Community Conversations
Online, peer-led space for UK-based feminist / feminist curious therapists to share experiences, struggles, dilemmas and think collectively
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About this event
About this event:
The Feminist Therapy Network Community Conversations Series is an online, peer-led space for UK-based feminist / feminist curious therapists to share experiences, struggles, dilemmas and think collectively on a themed topic.
The conversations are a welcoming and informal way to connect with like-minded folks and collectively explore feminist topics in relation to our therapeutic practices. Each conversation is 75 minutes long.
Upcoming Conversations:
Taking Care of Trans Folks: responsibilities and allyship
26th September at 4pm UK time
A conversation for all bodies and genders, in light of the Supreme Court ruling and greater public targeting of trans and non-binary folks, let’s share ideas, experiences and concerns in how we undertake solidarity work in caring for trans and non-binary folks.
Dual Relationships: navigating showing up in community alongside clients
Tuesday 21st October at 6pm UK time
Therapists active in their communities are more likely to experience dual relationships, overlapping with clients in other contexts. This conversation invites reflections on how to approach both upholding and subverting notions such as ‘boundaries’ and ‘professionalism’ in order to consider arising dual relationships collaboratively, reflexively and with care.
Reclaiming a Feminist Therapeutics
Thursday 27th November at 7pm UK time
How can we take up Judith Butler’s call for feminism to be reclaimed from those that are co-opting feminism to oppress and marginalise others? By extension, what are the challenges in trying to re-conceptualise and reclaim a feminist therapy for current times? Bring your rage, discomfort, frustration and creative ideas!
Previous topics:
The Trainee Experience: supporting politically engaged trainees
Collective Care PracticesFeminist Economics: capitalism, money and therapy
Suggested Future Topics:
Is there a theme or dilemma you would like to explore and / or host? Please get in touch with your suggestions. Current suggestions awaiting a conversation include:
Being Therapists in the Time of Extinction
The Ethics of Subversive Group Work
Statutory Regulation: is this compatible with a feminist ethics?
Being a Therapist-Activist: defining our activist projects
Feminist Therapy and Private Practice: embodying values
We need volunteer Community Conversation hosts!
To host a conversation, you just need a Zoom account that can host groups. You don’t need any particular experience to host. If you’d like too but would like some support, please get in touch as we can provide that. We truly appreciate your support.
Frequently asked questions
These are peer conversations. Whilst there will be a Zoom host holding space, these groups share collective responsibility for bringing questions and supporting each others’ dilemmas and inquiries.
Feminist, or feminist-curious UK-based therapists, that are trying to integrate feminist praxes into their therapeutic work.
These events will held within the Feminist Therapy Network’s ethos. Please read this and check you are in accordance with it before signing up to join these conversations. Unkind or discriminatory language and/or behaviour will be called in.
The joining fee contributes to ongoing costs the FTN occurs. The fee contributes to the administrative labour of organising our events, our web hosting costs, our free resource lists on our websites, as examples. Please email feministtherapynetwork@protonmail.com if the fee is prohibitive to you.
These conversations are intended to be participatory, therefore to support this community of inquiry and co-learning, the request is for Zoom screens to be on during the conversation, whenever possible.
You will be emailed the link to join 48 hours in advance of the scheduled conversation. If you have not received it by then, please email: hey@feministtherapynetwork.org .
No. To encourage folks to join in and participate freely, these conversations will not be recorded and shared.