Name: Cultural Identity Weekend Workshop
Start: 2026-07-18T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-07-19T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre

A weekend workshop on culture, identity, and therapy, exploring power, migration, and how culture shapes mental health and practice.
About this Event

About the workshop

This workshop offers a reflective, practice-focused exploration of culture, ethnicity, and identity in therapeutic work. It considers how cultural experience shapes mental health, relationships, and sense of self.

The workshop will look at the development of ethnic identity and its impact on well-being, and at how culture can influence communication, coping, and help-seeking. It will also consider the impact of migration, acculturation, and marginalisation, and how these experiences may find their way into the therapeutic space.

There will be space to think about power and difference, including the practitioner’s own cultural positioning, and how these can shape both therapeutic and professional relationships.

The workshop is intended to support more considered and culturally aware ways of listening, formulating, and working.

About the facilitator

Dr Anvita Madan-Bahel specializes in multicultural psychology. A majority of her work is around diversity training, cross-cultural issues, and immigrant mental health. She is also a psychosexual therapist and works towards reducing sexual violence & shame and stigma attached to sex and sexuality.

She is most passionate about designing culturally based programs that address minority-based issues. She designed one such program for her dissertation, using Bollywood film clips to discuss comprehensive sexuality education with South Asian girls in New York. The dissertation was published as a book: Sexual Health and Bollywood Films: A Culturally Based Program for South Asian Teenage Girls. NY: Cambria Press. She currently lives in London and works as a therapist, trainer and lecturer.

Workshop Agenda

Saturday