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The impact of racialised trauma on Black bodies is profound, deeply affecting mental and physical health in the individual, the community and the world around us. Woven through all of our systems, racism, prejudice and bias is often quiet and unseen, an inescapable cloak of silence.
Three years in the making, this experiential training has been created by Dramatherapist and trainer Lucy Joy, together with artist Helen Townsend. It invites those of us who benefit from white skin privilege to widen our gaze to this quiet and discreet racism, explore what biases we hold in our bodies and minds and understand how these often silent and unseen experiences culminates in racialised trauma and its severe impact on the body, heart and mind.
Please note: This training will be released from 27th January 2025
The training is a pre-recorded online 6 hour training package. Together we explore racialised trauma and its impact over three modules:
Module One: Children & Adolescents (Available from 27th January 2025)
We explore the impact of systemic racism in the education, social care and justice system on Black and Brown children and adolescents. Themes covered are:
This module also features an interview with Liz Soper who is the founder of A Seat At The Table, a black and brown-led collective, passionate about equality, inclusion and anti-racist practice advocating for children with SEN and embracing their heritage. Click here for more information.
Module Two: Adults (Available from 27th January 2025)
We explore the impact of systemic racism in the workplace, social care and justice system on Black and Brown adults. Themes covered are:
This module also features an interview with Carolynn Bain who is the owner of Afrori Books, an award winning Black bookshop based in Brighton. Click here for more information
Module Three: Moving Forward (Available from 24th March 2025)
As you journey through each module, you will carry out experiential exercises and reflections to support you to develop the skills and capacity to attend to your own internalised racism and bias. This module explores next steps, what they might look like for different people. It considers how this life-long learning journey can also bring opportunities for challenging the racism, prejudice and bias in the systems around you. We also discuss Beacon House as an organisation and the work we are doing to dismantle and re-build an anti-racist system.
This module also features an interview with Jess Taylor from the EA Consultancy who supports businesses with a holistic approach to cultivating conscious leadership in a diverse world. Click here for more information
This training is designed for people aged 16+ who benefit from white skin privilege. It is suitable for those who are already on their anti-racism journey and for those who are just at the beginning. Employers and individuals in any sector will benefit significantly: Healthcare, Social Care, Education, the Justice system, hospitality, construction, manufacturing, transportation, IT and energy, designers, engineers and researchers.
Looking after yourself during this training:
The training modules and printed materials included in this training contain in places, offensive language, graphic descriptions, images and references to topics such as racial abuse, racial violence, racial trauma, suicide and graphic sexual references. This will take the form of images, video clips, audio clips and text. If you choose to purchase this training it is important that you have the capacity to be able to take care of yourself whilst tolerating some discomfort, as this will be important on this learning journey. You will need to be in a stable enough position to process your body responses and emotions and remain in a place of learning. We have provided a lot of additional well-being resources with this training to support you with this.
IMPORTANT If you are an employer:
Please ensure the people of colour in your teams have all the information we have provided about this training before they make a decision about taking part, as the training may trigger racialised trauma or race-based traumatic stress. If they choose to attend, please consider what you might need to offer or provide for them to be able to do this in an emotionally and physically safe way.
You can choose to buy a single place on this training, or a group licence which enables teams to attend the training in a cost effective way.
When the training is released on January 27th 2025, you will be emailed:
We bring together an inspiring and innovative combination of lived experience, theory, stunning original art-work and downloadable training packs and resources, all accessed by video so you can do the training at a pace that is right for you.
This training can be accessed and re-watched as many times as you like, with no time limit and is available for a lifetime’s access.
Pre-release Price £150
Training available from 27th January 2025. After this time the training price will increase to £180.
Team licenses are available which reduces the cost per person, please contact Rebecca on [email protected] who will be able to share further information.
Lucy Joy is an experienced Dramatherapist and worked for Beacon House for a number of years with children who have experienced Developmental Trauma. Lucy now has her own thriving independent therapy practice specialising in early trauma.
Lucy is a talented trainer and consultant who has worked in schools, early years settings, special education and alternative education provisions, utilising a trauma-informed approach, focussing on the impact of attachment difficulties, loss and developmental and complex trauma. Lucy’s ethos around training is firmly based on ensuring the safekeeping of all participants, whilst at the same time offering enough space for exploration through experiential exercises and theory to promote learning.
Helen Townsend is the artist and Specialist Creative Designer here at Beacon House. She collaborated closely with Lucy to bring together this specialist content into a creative, beautiful, resourceful online training experience. Through this journey Helen discovered how dominant her white gaze was when creating this training and is now committed to re-developing all of our Beacon House imagery, resources and training.
As an adoptive parent herself, Helen is inspired by her experience living with trauma and loss in how she portrays the learning through her artwork.
You will receive a certificate of attendance. However, it is important to note that authentic anti-racism work at its heart is a life-long journey and this training is only a small part of it. This certificate does not evidence that the person is now anti-racist.
For individual participants, please book your place below. If you would like to request an invoice, pay over the telephone or enquire about a team licence, please contact our Training Administrator, Rebecca Robertson, on [email protected] or 01444 413 939. Upon receipt of payment your training package will be released.
IMPORTANT: Please ensure all team members have read the course information before commencing the training.
Due to our training package being available upon payment, online courses are non-refundable.
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We will deduct any bank charges or fees from any requested refunds.
We work very hard to keep our training and resources free or as low cost as possible. We ask that for single participants, you respect this by keeping the training package for your sole use only. For team licences, the training is to be used by the paying team only and must not be sub-licenced or used outside of the team. Sharing the training package to those who have not purchased a place is not permitted under any circumstances.
