Blue Smile Skills in the Room

‘Negotiating Boundaries or Reinforcing Borders?’ A workshop on Inter-cultural Creative Practice

Trainer: Dr Ditty Dokter FPC, UKCP, HCPC, BADth, ADMPUK

The workshop aims to support practitioners to work interculturally.

It draws on intercultural good practice guidelines to assist counsellors/therapists in exploring their own cultural background. Using a variety of creative media, the emphasis will be on story/myth and embodiment. In a context of global migration, this workshop will focus on the outcomes of research completed about intercultural therapy practice. Can we aim for a more fluid mix of identities, or do we become stuck in a conflict of loyalties? Can we negotiate boundaries or do we reinforce borders?

Learning objectives

- To support counsellors/therapists to work interculturally using Intercultural good practice guidelines

- To explore participants’ own cultural background

- To explore how this background interacts with similarities and differences from those of their clients

About Dr Ditty Dokter

Ditty was course leader for the MA in Dramatherapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge until 2016 and continues to offer therapy, teaching and clinical supervision in private practice. She has held clinical, research and teaching posts with the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and Hertfordshire partnership NHS Foundation trusts; Hertfordshire and Roehampton Universities, KENVAK arts therapies research centre (Netherlands) as well as working in the tertiary sector to support and advocate the integration of clients with learning disabilities and refugees.

She has co-facilitated the development of Intercultural competency guidelines with the BADth Equality and Diversity committee and her research focusses on intercultural practice. She has published a co-edited Arts Therapies Intercultural research book with Margaret Hills de Zarate, published by Routledge in 2016. Other edited books include Arts Therapies and Clients with Eating Disorders (1994), Arts Therapists, Refugees and Migrants (1998), Supervision of Dramatherapy (2008 with Jones) and Dramatherapy and Destructiveness (2011 with Holloway and Seebohm) as well as contributing chapters and articles to Journals such as Dramatherapy and GROUP.

CPD certificates are available for Blue Smile training sessions.

Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?

If you have any queries, please phone 01223 314725 or email: tonya.deutsch@bluesmile.org.uk