Reflective Practice Groups for Interpreters

Overview

Online Interactive Workshop for Spoken and Sign Language Interpreters with Dr Beverley Costa

Reflective Practice Groups for Interpreters: Exploring Professional Supervision

Presenter's Biography:

Dr Beverley Costa

After qualifying as a psychotherapist, Dr Beverley Costa set up Mothertongue multi-ethnic counselling service (2000-2018) for multilingual clients. In 2009 she created a pool of mental health interpreters, in 2010 she established the national Bilingual Therapist and Mental Health Interpreter Forum and founded The Pásalo Project in 2017 www.pasaloproject.org to disseminate learning from Mothertongue.

Beverley has trained over 5,000 psychological and speech and language therapists and social workers, for NHS and statutory services and NGOs, in working therapeutically across languages and with spoken language interpreters since 2013.

She is a Senior Practitioner Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Communication Design at the University of Reading.

She runs Reflective Practice Support groups for interpreters, psychological therapists and counsellors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, and psychosocial workers. She has developed an introductory course to train interpreters in facilitation skills for Reflective Practice Groups. This course has been delivered online and in-person to interpreters in organisations in England, Scotland, Wales and for the Federal Public Health Service in Belgium.

Beverley is the author of Other Tongues -psychological therapies in a multilingual world https://tinyurl.com/Other-Tongues

Agenda

• Admission & Ground Rules

• Presentation by Dr Beverley Costa - 15 min

• Question and Answer Session

We will start with a 15-minute presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. This format gives you the opportunity to ask the questions. It is a chance to find out more of what you want to know about this topic. What, for example, could reflective practice and professional supervision offer you? Are there any situations for which they might not be suitable interventions? How might participation in these activities impact and enhance your practice?

After the presentation, there will be one hour for you to ask the presenter (Beverley) your questions and to share ideas. Beverley will do her best to answer your questions on the spot. This isn’t a set piece. It isn’t a monologue. It’s a dialogue and a conversation.

The conversation will only work, though, if you ask questions. To ensure we have enough questions to make the session viable, we are asking you to submit your question for Beverley when you register.

We look forward to seeing you there, and for everyone to take part. This is a conversation that matters to all of us - to the profession, to practitioners, and to us as human beings.

If you have any accessibility needs, please let us know at least 24 hours before the event so we can make the necessary arrangements where possible by emailing chairman@ait-professionals.com or leaving a message at our virtual office on 02030967860.