As we celebrate our 7th birthday we are inviting you to join us at Aashna at our open day - join us for some South Asian food, meet the Creative Team and Aashna Community therapists. Find out more about the Aashna+ Service, experience a creative taster of Aashna and celebrate with us!
At the heart of our Aashna+ journey as a collective since 2017 has been the lived experiment and enquiry of how Aashna’s name "devoted to love” can become a soul compass in therapy. We are nourishing a therapeutic service and learning community of clients and therapists where love in action is sensed, felt, questioned, critiqued, queered and creatively lived.
The Aashna Creative Team is dedicated to creating a collaborative learning and reflexive space with all our therapists, building community and interconnectedness. With regular community learning days, the personal and professional development of our therapists is paramount. Our Social Justice Project the Aashna+ Service is at the heart of Aashna, conceived with the aim of developing an accessible communal approach to individual therapy, where differences are affirmed and interconnectedness is embraced for communities whom therapy is inaccessible in mainstream therapeutic services.
We are reaching out to therapists, who feel drawn to our ethos, who would like to be part of this lived question. We particularly welcome therapists of LGBTQIA+, global majority (collective term for people of Indigenous, African, Asian, or Latina American descent), visible and non-visible disability, neurodivergent, working class and care experienced communities.
As we celebrate our 7th birthday we invite you to join us at Aashna at our open day for some South Asian food and meet the creative team and therapists from our Aashna Community. Find out more about the Aashna+ Service, celebrate with us and experience a creative taster of Aashna - a screening of Love Lost followed by a discussion with director Pablo Saura.
At its core Love Lost is a tale of loss, longing and an unyielding quest to find connection, but at its heart, it is a family drama deeply rooted in human emotion and which—hopefully—transcends queer audiences. Longing for a parental figure is something that we’ve all experienced on some level. Here we get to see João playing out his longing and we get to see the lengths to which he’s willing to go to connect with his father. Saura’s writing explores issues of race, belonging, immigration, family and queerness.
To end the day you are welcome to join us for cake and a celebratory drink.
2 pm arrival drinks
2.30 pm meet and greet Aashna's creative team and community of therapists and their sharing of the Aashna journey
3.30 pm intro to film screening Love Lost by director Pablo Saura (trailer)
3.45 Love Lost screening
4 pm Q&A discussion about Love Lost
4.20 pm celebratory drinks and cake
5 pm close
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