Courses | Workshops | Seminars
The FTN offers opportunities for learning more about feminist perspectives in the psy-disciplines. These will be available in person and via Zoom. Course dates and venues will be shared via the FTN newsletter, social media and posted on the website. If you are interested in offering a learning opportunity through the FTN, please get in touch, providing an overview of your intended course and feminist pedagogy.
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Upcoming in 2025: Black Feminism and Womanism: therapeutic perspectives, Spiritual Activism for Clinicians, Abolition and Anti-Carcerality in Therapy
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Black Feminism and Womanism: therapeutic perspectives
a four-session online course starting on May 6th 2025
This course will engage with Black feminist discourses including intersectionality, womanism, transnationalism; consider the relationship between self-actualisation and self-recovery with collective struggle, social justice work and political resistance; explore community orientated care rooted in Black, indigenous healing practices; and imagine collective responses to contemporary therapeutic concerns through Black feminist perspectives. Through engaging with resources and each other, there will be space to reflect on your practice and shape your own therapeutic ethos. This course is suitable for those training and working in the psy-disciplines, or a related field, with an interest in Black feminist and womanist approaches to therapy. Download more information and how to apply here.
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What is Feminist Therapy?​ webinar
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This webinar recording provides an overview of the emergence of radical feminist therapy, the core principles and ethos underpinning feminist therapies, introduce important thinkers and contributors to its development, alongside considering its contemporary relevance and presence within psychotherapeutic practice.
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A recording of this webinar is now available to purchase for a contribution of £15 - £30. All proceeds will be donated to the Al Mustafa Welfare Trust to support the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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To receive the webinar recording, make payment via Paypal and email feministtherapynetwork@protonmail.com confirming that your contribution is for the webinar. You will be emailed the video link upon receipt of your payment. Note, this recording is for personal viewing only.
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Perspectives in Feminist Therapy
(20 hour introductory course over ten weeks)
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This ten week introductory course considers 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. This course is suitable for those training and working in the psy-disciplines, or a related field, with an interest in feminist therapies. It runs online once a year - the next course will begin in September 2025.
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Working with Trans, Non-Binary and Gender-Questioning Clients and Understanding 'Conversion Therapy' Webinar
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Therapy has the potential to provide life-saving support to trans, non-binary and gender-questioning people, by offering a safe and affirming space for exploration. But research points to a lack of comfort amongst therapists in working with gender in the therapy room. One reason for this discomfort is the confusion around ‘conversion therapy’. This is the practice of attempting to change a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation. Although the government has now committed to a ban for all LGBTQ+ people, the inclusion of trans people has been threatened and still remains uncertain. Trans people should be entitled to access safe and ethical therapy without fear of abuse; denying them the same legal protections as anyone else leaves them vulnerable to harmful practices.This webinar is an information session on working with trans, non-binary and gender-questioning clients, and demystifying some of the confusion around 'conversion therapy’. It also addresses the ways in which LGBTQ+ affirmative practices align with feminist therapy. This webinar lasts for one hour and will be held on Zoom. It is not be recorded.
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Manifesto Writing for Therapists
As therapists, we are often encouraged to ‘integrate’, to synthesise our theories into coherent. therapeutic approaches. What, however, of the aspects of therapeutic practice that we find intolerable, what of the parts that resist integration and require active refusal? Manifestos have a long history in politics and the arts, yet their role in therapeutic practice has been minimal. This workshop considers how manifesto writing might be utilised as a critical and resistant therapeutic intervention for our times? Using discussion of various feminist manifestos as our starting point, participants are invited to experiment with writing their own therapist manifestos. We will work together in large and smaller groups, whilst also allowing time for self-writing. This course is suitable for those training and working in the psy-disciplines. This course runs online over two half-day sessions, or in person over one full day.
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