Meet the Patrons

Thursday 1 October

7:00pm

Zoom Webinar

Join us for an exclusive online event to 'Meet the Patrons' where Michael Palin, Fiona Shaw and John McCarthy will be sharing moving and uplifting stories about their lives, works and travels - all in support of and solidarity with survivors of torture.

From the comfort of your own sofa, you can join in the conversation in the Q&A and hear what the past five months of the Covid-19 emergency has meant for them.

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Once registered, you will be sent a unique link to join the Zoom Webinar.

Covid-19 has made life extremely difficult for torture survivors. However, there have been some wonderful and surprisingly positive changes that have emerged: Debra Gordon, a therapist from our Midlands Centre, tells how being restricted to telephone therapy during lockdown allowed one Congolese survivor to finally open up and talk about the long buried horrific secrets that she had felt too ashamed to reveal in face-to-face sessions.

There is another side to Covid – she could just be herself on the phone speaking from the heart and expressing the inexpressible. She has really moved on from those childhood traumas and I am very proud of that work. 

You can provide essential over-the-phone and online therapy, financial relief, and legal and welfare advice to survivors as they grapple with their trauma and the challenges of being an asylum seeker or refugee in the UK, all exacerbated by this crisis.

For any questions, please contact Jacob Muggleton on [email protected] or 020 7697 7838.