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Certificate in Diversity, Culture & Race using Anti-Discrimination Practice Foundations (80 Hour CPD + Includes Live Recordings + OnDemand Video Lessons)

A PROVEN... Standards based Core Competency training for Psychologists, Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychological Practitioners & Helping Professionals (NCS Quality Approved CPD)

BECOME A TADF DIVERSITY, CULTURE & RACE

AWARE & ASSESSED THERAPIST & GET LISTED ON OUR DIRECTORY


2024 Cohort Update: Includes Specific Days on Neurodivergence & Class (Lived Experience Led Training) + Peer Group Process


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LIVE 2024 ONLINE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE BELOW ( 1-DAY WORKSHOPS )


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Live Date

Day 1: Developing Cultural Competence in Therapeutic Practice  

Sat 27th Jan 24


Day 2: Working with Difference & Diversity using Anti-Oppressive Practice & Intersectional Foundations (DD&A)

Sat 24th Feb 24 


Group Work 1 

Small Peer Group

Intersectional Identity, Marginalisation & Adversity  Group Process

 Begins (Min 12-hours 6x2-hours)


Small Group Cohort Led -  Meeting March to June 24


Group Work 2

Small Peer Group 
Client Case and Reflection Exercises  (Min 8- Hours) 

Small Group Cohort Led -  Meeting March to June 24

Day 4: Embedding Difference, Diversity, and Marginalisation in Self & Therapeutic Practice 

Sat March 23rd 24 



Day 5: Working with Class & Social Position in Therapy (PM)

Sat 20th April 24
** NEW FOR 2024 **

Day 6: Understanding & Working with Neurodivergence 101



Sat 27th April 24
**NEW FOR 2024 **

Day 7: Working with Race-Based Trauma and Stress 

Sat May 18th 24 /

Sat May 27th  23

Day 8: Race Process Group  (Group Work 3 Instructor Led)

Sat 29th June 24 /

Sat June 24th 23

Optional: Case Study & Panel Assessment (Needed for Assessed Status - fee applies) 

Agreed on a case-by-case basis


 Dear colleagues and friends,

Last year we were thrilled by the turnout to our core competence training on Diversity, Culture, Race and Anti-Discrimination Practice. Since that time, we have listened, learnt, and refined the training to produce a compact 80-hour Live Workshop centered foundational course we can be proud of. This course has been designed for individual psychological practitioners – such as psychologists, IAPT therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, and helping professionals – This course is based on our diversity curriculum running at several training institutes who wish to integrate it within their core training (please enquire for options).

 The TADF Culture & Diversity 2.0 training model is inclusive of all clients. We acknowledge aspects such as difference, social-cultural factors, social identities, discrimination, cross-cultural/intersectional identity relationships, group trauma, intersectional & identity development, migration, worldviews, acculturation, cultural conflicts, and meaning, whether spiritual or not. These are psychologically relevant to ALL, including 'normative' identities.

By committing and challenging yourself to do this work, you will be contributing to providing equality in psychological service* and closing the disparities in mental health outcomes for Diverse groups including People of the Global Majority** (PGM), Diverse Protected Characteristics, Class, Neurodivergent, Mixed, White Other ethnicities and migrants*.

 We work to create an anti-blame/shame learning environment. Our ethos is relational, process-driven, and reflective. We will endeavour to provide affordability options for all. 

 If you have any questions, please contact. We look forward to welcoming you to our training and community soon.

 Warmly, 

Mamood (UKCP Psych.) & Sam (MBACP Reg.)
* Such as Mercer (2018), NHS Race & Health Observatory...
**PGM Such as people of African, African-Caribbean, South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern & Latin descent

MAKEUP MISSED ONLINE DAYS IF NEEDED THROUGH REPLAY (NOTE: GROUP PROCESS DAY 3&7 IS NOT RECORDED. YOU MUST ATTEND DAY 7 LIVE FOR DIRECTORY LISTING )


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Course Description

This certificate training consists of six days of live online training plus on-demand video lessons to support learning. 

