Bilingual Forum for Therapists and Mental Health Interpreters

A National Forum for Bilingual Therapists and Mental Health Interpreters was established in 2010 to share learning and improve standards and practice. The Forum provides a space for ideas, experience, learning and good practice across languages to be shared and to offer a source of support and a network of supervision in a variety of languages.

The Forum meetings focus on a range of issues including:

• Language switching and its meaning
• Languages in which trauma is experienced and in which trauma is recalled
• The possibility of expressing different and additional emotions in different languages
• The interpreter’s role in the therapeutic alliance
• Language as a transitional object
• Language, communication and power
• People’s identities and relationships with different languages

The Forum meets twice a year in London. There is no charge for attendance at the Forum. If you wish to be added to the mailing list for the Forum, please email: beverley@pasaloproject.org

NEXT MEETING:  16th June 2020 at Birkbeck, University of London, starts at 1.30pm. To reserve a place, email:beverley@pasaloproject.org