Keynotes and speakers

Keynotes 

Professor Maureen O’Hara

Dancing Lessons at the Edge: Humanistic Praxis as Cultural Leadership

 

Keynote description:

Does the complexity of today’s lifeworld require the development of new kinds of persons, organizations and culture?  If so, where might we look for these and does humanistic psychology as a theoretical framework and as a praxis have anything to offer? Maureen will take a “big picture” and “up close” look at the great cultural sea change underway and suggest that humanistic psychology’s most important work may still be ahead.

 

 Biog:

Maureen O’Hara, PhD., is Professor of Psychology, National University, President Emerita, Saybrook University, and founding member of International Futures Forum, UK and US. In practice over three decades she worked closely with Carl Rogers in La Jolla, California facilitating encounter groups, large group events and training psychotherapists in many countries. She worked with psychologists in Brazil for several years. Her recent work explores the impacts of global cultural shifts on psychological development and emotional well-being. Books include, Em busca da vida with C.R. Rogers, J.K. Wood and A. Fonseca (Summus,1983), 10 Things to Do in a Conceptual Emergency, with G. Leicester (Triarchy, 2009), and Handbook of Person-Centered Psychotherapy and Counseling with M. Cooper, P. Schmid and A. Bohart (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008) and her latest book,  Dancing at the Edge; Competence, Culture and Organization (co-authored with Graham Leicester, Triarchy, 2012). Maureen is married to Robert Lucas and lives in Carlsbad, California.

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Professor Mick Cooper

The facts are friendly: evidencing the Humanistic approaches to psychological practice

 

Speakers

Carmen Joanne Ablack

At the heart of diversity, lies the soul of meeting

 

Session description:

“The lived body has contextual relations within it and is a place of feelings, intellect and experiences – embodied and relational. When we look at the journey of diversity, which happens between embodied beings, we are also addressing the soul of ‘being in meeting’. The scenarios and rituals we enact in such meetings can be vehicles for coming to the heart of the diversity dialogue and the essence of being human in contact in the moment. The workshop attempts this journey through exploration of embodiment, using experiential exercises to help lead to some sense of the soul of meeting.”

Biog:

Carmen Joanne Ablack maintains a couples, group and individual psychotherapy practice in London, teaches at the Gestalt Centre and on other psychotherapy trainings in UK and Europe. She is a trustee of UKCP, co-chairs its promoting occupational practice committee and is chair of the professional development committee of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP). Her publications include journal articles, and a book chapter.

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Dr. Kate Anthony

The Virtual Humanist: Conveying Core Competencies Online

 

Session description:

Dr Kate Anthony will examine how the core themes of humanist theory exist within therapeutic services when conducted without a physical presence over the Internet.  Drawing on research and over 13 years in the field, she will seek to allay fears and demonstrate best practice in online communication with clients, explaining how an authentic relationship via text, audio, video and virtual reality settings are achieved.

Biog:

Dr Kate Anthony, FBACP, DCC, CPC, is the leading UK expert on the use of technology in therapy, coaching and related professions. She is co-editor and co-author of three textbooks on the subject.  She is a Fellow of the BACP and Executive Specialist for Online Coaching for its Coaching Division. She co-founded the Online Therapy Institute, the Online Coach Institute, and is co-Managing Editor of TILT Magazine (Therapeutic Innovations in Light of Technology).

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 Professor Jure Biechonski

Embracing the child within

 

Session description:

The Inner Child that has been locked away for so long constantly tries to get our attention, but many of us have forgotten how to listen to what it is saying.

By locking our Inner Child away we lose our spontaneity and our natural zest for life. Over time this can drain our energy and lead to chronic or serious illness. By hiding our Inner Child we also hide our true thoughts and feelings, which means that other people can’t know what we are really feeling and thinking. This separates us from other people because they can never see who we really are. As a result we never get to know each other and never experience true intimacy. This is a tragic loss. In order for us to be fully human, the child within must be embraced and expressed.

On the other hand deep inside us there is the free magical child, that wants to play and explore, this child is our healthy fully functioning part, this child is the only one who knows what it needs, feels and wants. This workshop will help us to explore such matters.

