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This book presents the concept of a black Empathic Approach, an experiential model used as a means of developing powerful feelings associated with racism, such as fear, guilt, and rage, into a useful THERAPEUTIC tool for healing the intersectional impact of anti-black racism and associated oppressions.
List of contents
Introduction 1.Breaking Through Colour Blindness 2.The Context and Quality of Empathy 3. Breathing New life into Empathy 4. Assimilation and Humiliation 5. Engaging with Internalised Racism 6. Being White Hurts 7. Developing an Appropriate Gaze 8. Unburied and Undried tears. 9. Reclaiming the Minds, We Never Lost. 10. Black Woman and Self-care 11. A Work in Progress. 12. The Legacy, a black Empathic Approach
About the author
Dr. Isha Mckenzie- Mavinga, Retired Psychotherapist, poet and lecturer, has thirty three years' experience as a Transcultural Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Lecturer, Writer and Reiki Master. She contributed papers and poetry to several anthologies. Isha initiated therapeutic services at the African Caribbean Mental Health Association in Brixton, and at Women's Trust, working with women impacted by violence in relationships. She was a student counsellor and senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University and taught at Goldsmiths University of London. She has presented Black Issues workshops, based on concepts created during her Doctoral research and published in her books. As her legacy, she presents talks and trains master facilitators to present her concept of a black Empathic Approach to expand thinking and practice that embrace an emergence from the impact of racism and develop intersectional, anti- oppressive therapeutic practice in Counselling & Psychotherapy, psychology, and the caring professions.
