BAATN Videos
Videos featuring prominent Black, African, and Asian therapists and allies sharing their thoughts and psychological concepts.
Black Men on the Couch
Conversations during lock-down series
Rotimi Akinsete asks a series of brothers about their reflections on all that’s been happening around black deaths under Covid and George Floyd’s murder.
WITNESSING THE WOUND – Conference 2018 video presentation
The impact on relationships between Africans, South Asians and Caribbeans as a result of African slavery (colonisation), the rule of the British Raj (British Rule), indentured slavery from India to the Caribbean and Africa and the upheaval after partition in India was incalculable.
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The loss of life and the brutality inflicted as part of these events forced us to embody fear in order to survive in a world that offered little value to our lives, little mercy on our souls and precious little interest in listening to our pain.
This video was central to the BAATN 2018 conference which gave voice to how these acts of terror have shaped the relationships between us and our inner realities and offered a space for us to witness the wounds.
28 mins 42 sec
SHADISM MONTAGE – BAATN Conference 2015 video presentation
The personal vs. the media driven reinforcement of shadism, where what’s encouraged are ideas about power and status based on one’s whiteness or the whiteness of one’s children, is truly alive and kicking in wider society and in our own homes.
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23.5 mins
BAATN Student Support Group Experiences
Counselling and Psychotherapy Students of African, Caribbean and South Asian Heritage talk about their experiences of being on their training courses and also being part of the student support groups run by the Black and Asian Therapist Network.
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30.5 mins
Utilising White Awareness: to promote antiracism within counselling and psychotherapy education and practice
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.
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It follows, therefore, that the importance of ending the violence that colleagues of the global majority experience cannot be overstated.
Specific recommendations for psychotherapy education are offered.
48 mins
Black Men On The Couch
Video summary of a national programme raising awareness on the specific challenges and inequalities faced by black men accessing mental health care in the UK. These ground-breaking awareness events bring qualified therapists, celebrated public figures and TV personalities, and members of the public together.
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We particularly want to celebrate the way that Black Men on the Couch shines a spotlight on the intersectional barriers for black men in accessing therapy, and leads a positive approach towards black men considering psychotherapy as a career.
3 mins 20 secs
Black Men On The Couch – 12 May 2012
Lord Simon Woolley, George the Poet and Professor Jason Arday will be in conversation with counsellor, Rotimi Akinsete, to discuss how to maintain good mental health. Black men are twice as likely to be sectioned as their White counterparts, and are also less likely to reach out for support if they encounter mental health struggles.
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The aim of Black Men on the Couch is to help combat mental health stigma and to encourage all, but particularly men who identify as Black, to openly discuss their mental and emotional health and think about counselling and therapy as a form of support.
2hrs 13 mins
Black Men On The Couch – 23 January 2020
Attended by hundreds of people, Artistic Director at The Young Vic, Honorary Fellow and former UAL Chancellor, Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE was invited onto the couch. Kwame discussed a range of topics including his childhood experiences, growing up in Britain in the 1980s and the inspiring reason behind his name change.
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Hosted by Associate Dean of Students (Wellbeing and Inclusion), Rotimi Akinsete.
1hrs 25mins
Black Men On The Couch – 12 May 2012
Yet another sell-out event in the series, BMC took place at RADA with guests Ashley Walters (Hustle, Top Boy, Inside Men).
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38 mins
Black Men On The Couch – 1 December 2011
Therapists, Rotimi Akinsete and Eugene Ellis were in conversation with David Lammy (MP for Tottenham) and Benjamin Zephaniah (poet, novelist and playwright) about their challenges, successes and their views on the value of talking therapies.
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This event was the second in the series aiming to change the status quo surrounding counselling and psychotherapy.
2hrs 06 mins
Black Men on the Couch – 31 July 2011
At this event a therapist is in conversation with Lemn Sissay (poet) about his challenges, successes and views on the value of talking therapies.
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Project 20:20 Black men on the couch is a series of events aiming to change the status quo surrounding counselling and psychotherapy and open it up to those who would previously have never considered it, either for themselves or as a profession.
39 mins
Black Men on the Couch
Conversations during lock-down series
Rotimi Akinsete asks a series of brothers about their reflections on all that’s been happening around black deaths under Covid and George Floyd’s murder.
Lockdown conversation one with Founder and Director of BAATN, Eugene Ellis
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[/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Ian” sub_title=”20 mins” button_url_new_window=”1″ image=”https://www.baatn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Ian.jpg” video_lightbox=”on” video_lightbox_url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/428974900″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]Lockdown conversation three with BAATN Leadership member Ian Thompson
[/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Wayne” sub_title=”15 mins 39 secs” admin_label=”Jordan ” button_url_new_window=”1″ image=”https://www.baatn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/wayne.jpg” video_lightbox=”on” video_lightbox_url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/428978651″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]Lockdown conversation four with Psychotherapy Counsellor & Developmental Group-work Facilitator Wayne Mertins-Brown
[/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Andrew” sub_title=”17 mins 12 secs” button_url_new_window=”1″ image=”https://www.baatn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Andrew.jpg” video_lightbox=”on” video_lightbox_url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/428989033″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]Lockdown conversation five with Psychotherapy Counsellor Andrew Williams
[/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Arike” sub_title=”13 min 33 Sec” button_url_new_window=”1″ image=”https://www.baatn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Arike.jpg” video_lightbox=”on” video_lightbox_url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/439220500″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]Lockdown conversation six with BAATN Leadership Member, counsellor, artist and musician Arike.
[/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Baffour” sub_title=”18 mins 24 secs” button_url_new_window=”1″ image=”https://www.baatn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Baffour.jpg” video_lightbox=”on” video_lightbox_url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/439240288″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]Lockdown conversation seven with Psychotherapist Baffour Ababio
[/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Ibrahim” sub_title=”14 mins 42 secs” button_url_new_window=”1″ image=”https://www.baatn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Ibrahim.jpg” video_lightbox=”on” video_lightbox_url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/439306705″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]Lockdown conversation eight with freelance radio & podcast producer and organiser for Justice for Black Lives, Ibrahim Hashim.
[/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Jordan” sub_title=”13 mins 46 secs” button_url_new_window=”1″ image=”https://www.baatn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Jordan-1.jpg” video_lightbox=”on” video_lightbox_url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/439324076″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]Lockdown conversation nine with recording artist Jordan “Jords” Wilks.
[/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Fitz” sub_title=”19 mins 57 secs” button_url_new_window=”1″ image=”https://www.baatn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Fitz-1.jpg” video_lightbox=”on” video_lightbox_url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/439364079″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_color=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]Lockdown conversation ten with counsellor, Fitz Douglas.
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