Workshop Title: Multicultural Supervision
Date: 7 June 2025
Time: 10am - 4pm
Location: Dublin - The Address Citywest, Kingswood Village, Citywest, D22 W580
Presenters: Angie McLaughlin and Liliana Morales
CPD: 6 CPD hours
Workshop Cost: €130
DETAILS OF WORKSHOP
Supervision is not only a key aspect of our learning but is mandated in the psychotherapy profession. The area of multicultural supervision is relatively new in terms of research and formal practice. The 2022 census demonstrated that Ireland is developing into a diverse society which we as clinicians and supervisors must respond to.
Multicultural supervision does not only refer to ethnicity, but takes a broader view of culture that includes gender, sexual orientation, religion, socio economic status and ability. There has been a body of research done predominantly in the USA, with a more recent one ‘Supervisees’ Perceptions of Multicultural Supervision’ looking at the Irish context. There are themes throughout the findings which indicate the importance of supervisors being knowledgeable and taking the lead in bringing diversity into supervision in developing a strong supervisory alliance and improving supervisee confidence in their skills.
This workshop will focus on helping clinical supervisors develop cultural humility in the supervision space. The workshop will be an informative, experiential and discussion-based space that will explore the following:
- Why multicultural supervision is important;
- Current research on multicultural supervision;
- Our relationship to our own culture(s)- in order to support our supervisees in working with diversity we must first have an understanding of how your culture influences your values and what you bring to the work.
- Introducing cultural conversations into supervision;
- Keeping the cultural conversation live in supervision;
- Utilising the Seven Eyed Model to facilitate and conceptualise multicultural supervision.
PRESENTERS - Angie McLaughlin and Liliana Morales
Angie McLaughlin
Angie McLaughlin is a cis gender heterosexual woman (she/her). She was brought up working class in Scotland, with an Irish father and Scottish mother, and married into an African American family. She is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Family Therapist with a passion for exploring Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity in both her professional and personal life.
After completing her training in San Francisco as a Marriage and Family therapist in 1997, she went on to work in community mental health in San Francisco for several years before returning to Ireland. Working with marginalised groups such as those at risk for homelessness, ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community and people diagnosed with HIV allowed her to witness first-hand the direct relationship between poor mental health and discrimination. Throughout her career she has brought an EDI lens to her work in multiple types of organisations with adults, youth, couples, families and groups. She values the diversity in the work that she has done which has allowed her to be challenged by different perspectives on an ongoing basis. Along with Liliana Morales, she is co-founder of PARC Training and has developed and delivered training on proactive non-discriminatory practice for mental health professionals. She co-formed the EDI subcommittee in Family Therapy Association of Ireland and represents this group on the FTAI Executive Board. Her current position is in youth mental health as Regional Clinical Manager for Jigsaw. She continues her life long striving to have humility when working with people who are different from her.
Liliana Morales
Liliana Morales is a migrant woman, and Counselling Psychologist, originally from Colombia. She is a Latin American mestiza, and Colombian-Irish. Liliana has 20 years’ experience working therapeutically with asylum seekers and refugees in Ireland in the public service sector, and she is now working in the voluntary sector managing services for survivors of torture. She is the Therapy Manager and Acting Head of Clinical Services in Spirasi. She is involved in delivering training for doctoral psychology trainees (Clinical, Counselling and Educational), psychologists and other mental health and health care professionals on cultural competence/cultural humility/migrants’ mental health.
She’s a member of PSI and was a co-founder of the Culture and Ethnic Diversity SIG, no longer in existence. Along with Angie McLaughlin, she is co-founder of PARC Training. She has been invited to deliver key note speeches, and participated at events, organised by special interest groups and women’s mental health networks. She provides supervision to staff at a voluntary organisation who works with vulnerable populations and forced migrants. Liliana has a passion for culturally inclusive practice, challenging systems, politics, social justice issues and diversity within psychology/mental health and the health space in general. She lives with her tri-cultural family in Dublin.
PARTICIPANTS
Minimum number: 25
Maximum number: 35
This workshop will proceed subject to minimum numbers.
Cancellation notices received within 7 days of the date of the event will be subject to full payment.
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