Untold Stories of Racialised Experience: Embodied Healing & Integration

An experiential workshop for counsellors & psychotherapists exploring racialised experience through storytelling & embodied reflection.

Untold Stories of Racialised Experience: Embodied Healing & Integration

A workshop for those who identify as from a racially minortised background.

I invite you to an experiential workshop for psychotherapists and counsellors where experience is heard and met in the body.

This workshop offers a reflective and creative space to explore, but is not limited to, anger and grief arising from racialised experience through storytelling and creative expression.

Rather than defining racial trauma in fixed ways, the workshop invites participants to listen to their own embodied and emotional knowledge, allowing meaning to emerge at their own pace.

This is a space shaped by care, choice, and attention to the relational field. It is not about fixing, analysing, or extracting stories, but about creating the conditions where experience can be safely held, witnessed, and integrated.

Through a gently structured process including grounding, storytelling, movement, conscious connected breathwork, and reflection, the day supports a deeper engagement with both personal and collective experience.

Outline of the Day

The workshop will unfold through a gently structured process, allowing space for both individual and shared experience.

Arrival & Grounding
Welcome, introductions, and establishing safety, choice, and orientation to the day. A brief body awareness practice to settle into the space.

Opening Reflections
Naming hopes and fears, and introducing the intention and rationale for the work.

Storytelling & Listening
Exploring racialised experience through storytelling and creative expression, with attention to being heard and received within the group.

Mindful Movement
A guided practice to support connection with the body and integration of emerging experience.

Lunch Break

Check-in & Grounding
Returning to the group with a brief mindfulness practice.

Breathwork
A guided breathwork session to support embodied processing and integration.

Integration & Reflection
Individual reflection, followed by meaning-making in pairs or small groups.

Closing Circle
Bringing the day to a close, with space to share reflections and integrate the experience.

Breathwork & Contraindications

This workshop includes a guided breathwork session to support embodied processing and integration. Breathwork may not be suitable for those with certain physical or mental health conditions, including cardiovascular issues, high blood pressure, epilepsy, recent surgery, or severe psychiatric symptoms (such as psychosis or recent suicidal ideation).

If you have any concerns about your health, are pregnant, or are currently experiencing significant instability or without adequate support, this practice may not be appropriate at this time.

You will be asked to share relevant information in advance to help ensure this workshop is a suitable space for you. By taking part, you are responsible for your own wellbeing and encouraged to work within your own limits.

Breathwork may bring up emotional, physical, or sensory experiences during and after the session. These are a natural part of the process and usually settle with time.

About the facilitators

Neelam Zahid - Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Tutor.

Neelam Zahid is a BACP-accredited psychotherapist with over 20 years’ clinical experience, and a tutor at The Minster Centre. Her work is rooted in an integrative and embodied approach, with a particular interest in how racialised experience is held in the body and within relational spaces. She brings a thoughtful, grounded presence to her work, creating conditions where experience can be explored with care, depth, and respect.

Wesbite: www.neelamzahidcounselling.co.uk

Jenny Davies - Breathwork Practitioner

Jenny Davies is a qualified yoga teacher and therapeutic breathwork facilitator with over several years of experience, teaching and supporting students across studios in London. Jenny guides from the heart creating a safe space. Her approach is gentle, gradual and designed to respect boundaries whilst working at a pace that feels safe for you.

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