Mardi Gras/Prides – issues arising in counselling

Mardi Gras & Prides are times of year that can be exhilarating, confronting, and community building events. Clients who have excluded or marginalised gender, body, kinship, and sexuality lived experiences may often experience a myriad of emotions and thoughts as well as being targets of violence and oppression at these times of year. Join Francis Voon as we discuss this year’s theme in a therapeutic context – honouring our client’s histories whilst urging them to imagine possibilities ahead.

“Our Future… is not just a theme but a call to action, a bold invitation to define and shape our path forward as a community. It acknowledges our past, but encourages us to envision what comes next. It’s a statement that is open to interpretation and engagement, irrespective of geographical location or physical attendance. It’s our collective journey and story to share.” - Gil Beckwith, CEO of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, on the Sydney Mardi Gras Festival 2024.

We will be exploring the themes of:
• Identity
• cultural knowledge, attitudes, affirming practices
• humility & resonance,
• minority stress, integration, intersectionality
• casual discrimination / micro aggressions
• disclosure & positioning
• Personal, political, civic rights
• Kinships, polyamorous and/or other multi-partner connections/relationships & logical families
• Erasure, misunderstandings & the alphabet
• Resilience factors
• Gifts & contribution
This PD is intended for all counsellors & therapists seeking to work with people whose genders, bodies, kinships, and sexualities have been excluded or marginalised.

Presenter - Francis Voon
Francis acknowledges that he works on the unceded lands of the Gadigal at Derawun aka Potts Point/Kings Cross.
Francis's pronouns are he/him and he is a gay, cisgender man and person of colour, with lived experiences of migration, polycultural balancing, and experiences of intersectional discrimination as well as privilege.
Francis has had access to opportunities across the multiverses of education, religious, cultural, health, not-for-profit, advocacy, queer/LGBTIQA+/rainbow/gender-bodily-kinship-sexuality celebratory, diversity-friendly, nonviolence and performing arts.
As a psychotherapist & supervisor, his interests are somatic, psychodynamic, jungian, gestalt, narrative, existential, and creative in expression.

Price:
PACFA Members: Free
Non-Members $26 (incl. GST)

The recording counts as 2 hours of Category B CPD for PACFA's membership renewal requirements. The certificate is not provided. To use it toward CPD hours please follow the process outlined in CPD standards: https://pacfa.org.au/portal/Membership/CPDSupervision.aspx

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