Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies at IFT

Strictly Couples: different perspectives on race, culture and diversity

Gwen Daniel,Consultant Family and Systemic Psychotherapist at The Tavistock Clinic and in private practice

Dr Rabia Malik,Co-ordinator of the Marlborough Cultural Therapy Centre and Senior Family Therapist

Damian McCann,Consultant Family and Couple Systemic Psychotherapist, Barnet CAMHS and in private practice.

• Gywn will present different systemic frameworks for working with couples and explore forms of diversity. She will pay particular attention to questions of gender and power in couple relationships and discuss ways for therapists to access their own creativity when working with diversity and difference.
• Damian will consider challenges facing couples in current society and link this to thinking about minorities within minorities, including sexual minority issues in couple relationships from different cultures.
• Rabia will present some ideas on working with second generation Pakistani couples; negotiating the terrain of changing cultural and religious values and expectations, identities and gender relationships.

These three presenters will choreograph their different steps to working with couples into this vibrant day of benefit to all therapists, counsellors & practitioners.

For more information download the conference programme.

Download Conference programme

For more information and to book a place please visit our website www.ift.org.uk or contact the training department 0207 3919150

Early Evening Events

The centre is arranging early evening events approximately bi-monthly throughout 2009. They will feature talks by distingusihed presenters on relevant topics and be a forum for sharing information and interests to keep abreast with developments in the field. We aim to create an inclusive community that can share ideas, interests, conversation and learning. Come and join us. You will be very welcome. The first 3 are:

1. February 19th: Fathers and sons: working with Caribbean families

Lennox Thomas, Consultant Psychotherapist, Child and Family Therapist in Independent Practice and at The Refugee Centre

2. April 2nd: Taking Risks in working cross culturally

Barry Mason, Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist, The Institute of Family Therapy and in private practice.

3. May 21st: 'The Audacity to hope': What does Barack Obama's experience tell us about the Politics of Race?

Shila Rashid, Senior Systemic Psychotherapist, NELMHT CAMHS.

To be held on Thursday evenings 5:30-7:30pm at The Institute of Family Therapy at a cost of £15 each.

To book a place please complete an application form. Download APPLICATION FORM