Using the Intersectional Lens in Real-World Settings

Overview

What if what you see isn’t the full story?

This course helps you ask better questions by exploring how power operates and how bias shapes what we see and understand. Through an intersectional lens, we examine these dynamics in practice.

You will use a structured tool to identify personal and organisational blind spots, enabling more informed reflection and purposeful action.

In this three-and-a-half-hour journey, we begin with brief introductions and set the space before moving straight into power. How does it present and move in the world? We explore this through concepts such as ‘the other’, Social Identity Theory, and language.

From there, we turn to the individual level, looking at how we give and take power through our biases, and how these can become shared group norms. This leads us into the intersectional lens, where theories of power and bias help us understand how identities are formed and how they present socially.

Finally, we apply this learning through a practical tool to examine these dynamics within ourselves and within our organisations, so we can start to challenge them!

Course Leader's Bio

Sundesh Hemraj is a consultant and founder of Mindlit Consultancy, supporting hospitals, councils, charities, and schools to strengthen youth work and organisational practice. With experience across youth work, IT, governance, psychology, and coaching, he brings both strategic insight and lived understanding to his work with children, young people, and the organisations that support them.

‍Who is this training suitable for?

Anyone working in caring or therapeutic roles such as Music Therapists, Arts in Health practitioners, Community Musicians, carers, SLTs, and other Allied Health Practitioners.

‍When?

Thursday 16th July 2026 10am - 1:30pm

Location

Online (MS Teams)

Ticket Price

£55 for live delivery with access to the recording.

For those who can’t make it live, the recording (not slides) is available to pre-order for £55.

Refunds only available if a delegate cancels up to 7 days before the course.

For student discounts and group discounts on any ticket, please contact us directly at training@chilternmusictherapy.co.uk to request a code.

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