Decolonial Education, Training and Events 

Our training offers a rigorous, justice-led learning experience that centres anti-oppressive, decolonial, and culturally responsive practice across therapeutic and community contexts. Our programme brings together critical theory, embodied perspectives, and social justice to support practitioners and allied helping professionals in developing ethical, reflexive, and transformative ways of working.   

Training and Events Programme

Our programme is grounded in social justice and liberation, centring Global Majority lived experiences through an intersectional lens. It draws on the knowledge and activism of marginalised communities, past and present, to explore politicised perspectives on both professional practice and everyday life. 

Designed for practitioners, trainees, and allied helping professionals committed to liberatory work, the programme emphasises critical reflection, embodied learning, and practical skills. It fosters collaborative, accountable learning spaces that support participants to work with greater integrity and confidence. While most sessions are open to all, some are specifically for Global Majority participants, and all attendees are encouraged to be mindful of power and privilege within shared spaces.

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Certificate Trainings

Certificate in Anti-Oppressive Education

Starting January 2027

This virtual 8-week course offers a foundation for examining educational environments and developing anti-oppressive, decolonial and justice-informed practice. Anti-Blackness, white supremacy and colonialism provide an explicit organising focus, with attention to their intersections with other forms of oppression. Combining theory, reflection, embodied exploration and practical application, participants will explore curriculum, teaching relationships, assessment, accessibility, accountability and institutional change.

Open to community educators, tutors and teachers, lecturers, facilitators, course leaders, programme directors, training providers and educational leaders. The programme is established primarily in the counselling, psychotherapy and psychology educational context, reflecting our work as a mental health service. Educators from other disciplines and from the wider helping professions are welcome to attend.

  • 1. Reimagining Education: White Supremacy, Anti-Blackness and Power

    Education is shaped by sociopolitical and historical contexts. This opening session explores how dominant culture norms shape educational programmes, learners, professional identities, and how they can reproduce systems of oppression. Participants will also examine their own positionality and relationship to power.

    2. Decolonising the Curriculum and Knowledge Production

    Whose knowledge is considered legitimate, and whose perspectives remain marginalised? This session explores how colonial histories continue to shape educational theory, research and teaching. Participants will consider changes to the organisation and authority of knowledge, alongside changes to content and reading lists.

    3. Teaching at the Margins

    Educational institutions are not experienced equally by everyone. This session centres the experiences of Black and brown educators while attending to intersecting forms of marginalisation. Participants will explore how authority is granted, challenged or withheld, and what meaningful support requires of colleagues and institutions.

     4. Power, Difference and the Learning Relationship

    Teaching is a relational practice shaped by identity, power and social location. This session focuses on the everyday work of facilitating learning: responding to resistance, engaging difference and exercising authority with care and responsibility.

    5. When Institutions Fail Those Within Them

    This session explores how grievance and complaints processes reproduce oppression, including when protecting an institution’s reputation takes priority over addressing racism, exclusion or unjust treatment. Participants will consider justice-based approaches, what accountability requires and how to create cultures that counteract oppression.

    6. The Labyrinth: Navigating Complexity in Anti-Oppressive Education

    Anti-oppressive education involves uncertainty, contradiction and difficult decisions. Through the metaphor and practice of the labyrinth, this session offers an embodied and reflective exploration of how educators encounter power and navigate complexity. 

    7. Disability Justice, Access and Institutional Barriers

    Accessibility involves more than responding to individual requests. Drawing on disability justice and neuroaffirmative approaches, this session explores how educational structures can create or remove barriers to participation. 

    8. Leading Institutional Change and Building Networks of Solidarity

    Institutional change depends on relationships and structures that can sustain people beyond an individual intervention and leadership that can influence decisions, work with institutional constraints and develop realistic strategies for change. This final session explores how educators share responsibility and maintain collective support over time.

    Change Project and Showcase

    Participants will develop a change project from the beginning of the programme, followed by six weeks to begin implementing, piloting or further developing it. An optional virtual showcase will offer space to share learning, challenges and next steps. Detailed project guidance will be provided separately.

  • Week 1: Thursday 28th January 2027

    Week 2: Thursday 4th February 2027

    Week 3: Thursday 11th February 2027

    Break: Half-Term

    Week 4: Thursday 18th February 2027

    Week 5: Thursday 25th February 2027

    Week 6: Thursday 4th March 2027

    Week 7: Thursday 11th March 2027

    Week 8: Thursday 18th March 2027

    Change Project Showcase: 15th May 2027

  • We have priced this course below market rate to ensure it remains as accessible as possible and we recognise that, despite this, it will continue to be inaccessible to many. Our standard rate is £450 and our solidarity rate is £500. Payment plans are available for those who require them.

