The blank slide of decolonization

McCallum, Melissa; Hadjiosif, Miltos

Abstract

We are a student and a teacher from UWE’s Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Melissa is doing her doctorate research on how black women’s subjectivity is structured within psychotherapeutic training contexts, and Miltos is keen to learn from that. In the piece below, we try to capture our experience of co-facilitating a BLM process group, first as part of the curriculum and subsequently as an optional space open to all staff and students on the program. Our co-authored piece speaks to the origins, process, and desired outcomes of this initiative. While we are conscious of our separate voices, we tried to write it collaboratively. We dedicate this piece to Sula.

• Acceptance Date: Jul 18, 2022
• Publication Date: Aug 15, 2022
• Deposit Date: Aug 17, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 17, 2022
• Pages: 18-21
• Keywords: decolonization
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9884467
• Related Public URLs: https://www.thestudentsunion.co.uk/news/article/thesuatuwe/No-More-Silence-issue-2-Call-for-contributions/