Decolonising Postmenopause: Addressing Internalised Ageism in Therapy

While menopause has received a huge amount of attention in the past decade, postmenopause - the rest of our lives - has largely been ignored by our ageist, misogynist and deeply pronatal culture. Further, the vast majority of menopause research to date has been on white, cisgendered, heterosexual mothers, so that learning from other cultures, other experience and other ways of being old have often been disregarded.

And yet wider research shows that many of us find deep satisfaction and thrive in postmenopause. How might we support our clients to overcome their internalised ageism so that they can approach this stage of life with greater possibility?

And might we need to address our own internalised ageism first?

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Supporting clients (and therapists) to understand their ageing as valuable despite our sociocultural inclination towards gendered ageism and misogynist pronatalism.
• A clearer understanding of the intersectional challenges around the transition to postmenopause and ageing more generally.
• A clearer understanding of the need for our profession to address the difficulties of ageing in an ageist culture.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Psychotherapists, Practicing & Trainees

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Usefully, I hope, especially those with little or no experience in working with ageing.

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

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

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Dr Stella Duffy

Stella is an existential psychotherapist in private practice having also worked in cancer support in the NHS and hospice bereavement support. She currently teaches on the doctorate training at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling.

Her doctoral research was in the embodied experience of postmenopause and she is writing a new mass market book for Virago on developing your creative postmenopause. An award-winning writer of 17 novels, over 70 short stories and 15 plays, she is also a theatremaker, with a particular interest in the creative possibilities of existential psychotherapy.

Website | https://stelladuffytherapy.co.uk/

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