and playful activities. This workshop will involve lots of movement, joy, self-reflection, and participants will be encouraged to be their full authentic selves. Be prepared to play with others, be a little silly and bring your playful self with you, because life is way too short to be anything but happy.

Mickey Peake: Giving a Voice to Our Inner Child

Mickey Peake – MBACP, MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy. Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Group Facilitator, member of BAATN Leadership and Advisory Team. Mickey also works in education and private practice.

Workshop Outline

Offering a space to speak with your inner child. The intention of this workshop is acceptance and understanding of our inner child – offering compassion to our wounded parts, enabling integration and leading to feeling more settled in our adult lives.

On Growing up a Multi-Heritage Child – A Reflective and Creative Exploration

Mary-Claire Wilson – Integrative Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Facilitator and Trainer

Workshop Outline

This workshop is a gathering for those who identify as having a multi-heritage background. It will offer a safe and supportive space to explore our multi-heritage identities, gaining greater insight into our young experience and early familial and cultural environment. It will invite reflections on how our adult selves relate to our inner child. Creative means such as poetry, visualisations and drawings will be used.

Purpose: To share with others of multi-heritage backgrounds perspectives that may resonate or maybe new; to introduce and embrace diverse experiences, facilitating a deeper understanding of ourselves and others; to validate, empower and amplify the voices and lived experiences of those of multi-heritage backgrounds.

My Story is Our Story: Journeys of the inner child through gender, sexuality and relationships

Kirath Ghataora – (they/them) – Integrative psychotherapist, supervisor, consultant and group facilitator

Wayne M. Mertins-Brown – Integrative psychotherapist, counselling consultant, group facilitator

Workshop Outline

An invitation for self-exploration and process around relationships, gender and sexuality within our communities of colour and reflective practice on implementing LGBTQ+ and Gender Sexuality Relationship Diversity (GSRD) inclusivity.

This is a holistic space open for all, regardless of sexual or gender identity.

Open Discussion Workshop

Naila Dunleavy – Integrative therapist, writer and artist

Ian Thompson –  Group facilitator, qualified trainer. Previously held roles of a School Counsellor, Diversity Co-ordinator for a local authority and BACP’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Advisor. Also, a member of the BAATN Leadership Advisory Group

Workshop Outline

An opportunity to reflect on the themes of the conference in a supportive, open space.

Workshop Descriptions Sunday

Veena Ganapathy: Reflection on keynote talk

Let Us Play: Playing and Grieving in Adult Psychotherapy

Veena Ganapathy – psychoanalytic psychotherapist

June Allen: Reflection on keynote talk

June Allen – June Allen is a seasoned racial trauma therapist with over a decade of experience supporting the African diaspora in reclaiming their healing and power.

Dennis L Carney: Let’s Play Together 

Dennis L. Carney – Therapist, Facilitator & Activist. Also, a member of the BAATN Leadership Advisory Group

Workshop Outline

“When people live in a world that devalues them because they are Black or Brown as well as dismisses their contributions to the larger society, Black Joy is and has been an effective tool that has allowed individuals and groups to shift the impact of negative narratives and events in their favour.” – Elaine Nichols.

Come along to this highly interactive workshop and participate in a range of fun, group games and playful activities. This workshop will involve lots of movement, joy, self-reflection, and participants will be encouraged to be their full authentic selves. Be prepared to play with others, be a little silly and bring your playful self with you, because life is way too short to be anything but happy.

Mickey Peake: Giving a Voice to Our Inner Child

Mickey Peake – MBACP, MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy. Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Group Facilitator, member of BAATN Leadership and Advisory Team. Mickey also works in education and private practice.

Workshop Outline

Offering a space to speak with your inner child. The intention of this workshop is acceptance and understanding of our inner child – offering compassion to our wounded parts, enabling integration and leading to feeling more settled in our adult lives.

East and South East Asian reflection space

Sandra Chittick – an integrative counsellor who has worked internationally and in the UK supporting drug & alcohol addicts, children & young people and traumatised people.

Christine Shaw – a trilingual person-centered counsellor, fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

 Workshop Outline

A space of reflection for individuals of East and Southeast Asian heritage or upbringing

Open Discussion Workshop

Moriam Grillo – an Art Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Therapeutic Coach and Anti-Racism Trainer
Robert Sookhan – trained as a person-centred psychotherapist in 2005. Joint head of the counselling service at the University of Greenwich.

Workshop Outline

An opportunity to reflect on the themes of the conference in a supportive, open space.