This experiential workshop offers participants an embodied and dialogical exploration of connection within, between, and beyond psychotherapy practice using the C.H.A.R.E. Framework as an integrative lens. Emerging from doctoral research with therapists in the UK and Nigeria, the framework articulates five interdependent commitments/pillars which are Cultural Humility, Holding Space and Accountability, Attunement, Relational Reflexivity, and Ethics/Epistemic Justice that support culturally responsive and ethically grounded integration.
Participants will engage in The C.H.A.R.E. Jar Activity is a reflective and non-judgemental exercise that invites participants to honestly locate and commit to the framework’s core pillars within their own practice. Designed to surface moments of confidence, hesitation, and uncertainty in one’s integrative practice instead of privileging certainty or expertise, the workshop centres “wobble moments” as relational openings that invite humility, learning, and ethical accountability.
Through silent reflection, small-group dialogue, and whole-group discussion, participants will explore how integration is shaped across cultures, countries, professional roles, and generational locations. The session explicitly aligns with SEPI’s commitment to dialogue and collaboration, and with the conference theme of connection across generations, communities, cultures, and countries.
The workshop offers adaptable tools for clinical work, supervision, education, and organisational contexts, while inviting participants into a shared inquiry about what it means to practise integration as a way of being, not merely a way of working.
The evolving C.H.A.R.E. Framework has been explored across teaching, supervision, and professional development workshops, with formative feedback highlighting psychological safety and honest reflexivity, and this workshop continues its collaborative, practice-informed refinement through further participant evaluation.