November 2019
Phenomenology and the Arts
This interdisciplinary CPD event will explore the benefits of working phenomenologically with artists, and the contribution of phenomenological psychology and psychotherapy to the evidence-base of performing arts medicine. It will be relevant to practitioners of all persuasions interested in how phenomenology and the arts can enhance their clinical and performance practice.
Find out more »SEA 2019 Annual Conference – Movement, Music & Metaphor
We have a wonderful line-up of speakers, workshop presenters, panellists, poets, dancers, musicians and out-of-the-box thinkers! So this year we invite you to be lyrical and poetic, to be in motion and explore new ways of communicating, to stretch your language, your body, your ears, your knowledge, your practice. Presenters and Presentations are listed below to pique your interest: Alja Lah "Becoming More Human: Embodied Emotional Awareness in Psychotherapy" Angelique Vagopoulou "Myth, Metaphor and Music in the Eleusinian Mysteries" Devang…
Find out more »SEA Film Club – ‘BEAU TRAVAIL’ by C. Denis (1999)
Devang Vaidya is a person-centred existential therapist based in London. His research interests include Kierkegaard studies for tracing the existential origins of person-centred therapy, and the presence of aesthetic irony and ethical pathos in moments of therapeutic transformation. “What does brute, autocratic power find intolerable? Seeing love being shared freely and spontaneously amongst equals. Adapted from Benjamin Britten's opera, which in turn is based on Herman Melville's novella 'Billy Budd', Claire Denis' Beau Travail gives a lyrical portrait of a man who falls…
Find out more »December 2019
Group Supervision w/ Emmy Van Deurzen
Emmy van Deurzen, Principal and Founder of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the Existential Academy in London. Her application of philosophical ideas to psychology, psychotherapy, counselling and coaching has been instrumental in establishing the existential paradigm firmly in the UK and elsewhere in Europe and around the world. She lectures internationally and her sixteen books have been translated into as many languages. Her books include: Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (3rd edition 2012), Everyday Mysteries (2nd Routledge,…
Find out more »February 2020
Where It Was, Others Shall Be: Desire, Otherness, and the Alien inside.
A one-day experiential/theoretical seminar
with Manu Bazzano