For Practitioners + Therapists
Inclusion & Belonging Training for Practitioners Working with Racially Marginalised Communities
Have you ever wanted to invite more people of colour into your workshops, sessions, and programmes, or wondered why they don’t attend?
Do you sometimes feel unsure when issues of race or cultural differences arise with people of colour? Do you feel like you’re walking on eggshells? Are you concerned about being misunderstood or making mistakes?
Most of us approach our work with the intention of creating ease and growth for our clients. However, when we encounter different lived experiences of marginalisation and oppression, we can all struggle. Freezing or falling into silence out of concern for getting it wrong can leave our clients feeling ignored and unseen. Sometimes we may not recognise or understand the impact of an incident as it unfolds in our workshops, with our own nervous systems adding to the complexity of finding a successful resolution.
My offer is to work together with self-compassion (and a touch of humour) to understand why being human can be so messy and challenging.
Training Offers
Inclusion and marginalisation for practitioners and therapists
I extend a special invitation to White professionals seeking to begin or deepen their understanding of power and privilege. Welcome to my new workshops on embodied relational anti-racism and anti-oppressive practice. We will use trauma-aware somatic tools, compassion practices, group processes, mindfulness and authentic relating.
This work can be overwhelming. Training sessions are deliberately slow and spacious, balancing the cognitive with the experiential, and with opportunities for grounding, connecting, questions and exploration. While I cater for a variety of learning styles, I invite you to communicate your needs in advance and during the sessions in whatever way you are most comfortable.
In my sessions we will centre race and gender, drawing upon my experiences of both sides of power and privilege. The work explores highly sensitive and potentially trauma-triggering issues, so we will continually attend to grounding, moving away from overwhelm and seeking moments of joy, celebration and playfulness.
Introduction to Inclusion + Belonging Day
Explore the impact of racism, unconscious bias, and microaggressions in your practice and learn how to implement practical strategies.
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Establishing agreements -- recognising the importance of safety and discomfort
Understanding how racism and discrimination impact staff, clients, and others
Exploring the concepts of inclusion and belonging – what do they mean? How do they feel?
Providing context on racism within the health and wellbeing industries
Understanding intersectionality and other forms of discrimination and oppression
Embracing the complexities of being human -- our neurobiology, unconscious bias, cultural values, and microaggressions
Identifying, challenging, and disrupting discriminatory behaviours and microaggressions -- case studies and practical exercises
Implementing practical strategies for inclusion:
Planning and development
Trauma awareness and addressing safety and discomfort
Integrating accessibility and different learning styles
Advanced Inclusion + Belonging Day
Build skills to disrupt discrimination, support disclosures, and repair harm, while exploring allyship, privilege, and somatic practices.
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Using a trauma-informed and compassionate lens to create safer, more inclusive spaces
Building skills and confidence to disrupt discrimination and create learning opportunities through practice, role play, and scenarios
Supporting participants who disclose incidents of discrimination
Developing our capacity to acknowledge, apologise, and repair harm
Understanding the dynamics of being a perpetrator and an ally – an introduction to the interplay of privilege, marginalisation, identity, and belonging
Utilising somatic practices to navigate the relational complexities of being human in diverse spaces
Working at the Edges: Exploring Power + Privilege
Explore the nature of power and privilege, how they manifest in our bodies and identities, and embrace the responsibility to shift from power-over to power-with dynamics for meaningful change.
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Exploring power: what it is and how it manifests
Somatic and embodied exploration of power and privilege
Understanding our socialisation into power and privilege
Embracing our responsibility for change
Examining identity and belonging: the experience of having our power and privilege challenged
Recognising power and privilege at somatic and energetic levels
Shifting from power-over dynamics to power-with approaches
My work always begins with a free conversation to see if we are a good match.
Often, the best work starts when you know something is needed but you're not quite sure what.
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