Day 1: Developing Cultural Competence for Therapeutic Practice

“All relationships are cross-cultural relationships. We differ by our contexts, beliefs, worldviews, and geographically situated socio-cultural lived experiences”

This training will help you develop awareness and skills in working relative to the client’s cultural context(s)*, belief systems, worldviews, and conflicts of acculturation. This training will move you towards a deeper and more empathic understanding of clients’ difficulties relative to their lived cultural experiences for all clients. As client outcomes have been shown to be mediated by therapists’ own cultural identity awareness, this training will lead you through experiential exercises to help you reflect upon your own cultural context(s), worldview, and conflicts, and develop skills in developing cross-cultural relationships. You will have the opportunity to apply your learning interactively and in small group sessions in readiness for therapeutic practice. This foundation will form the basis of working with difference, diversity, and marginalisation.

*Cultural contexts such as geographical, continental, social / group identities, national, group, family, work, and the psychological effects of displacement, movement, and acculturation within the dominant society.

Day 2: Working with Difference & Diversity using Anti-Oppressive Practice & Intersectional Foundations (DD&A)

Difference, Diversity using Anti-oppressive practice (DD&A) considers the social context, intersectional identity, otherness, and empowerment aspects of working with difference, especially for clients who occupy diverse intersectional identities including gender, sexuality, trans, race, culture, disability, neurodivergence, religion, nationality, and class. This training will help you towards integrating DD&A foundations as standard practice for all clients. You will develop the foundational knowledge, awareness, and skills in relation to working with diverse identities including current socio-cultural challenges, impact on mental health, psychological theories, and structural and theoretical concepts in relation to marginalisation. We will then explore the implications of practice which describe common building blocks we must understand and instill in our practice that can be applied to all client work.

Day 3: Client Case and Peer Supervision Exercise
 (Peer Group Led
)

You will meet in small groups to consolidate the knowledge you have learned so far using a guided case study for reflection (self and client).

Day 4: Embedding Difference, Diversity & Marginalisation in Therapeutic Practice

This training will walk through our common tools (13) that emerge from theories and theorists of difference and diversity which can be applied practically for all client work and in your own self-development. These exercises, reflections, and case examples are designed to move you towards embedding difference, diversity, and inclusion as standard in self, therapy, and your profession.

We explore theories, structural narratives (psycho-social-structural), identity development, working with experiences of marginalisation, inter-identity relationships, power dynamics, cocreated helping, group trauma, worldviews, justice, allyship and empowerment action, and factors associated with negative and harmful experiences that recreate exclusion and marginalisation. By being able to apply these tools and skills you will develop foundational knowledge and practical skills in building a more just, inclusive, complete, and ever-improving psychological practice, whether working with clients and their experiences of otherness, marginalisation, and exclusion, within the therapeutic practice of one or within a mental health organisation.

Day 5 (1) : Neurodivergence 101 - Trainer with Lived Experience Led 

Day 5 (2) : Class and Positionality - Trainer with Lived Experience Led 

Day 6: Working with Race-Based Stress and Trauma*

This training day will help you work with clients’ experiences* of racism, racial stress, racial trauma, and intergenerational racial trauma. This training will give you a deeper understanding and equip you with the expert strategies and skills you will need to help clients narrate, heal, and empower from within their wounds of racial stress and trauma. The ubiquitous nature of the race construct is explored as an overarching theme of human (thus client) difficulties.

Day 7: Race Process group* - Includes White/PGM/Mixed/Other Spaces as needed (Not Recorded)

“I’m not going to trust you. Not until you can let me transform you” ~ m.a.

Group work is a crucial part of therapists’ racial and cultural identity self-development. This is a personal experiential encounter for you to meet the racial self/other and engage in personal dialogue. There is nothing required of you other than bring your “self” personally in sharing and responding to opinions, experiences, and feelings about race and how it intersects with other identities such as gender. Everyone will learn through experience and relationships rather than through study. In our experience, these encounters are powerful, and healing and have the potential for enormous shifts in racial awareness.

Please note access to supporting resources is recommended e.g., community, supervision, and therapy. We will provide aftercare if required.

*Client experiences on these days relate to People of the Global Majority (PoGM), such as people from African and Asian Diaspora as well as people of visible mixed race identities.

