The purpose of these sessions is to widen your knowledge, awareness, and skills in embedding difference and diversity 鈥榓s standard鈥� for all clients (as well as becoming self-aware of your own normativity, difference, and diversity).

DD&A considers the social context, social identities, ecological systems, structural disadvantage, otherness, marginalisation, and empowerment aspects in relation to client problems (psycho-social-structural), especially for clients who occupy diverse intersectional identities including gender, sexuality, trans, race, culture, disability, neurodivergence, religion, nationality, and class.

The first session will introduce core anti-oppressive practice concepts and why it is vital for working with difference, diversity & inclusion work. The second session will help you begin integrating these ideas into therapeutic practice including conceptualising clients鈥� difficulties. The third session will then reflect on principles of practice, the importance of self-reflexivity of own normativity and marginalisation, therapeutic pitfalls, and help you develop an ecological awareness of practice in developing a just and inclusive practice. A session role-play video will be used to reflect on learnings. The core curriculum transformation service for training providers developed under the anti-discrimination focus (#TADF) collaboration will be introduced to help situate professional transformation (See tadf.co.uk).

About the presenter

Mamood Ahmad is a therapist, author, trainer, and founder of the Anti-Discrimination focus (TADF). He has extensive experience in client mental health advocacy work, including the book 鈥榗lient perspectives of therapy鈥� and more recently in supporting counselling and psychotherapy training providers to embed difference and diversity as standard. He specialises in diversity studies, trauma, and antidiscrimination practice. He holds a private practice in Binfield, Berkshire since 2014.

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The main aims of the PDD

To help therapists integrate difference, diversity, and inclusion within self and practice using an anti-discrimination practice lens.

By the end of the PDD, participants will be able to

  1. To understand anti-oppressive practice concepts and why it is vital for working with Difference, Diversity & Inclusion (In Therapy and in providing an Inclusive service offering)
  2. Gain tools on how to open client narratives on difference, diversity, discrimination, and identity
  3. Conceptualise clients鈥� experiences systemically based on social positions, identity, and personal history in relation to clients鈥� difficulties
  4. Understand how to begin integrating DD&A ideas into practice and inclusion work
  5. Situate their individual learning and next steps
  6. Signpost to resources for DD&A core competence development

Programme

This workshop is split into three sessions and each will be followed by a live Q&A session with Mamood Ahmad. The first session will begin at 09:30am and the event will finish at 1:15pm.

Please click here to view the programme (PDF 124KB)

Booking

Please book your place online by clicking 'log in and add to cart'. Joining instructions will be sent 1-2 days prior to the event.