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BAATO
Conference 2008 Videos
The BAATO Conference took place on the 16th February 2008 in North
London. The speakers were Eugene Ellis (Founder
of BAATO), Lennox Thomas (consultant psychotherapist
at the Refugee Therapy Centre), Bernadette Hawkes
(Clinical Director of the Women's Therapy Centre ) and Kevin
Brazant (Consultant in developing service provision for
young men and fathers).
Below are
video recordings of Eugene Ellis, Bernadette Hawkes and Lennox
Thomas's talks. Powered by StreamingVideoProvider
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Eugene
Ellis - Engaging Black and Asian people with thinking
about their Mental Health in ways they have not done before
Eugene Ellis is an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist
and the founder of ‘Black and Asian Therapists Online’
(BAATO). BAATO is a network of therapists that seeks to
reflect the many who are committed, passionate and actively
engaged in addressing, the psychological needs of Black
and Asian people in Britain. He has worked for many years
as a child, adult and family therapist and currently works
for Family Futures (an organisation that works with adopted
and fostered children and their families) as well as working
in private practice. Eugene has a special interest in facilitating
a dialogue around race and culture in organisations and
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Bernadette Hawkes –
Gun crisis in the Black community- A legacy of separation,
loss and broken attachments.
Bernadette Hawkes
is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and the Clinical Director
of the Women's Therapy Centre . Her interests are in the
areas of intercultural and forensic therapy and the use
of African Caribbean literature in psychotherapy. She is
the former Book Reviews Editor of the International Journal
of Psychotherapy and has published several articles including
Resilience, Suffering and Creativity: the Work of the Refugee
Centre, Hearing the Unhearable, Speaking the Unspeakable:
original wounds, trauma, and the asylum
seeker.
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35Min 13Sec
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Lennox Thomas - ‘Getting
help; what do we have to loose’
Lennox Thomas trained in child and family
psychotherapy the 1970’s before training in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy at the BAP. His career began after training
in Child Care, Child Development, working in a children’s
home and later in a hospital with neonates and parents.
It was at this stage that he became acquainted with the
work of Donald Winnicott and John Bowlby and later attended
seminars with Claire Winnicott. He worked in the Probation
service for many years before working as Clinical Director
of Nafsiyat the intercultural therapy centre. This post
had academic connections with UCL and he was Co- Director
of the UCL MSc in Intercultural Psychotherapy. He is now
consultant psychotherapist at the Refugee Therapy Centre.
He has a small private practice and is a Training therapist
and supervisor. He continues to have an interest in early
childhood development and the effect of separation and loss.
To this end he is a member of the Separation and Reunion
forum and his recent interest is the effect of attachment
separation and loss on families who fled their homelands
for asylum. |
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