Conversations
PCSR Event: Examining Whiteness: white identity and racism.
Group meeting 4 times a year, near Kings Cross, London, 11.30-14.30
This group is open to people from all backgrounds, heritages and ethnicities who want to actively address the injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on white identity, power, privilege and complicity. It is an open group meeting 4 times a year since Sept 2017 and facilitated by two white therapists, members of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility (PCSR), Suzanne Keys and Bea Millar. It is not a workshop, seminar or therapy group, so participants need to be prepared to participate in uncomfortable and difficult conversations in a respectful environment, with the personal content being confidential to the group, and know how to support themselves in this process.
“By doing this work together we hope to actively work towards dismantling internal, relational and structural racism. The groups started because Suzanne and Bea no longer wanted to be part of a therapy profession and world where clients, trainees and practitioners of
colour continue to experience oppression, discrimination and harm, where their experiences are not heard and valued and where white practitioners don’t do the necessary internal and relational work to stop this happening. It is an ongoing experience and active
learning journey.”
Find out more by contacting: beatricemillar9@gmail.com
Bookgroup discussions - Liberate Us
I went googling anti-racist book groups in 2020 and feel incredibly fortunate to have met Nick and ‘Teleola Cartwright who set up the monthly club meetings from their base in Northampton where Nick was a lecturer in the law department and ‘Teleola has worked on race equality since 2013, focusing on race and education and is an expert on race inclusion in higher education. We read and discussed a book most months online, with sometimes the author as guest. I got a lot from this very informal but highly concerned and committed group of people and the books we read. I had to stop attending this year because of being ill. The book club is moving to be managed by the Centre for Advancing Race Equality (CARE) at the University of Northampton.
If you would like to join the book group, please get in touch via the email
CARE@northampton.ac.uk care@northampton.ac.uk.
Patrice and Emel will be doing the work as part of CARE
(patrice.seuwou@northampton.ac.uk and emel.thomas@northampton.ac.uk)
This link includes a very helpful and insightful A-Z of definitions of key terms, including, where relevant, some legal aspects.
As Nick and ‘Teleola point out: “There has been an avalanche in recent years of books, films, music and online resources that focus on issues of race and racism. These join an already crowded genre that boasted some truly inspirational content alongside some total rubbish.”