A ten session course starting in September 2024
This introductory course will consider the early pioneers of feminist therapy and radical therapy movements, feminist therapy as a theoretical orientation, gender role analysis in the context of therapy, elements of a feminist conceptualization, feminist critiques of diagnosis, the relation
between feminist therapy and social justice work, feminist therapy ethics and values and considerations for a contemporary feminist therapeutics. We will discuss writings and contributions from the broad spectrum of feminist scholarship and activism, including Black feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism, eco-feminism, trans-feminism and politics of spirit feminism. This course is suitable for those training and working in the psy-disciplines, or a related field, with an interest in feminist therapies. It will run online over ten 2-hour sessions on Wednesdays 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT. A CPD Certificate of Completion will be provided at the end of the course.
The course will be facilitated by Rebecca Esho Greenslade (she/her). Formatively trained in existential psychotherapy, Rebecca has been working as a psychotherapist for the past fifteen years. Her therapeutic experience ranges from working in schools, in community practices at St. Joseph’s Hospice and The Psychosis Therapy Project, alongside running a private practice. She founded Gaia Therapy Project in 2018 – a community therapy project at Hackney City Farm, which has now transitioned to Gaia Therapy Collective. She is the founder of the Feminist Therapy Network. Rebecca has worked as a training supervisor at The Minster Centre the past six years and facilitates Feminist Therapy Supervision-Reading Groups. Her writings explore the interstices between embodied philosophy, psychotherapy, spirituality and liberatory feminisms and she is currently undertaking PhD research with the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London that considers how a spiritualised feminist psychotherapeutics can intervene in contemporary modes of alienation. Rebecca is a Zen practitioner in the White Plum lineage and Buddhist chaplain-in-training with Roshi Joan Halifax. She lives in London and Charlottesville.
Fees: Standard rate: £250.00 Solidarity rate: (support the FTN): £250.00 – £300.00
Sponsored rate: £100.00 – £150.00 (three spaces available)
Dates: The course runs online over ten 2-hour sessions on Wednesdays 6.30 – 8.30pm GMT.
Start Date: 25th September 2024
End Date: 11th December 2024
Note – there will be no sessions on 16th October & 6th November 2024
Please do check the course dates before applying – it is hoped you will be able to attend all or most of our sessions together. For the group’s cohesion, please do ensure that you are able to attend the first evening of the course, which will include introductions and agreeing our principles for a feminist classroom. Sessions will not be recorded.