After live attendance and completion of Day 6, subject to observation, you can be listed on our therapist directory. 

OPTIONAL: Case Study & Panel Assessment (Needed for Assessed Status) 

If you wish to gain assessed status for this course you will need to submit a reflective case study and also attend a panel interview. The assessment is based on our evolving competency standards for anti-discrimination practice.

 

Pricing options

You can pay one off or monthly. Please contact if affordability is an issue.

OnDemand Supporting Video Lessons

    1. 1 - Concepts, Competencies & Contexts

    2. 2 - Conceptualisation & Context Discovery

    3. 3 - Relationships, Identity & Pitfalls

    4. 4 - Case Study and Skills Practice

    5. Cultural Competence Slides

    1. Part 1 : DDM Concepts & Difference

    2. Part 2: Diversity A-Z & Oppression

    3. Part 3: Building Blocks of DDM&AI

    4. Part 4 : Towards Whole Embedded Practice

    5. Day 3 : Peer to Peer Group Exericse

    1. Part 1: Embedding Critical Tools of Practice (Part 1)

    2. Part 2: Embedding Critical Tools of Practice (Part 2)

    3. Part 3: Harm & Systemic Discrimination in Therapy

    4. Part 4.1: Case Study Introduction

    5. Part 4.2: Case Study Document

    6. Part 4.3 Case Study Group Reflections

    1. Part 1: Concepts and Conceptualisation

    2. Part 2: Trauma & Relationship Building

    3. Part 3: Focusing in and Healing

    4. Part 4: Consolidation & Case Exercise

    5. Case Study and Questions

    1. Exploring Racial-Cultural Othering, Racial Discrimination and Antidiscrimination Practice

    2. Understanding Racial-Cultural and Intersecting Privilege

    3. Part-1 Self-Assessed Quiz

About this course

  • 10 x £59.50
  • 60 Hours Total
  • 2 Hours Self-Assessment
  • CPD Certificate

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What to expect when you enrol

This training is based on a ‘flipped’ training model where workshops (5 days Live + Peer Group Work) focus on discussions, exercises, skills and reflective practice, while foundational knowledge is acquired through self-directed online video lessons. There is no RUSH or TIME limit to complete them. For EACH PART we suggest you…

  • View each of the recordings

  • Make a note of your reflections and questions

  • Take the repeatable multiple choice self-assessment to check you've taken in the subject matter (answers provided)

  • Repeat live workshops through replay or next cohort if missed.

More About the course

This Diversity, Culture, Race and Anti-discriminatory practice core competence training is for ALL trainees and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and psychological professionals. It is based on racial and cultural development theory, client experiences, research and experiential learning, as well as a specific training approach refined over 24-months of delivery. The couse is Quality CPD Checked by the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).

The training is self-certified as being compliant. and therefore includes awareness, knowledge and skills, according to the following standards:

Race, culture and antidiscrimination core competence framework for therapists (TADF)

BAME Positive Practice Guide (BABCP) including IAPT

Develop foundational knowledge and skills applicable to ALL therapists and clients including


Cultural Competence (Awareness)

Anti-Oppressive Practice (Structural Awareness)

Diverse Intersectional Groups and Common & Differential Factors

Racial-Cultural Identity

Developing Racial-Cultural Relationships

Racial-Cultural Discrimination

Racial Trauma and Intergenerational Trauma

Cultural Contexts, Personal Worldviews and Acculturation Conflicts

Migration & Citizenship 

Faith, Spirituality, Healing and Meaning (Awareness)


Instructor(s)

Sam Jamal

TADF Instructor (Workshop Lead)

Sam is a BACP (MBACP) therapist, trainer, group therapist, and co-lead of The Anti-Discrimination Foundation (TADF). She specialises in working with abuse, race, culture, sexuality, trauma, relationships, and group work. She has two decades of experience working within the youth services, where she dedicated herself working with gangs, young offenders, the vulnerable, and exploited young people. She professionally qualified with a degree in person-centred counselling at the Metanoia Institute for counselling and psychotherapy.

