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SUMMARY:2023 SEA Annual Conference – "Back to Basics; Into the Future"
DESCRIPTION:35th Annual SEA Conference – “Back to Basics; Into the Future” \nTimetable for the weekend will include presentations and workshops by:Yaqui Andrés Martinez ~ Todd DuBose ~ Emmy van Deurzen ~ Claire Arnold-Baker ~ Ernesto Spinelli ~ Paulius Skruibis to mention but a few… \n  \nThis year’s conference theme invites us to re-examine the core of existential psychotherapy – its philosophical foundations\, therapeutic approaches\, and lived experience with clients. By reflecting on our past and present\, we can gain clarity and perspective to carry our practice confidently into the future\, we will explore: \n– What are the essential tenets that define existential psychotherapy? How do we remain grounded in these foundations while allowing space for growth? \n– How has our understanding of concepts like freedom\, responsibility\, meaning\, isolation\, death anxiety\, and authenticity evolved over time? Which interpretations still hold true and which may need re-thinking? \n– How do we honor the diversity of identities and experiences in our field and clientele? How can we make space for more voices to be heard? \n– What cultural assumptions underpin our theories and methods? How can we adapt to meet changing societal needs while staying true to existential principles? \n– What emerging ideas\, technologies\, therapies\, problems or populations should existential psychotherapists engage with? How do we thoughtfully expand our scope? \n– What is the role of existential psychotherapy in the future? How can we as a community meet humanity’s needs in a changing world? \nThis year’s conference is a chance to reconnect with our roots\, share wisdom\, and envision how existential psychotherapy can continue to enlighten and heal. We will challenge each other\, open up new perspectives\, and come away invigorated by the passion and care this community embodies. We look forward to powerful conversations as we find our way forward together.
URL:https://community.existentialanalysis.org.uk/event/2023-sea-annual-conference-back-to-basics-into-the-future
LOCATION:NVCO: Society Building\, 8 All Saints Street\, London\, London\, N1 9RL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Misc CPD,SEA Conference
ORGANIZER;CN="Teresa Cannon":MAILTO:theSEAconference@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:2022 SEA Annual Conference – PROTEST!
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nPROTEST!\nThe SEA Annual Conference will take place: Saturday 12th November\nOnline: via Zoom\nAND\nIn-person: NCVO\, 8 All Saints Street\, London\, N1 9RL \n  \nThis year’s line-up is full of personal passion\, therapeutic challenge and opportunities for dialogue and discovery.   Shining light on how we practice in the face of divergent views\, the struggles of uncovering something unsavoury about our clients\, the physical protest of our bodies\, our minds and the want for more connectedness\, more understanding of difference and more tolerance for when our views do not align. \n  \nFINAL PROGRAMME \n  \n \n  \nIn-person registration is open from 9am\, with virtual registration opening up soon thereafter.  The conference will kick off at 9:30\, with the final presentation due to wrap up at 16:30.  After which there will be closing remarks and a short time for discussion and reflection\, before wrapping up at 17:00 and heading across the road to the Thornhill Arms.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we will be attempting to host our first hybrid conference this year\, you’ll notice there are two ticket types for each Membership level: \nONLINE or IN-PERSON. \n Please choose the corresponding ticket type based on your attendance.  This will help plan the catering and the technology. \nAs ever\, if you have any questions\, please email \n theSEAconference@gmail.com \nWe look forward to receiving your expressions of interest and to seeing you on the day.
URL:https://community.existentialanalysis.org.uk/event/2022-conference
LOCATION:NVCO: Society Building\, 8 All Saints Street\, London\, London\, N1 9RL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:SEA Conference
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ORGANIZER;CN="Teresa Cannon":MAILTO:theSEAconference@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:2021 SEA Annual Conference - "You couldn’t possibly understand!"
