Learning Community
​To walk our talk and ethically stand behind our ethos, we recognise our need to be held and challenged by a learning community that is in ongoing self and community enquiry centred on the ways our intersectional identities meet our clients. Our core resource is a sense belonging to a growing community with social justice at it's heart.
The Aashna + therapist community encourages and facilitates our individual and collective growth by hosting regular reflective learning gatherings, where we collaboratively explore our clinical work through an intersectional, relational and embodied lens. We hold an annual working with our embodied intersectionality community earning days in the autumn, spring and summer. We also expand our in-house learning to friends of Aashna with creative events - poetry, book launches, film nights with discussions, and annual celebrations.
Aashna's 2025/26 Learning Community Days and Events
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Saturday 18 Oct 25 11 am - 4 pm Aashna Learning Day
11 am - 1 pm Exploratory space to support clients taking Weight Loss Injections with Gigi & Aashna Creative Team
A vidcast discussion invitation to watch before Reframing Food Addiction, Attachment Wounds and Eating Disorders in the Ozempic Era
2 pm - 4 pm Exploring through live music and discussion AuDHD Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Autism with Laura Bradshaw/Fell & Jamie Crabb
Laura Bradshaw/Fell is a therapist, laurabradshaw.net and gorgeous musician & singer laurafellmusic.com. Laura will sing live some of her soon-to-be-released new music exploring aspects of neurodivergence alongside a gentle discussion of personal and therapeutic experience of AuDHD.
Read Laura's article Square Pegs and Sliding Doors exploring the grief and sadness about late diagnosis ADHD .
Listen to some of Laura's existing music At Least I Tried is a personal favourite.
Saturday, 18 October 25 4:30 - 6.30 pm Aashna+ & Kinoema Unseen – Screening & Discussion
Join us and our friends Kinoema in this intimate screening of the exquisite documentary UNSEEN directed by Set Hernandez on Saturday, October 18, 2025, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM. This moving and innovative film follows Pedro, a blind and undocumented aspiring social worker, as he confronts systemic barriers in pursuit of higher education. Through its experimental, audio-centric cinematography, unseen invites audiences to re-imagine accessibility and experience the world beyond sight. An innovative way to reimagine and experience accessibility in film. A discussion will follow the screening. Booking link.
Saturday, 1 November 11:30am – 3:30pm Queering The Saree with Poppy Jaman & Aashna Creative Team
The magic unfolds as everyone will have the opportunity to get creative with their own saree-wearing styles. This is where everyone's personalities start to shine through a safe space to share experiences through fun, glamour, queerness and pride whilst sharing the love of draping in a saree. Booking & donation.
Saturday 7 March 26 Artificial Intelligence (ai) and/as Therapy and our clients with Rupa Lal, Ravi, Doron Levene & Aashna Creative Team - An Aashna & Relational Spaces Collaboration
We'll be deep diving together into the brave new world of ai and/as therapy and our clients. We'll share some exploratory materials before the session.
Saturday 6 June 26 Learning, Day Our Other Eyes - Doron Levene
Exploring through photography presence and attention though less familiar channels and habitual points of view, to explore seeing without thinking. To invite a mindful or mindless way of being in a wordless experience of imagery….
The idea is to invite some guided explorations though curated assignments initiated by some preparation and followed up by some sharing and integration space.
Some of themes we can explore : beauty / shadow and light / hiding and shining / standing between / silence / threshold / sacred and simple / blessings / ancient voices / the nearness off ….. / the absence and the void / connection & the unseen
Consultancy, collaboration and exploratory learning
If you are drawn to our ethos and seek collaboration or experiential learning inspried by Aashna+ projects for your own group or organisation email creativeteam@aashna.uk