Ethics & Boundaries: Building & Maintaining Therapeutic Organisations

Is “being lovely” enough?

As an organising principle “being a lovely organisation” works well. Until it doesn’t. An organisation which is set up with the best of intentions can be destroyed when its hidden shadow finds a way out into the light as it is bound to do. That doesn’t have to be bad.

The shadow can unlock and sustain an organisation’s creativity and integrity if that organisation has the courage to explore it. But to do that safely and productively, we need to work within an ethical framework which is guided by our values and principles. Attending to values and ethical frameworks has to be consistent. Like a puppy, an ethical framework is not just for Christmas.

In this second conversation, we discuss how an organisation can implement its values by using its ethical framework and maintaining its professional boundaries consistently in ways that are caring, containing and respectful of the organisation’s beneficiaries and everyone involved. We will attempt to exemplify this through the “No … but yes” approach.

We may have to accept that, as complex organisms, we are more than “lovely”. With the help of boundaries that enable rather than constrain, the less lovely parts of an organisation can enhance the creative potential of a project so that it thrives as well as survives.

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

After qualifying as a psychotherapist, Beverley Costa set up Mothertongue multi-ethnic counselling service (2000-2018) for multilingual clients. In 2009 she created a pool of mental health interpreters, in 2010 she established the national Bilingual Therapist and Mental Health Interpreter Forum and founded The Pásalo Project in 2017 www.pasaloproject.org to disseminate learning from Mothertongue.

She has trained over 5,000 therapists for NHS services and NGOs, in working therapeutically across languages and with interpreters since 2013. She is a Senior Practitioner Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and in 2023 she was granted the title Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Communication Design at the University of Reading.

She has run Reflective Practice Support groups for interpreters, psychological therapists and counsellors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, and psychosocial workers. She has developed an introductory course in facilitator skills for running Reflective Practice Groups which has been delivered online to organisations in England, Scotland and Wales. She is the author of Other Tongues -psychological therapies in a multilingual world https://tinyurl.com/Other-Tongues

Website | www.pasaloproject.org

Event Venue

Online