TUI Group

successfully hosted their first-ever Pride event in June 2024 across their chapters in Belgium and the Netherlands. This landmark celebration was brought to life through our collaboration.

The event featured an engaging Queer history seminar, paired with a delectable dessert buffet. The evening was filled with laughter, thanks to the comedic talents of Laurien Vereeken, Kate Patterson, and Leonel Alfaro (Chef), with Saquib Ahmad (Consultant Psychotherapist) contributing his expertise to the seminar.

Together, we created an unforgettable celebration of pride and unity. Thank you to everyone who joined and made this event a resounding success!

Contemporary Institution of Clinical Sexology

in collaboration with Saquib Ahmad, founder of Fighting Fear, presents a compelling discussion on the challenges BIPOC Queer people face in couples therapy. Saquib joins Julie Sale, founding director of CICS, to delve into how therapy spaces can sometimes perpetuate racism and Queer-phobia—whether implicitly or explicitly—and the critical need to decolonise training institutions to foster inclusivity and equity.

Drawing from his own experiences, Saquib highlights how bias, often ingrained in majority perspectives, deeply impacts therapy outcomes. Together, Saquib and Julie explore actionable changes needed to make therapy a safe and affirming space for all individuals.

Yara Belgium 

requested for us to host their Pride events for both 2023 and 2024. With 2023 we provided a series of activities based on the theme of Gender Norms. We presented an interactive semiar on Gender Norms and how they negatively impact everyone but especially LGBTQ+ people. We then organised 4 small mini workshops to deep dive into the topic of gender norms and aim to look at how we can recreate them in our day to day lives as well as in the work place. 

Whilst 2024 we focused on Queer History and its relevance to LGBTQIA+ people today and how although we have a made a lot of progressing the years we are still a long way to go when we think about how inclusive the world has been in the past in relation to Queer people globally during pre-colonial times. 

Chemours

aimed to expand the activities of their LGBTQIA+ working group and sought to host a Pride event for 2024. Having successfully completed previous internal events, they wanted to bring in a professional for specialised training. Fighting Fear provided an insightful session on intersectionality and the queer community, which was widely celebrated within the organisation.

The session featured an interactive quiz to test existing knowledge and reinforce what was learned. We received very positive feedback, and we are excited about potential future collaborations with Chemours.

Heinrich Boll Stiftung (Beirut)

requested a 2 day wellbeing retreat in Sarejevo, Bosnia, for their project members who are Syrian refugees who have be residing around the world and working in the field of architecture. The project aimed to support these professionals with their mental wellbeing in order to help them engage in the process of rebuilding their homeland. 

Youth Advocates for Democracy (YA4D)

in 2022 requested a wellbeing retreat in Chiang Mail, Thailand, for their staff and partners who work as Human Rights activists to focus on psychological wellness, trauma processing, resilience building as well as individual psychological support. Pre and post psychometric outcome measures showed that participants on average  improved significantly on all domains of the Work and Social adjustment Scale (WSAS) following the retreat. We are invited to organise their 2024 retreat. 

Naz Project

requested for clinical supervision and consultation for their growing psychological therapies provision. Naz is a London based organisation that offers HIV prevention and psychological therapy support to a Queer and Black and Asian Minority Ethnic population.  The therapists were provided with group and individual clinical supervision for their practice with their clients. Fighting Fear also provided Risk to self and risk to others training to staff across the service. We were also able to provide supervisory reports to support trainees qualify. 

Rainbow House Brussels

collaborated with Fighting Fear for over 3 years through the Fighting Fear project "Gay Boys to Men". We conducted several workshops which to date have worked with and supported over 600 queer men. Workshop topics covered included; psychological shame, addictions, impact of lockdown, community building, Queer relationships and more. This is the first project of it's kind in Belgium which focuses on psychological wellbeing through active participation with the public. Click here for more information on this innovative project. 

Drag Brunch's

have historically been social events that bring members of the Queer / LGBTQI+ community. Our Drag Brunch partnerships have not only brought Queer people together but have also provided platforms for partnership between Fighting Fear and the charitable sector, the private sector and new artists. Our very own Sugar Love of the famous Drag bar Chez Maman in Brussels has taken new Drag Queens under her wing to help them develop their art as performers; guiding them, advising them and supporting them to be gain the experience they need. Our Drag Brunchs provided a platform for these emerging artists. We also collaborated with Le Refuge Opvan in Brussels, an organisation that supports Queer / LGBTQI+ refugees. Thanks to their volunteering support our launch event was huge success.

Pink Therapy

collaborated with Fighting Fear over the publication of their book "Relationally Queer". Saquib Ahmad, our founder was asked to contribute his expertise on working with the impact of having a religious identity on Queer people. The chapter explores this intersectional issue using case studies and research in the field. Saquib was also invited to present his chapter as a webinar with Pink Therapy. 

Simon Lyne is another Pink therapy author and we are proud to have him working with us. You can find Simon's chapter on Sexual Shame in the book "Erotically Queer".