Support for Trainers
Resources to support trainers and therapists in making training, supervision, and therapy more accessible to people of Black, Caribbean, and Asian heritage.
Listen to Students
5 Student Voices Video
Watch 5 students talk about their experiences in training and in the support they receive in the Student Support Groups.
The Wholeness Solution:
Embedding Context, Identity and Equity into Training and Practice
Introducing a bold new practice-based model called the Wholeness Solution for embedding normativity, diversity, equity and inclusion at the foundation of helping. Mamood shares an architecture that augments helping and practice from the ground up – ensuring equity is formally built in, at the beginning, not bolted on.
Presented by Mamood Ahmad, author of A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Routledge), which is based on five years of research and community engagement in developing a fully embedded approach to knowledge and practice that includes everyone by design.
Find out more: https://tadf.co.uk/
Utilising White Awareness:
To promote antiracism within counselling and psychotherapy education and practice
Dr Frances Basset presents her doctoral research into utilising white awareness. A major finding is that voices that resist, expose, acknowledge and disrupt whiteness are linked to hope, whereas voices of compromise, assimilation, ambivalence, and ‘pushback’ are associated with hopelessness.
Video presentation below
Resources
Recommended reading for students and Trainers
Papers that describe the student experience
Silenced: the Black Student Experience – Eugene Ellis
• Article already part of therapy courses reading lists
• Summary: Black and Asian counselling students often complain that their difference and experience is ignored in counselling training. Eugene Ellis and Niki Cooper discuss the reasons for this failure to acknowledge cultural diversity.
• Therapy Today, December 2013, Volume 24, Issue 10
• https://www.baatn.org.uk/bwl-knowledge-base/silenced-the- black-student-experience-eugene-ellis/
Updating Psychotherapy training: equality and diversity issues in psychotherapy Training – Eugene Ellis
• Summary: The profession must be much more sensitive to those from ethnic minorities who commit to psychotherapy training, says Eugene Ellis. Our business is the human condition. We have the tools.
• The Psychotherapist issue 61: Autumn 2015
• https://www.baatn.org.uk/bwl-knowledge-base/updating- psychotherapy-training-equality-and-diversity-issues-in- psychotherapy-training-eugene-ellis/
Recommend the student support groups and mentoring Programme to your students
Student Support Groups
These gatherings are for those of Black, African, Asian and Caribbean heritage who are training to become psychotherapists and counsellors. These gatherings are also open to other people of colour who are affected by prejudice due to the colour of their skin and global white power.
London Groups | Midland Groups
Student Mentoring Programme
One-to-one support to Black, African, Asian and Caribbean students who are in counselling or psychotherapy training. The programme is also open to other people of colour who are affected by prejudice due to the colour of their skin and global white power.
Make a donation
For Student Mentoring Project
Help nurture Black and Asian psychological therapists through their training so they can contribute to Mental Health services in the UK.