Single Sessions
Sponsored Single Sessions
The following Single Sessions have been generously provided by individuals and allied organizations to proliferate LGBTQIA+ discourse across the creative arts therapies professions outside of the Expressing Pride annual symposium.
Recorded Presentations
Exploring the rainbow: How LGBTQIA+ friendly is your practice?
Generously provided by the European Federation of Art Therapy (EFAT)
(Recorded October 9th, 2023)
Presented by:
Laura Henderson (she/her) & Rivkah Hetherington (she/her)
Description:
In this Introductory webinar the speakers will demonstrate how awareness of LGBTQIA+ issues is valuable at 360’ and not only when working with LGBTQIA+ people. It will introduce the following key ideas: intersectional approach; power sensitive relationship, microaggression, minority stress, being an ally. It will explore the implications of being an LGBTQIA+ ally, introduce awareness of somatic discomfort regarding these issues, and introduce basic terminology : gender identity, intersex identity and sexual orientation.
Speakers
Laura Henderson
(she/her)
Laura has worked with the Czech National Institute of Mental Health to deliver training to psychologists/psychiatrists in the Czech Republic on the specificities of working with transgender/nonbinary/intersex clients.
Rivkah Hetherington
(she/her)
Rivkah has delivered trainings on the topic of art therapy with LGBTQIA clients for the British Association of Art Therapists and had recently an article published on Somatic Art Therapy with an LGBTQIA+ teenage service user, as part of the special issue on gender diversity and cultural humility on the American, International and Canadian Art Therapy Journals.
This article has been selected to be granted open access for a
limited time. It is still available to read only at the journal's homepage at the following link:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07421656.2023.2186687