Exploring the Same and the Different: perception of how we belong and how we don't belong, with a focus on racism

Course

In London

£ 190 VAT exempt

Description

  • Type

    Workshop

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    2 Days

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To experience: 'Racism as an interruption to working together within personal and professional relationships'. To understand: 'Introjects and projections that can isolate and misinform us'

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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96-100 Clifton Street, EC2A 4TP

Start date

On request

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Heather  Robyn

Heather Robyn

Facilitator

Patricia Rea-Woodhouse

Patricia Rea-Woodhouse

Facilitator

Course programme

In our ethnically and culturally diverse world, it is crucial that we learn how to live and work together with dignity and respect.

In this workshop we will explore how we sometimes struggle to be curious about others whom we perceive as different to ourselves. Equally there may be some resistance to exploring those we perceive as similar ourselves.

Racism and other isms, is about difference, and how power and fear may polarise how we see our fellow human beings. This workshop offers participants space to explore beliefs about ourselves and how these beliefs lead to assumptions that shape our relationships.

We take the view that racism and the process of racism interrupts us exploring who we are and what we mean to others, and they to us.

OUTCOMES

Facilitators will guide the participants in exploring what we mean by difference and or similarity, real or imagined, by being part of an experiential group where a combination of didactic input, dialogue and interactive experiments will support learning/understanding and self-awareness.

Throughout the weekend participants will be supported to explore their core beliefs about themselves and other people and how these beliefs learnt in both micro and macro environments have informed them during their developing years.

Participants will have the opportunity to understand how race is used as a way of dividing and ruling people and how skin colour is used to reinforce those divisions. The workshop will explore what this means for black and white participants in a cultural context where societal beliefs convey the notion that white people are superior to black people.

All participants will have the opportunity to discover and take responsibility for their own beliefs. This will include examining how we use stereotyping to reinforce the perceptions white and black people have about each other. The process of exploration and taking responsibility will mean participants will be supported to think ‘outside the box’ and experience what is beyond their comfort zones.

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS

Patricia Rea-Woodhouse

Has a social work background and works freelance for a number of inner London local authorities in the field of children and families, specifically child protection and children in the care system. Patricia also has varied experience as a psychotherapist in Primary Care working in a GP surgery. Patricia works with individual and groups in private practice in the Hackney and Islington area. Patricia is of African Caribbean origin and has recently researched and written on the issues of racism in the therapy environment. She also participates in an intercultural supervision group where themes of ethnic difference are explored.

Heather Robyn

Has worked for many years in Mental Health environments, first in New Zealand as a therapist in Community Mental Health, and for the past ten years in the UK as a therapist in a private psychiatric hospital.

She works as well in private practice as a gestalt therapist and has an interest in psychological trauma and the integrative qualities of gestalt therapy and EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprogramming).

Heather is a white New Zealander of Scottish and Irish ancestry and has a background of living and working in a high density Maori environment where she was challenged to become aware of the extent of her own internalised racism.

Both therapists are experienced group facilitators.

Exploring the Same and the Different: perception of how we belong and how we don't belong, with a focus on racism

£ 190 VAT exempt