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.
Certificate in Anti-Oppressive Practice
Starting September 2026
This 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.
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Decolonising the Mind: Unlearning Empire in Practice and Life
Foundational frameworks for recognising how colonial logic and neurocolonialism shape knowledge, identity and therapeutic norms.Lessons from Black Feminism: Radical Disruption, Care and Survival
Black feminist thought as a living methodology for resistance, relational ethics and collective care.Otherwise Held: Queering Psychotherapy for New Possibilities
Queer theory and anti-normative practice as tools for expanding therapeutic imagination.Disability Justice, Crip Theory and Compulsory Able-Bodiedness
Challenging productivity, normativity and capacity as clinical and cultural lived realities.The Body Is Not Neutral: Politicised Somatics for Liberation
Understanding the body as a site of power, memory and resistance.The Trauma of Money: Practicing Under Capitalism
Examining class, survival, shame and the commodification of care.The Reality of Radical Practice: Surviving Gaslighting, Scapegoating and Silencing
Naming institutional dynamics, backlash and relational harm faced by practitioners.Values-Led Practice: Burnout, Fatigue and Care
Exploring moral injury, exhaustion and the limits of individual resilience.Applying Abolitionist Frameworks to Practice and Mental Health
Re-imagining care beyond punishment, coercion and carceral logics.Staying With the Work: Sustaining Radical Practice
Integration, accountability and collective resourcing for long-term change.
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Week 1: 25th September
Week 2: 2nd October
Week 3: 9th October
Week 4: 16th October
Break (Half-term): 23rd October
Week 5: 30th October
Week 6: 6th November
Week 7: 13th November
Week 8: 20th November
Week 9: 27th November
Week 10: 4th December
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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.
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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.
Teaching Faculty
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Kim Loliya
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Claudia Coussins
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Karmela Jones
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Jess Pons
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Ellis J. Johnson
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Micha Frazer-Carroll
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Sage Hayes
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Roxy Birdsall
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Kahra Wayland-Larty
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Debbie Solomon
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Loki Grey