Mamood Ahmad

TADF Instuctor

Mamood is a UKCP psychotherapist, trainer, author and founder of The Anti-Discrimination Foundation (TADF) which provides diversity and anti-discrimination focused consultancy and training services to training institutes and individuals. He is an expert in Anti-Discrimination practice, Trauma, Race, Culture and Intersectional Diversity. He holds a private practice in Binfield, Berkshire since 2012. He is a lifelong dedicated practitioner of Wing Chun Martial Arts. Twitter: @ahmad_mamood. Web: http://tadf.co.uk. He holds a private practice in the village of Binfield, Berkshire.

TADF Affiliate Trainer

TADF Affiliate Instructor

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Testimonials

Here is what our attendees are saying

“I thoroughly recommend this course to every therapist. I think it should be mandatory on our training journey and I am ever so happy and relieved that I have found it before I qualify. Sam and Mamood showed great care, professionalism and deep understanding of past, present and future of othering. They provided us with a safe and welcoming space to be authentic, to meet in our differences and to find the courage to look honestly at our personal biases and systemic assumptions too. They provided us with a vast amount of precious theory and finally with really good, practical suggestions on how to implement those learnings in our practice. ”

Sylwia Korsak

“I have learned a little more humility as regards how I come across as a white therapist. I really valued the feedback both yourself and Sam offered me about working with Black, Brown and clients of Colour. I need to watch for coming across as ‘a bit holier than thou’!….when attempting to own my whiteness. I learned more about the importance of sensitivity when bringing up racial differences and racism….. that there isn’t a right way necessarily…. but that openness and willingness to learn is key.”

S.T.

“I appreciated the way the content was delivered and emerged in a timely and relevant way to meet the needs of the group. I also appreciated Mamood’s input was kept to a sensitive minimum, guiding direction without directing the discussion. This was a life changing course for me which enabled me to really and honestly address issues that I have avoided albeit unconsciously”

Jan Baker, Chair of Membership Services Committee UKATA

“The training was a brilliant experience. It was informative, insightful, and hugely valuable – both personally and professionally. I would most definitely recommend it to other therapists. ”

Emily McArthur

“The course was amazing. I have become more aware of my learnt internal racism and am finally tuning in to what affects those of diverse heritage. I am losing friends as a result but I am comfortable with that. My white goggles are coming off finally. I do have much more learning to do ”

Janice M

“I have developed more confidence in challenging my white colleagues, for example if they are expressing their colour-blindness or possibly not seeing the bigger picture (e.g. systemic racism ). The reality of being white and privileged is dawning on me much more and it feels like a painful and necessary shift. ”

Nikki

FAQ

  • What does the course consist of?

    It consists of six training days plus supporting video lessons. You can complete an assessment if you wish (paid extra) for TADF assessed status.

  • When are the Live sessions?

    See the main course description. You will get a zoom invite a few days prior. All sessions are recorded except for group work day, breakouts and day 3 cohort reflections on case study which you complete in own time with small groups.

  • I dont want to complete the certificate. Can i select the day i wish to join?

    Yes. just pay for the day. Except for Day 3 (Cohort reflection) and Day 6 (group work).

  • What form does the assessment take?

    There is no formal assessment unless you complete the assessment option. However, since we want to ensure you are a safe, ethical therapist our trainers will only list you on the directory if we feel you have developed enough. for safe practice. Feedback can be given for further development on request.

  • Is this training suitable for helping professionals and trainee psychological practitioners e.g. trainee counsellors?

    Yes, this training is designed to fill a gap within initial trainings. We have a number of training providers who are integrating this modular course into their curriculum. For helping professionals you will gain a lot from this course. So yes. But please check the description or email if you're unsure. We do talk more about inner work of individual which could be relevent (for yourself too) but may not necessarily be applicable.

  • Why is the training spaced out over months?

    Based on experience people typically need space to learn, absorb, reflect and apply learnings.

  • I have a question and need help with aspects of training. What do i do?

    If you need further support you may email us.

  • What are the day session timings?

    Usually timings are from 10am to 4.30pm. Group process day runs usually runs from 9.30pm to 5pm.

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