Ondemand Certificate in Diversity, Culture, Race & Anti-Discrimination Training: Book here (NCPS CPD Quality Checked)
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This diversity, culture and anti-discriminatory practice training is for ALL trainees and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, coaches and the helping profession. It is based on diversity studies, racial and cultural development theory, client experiences, research and experiential learning, as well as a specific training approach. It is also suitable for personal self-development.
The training is self-certified as being compliant and therefore including abilities, skills and knowledge according to the following standards:
- Race, culture and antidiscrimination core competence framework for therapists (TADF)
- BAME Positive Practice Guide (BABCP) including IAPT
The training consists of the following modules of 6.5 hours each
Day 1: The Wholeness solution
Day 2: Developing Cultural Competence In Therapeutic Practice
Day 3: Working with Difference, Diversity & Equity using Anti-Oppressive Practice & Intersectional Foundations (DD&A)
Day 4: Embedding Difference, Diversity, and Marginalisation in Practice
Day 5: Disability in Practice
Day 6: Social Class & Positionality in Therapeutic Practice (Lived experience and expert led)
Day 7: Working with Race-Based Trauma and Stress
For further details, schedule and to book click here
This certificate training consists of live records and lecture presentations.
Day 1: Developing Cultural Competence for Therapeutic Practice
“All relationships are cross-cultural relationships. We differ by our contexts, beliefs, worldviews, and geographically situated socio-cultural lived experiences”
This training will help you develop awareness and skills in working relative to the client’s cultural context(s)*, belief systems, worldviews, and conflicts of acculturation. This training will move you towards a deeper and more empathic understanding of clients’ difficulties relative to their lived cultural experiences for all clients. As client outcomes have been shown to be mediated by therapists’ own cultural identity awareness, this training will lead you through experiential exercises to help you reflect upon your own cultural context(s), worldview, and conflicts, and develop skills in developing cross-cultural relationships. You will have the opportunity to apply your learning interactively and in small group sessions in readiness for therapeutic practice. This foundation will form the basis of working with difference, diversity, and marginalisation.
*Cultural contexts such as geographical, continental, social / group identities, national, group, family, work, and the psychological effects of displacement, movement, and acculturation within the dominant society.
Day 2: Working with Difference & Diversity using Anti-Oppressive Practice & Intersectional Foundations (DD&A)
Difference, Diversity using Anti-oppressive practice (DD&A) considers the social context, intersectional identity, otherness, and empowerment aspects of working with difference, especially for clients who occupy diverse intersectional identities including gender, sexuality, trans, race, culture, disability, neurodivergence, religion, nationality, and class. This training will help you towards integrating DD&A foundations as standard practice for all clients. You will develop the foundational knowledge, awareness, and skills in relation to working with diverse identities including current socio-cultural challenges, impact on mental health, psychological theories, and structural and theoretical concepts in relation to marginalisation. We will then explore the implications of practice which describe common building blocks we must understand and instill in our practice that can be applied to all client work.
Day 3: Client Case and Peer Supervision Exercise
(Peer Group Led)
You will meet in small groups to consolidate the knowledge you have learned so far using a guided case study for reflection (self and client).
Day 4: Embedding Difference, Diversity & Marginalisation in Therapeutic Practice
This training will walk through our common tools (13) that emerge from theories and theorists of difference and diversity which can be applied practically for all client work and in your own self-development. These exercises, reflections, and case examples are designed to move you towards embedding difference, diversity, and inclusion as standard in self, therapy, and your profession.
We explore theories, structural narratives (psycho-social-structural), identity development, working with experiences of marginalisation, inter-identity relationships, power dynamics, cocreated helping, group trauma, worldviews, justice, allyship and empowerment action, and factors associated with negative and harmful experiences that recreate exclusion and marginalisation. By being able to apply these tools and skills you will develop foundational knowledge and practical skills in building a more just, inclusive, complete, and ever-improving psychological practice, whether working with clients and their experiences of otherness, marginalisation, and exclusion, within the therapeutic practice of one or within a mental health organisation.
