{"id":345,"date":"2021-10-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosexualtraining.org.uk\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:51:22","slug":"what-means-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosexualtraining.org.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/01\/what-means-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"What means ‘Everybody’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today sees my third decade of involvement with COSRT, our\u00a0chosen accrediting body – one of several – and I find myself reminiscing\u00a0about the changes within the profession. “BASMT”, the British Association for Sex and Marital Therapy, has always been one of very few, if not the only specialist body for sex and relationships – as it is today. It took several initiatives\u00a0from the more Humanistic field (rather than from the medics or psychoanalysts) \u00a0to change its name from ‘Marital’ to ‘Relationship’ Therapy – and not without much resistance – and I still remember the days when, as keynote speaker of its first training conference on ‘bisexuality’ (I was the only bisexual member at the time) I was complimented on my presentation: \u00a0“Now I understand that it is not all about dressing up in women\u2019s clothes” (!!) \u00a0said one Medical consultant on the journey home afterwards. That\u2019s\u00a0after\u00a0<\/strong>my enlightened teaching !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is sadly also true that the organisation could be described, at the time, as “a sea of white faces” and woefully short of male members, furthermore Humanistic psychotherapy contributions to the professional journal were entirely missing – something that, sadly, is true to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I am pleased to say, is\u00a0largely different. In 2021 COSRT stated unequivocally\u00a0that\u00a0all\u00a0<\/strong>its approved training courses have been rigorously\u00a0assessed for the inclusivity of their \u00a0policies and training content.\u00a0 I am sure this extends to human sexuality and relationships in all its manifestations, including erotically marginalised as well \u00a0majority client populations, and as pleased I am with this statement I am saddened to say that it must be a first, within my 3 decades of membership for the organisation.\u00a0 I am grateful to COSRT’s current leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, thirty years ago, my colleague Judi – an Austro\/Hungarian Jewess and 2nd Generation of holocaust survivors and and I, a German bisexual, stood shoulder to shoulder with Angie Nero, Lennox Thomas, Dr Toni Liba – all of Afro-Caribbean descent – in birthing what has become the London Diploma.  Our student body then, unheard at the time, had a high proportion of under-represented sections of society hitherto not seen within the profession. Black, Asian, any version of LGBTIQ++ could  be found in class as well as faculty, more than 50 percent of our students were male.  The year 2021 sees a good number of new COSRT members on its student register, again, from hitherto unsourced sections of society within the organisation: China, the Middle East, India. Those new LDPRT members will join our alumni who already number over 40 national and cultural identities. I welcome them all, without exception. We have much to learn from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My pet ambition for the future: an extension of the masculinities represented within COSRT since male does not always mean male white privilege, and the continuation of what we at LDPRT always stood for: diversity that  includes everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernd Leygraf
Director LDPRT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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