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  • Privilege and Otherness: Developing a Language for Practitioners

Privilege and Otherness: Developing a Language for Practitioners

We live in a challenging age, with the death of George Floyd, the subsequent marches across the world for Black Lives Matter, the struggles of the #Metoo movement, campaigns for equal rights for the LGBTQ community, and the rise of Disability theorists. Yet, these efforts towards equality in the face of varying types of oppression speak loudly of the voices of the others and their need to be heard and acknowledged.

It could be considered that trainings around difference and diversity have been slow in turning their considerable talents towards exploring or understanding the complexities of these overlapping issues, and how privilege and otherness influences these discussions, often doing no more than to mirror the wider societal oppressions we all witness daily. 

In his new book, Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Dr Dwight Turner draws upon the ideas of intersectional theory tying this to post-colonial theory, feminist discourse, and other theoretical areas of relevance to address these absences within counselling and psychotherapy.

This three-hour CPD morning presents some of the key ideas from this book, and brings theory together with the skills embedded within counselling and psychotherapy to develop a language to assist professionals in discussing issues of privilege and otherness. The workshop will be delivered online and participants will have the opportunity to take part in live Q+A throughout the morning. 

This short course forms part of the university's Counselling and Psychotherapy team's Continued Professional Development (CPD) programme. 

CPD short course

Chair: Pamela Howard, Programme Director for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Speaker: Dr Dwight Turner, Senior Lecturer Counselling and Psychotherapy Psychodynamics

Delivery method: Online via Teams Live (no software required)

Cost: £40 (student discount £30)

CDP certificates available for attendees.

About the speaker

Dr Dwight Turner is Senior Lecturer within the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, lecturing on the PG Dip and MSc courses in Counselling and Psychotherapy, a PhD Supervisor at the university's Doctoral College, a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, and a part-time lecturer at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE) in London.

As part of his PhD, through the University of Northampton and the CCPE in 2017, his phenomenological and heuristic study used transpersonal and creative techniques such as visualisations, drawing and sand play work to explore the unconscious intersectional nature of privilege and otherness. 

An activist, writer and public speaker on issues of race, difference and intersectionality in counselling and psychotherapy, Dr Turner can be contacted via his website at www.dwightturnercounselling.co.uk.

Dr Dwight Turner
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