    Each cohort includes a limited number of Black and Global Majority partial scholarships available for £200. Scholarship applications are currently closed and please sign up to our mailing list to be notified when they reopen. Please do not use our standard application form if you are interested in applying for a scholarship.

  • Please complete the application form and we will contact you to arrange an introductory call where we will explore what brings you to this training, any access or learning needs and answer any questions. After the call, we will provide payment details and complete your enrolment.

  • If you would like more information about the training, please read our course outline. Please ensure that you read this document in full before applying.

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Certificate in Anti-Oppressive Practice

Starting May 2027

This virtual 10-week course explores anti-oppressive practice as a relational, embodied and political process that shapes both our work and lives. Grounded in social justice, liberation psychology and collective care, it invites participants to examine how power, history and social context influence therapeutic practice. Drawing on Black feminism, decolonial thought, queer and crip theory, abolitionist praxis and politicised somatics, the programme situates healing within wider social and economic realities. 

Open to trainees, qualified practitioners and those in helping or community roles, the course centres critical reflection, embodied learning and values-led practice. Participants are supported to navigate complexity, respond to harm and sustain ethical, accountable work. While open to all, we ask attendees to remain mindful of power and privilege within shared space. 

    1. Decolonising the Mind: Unlearning Empire in Practice and Life
      Foundational frameworks for recognising how colonial logic and neurocolonialism shape knowledge, identity and therapeutic norms. 

    2. Lessons from Black Feminism: Radical Disruption, Care and Survival
      Black feminist thought as a living methodology for resistance, relational ethics and collective care.

    3. Otherwise Held: Queering Psychotherapy for New Possibilities
      Queer theory and anti-normative practice as tools for expanding therapeutic imagination.

    4. Disability Justice, Crip Theory and Compulsory Able-Bodiedness
      Challenging productivity, normativity and capacity as clinical and cultural lived realities.

    5. The Body Is Not Neutral: Politicised Somatics for Liberation
      Understanding the body as a site of power, memory and resistance.

    6. The Trauma of Money: Practicing Under Capitalism
      Examining class, survival, shame and the commodification of care.

    7. The Reality of Radical Practice: Surviving Gaslighting, Scapegoating and Silencing
      Naming institutional dynamics, backlash and relational harm faced by practitioners.

    8. Values-Led Practice: Burnout, Fatigue and Care
      Exploring moral injury, exhaustion and the limits of individual resilience.

    9. Applying Abolitionist Frameworks to Practice and Mental Health
      Re-imagining care beyond punishment, coercion and carceral logics.

    10. Staying With the Work: Sustaining Radical Practice
      Integration, accountability and collective resourcing for long-term change.

  • Week 1: Friday 7 May 2027

    Week 2: Friday 14 May 2027

    Week 3: Friday 21 May 2027

    Week 4: Friday 28 May 2027

    Break: (Half-term)

    Week 5: Friday 11 June 2027

    Week 6: Friday 18 June 2027

    Week 7: Friday 25 June 2027

    Week 8: Friday 2 July 2027

    Week 9: Friday 9 July 2027

    Week 10: Friday 16 July 2027

  • We have priced this course below market rate to ensure it remains as accessible as possible and we recognise that, despite this, it will continue to be inaccessible to many. Our standard rate is £350 and our solidarity rate is £400. Each cohort includes a limited number of Black and Global Majority partial scholarships available for £150. Scholarship applications are currently closed and please sign up to our mailing list to be notified when they reopen. Please do not use our standard application form if you are interested in applying for a scholarship.

  • Please complete the application form and we will contact you to arrange an introductory call where we will explore what brings you to this training, any access or learning needs and answer any questions. After the call, we will then contact you and, if we offer you a place, we will provide you payment details and complete your enrolment.

  • If you would like more information about the training, please read our course outline. Please ensure that you read this document in full before applying.

Apply Here

Teaching Faculty

  • Kim Loliya

  • Claudia Coussins

  • Karmela Jones

  • Jess Pons

  • Ellis J. Johnson

  • Micha Frazer-Carroll

  • Camille Sapara Barton

  • Roxy Birdsall

  • Kahra Wayland-Larty

  • Dr S.M. Rodriguez

  • Loki Grey

  • Janice Whyne