In October 2023, the Coalition for Inclusion and Anti-Oppressive Practice launched a ground-breaking toolkit for psychological therapies training providers. The Race is Complicated toolkit aims to help the UK counselling and psychotherapy sectors better understand and address race and diversity.
Our follow-up webinar
On 27 June 2024 we hosted Race is Complicated toolkit webinar: Where are we now? This webinar was a chance to reflect with others and the authors on what we have learned since the toolkit was introduced, and how we can continue to disrupt the status quo.
In the webinar, we:
- heard from toolkit authors Marcelline Menyié and Danielle Osajivbe-Williams from Routes Therapeutic Consultancy, who will share how they have used the toolkit to bring about change
- heard from Julie Sale and Natasha Anderson-Foster from the Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology (CICS), on how they have implemented the toolkit.
- discussed how to safeguard anti-oppressive practice as tutors, programme leads or heads of institutions, looking together at the barriers we face and how we can overcome them.
The Race is Complicated toolkit aims to help the UK counselling and psychotherapy sectors better understand and address race and diversity.
Following consultation with trainers and training providers in February 2021, the Coalition partners agreed to commission and deploy a toolkit to support the development of skills, knowledge and understanding for delivering inclusive counselling and psychotherapy training across a range of learning organisations.
With an initial focus on race and ethnicity, the primary objective of the toolkit is to help the counselling and psychotherapy sectors better understand and address race and diversity. The toolkit provides support on three areas of course provision: the institution, the training programme, and the individual tutor.
The Coalition for Inclusion and Anti-Oppressive Practice brings together organisations with a shared mission to improve diversity within the counselling, psychotherapy and psychological therapy professions.
The Coalition has 11 members:
- Association of Christian Counselling and Linked Professions (ACC)
- Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP)
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)
- Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology (CICS)
- College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT)
- Muslim Counsellor and Psychotherapist Network (MCAPN)
- National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)
- Place2Be
- Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility (PCSR)
- UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
