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Forthcoming Events

A small light in a dark room

Presentation at the UUP and EAP Online Symposium:
 
'Ethical challenges for psychotherapists in our changing world"
 
Friday, 24 February 2023

In historic exceptional or in highly polarised contexts, acting ethically has often necessitated personal risk taking. What motivates people to do what they feel is 'right' even if doing so may compromise their own safety? Moreover, can we develop psychotherapeutic perspectives both for our own and our clients/patients benefits? The presentation considers key aspects of acting ethically in historic extreme contexts, and invites participants to reflect on their personal motivations to act ethically.


Building bridges - Contemporary perspectives on fragmentation in psychotherapy'

Keynote presentation at the 1st Congress of Psychotherapists in Bosnia and Herzegovina'Psychotherapy within the changing world' in Sarajevo, 23 - 26 March 2023

Fragmentation and dissociative dynamics are a primary focus for psychotherapy ever since Freud, Breuer and Janet. Neuroscientists and physiologists have added greatly to our contemporary understanding and range of therapeutic clinical interventions. At the other end of this spectrum, multiple self-states and associated dissociative dynamics appear crucial to higher order functioning. How can we orient within this field and utilise psychophysiological self-states dynamics as a valuable resource in the therapeutic relationship?

Cultural selfs and their psychophysiological presentations in the consulting room


Keynote presentation at the 18th International Congress of EABP - 'Identity in transformative times - Construction, deconstruction, reconstruction' in Sofia, Bulgaria, 7  - 10 September 2023

Culture and diversity associated psychophysiological states or distress commonly remain unseen in the therapeutic endeavour to the detriment of client's psychotherapeutic process. This calamity is well recognised by psychotherapy organisations and institutes and the lack of significant progress is therefore puzzling. Some indications appear to suggest that culture and diversity dynamics in the consulting room may challenge our psychophysiology more powerfully than Eros or sexuality. This presentation aims to utilise somatic, relational, and `multiple selfs' perspectives to deconstruct, and reconstruct, the puzzle of culture and difference dynamics in the therapeutic relationship.


 
A selection of previous events
Stirring the depths - Reflections on touch in psychotherapy
Keynote presentation at the 'Being In Touch: Communicating Through Touch In Psychotherapy' Conference on 9th July 2022 in Cambridge

`The Client and I - Relational and psychophysiological perspectives on Borderline trauma and the 'disorders of self'
Keynote presentation at the '4th International Conference of the Polish Society for the Integration of Psychotherapy: The Integration of Psychotherapy: - Research, Experience, Perspectives' Congress, Warsaw, Poland 3-5 June 2022 

'Changing Times - what are the Implications for Psychotherapy Practice?'
Presentation at the "The Hope of Psychotherapy for our Endangered World" EAP 30th Anniversary Congress, Vienna, March 12th-13th 2022

A walk in the park' - adapting the therapeutic space in Covid times
Keynote presentation at the 'Psychotherapy in Covid Times' conference (online), Vilnus, Lithuania, 22 May 2021

Somatic Object Relations - the therapist's psychophysiology as a clinical utility
Keynote presentation at the 'The science of integrative psychotherapy' online congress - November 25, 26, 27 and 28, 2020

The Client and I' - Relational-somatic approaches to challenging dynamics in the therapeutic relationship
- Borderline trauma and Eros
CPD - Workshop seminar -  Lisbon, 30 January - 2 February 2020

Sense and Sensibility - A psycho-physiological bargain
Keynote presentation at the EAP Congress 'Sense and Sensibility', the 23rd Congress of European Association for Psychotherapy 18 - 21 October 2018, Belgrade, Serbia

Borderline Trauma and the Disorders of Self - a somatic and relational approach to BPD
CPD - Workshop seminar - Caesarea, Israel on 14th March 2018

Playing the Instrument - Moving the Soul
CPD - Workshop seminar - 3 March 2018 at Re.Vision in London

Cat and Mouse - The Ethical Crucible in Psychotherapy Practice
Opening presentation at the EAP Ethics Symposium - Ethics in Psychotherapy European Association for Psychotherapy, 25 February 2018, Vienna, Austria

Psychology - as if people mattered
Keynote presentation at the 25th National Conference of Croatian Psychologists "Psychology in protection and promotion of human rights, and social justice" 8-11th November 2017 - Zadar, Croatia

Altered States of Consciousness: Psychiatric and transpersonal perspectives re-visioned
CPD - Workshop seminar - 25 November 2017 at Re.Vision in London

Windows of opportunity - body, mind and soul as landscapes of dream and the deeply personal

CPD - Workshop seminar - 3rd & 4th June 2017 at Re.Vision in London

Psyche, Soma and Agora - how society may reflect our psychobiology
Workshop at the EABP Congress "The Embodied Self in a dis-Embodied Society" 13 - 16 Oct 2016 in Athens, Greece

Belonging and Autonomy - what can we learn from psychobiology?
Presentation and discussion EAP Congress "Autonomy and a Sense of Belonging" 30 Sept - 1 Oct, 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia

