CGAS Ethics Workshop - Entering the Forest of Group Ethics

We live in times of war, separation, isolation, polarization, radicalization, global viruses, global warming, and inequality. There is a need for decolonization, to address racism, and to heal generational trauma. Einstein said we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Bayo Akomolefe urges:

May this new decade be remembered as the decade of the strange path, of the third way of the broken binary of the traversal disruption, the kairotic moment, the posthuman movement for emancipation, the gift of disorientation that opened up new places of power, and of slow limbs. 

I suggest we enter the realm of the ‘forest/wilderness’ for this workshop. Wilderness is found at the edges of what you know, at the end of what is certain and guaranteed. One has to put down comfort and certainty in order to enter the unknown of the wilderness. Many indigenous peoples (as well as myths and fairytales) knew of the benefit and risk of entering the wilderness for insight and wisdom, to save a community from peril. I propose that entering a group therapy process is like entering the wilderness. Being in the forest requires humility, skill, relationality, sensory wakefulness, respect, and discernment.

Ms. Angela Hough, is a registered psychologist, family constellations therapist, art process facilitator, & mother. She works in private practice and teaches at the South African College of Applied Psychology (SACAP). She values working with increasing our capacity to relate, by working towards healing our wounds (generational, relational, and contextual) and holding space for deep authentic dialogue with our inner selves, with each other, and with our context.

CPD: 4 ethics points have been applied for.

Once signed up you will receive, via email, two readings (one book chapter and one journal article) and the programme for the morning. The readings focus on the impact of trauma, and the ethics of supervision.