Culture - What can therapy teach us about internal comms?

10.20am – 11am BST, 19 June 2025 ‐ 40 mins

Workshop

Can being a therapist teach us anything about what it means to be an internal communicator and how we do internal communications? (The answer is yes, I think it can!). In this session we’ll explore how training and practising as a therapist has provided new insight in how to be with and alongside an organisation, manage and navigate power and work with colleagues, leadership and partners in a way that is attuned, relational, responsive and anti-oppressive.

Together we’ll explore, be curious, journal and ground ourselves as internal communicators and human beings.

Three takeaways from the session:

1. What are the similarities between being a therapist and an internal communicator?
2. What new / different ways of being and doing can IC-ers develop?
3. How and why the learning and application of these skills can support the people and culture

Aimed at the following practitioner levels:

• Manager

Speakers

Farah Chowdhury

Senior Internal Communications Manager, YoungMinds

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Farah Chowdhury

Senior Internal Communications Manager, YoungMinds

Farah has been an internal comms professional for over 8 years, working in Higher Education and currently in the Charity Sector. During this time, she also trained and qualified as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist (with a brief stint as a pandemic florist). Passionate about increasing access to mental health support and the emotional wellbeing of marginalised and minoritised folk, Farah now splits her time between YoungMinds in Internal Comms, in her private practice and teaching trainee therapists. In her spare time, you’ll find her chasing the sunshine, trying out new arts and crafts, and running the occasional flower therapy workshop.