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Conference topic has been brewing for me for some time.  I have been moved by my own experiences of clients feeling it is simply not possible for “you to understand what I’ve been through!”  And I have also felt encouraged and challenged by the feedback from our very first Census\, that now is the time. \nThe response from people wishing to present has been overwhelming.  We have incredibly creative and thought-provoking presentations and workshops covering a diverse range of topics from: \nAlix Velasco ~ Chris Goto-Jones ~ Cristalle Hayes ~ Devang Vaidya ~ Dida Mitchell & Jyoti Nanda ~ Elv Moody ~ Haran Rasalingam & Maria Galani ~ Juli Jolly ~ Leanne Prosvic ~ Manu Bazzano ~ Marc Boaz ~ Marium Akhund ~ Niki D ~ Paola Pomponi & Serena Fianco ~ Rafał Miętkiewicz ~ Stella Duffy & Chris Cleave \nSpeaking to the things that make us all different.  The struggles both therapist and client encounter when the distance between us and our experience feels immense.  The assumptions we make of each other based on the lives we are living.  And the incredible capacity for change\, enlightenment\, and compassion that our differences can bring about. \nWhile there is a universality to our shared humanity\, the human experience is vast and the lenses through which we each experience ourselves myriad. \nNietzsche wrote\, “… Everybody wants the same\, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”  True?  But perhaps there is an important counterpoint to note\, that “Freedom means nothing\, unless it means the freedom to be different” (Rubin) \nWe do hope you’ll join us in challenging the status quo.\nShould you have any questions\, please do reach out to me with any questions: theSEAconference@gmail.com and I look forward seeing you on the day. \nTeresa.
URL:https://community.existentialanalysis.org.uk/event/2021-sea-annual-conference
LOCATION:ONLINE EVENT\, zoom.us
CATEGORIES:Misc CPD,SEA Conference
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ORGANIZER;CN="Teresa Cannon":MAILTO:theSEAconference@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:2020 Conference - "This is not what I had planned"
DESCRIPTION:This year’s conference is not what I had originally planned\, I actually had a very different topic in mind; but then again\, so much of my life hasn’t gone according to plan\, so here we are!  This year we invite you to join us in what will be a very different\, but still highly interactive conference experience. \n\n\nWe have a wonderful line-up of speakers and workshop presenters\, bringing with them a wealth of skills\, expertise and life experiences impacted by events that weren’t part of their plan.   Join us as they discuss the changes foisted upon them\, reflect on where they stand with this in the present\, and how these unplanned events have shaped who they are\, and how they practice. \n\nZoe Gelis ~ Tabitha Draper ~ Rosemary Lodge ~ Rafał Miętkiewicz ~ Paul Silver-Myer ~ Maria Galani ~ Magdalen Cheng ~ John Hills ~ Glenn Nicholls ~ Diana Mitchell ~ Devang Vaidya ~ Damien Stewart ~ Chris Goto-Jones… and more \nAccording to Darwin’s Origin of Species\, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives\, nor is it the strongest.  The species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. \n2020 has thrown many of us off track.  For some\, this year has been truly disastrous\, while others have found a sense of purpose or redirection that may never have otherwise materialised. \nWithin my own practice\, I have noted an increase in a lack of ‘at homeness’ in some of my clients; what John Koenig beautifully coins as Monachopsis: “the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place\, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a bench… unable to recognise the ambient roar of your intended habitat\, in which you’d be fluidly\, brilliantly\, effortlessly at home.”  In others\, I’ve seen an increase in decisiveness\, fearlessness and determination\, this has been especially true of my trauma and abuse clients. \nHowever\, a global pandemic isn’t typically the thing that throws a spanner in the works of life…   Spanners come in all shapes and sizes\, and in the day to day trenches of life we are impacted by myriad events; death\, divorce\, disaster\, but also new life\, love and opportunity.  We move countries\, we return to forgotten passions\, we become unwell or infirm\, we get promoted\, we let get of the things that are causing us pain\, and we continue to fight for change\, real\, meaningful\, lasting\, change.  Things literally get blown-up or washed out to sea\, we lose money\, and status\, and sometimes we lose our identity\, ourselves… and sometimes\, we find it all anew.  We set out on one path\, and now\, somehow\, find ourselves upon another. \n \n 
URL:https://community.existentialanalysis.org.uk/event/2020-conference
LOCATION:ONLINE EVENT\, zoom.us
CATEGORIES:Misc CPD,SEA Conference
ORGANIZER;CN="Teresa Cannon":MAILTO:theSEAconference@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:SEA AGM 2020
DESCRIPTION:The AGM is open to SEA Members only\n \nThe SEA Annual General Meeting is upon us once again!\nIn addition to the formal AGM proceedings\, members are invited to pose questions and challenges for more broader discussion as part of the Open Forum that will also take place on the day. \nMembers are invited to forward topics they would like raised at the Open Forum in advance to:\nSecretary@existentialanalysis.org.uk\nThe conversation will take place over food and drink and we look forward to seeing many of you there.\nAlternatively\, members who are unable to attend the AGM in person will be able to ‘dial-in’ on the day in order to participate. \nAttending the AGM is free\, however it is important that you go through the ‘check out’ process so we can keep track of attendee numbers for catering\, venue access and for ‘dial-in’ access. \nThe AGM will take place in Central London.
