Respecting Diversity in Relationship Framework
Sat 06 Oct
|Millenium Hotel, Glasgow
Discuss the diversities of human love in order to enable greater understanding of human relationship, expanding vocabulary of different relationship configurations. Bringing into awareness the potential prejudices that could block unconditional positive regard and empathic attunement to our clients.
Time & Location
06 Oct 2018, 10:30 – 17:00
Millenium Hotel, Glasgow, George Square, Glasgow G2, UK
Guests
About The Event
This is the final day of the three-day training* 'Cultural Competency in Counselling People with Gender, Sex and Relationship diversities' with Tina Clark, Client Centred Counsellor and Sex and Gender Diversities Therapist.
Each day focuses on one area – Gender, Sexual Orientation or Relationship – and is *devised as a standalone, whilst relating to common themes running across the series. Workshops will comprise information giving, discussion, individual and group work.
The most accepted model of relationship in our culture is monogamous marriage or partnership; until recently this model was exclusively heterosexual. The notion that non-monogamy could be equally ethical still eludes many of the population – having multiple partners being associated with promiscuity and infidelity. Additionally our frame-work for relationship has focused on sexual practices, thus explicitly and implicitly excluding those who are intimate in other ways.
Whether we are working with people as individuals or specifically with relationships it…