Conference: Sexual Orientation & Gender: Let's Talk About It
Sat 01 Jun
|Exeter, EX1
A timely and beneficial 1 day conference at Iron Mill College in Exeter, examining the complexities surrounding sexual orientation and gender, covering key topical issues of interest and debate within this important and growing field.


Time & Location
01 Jun 2019, 09:15 – 17:15
Exeter, EX1, 7 Barnfield Cres, Exeter EX1 1QT, UK
About The Event
Training from Iron Mill College
Course Details:
The understanding of sexual orientation, gender and identity has entered an age of social and political change and challenge, leading to an energetic upsurge in research, debate, awareness and action.
In the helping professions specifically, the constant development and testing of our emerging understanding within a rapidly developing environment, and exploration of unconscious bias, is central to safe, respectful and effective relational practice; this of course includes an understanding of ourselves in relation to others.
This challenging and inspiring conference brings together leading researchers, guest speakers and workshop facilitators who are knowledgeable and passionate about expanding vision and deepening understanding relating to gender and sexuality. They will share perspective and insights about what we as individual helping professionals, and the professions in general, need to identify and understand in order to practice well with clients.
There will be opportunity to listen and participate,…