URL:https://community.existentialanalysis.org.uk/event/sea-agm-2020
CATEGORIES:AGM
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alex Morriss":MAILTO:Secretary@existentialanalysis.org.uk
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SUMMARY:SEA 2019 Annual Conference - Movement\, Music & Metaphor
DESCRIPTION:This year\, you’re 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. \nOur wonderful line-up of speakers\, workshop presenters\, panellists\, poets\, dancers\, musicians and out-of-the-box thinkers! are listed below to pique your interest: \nVerity J. Gavin ~ Stuart Hanscomb ~ Oded Reitten ~ Michael Worrell ~ Michael Montgomery ~ Marion Steel ~ Manu Bazzano ~ Letizia Orlando ~ Jason Upton ~ Jamie McNulty ~ Jamie Giles ~ Donna Savery ~ Diana Mitchell ~ Devang Vaidya ~ Angelique Vagopoulou & Alja Lah… along with Andrew Lovell & Robert Taylor \nMovement… “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”\nNothing brings me greater joy than dance.  It is my preferred art form\, it is the talent I am most envious of in other people\, it fills my daydreams and is often present in my night-time reveries.  Above all\, it is my absolute favourite means of movement… I feel unshackled and electric\, connected to myself\, at peace with my being\, able to unpick the trauma and sadness woven into my existence and to express the things for which there simply are no words.  It has been argued that body-subjectivity is far more than an awareness of the body’s position in space as it has both dynamic and affective dimensions\, as well as being a fundamentally intersubjective phenomenon.  But dance does not hold dominion over movement\, and movement – especially in the language of therapy – need not be physical at all… \nMusic… In his book Musicophillia: Tales of Music and the Brain\, Oliver Sacks writes:\n            “Music is part of being human. […]  The inexpressible depth of music\, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable\, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being\, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain. […] Uniquely among the arts\, it is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.  It has no power to represent anything particular or external\, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings.”\nMusic can be overwhelmingly powerful.  It has driven people to the depths of madness and despair and provided the soundtrack for many a misery.  Yet it has also accompanied us through the corridors of joy and love and laughter while providing shelter\, a sense of community and belonging.  I am aware that many existential therapists are\, or were\, musicians\, professional\, amateur or aspirational\, classical\, modern\, eclectic.  As we grow and age\, what music means for us changes; how we hear what we hear\, (if we are able to hear at all) can be profoundly impacted; what we once loved and craved can become intolerable and sounds that once moved us profoundly can become noise that is utterly unbearable.  If music really is …part of being human\, how do we make sense of this in our efforts to understand the human condition? \nMetaphor… “Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell”\nFor most of us\, the spoken word is the sole resource we deploy in our work as therapists.  Figurative expression is often used as a way to convey what we want to say\, both to ourselves and to the other.  The use of metaphor in therapy can\, at times be invaluable; facilitating rapport between client and therapist\, enabling space to conceptualise and communicate abstract emotional states and a platform from which to vocalise our suffering for the very first time in a less direct\, and perhaps\, less distressing way.\nHowever\, it can also be a mechanism of avoidance\, a linguistic tool deployed in order to evade and obfuscate the “real issues”\, where one never genuinely has to be present in the therapeutic challenge.  When a common mother tongue is not shared the use of metaphor can dramatically increase the likelihood of misunderstanding or alienation… though it can\, on occasion\, also provide for rather mirthful confusion.  With its potential to both alienate and facilitate\, what place does metaphor have in the landscape of existential practice? \nAs in past years the conference will take place at:\nNCVO: Society Building\, 8 All Saints Street\, London\, N1 9RL\nAnd be followed by drinks across the road at The Thornhill Arms\, all are invited.
URL:https://community.existentialanalysis.org.uk/event/sea-2019-annual-conference-movement-music-metaphor
LOCATION:NVCO: Society Building\, 8 All Saints Street\, London\, London\, N1 9RL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Misc CPD,SEA Conference
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ORGANIZER;CN="Teresa Cannon":MAILTO:theSEAconference@gmail.com
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