How to Embed Context, Diversity and EDI in Relationship 2.0 Practice

This event invites you to witness a reimagining of the relationship (v2.0), and consequently, of training and practice, one that is beautifully fairer, more expansive, stronger, and more representative by design for the whole population. Sometimes, solutions and answers lie in the basics. It’s all in the basics.

The event explores what this relationship means within psychology and helping cultures. What is its relational scope (Ahmad, 2026)? More importantly, how can we harmoniously address the various gaps within foundational curricula and practice, and what are the implications for social change?

A solution will be presented, one that, if adopted mainstream by the profession, addresses these gaps in a harmonious way within the fields of helping and therapy, without taking away from what we already have.

This solution is based on five years of research, training, and practice and is based on the helping curriculum outlined in A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Routledge Books) (2026). A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking and practical textbook that offers a comprehensive entry into self-development, theory, skills, practice, and advocacy. This first-of-its-kind resource integrates, as required by SCoPEd competencies, dimensions context, difference and diversity, often overlooked in mainstream teaching and practice, including social and personal context, culture, identity, diversity, neurodiversity, embodiment, worldviews and beliefs, power dynamics, intersectionality, and trauma- and harm-informed approaches.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Understand the rationale and aims of an whole embedded approach to the relationship
• Understand the solution to an whole embedded approach to the relationship
• Be able to understand the model and educate or socialise it with others

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Everyone who wants good relationships

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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If you are not a member of a professional organisation, we ask that you participate in a way that is both authentic and respectful, fostering a space of mutual learning and professional engagement.

By registering for this event, you agree to be present and interact in a manner that reflects these principles.

Mamood Ahmad

Mamood Ahmad (he/him) is a therapist, lecturer, speaker, and Whole Practice Relational consultant, as well as the founder of The Anti-Discrimination Focus (#TADF) community. Established in 2020, this community aims to promote equity by design within the educational foundations of therapeutic practice. As a UKCP Psychotherapist with nearly two decades of experience in private practice, with specialisms in trauma, cultural competence and social change, his primary focus now is professional standards change, which is the central rationale for this book.

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