WORKSHOP WORKSHOP Supervision

A black Empathic approach

Workshop Details

This workshop will focus on Isha’s chapter in the book Therapy in Colour. Isha will facilitate discussion about the context, choices and challenges of appropriate supervision that address identity, the challenge of racism and supportive anti-racist practice.

There will be space to consider how we assist others to emerge from the traumatic impact of racism.

Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga, has thirty years’ experience as a Transcultural Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Lecturer, Writer and Reiki Master. She is the author of ‘Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process’.(2009) ‘The Challenge of Racism in Therapeutic Practice’ (2016) and she co-authored an autobiography and contributed papers and poetry to several anthologies. The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy (2011), Making Research Matter (2015), Intercultural Therapy (2019), The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health (2020)).

She created Black Issues workshops, based on concepts created during her research. www.ishamckenziemavinga.com She is semi-retired and transitioning from professional practice to creative writing and Art.