Embedding Context, Diversity and EDI into Practice

This session will help practitioners to understand and apply an approach to therapeutic practice where context, identity, diversity, and universal equity are embedded by design, not as an add-on. This is sometimes referred to as 'Whole-Person', ‘Universal design’ or 'Client in Context' Practice (Ahmad, 2025). By attending this workshop, participants will develop knowledge, awareness, and skills in embedding social and personal context, difference, and diversity ‘as standard’ for all clients as well as becoming more self-aware of their own contexts. This can support practitioners in meeting the requirements of the SCOPED framework.

Leaning outcome

To understand how to embed context, diversity and equity by design within professional practice, guided by four strategic mindshifts.

To strengthen understanding of implications of embedding the client’s self-context and lived context into daily practice.

Who is this event for?

This course will be of interest to therapists, anyone who runs or commissions counselling or psychotherapy services, and other helping professionals.

Meet the Tutor: Mamood Ahmad

UKCP Psychotherapist

Mamood Ahmad is a psychotherapist, course tutor, speaker, and relational whole universal design consultant, as well as the founder of The Anti-Discrimination Focus (#TADF) community, which was established in 2020, and this community aims to promote equity by design within the educational foundations of therapeutic practice.

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