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About this event
A phenomenology of racism
The counselling and psychotherapy profession has faced ongoing debate about how it addresses issues of race and racism. Some critics suggest that training and practice have, at times, relied on simplified or institutional ways of understanding race.
It has been argued that this can limit the range of voices included in discussions and affect how fully issues of race and racism are explored within the profession. In this talk, Dwight introduces a phenomenology of racism, exploring core ideas around what race is, how it is constructed, and the ways in which racial frameworks shape, influence and shape individual and collective experience.
The session invites you to rethink established narratives and engage more deeply with the complexity of race within therapeutic practice.
On the agenda
- Panel discussion
- Interactive Q&A
Please arrive at least ten minutes early to allow us to start promptly.
About Dwight
Dr Dwight Turner is Course Leader for the Humanistic Psychotherapy programme at the University of Brighton, and a practising intersectional psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. He is the author of Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Depoliticised Pathways Towards Intersectional Practice (2025), The Psychology of Supremacy (2023), and Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2021), all published by Routledge.
