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About Let's Get Uncomfortable
Shammi Kohli and Pretish Raja-Helm are graduates of the The Minster Centre, London. Through their experience of training they have co-founded Aashna Counselling & Psychotherapy and as part of their ethos and vision to embrace difference and diversity; they have affiliated with The Minster Centre, BAATN, PCU and PCSR to create a series of encounter to reflect, challenge and facilitate action in trainings around the issues of race, culture, ethnicity and power.
Some areas we recognise and want to explore include:
-Practitioners fear of their ability to sensitively hold explorations
-prejudice and bias ( Unconscious / conscious)
-lack of knowledge, resources, confidence in seeking out training and materials to support explorations
-the need for training to embed and explore theories of race, culture and power including trauma, colonialisation, whiteness, white privilege and fragility and conceptualisations of power.
There is an urgent need for the predominately white counselling and psychotherapy establishments to take action and to be truly inclusive of race, culture, diversity, otherness and intersectionality.
We Look forward to have you be part of some important discussions and support us in talking action.
OUR AIM
To hold a series of encounters exploring race, ethnicity, culture and power within our trainings. Each encounter will be held at Aashna Counselling & Psychotherapy, ending at The Minster Centre, London for the final gathering. We hope that from these discussions involving key organisations and professional bodies we start to create action and change in counselling and psychotherapy trainings.
In this series of encounters we invite students, trainers, supervisors, heads of organisations and training organisations of all backgrounds to create dialogues and action around our key question: What would a more inclusive training genuinely look like?
