Ep 49 Davina Wilson

Davina qualified as a music therapist from Anglia Ruskin
University in 2006 and has been working in wide variety of
settings ever since.  She specialised in a brief therapy
model, writing her masters these in this field.  She has
continued to explore this model in special educational needs
settings with children and adults in schools and residential
settings.  She has worked in acute and long term mental
health in the NHS and continues to explore different and
innovative ways of working.  She is currently one of 5
directors at Drum and Brass, a grassroots arts organisation
making headway in effecting positive change in diversity and
safeguarding in Leicester with dreams of changing the discourse
and filling the gaps on a national landscape.  She is a
registered supervisor and works closely with BAMT as their area
group coordinator and CPD officer.


Luke and Davina talk about racial inequalities in the UK and in
music therapy. They discuss the BAMT EDI Report, as well as
Davina's personal experiences of growing up in the UK and
training as a music therapist, including her experiences of
racism. They consider where we go from here in relation to Black
Lives Matter, and the current lack of racial diversity and
representation in the UK music therapy profession.


Podcasts:


Racism at Work


The Diversity Gap


Other resources:


The BAMT Diversity Report


BMJ Response to the government report 


24 April 2021 Panel discussion chaired by Davina
Wilson: Racial Awareness in Music Therapy: Starting the
journey to true EDIB


References:


Ablack, J. (2000). Body psychotherapy, trauma and the Black woman
client. International Journal of Psychotherapy, 5(2),
145-151.


Akala (2019) Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. Two
Roads Books.


Bull, A. (2019). Class, control, and classical music. Oxford
University Press.


Eddo-Lodge, R. (2020). Why I’m no longer talking to white
people about race. Bloomsbury Publishing.


Ellis, E. (2021) The Race Conversation: An essential guide to
creating life-changing dialogue. Confer Books.


DiAngelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it's so hard for
white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press.


Turner, D. (2021). Intersections of Privilege and Otherness
in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Mockingbird. Routledge.