About this course

A half day experiential workshop exploring intersectionality as it shapes our embodied experiences, informs our work in the therapy room, and influences our clinical practice. Integrating movement, exploration, and dialogue, this workshop invites participants to move beyond a purely cognitive understanding of intersectionality towards an embodied engagement with power, privilege, and oppression.

Please note that this workshop involves significant movement and personal reflections. Please come in comfortable clothing suitable for moving.

 

Skills You will Learn

  1. To introduce intersectionality as a critical and embodied framework for understanding power, privilege, and oppression within creative art therapies practice and education.
  2. To offer participants a direct, embodied experience of the intersectionality and how that influences our work through movement, art making, and case studies.
  3. To support participants in reflecting their own intersectional positionality and how this shapes therapeutic and professional relationships. Holding discomfort and difference with curiosity and compassion.
  4. Translating embodied insights into ethical and practical actions in clinical practice.

 

Intended Audience

Open to arts psychotherapists, trainee arts psychotherapists, clinical supervisors, and clinical practitioners seeking to deepen their embodied understanding of intersectionality and its relevance to therapeutic practice.

 

Location

Training Room 5
CLCH Academy
Soho Centre for Health (former 'Hospital for Women')
Soho Square (on the corner with Frith Street)
London W1D 3QS

Dates

12 January 2027

Time

09:30 am - 10:30 am

Duration

3.5 Hours

Setting

Face to face

Cost

£50-£100

ICAPT intersectionality session

£0.00


The trainer

Sanjini Kedia

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Sanjini Kedia is a queer affirmative, dance movement psychotherapist, and a final year PhD candidate at the University of Roehampton, London. Sanjini works as a dance/movement therapist, and tutor. Transmen and cis men’s mental health, along with allyship and advocacy in the arts therapies are Sanjini’s primary research interests. She follows an intersectional feminist approach to her research-practice and offers individual and group dance movement psychotherapy. Sanjini’s professional experience ranges from working with children, adults with PMLD, adults from the LGBTQIA+ communities, in-patient at ELFT NHS, community with CNWL NHS Trust, and older adults in retirement housing. Sanjini has presented her research at various global conferences and is a member of the Association of Dance Movement Psychotherapy U.K’s ethics committee.