Working with Equanimity in Multi-gendered Society

This is Day 1 of the three-day training* 'Cultural Competency in Counselling People with Gender, Sex and Relationship diversities' with Tina Clark, Client Centred Counsellor and Sex and Gender Diversities Therapist.

Each day focuses on one area – Gender, Sexual Orientation or Relationship – and is *, whilst relating to common themes running across the series. Workshops will comprise information giving, discussion, individual and group work.devised as a standalone

Traditionally, our culture has operated on a binary model of gender – i.e. you are either male or female. Presently society is a moving toward an acceptance of gender that is based on phenomenology (subjective experience) rather than taxonomy (categorisation) and consequently broadening in perspective. As with all cultural transitions, this presents some challenges to both individuals and society.

Our binary division of gender has not been equal, one side being valued more than the other creating categorical conditions of worth.…