Day 5: Neurodivergence & Therapeutic Practice
Neurodiversity 101 is an introductory training course covering understanding key principles of neurodiversity and working neuro-affirmatively in mental health and counselling practice. It is delivered by practitioners with lived and professional experience as neurodivergent therapists. The course is interactive, with plenty of opportunities to learn through peer discussion and practical, thought provoking activities, and ideas for practitioners to implement in their own practice/service.
Day 6: Working with Class & Positionality in Therapeutic Practice
“Class is so embedded that it is an accepted contract where inequality and injustice can take place without challenge”
This is a training day to reflect on class and positionality in exploring how it manifests in our and our clients life and the therapeutic relationship. First we will excavate the many manifestations of class in society and our own position within it and then explore how class and positionality can be of therapeutic value and a source of disadvantage. All presenters are from a working class and socioeconomically disadvantaged background.
Day 7: Working with Race-Based Stress and Trauma*
This training day will help you work with clients’ experiences* of racism, racial stress, racial trauma, and intergenerational racial trauma. This training will give you a deeper understanding and equip you with the expert strategies and skills you will need to help clients narrate, heal, and empower from within their wounds of racial stress and trauma. The ubiquitous nature of the race construct is explored as an overarching theme of human (thus client) difficulties.
Day 8: Race Process group* – Includes White/PGM/Mixed/Other Spaces as needed (Not Recorded)
“I’m not going to trust you. Not until you can let me transform you” ~ m.a.
Group work is a crucial part of therapists’ racial and cultural identity self-development. This is a personal experiential encounter for you to meet the racial self/other and engage in personal dialogue. There is nothing required of you other than bring your “self” personally in sharing and responding to opinions, experiences, and feelings about race and how it intersects with other identities such as gender. Everyone will learn through experience and relationships rather than through study. In our experience, these encounters are powerful, and healing and have the potential for enormous shifts in racial awareness.
Please note access to supporting resources is recommended e.g., community, supervision, and therapy. We will provide aftercare if required.
*Client experiences on these days relate to People of the Global Majority (PoGM), such as people from African and Asian Diaspora as well as people of visible mixed race identities.
After completion of Day 6, subject to observation, you can be listed on our therapist directory
OPTIONAL: Case Study & Panel Assessment (Needed for Assessed Status)
If you wish to gain assessed status for this course you will need to submit a reflective case study and also attend a panel interview. The assessment is based on our evolving competency standards for anti-discrimination practice.
The details below are for our online modules for Race and culture training which are provided as self-study ondemand video lessons:
Race and culture training curriculum: This is a monthly 30-minute introductory session to the training programme, explaining how it evolved, its theoretical tenets, methodology, curriculum, assessment and content. This is not part of the main training and does not need to be taken by participants.
Part 1: The challenge of seeing the racial and/or cultural other in therapy
“If you can’t see me through my race and culture then you don’t see me. And if you don’t see me then you don’t see how I see you.” ~ Unknown
This session will orient you to the core tenets and journey of becoming an race and culture-aware therapist, and ask both individually and collectively: what will you need to do to “see” clients who are racially and/or culturally diverse to you in your therapeutic practice?
We will explore the contextual themes which shape racio-cultural “otherness” such as power relations, systemic and indirect discrimination, injustice (social and political), the possible meaning(s) of racial dialogue, racio-cultural identity crisis, and lived-in experiences for client groups whose house is structured differently to your own with its own epistemological frame of reference.
We hope to kickstart your reflective process so you can make the leap towards equality of service regardless of racio-cultural diversity.
Part 2: Situating your racial and cultural identity
Everyone holds race and culture.
In this workshop I will help you to explore your individual and group(s) racial and cultural identity, and your relationship with it. What ancestral and collective events, trauma, and culture shaped your personal identity? And on the other side what is the meaning of your groups race and culture? How do you see yourself and how do others see you? And do you continue to have identity and belonging conflicts because of it?
