Trauma and Politics: “decisions are made in boardrooms, but we live with the daily trauma”
Sat, 19 Oct
|Zoom
This conversation explores questions around therapeutic strategies in the aftermath of institutional violence.


Time and place
19 Oct 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Zoom
About
This conversation explores questions around therapeutic strategies in the aftermath of institutional violence. Based on his extensive experience working with refugees and the Grenfell community after the devastating Grenfell Towers in 2017, he explores possibilities of working in an inclusive and collaborative way with communities affected that goes beyond the internal external binaries. This approach puts forward the idea that psychotherapy is always a political activity because the construction of intersubjective meaning always has political implications and cannot escape ideological influences.
The talk will be followed by a reflective group process.
Dick Blackwell is a psychotherapist, group analyst, organisational consultant and family therapist based in the UK. Dick graduated in business management before training as a teacher of physical education and social studies. He was a sociological researcher on a youth and community work project with black communities in the inner cities of England, and concurrently began training in group analysis and later in…