Onlinevents and PCCS Books are delighted to announce a one-day conference, in association with the editors of the recently published book, Black Identities + White Therapies (PCCS Books, 2021).

The online conference will run from 15-16th July 2022. It will offer a combination of keynote speakers, panel discussions and a wide-ranging choice of practical workshops.

Our aim is to provide a space for students, trainers, practitioners and researchers to explore and showcase best practice in:

challenging race discrimination and white fragility within the counselling professions
developing new ways of preparing students to work in our multicultural society
finding new ways to offer therapy to a diverse population
increasing access to talking therapies for people from minoritised racial groups
promoting black, Asian and minority ethnic presence within the profession at all levels

The conference will open in the evening of Friday 15 July with a panel debate on a topical issue, followed by a social gathering and party for participants.

On Saturday, there will be an opening keynote address, followed by workshops of between 45 and 90 minutes, organised in four streams to reflect the four primary sectors of interest:

Students
Trainers and lecturers
Practitioners
Researchers
Following a break for lunch, we will reconvene for a second keynote presentation, followed by a further choice of workshops across the same four streams.

The event will close with a keynote presentation and discussion forum where participants can reflect and report on what has arisen for them in the workshops and discuss ways forward for the profession.

We are seeking

submission of abstracts to run workshops from practitioners, trainers, students, academics and researchers. The workshops can be either 45 or 90 mins in length. Please send your abstract/proposal to…..
sponsorship for this event to enable us to reimburse all the speakers adequately for their time and keep the ticket prices low.
TRAINING PROVIDERS
We are asking all training providers to email their students details of this conference along with a link to the Student Discount.

To acknowledge your support for the conference we are displaying training providers logo’s here on the registration page, also in the resources pack that will be sent to all conference participants and included with the recordings from the conference.

Please email help@onlinevents.co.uk for the details to send to your student group and to share you company logo for the registration page.

STUDENT DISCOUNT
We have a special student discount ticket that is available for only £15.00.

This ticket is available via training providers.

Please send the contact details of your training provider to help@onlinevents.co.uk so that we can send the student discount details to your training provider to distribute to their student body.

Our intention is to let all counselling & psychotherapy students know about this conference as the learning will be vital for current training and future practice.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/