This will help compare and contrast your individual racio-cultural identity development as the training progresses and importantly to recognise race and culture as a universal aspect of the self. We will also integrate these ideas by exploring its links to psychosocial, whiteness, acculuration and racio-cultural identity development theories.
Part 3: Working with race and culture in the room
“Our fathers and mothers came to these shores in hope for a better life for their family. But they didn’t realise there was something they could never provide. Belonging” ~ m.a.
In this workshop we turn to the work in the room and ask how we can work effectively where clients have a very different worldview and/or have lived experiences of racism and discrimination.
This workshop focuses on the central challenge of establishing and maintaining the therapeutic relationship. We will reflect on case studies from the perspectives of therapists, clients, supervisees and trainees, as well as your own experiences in practice. We will uncover the potentially insidious nature of unconscious racial bias and how it is revealed through everyday verbal and non-verbal language. We will look at racial dialogue, themes of relational process, and working with a range of racial related emotions such as anxiety, rage, shame and guilt.
This is a chance to put into practice all you’ve experienced and learnt and get live experience of working with clients in a role play situation. You will work in a small group of two or three. You will be given scenarios in which to act out “as-if” live sessions, and then you will give and receive feedback. Don’t worry, you won’t be asked to do this role play in front of the whole group unless you wish to. We will all reflect on the scenarios and what worked well or what felt off based on reflecting on the context provided. This type of role play will reinforce all the work you have done up to now.
Part 4: Antidiscrimination / anti-oppressive advocacy in practice
“Advocacy is the ‘big E’ – empathy for your diverse clients” ~ m.a.
How do you advocate for groups that have faced discrimination on a mass scale? In this workshop we make the case for social advocacy as a way of embodying an antiracist attitude and how work inside and outside the room is an important part of developing trust with your diverse clients. This session explores actions, both micro and macro, which could help end racial discrimination but also help you become more attuned to the realities of everyday racism. We will also consider professional ethics of social advocacy and reflect on developing an individual personal call-to-action plan.
Part 5: Working with Racio-cultural identity and discrimination (4 hours or 2 weekly 2-hour sessions)
This workshop focuses on working with each client’s race process including race and cultural identity, conflicts of identity, cross racial relationships, race-based abuse, trauma, discrimination and healing. Latest ethical best practice, assessment considerations, theory, law and interventions are described and contextualised in supporting clients. Our very own Antiracist racio-cultural development model will be introduced and how it can be used to understand the client-therapist relationship, antiracist self-development, racio-cultural identity development and impact of relational differences due to levels of race awareness.
Throughout these sessions everyone will reflect on their own process, what has been learnt, including bias, and how they wish to continue developing in working with groups that have suffered oppression along race and cultural lines. There will also be an opportunity to reflect on your own racial development and how it has changed since beginning this training programme.
This is a chance to put into practice all you’ve experienced and learnt and get live experience of working with clients in a role play situation. You will work in a small group of two or three. You will be given scenarios in which to act out “as-if” live sessions, and then you will give and receive feedback. Don’t worry, you won’t be asked to do this role play in front of the whole group unless you wish to. We will all reflect on the scenarios and what worked well or what felt off based on reflecting on the context provided. This type of role play will reinforce all the work you have done up to now.
Part 6: Working with Racial Trauma and Racial-Cultural Discrimination
In this section we focus on working with racial trauma, racial-cultural discrimination, client empowerment strategies, and racial-cultural discomfort expressed in the room. We will look at racial dialogue and how to work with a range of emotions such as anxiety, anger, shame and guilt.
Throughout these sessions everyone will reflect on their own process, what has been learnt, including bias, and how they wish to continue developing. There will also be an opportunity to reflect on your own racial development and how it has changed since beginning this training programme. Options for further development are highlighted.
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