Community Support Circles
In response to ongoing atrocities and violence towards racialised communities globally and across the UK we are carving regular online support circles to come together to share and be in community.
An Introduction to Developing Abolitionist Care in our Community
This workshop aims to open our imaginations to alternative approaches to working with distress, and practicing mutual aid.
Community Support Circle
We will be holding two support circles for community, in response to the racist riots that have been happening across the UK. These spaces are an invitation to come together online to share and be held in community.
Our Bodies are our Homeland: Coming Together as Anti-Zionist Jews
This online group led by and for self-identifying Anti-Zionist Jewish therapists, healers, and health workers wishing to cultivate community, solidarity and sustainability in our value aligned actions towards decolonisation and liberation.
Belonging to our bodies: A somatic healing space for QTIBIPOC+
For QTIBIPOC+ community to pause, rest, grieve and feel supported whilst connecting to our bodies during collective heartbreak and loss
Reconnecting to ancestral healing practices with Layla K. Feghali
The founder of the Radical Therapist Network, Sage M Stephanou, will be in conversation with Layla drawing on key themes within the book, particularly the links between ecological destruction, displacement, and consequences of colonisation on our capacity to heal. We will be holding particular care and attention to these themes in light of the current genocide in Palestine.
Global Strike Week: Silent Gathering for Palestine
A daily shared meditative space in support of Global Strike Week for Palestine
Restorative Space
Online community space to connect & be gently held through a creative practice to support collective care in our fight against colonialism
Free Palestine: A Gesture Towards Liberation from Radical Therapists
This online space is an opportunity for us to gather and use creative methods to share solidarity and support for Palestine. An opportunity to exercise the muscle of hope by coming together to share our belief that Palestine and all colonized people shall be free.
Anti-Racism in Action: Tackling Islamophobia in Therapy
This workshop is for trainee and qualified counsellors and therapists who want to gain a better understanding of Islamophobia and how it affects the context in which we practice therapy. The focus will be on learning and exploring in an embodied way.
Towards Somatic Abolition: An Embodied Space to Understand, Process & Settle Racial Trauma (closed group)
A year-long closed group split into a BIPOC and white group to build resilience and robustness by entering into discomfort with a conscious commitment to change. We will be using Resmaa Menakem's book 'My Grandmother's Hands' as the framework for sessions to support working towards a Somatic Abolitionist therapeutic practice.
Psychotherapy with Survivors of Sexual Violence: Book Launch & Workshop
An interactive workshop, discussion and Q&A with Erene Hadjiioannou as she shares concepts to help support survivors of sexual violence.
Self & Collective Care: A Reflective Workshop for Therapists
A space for therapists to explore self & collective care through self-reflective prompts, group discussion and connection to nature.
On Being White & Other: Unlearning and exploration for colonized white ethnic minorities (closed group)
A closed group for white and mixed heritage ethnic minority therapists from a colonized culture. This group seeks to find a sense of rootedness, unpack the violence of whiteness, ground our learning of colonial history, work with shame, and build a robust anti-racist therapeutic praxis.
Racial Trauma Group - Experiential Taster Session
A taster session to the Closed Experiential Racial Trauma Group ‘Towards Somatic Abolition: An Embodied Space to Understand, Process & Settle Racial Trauma’ which will be running from October 2021.
Introduction to Gender Identity Workshop
An introductory online workshop exploring gender diversity, which aims to increase awareness of gender diversity and the roles we can take in supporting people who are trans, gender diverse and/or gender non-conforming.
Part 3: The Plurality of Belonging & Homelessness with Guilaine Kinouani
The third event in RTN’S 3-part series exploring the plurality of rich, complex, multi-faceted identities through an intersectional and anti-oppressive therapeutic framework.
Part 2: The Plurality of Belonging & Homelessness with Alex Iantaffi
The second event in RTN’S 3-part series exploring the plurality of rich, complex, multi-faceted identities through an intersectional and anti-oppressive therapeutic framework.
Part 1: The Plurality of Belonging & Homelessness with Kris Black
The first event in RTN’s 3-part series exploring the plurality of rich, complex, multi-faceted identities through an intersectional and anti-oppressive therapeutic framework.
Resting in Grief & Creatively Processing Shame
Two facilitated break-out groups for BIPOC and white people will focus on processing our grief and shame in response to the death of George Floyd and ongoing state and systemic violence towards Black people and people of colour.
In Conversation with Owen Karcher
This conversation will facilitate a discussion on what power and privilege mean within a therapeutic relationship, ways in which it might manifest and the specific ethical considerations that are often negated and dismissed.