Intersecting identities

Our seventh conference is themed around Intersectionality, which explores the interconnected nature of social categorisations such as race, gender, faith and disability/health as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of privilege and disadvantage. The term was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 although the dynamics she described of course, predate this.

The majority of the conference will comprise a series of panels which will explore some of the implicit and explicit intersectional issues inside and outside of the therapy room.

The conference is open to counsellors and psychotherapists, clinical sexologists and psychosexual therapists, counselling and clinical psychologists, and those trained in somatic sexological bodywork and sex coaches.

Programme

09.00 Registration

09.30 Welcome and Announcements - Dominic Davies CEO Pink Therapy

10.00 Keynote: Intersectionality: Olukemi Amala

10.30 Q&A/Discussion

10.45 Coffee

11:15 Panel: Intersections of Faith


• Kathy Spooner Chair Association of Christian Counsellors
• Khakan Qureshi - Birmingham South Asians LGBT
• Joel Korn - Judaism

12.15 Panel: Intersections of Disability and Health/Wellness

• Rich Knight
• Lou Futcher
• Liz Day

13.15 Lunch

14.15 Panel: Intersections of Race & Ethnicity

• Zayna Ratty
• Sabah Choudrey
• Joel Simpson

15.15 Break

15:45 Panel: Intersections of Gender


• MJ Barker

• Ellis Johnson
• Leah Davidson

16.45 Conference Closing - and feedback

17.00 End