Management and Legal: Building & Maintaining Therapeutic Organisations

Charity, not-for-profit, community interest company, cooperative, community group - which one?

These are examples of different legal and management structures that projects/organisations can adopt. They each have their pros and cons. What are the underpinning values of your organisation? What is the turnover of the project likely to be? What might that be in 2 years’ time, 5 years’ time etc.? How much autonomy do you want to retain if you are the founder of the project/organisation? How much responsibility (and power) do other people want to have in the project? Are you going to employ anyone? What decision-making processes do you want to use? Where and with whom does the ultimate accountability lie? How will you manage disagreements, complaints, conflict etc. in the organisation

These questions may not fire you up when you are thinking about setting up a social action project. But they are significant, and they inform the type of organisational structure you choose to adopt. This is what we will be discussing in our fourth conversation. These questions need careful attention if the project or organisation is going to survive and make an impact.

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