Playing the instrument - moving the soul
CPD - Workshop seminar - 27 February 2016 at Re.Vision in London

Connection, Socialisation and Co-operation
Workshop at the Re-Vision Conference'"The Good Life" at Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire - 23 Januray 2016

Men and vulnerability

Webcast at 8pm on June 8th 2015 at Psychotherapy Excellence. The complete series Men and therapy - key approaches to working with men is available from www.psychotherapyexcellence.com

Taming the tiger - Working with the psycho-biology of integration and connection
Continued Professional Development (CPD) Workshop, London, 7 March 2015

The transpersonal in the consulting room - included or excluded?
Keynote presentation, 2nd Annual Multi Modality Psychotherapy Conference in London, 8 & 9 November 2014

Taming the tiger - Working with the psycho-biology of integration and connection

Workshop Seminar - EABP Congress 2014, Lisbon, Portugal 11 - 14 September 2014

The body in psychotherapy supervision
Parallel Plenary - EABP Congress 2014, Lisbon, Portugal 11 - 14 September 2014

Somatic dialogue in the therapeutic relationship
Continued Professional Development (CPD) Workshop, London, 17 & 18 May 2014 

Supervising therapeutic work with eros and sexuality
Supervision Training Seminar, Israel Association for Body Psychotherapy - (ILABP), Tel Aviv, Israel, 27 & 28 March 2014

Borderline dynamics and the Disorders of Self

Continued Professional Development (CPD) Workshop, Neve Shalom, Israel 25 & 26 March 2014

What can psychotherapy do? Psychotherapy paradigms and sexual orientation
A presentation at the International Humanistic Psychology Conference - Celebrating 50 years of Humanistic Psychology, London, 7 & 8 September 2013

Common somatic presentations in supervision
Supervision Training Seminar, The Grove Diploma Course Integrative Supervision, London 20 July 2013

Eros and sexuality in psychotherapy

Continued Professional Development (CPD) Workshop, Zagreb 7 - 9 June 2013

Making contact - the subtle body in psychotherapy
Keynote presentation at the Transpersonal Faculty of UKCP, London 28 April 2013

Contemporary Developments in Supervision
Keynote presentation at the UKCP Supervision Conference, London, 28 March 2013

What can psychotherapy do? Psychotherapy paradigms and sexual orientation
A talk at Cutting Edges: Analytical Psychology A Series of Talks initiated by Dr. Gottfried M. Heuer -  Association of Jungian Analysts, London, 29 January 2013

Somatic approaches to shock and trauma
Continued Professional Development (CPD) Workshop, Zagreb 16 - 18 November 2012

The intersubjective body 
Workshop at the EABP Congress 2012 in Cambridge UK, 17th September 2012

The World in the Body - Soma, Culture and Intersubjectivity
Panel discussion (chair) of the body as cultural phenomena at the EABP Congress 2012 in Cambridge UK, 16th September 2012

'Access and Stigma - two obstacles to seeking help'

Presented at the International Conference of  the Association of Croatian Psychotherapy Associations (SPUH): "The truth about psychotherapy", Zagreb, 29 & 30 October 2011

Borderline Dynamics and the Disorders of Self
Continued Professional Development (CPD) Workshop, Zagreb, 23 - 25 September 2011

Challenges in Supervisory Practice
Panel discussion (chair), UKCP Supervision Conference, London, 4 June 2011

The Borderline Dynamic and the Body
Continued Professional Development (CPD) Workshop, London, 11 December 2010

Working with dreams and imagery
Continued Professional Development (CPD) Workshop, Zagreb, 13 - 15 November 2010
 
Stirring the Depths - Transference, Countertransference and Touch
Seminar at the 12th EABP Congress of Bodpsychotherapy in Vienna, 29 October 2010

Relational Body Psychotherapy

3 year post graduate (CPD) training programme in Zagreb, Croatia, 2007 - 2010

The Intersubjective Body
Continued Professional Development (CPD) Workshop, London 13 March 2010

Trauma and the Body - An Introduction to Trauma Work
Workshop / Seminar, London, 22 & 23 January 2010

The Cultural Challenge
Workshop at the EAIP MIP Conference "Integrative Psychotherapy in a Disintegrating World" in Crewe, 6 - 8 November 2009

The Borderline Dynamic and the
Body
CPD seminar at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, London, 14 June 2009


Embodiment and disembodiment in the therapeutic alliance
Workshop at the  EABP Congress in Paris, 8 - 11 November 2008

Holding the Body in Mind in Supervision
Workshop at the UKCP Supervision Conference, London, 7th June 2008

Somatic Dialogue in the Therapeutic Relationship
Two day Seminar - Advanced Professional Development Program at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, London, May 2008

The Borderline Relationship
Seminar and discussion at the CABP Conference in Cambridge 7 - 9 September 2007

The Borderline Relationship - a Somatic Perspective

Parallel presentation at the EABP Congress in Askov, Denmark, Sept. 2006

Somatic Perspectives of the Therapeutic Relationship with Borderline Clients
Seminar at the Biosynthesis Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, June 2006

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