Sunday, 28th of February 2021 @ 4 pm - 8 pm Medicating Normal -The Film Hosted by The Society for Existential Analysis Medicating Normal follows the journeys of a newly married couple, a female combat veteran, a waitress and a teenager whose doctors prescribed psychiatric drugs for stress, depression, sleeplessness, focus and trauma. The subjects […]
SEA Symposium Topic: What is the meaning of the obsessive-compulsive behaviour and how does it influence our way being in the world? Join our Zoom Symposium for a get together to discuss different ideas on topics that are of equal interest and liking. Get yourself a drink, a meal or your favourite snack, sit comfortably […]
My Being in Time How my past lives reveal who I still am Diana Mitchell Therapist, Supervisor and Mediator Existential thinking tells us that we are not fixed selves – we are who we are in relation to our context and to others. We also believe that our past does not cause us […]
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING SATURDAY 20TH MARCH 2021 11.00-14.00 The AGM is open to SEA Members only. ZOOM in to the SEA Annual General Meeting! Due to the ongoing pandemic, this year's AGM will take place exclusively online. However, it is our hope that perhaps more of you will be able to join as a result, so […]
Symposium: 9th April 7pm-9pm Devang Vaidya Topic: Beyond Doubt and Uncertainty. Doubt has been at the centre of the Western philosophical canon. From ancient Greeks to Enlightenment philosophers to the modern and postmodern theorists, overarching emphasis is placed on logos – on conceptual knowledge. This pursuit leaves Western philosophy stranded in the 'uncertainty of […]
Dr Natalie Lancer, PhD (Lond), MA (Oxon), PGCE, MA (Lond), Dip Psych (Open) Existential growth and The Eight Tensions Framework: navigating everyday challenges as students of life. 22nd April, 7pm-9pm on Zoom. In this talk, Natalie shares her Eight Tensions Framework – the set of existential quandaries originally formulated regarding university students, but applicable […]
Symposium: 7th May 7pm-9pm You can blow out a candle, But you can't blow out a fire: An exploration of inner freedom according to Steve Biko. Presenter: Julia Kukard Stephen Bantu Biko was killed by the SA apartheid police is September 1977. As an African existentialist he explored the paradoxes of freedom and responsibility, particularly […]
In ‘The Divided Self’ R.D. Laing describes an ‘ontologically secure’ individual as experiencing her/ his ‘being’ in ‘ordinary circumstances’ as: “..real, alive, whole; as differentiated from the rest of the world… ..that his identity and autonomy are never in question; as a continuum in time; as having inner consistency, substantiality and worth…” (p.41, The Divided […]
Symposium: 4th June 7pm-9pm Topic: Daseinsanalysis: The Renaissance of Medard Boss's Existential Psychotherapy Speaker: Miles Groth, PhD The symposium will begin with a survey of the history of daseinsanalysis, its basic theoretical principles, and all elements of daseinsanalytic practice, including the goal of daseinsanalysis by contrast with that of other existential and medical psychotherapies. The […]
Existential Coaching - A 3-day Training for Existential Therapists and Counsellors TRAINER: YANNICK JACOB The SEA is proud to present a 3 day Existential Coaching Training Programme for existential psychotherapists and counsellors aiming at expanding their professional expertise adding the ability to offer coaching either as an extension of therapy work, or as a separate supporting […]