Biog:

Professor Jure Biechonski is a Counselling Psychologist, founder and director of SACH International.School of Analytical and Cognitive Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy in Estonia.  He also heads up the TERVIKLIK MINA School of transpersonal hypnotherapy-psychology in Estonia.  He is a well-known international speaker and workshop leader

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Canterbury Tales

Our Saturday evening film

In June 2012 The ‘Pilgrimage for Justice’ sets out for Canterbury. A motley band of Occupy Protestors and Anglican believers brave the worst summer weather for 100 years as they endeavour to ‘Occupy Faith’.

There is just one rule – nobody can be excluded.

Needless to say, the path to a just society is more arduous than they have conceived. Then, gradually, something timeless starts to bind them together, as this caravan of conversations, hopes and wishes progresses along the A34.

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Alexandra Chalfont

When loyalties war: resolving intercultural dilemmas within the subjective self

 

 Session description:

Identities can be complex configurations of many parts, or what are termed I-positions in dialogical theory. For many of us, particularly those with multicultural roots, our identity consists of varied, culturally distinct I-positions. These can house very different sets of values, beliefs and attitudes, which sometimes conflict and give rise to suffering rooted in clashing loyalties, in guilt and shame within the self.

We will explore ways of reconciling these intrapersonal dilemmas through symbolic time and space and client-generated metaphor.

Biog:

Alexandra Chalfont is Co-Chair of The Association of Humanistic Psychology. She is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a trainer, supervisor and executive coach. She works integrally-relationally in private practice with individuals and couples in West London. She has worked as an educator, translator, editor, management trainer and cross-cultural consultant in Europe. She is currently developing new ways of working with issues in mixed-culture relationships and inter-generational trauma.

She is also an Associate Editor of Self & Society and Chair of the Book Editorial Board of the UKCP

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Josie Gregory

 The Spiritually Intelligent Leader – Consciousness-in-Action

 Session description

We humans have spiritual intelligence in abundance, but tapping into and using it effectively is the challenge.

Leadership is a quality of the person. Leadership as a metaphor describes an energetic force many people have to forge ahead, to lean into the future, constructing reality as they meet it. There is a `tipping point’ which connects a person in his immediate and emerging reality. This quality allows a person to live between the physical world and the metaphysical world. The capacity of the soul to inhabit both these domains is an essential part of our spiritual nature.

The workshop will offer some theories and strategies for evolving / developing your spiritual intelligence through identifying three states of reflectivity and three different states of consciousness.

Biog

Executive and life Coach, Transpersonal Psychotherapist. Group Facilitator, Freelance Academic. Josie’s passions: leadership development, in particular Spirited Leadership, transformational learning and change and states of consciousness; the use of dialogue with conflict at work with the aim to bring about harmony and effective working relations.

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Helena Hargaden

The Humanistic Roots of Relational Psychotherapy

 

Session description:

In this workshop I will trace the roots of humanistic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy which paved the way towards developing relational psychotherapy.

I will use a PowerPoint for my presentation followed by discussion and experiential work.

Biog:

Helena Hargaden (MSc., DPsych., Training and Supervisory Transactional Analyst) is a Psychotherapist, Writer, Coach and Supervisor. In collaboration with others she developed relational perspectives of TA and has been widely published and translated into a number of other languages. She lives on the South Coast by the sea where she has a clinical practice, continues to develop clinical ideas, currently integrating Buddhism and Jungian perspectives with relational TA, as well as writing fiction.

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Professor Peter Hawkins

Beyond Individual Development: Humanistic Psychology and Developing Teams, Leadership, Organizations and wider systems’

 

Session description:

In the practical world of business, organizational and leadership development (including coaching), humanistic psychology has developed ways of not only developing individual human potential, but effective ways  to develop teams, organisations and wider systems.  The current and future challenges for the world we live in require us to go well beyond individual development and this workshop will experientially explore what we can learn from Humanistic Psychology approaches to organizational development to face the looming ecological crisis

Biog:

Peter Hawkins, Emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group, and Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, has been leading workshops in Humanistic Psychology since the early 1970s and was the first Chair of the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy section of the UKCP.  He is a leading coach, writer and researcher in organisational strategy, learning, managing complex change, leadership and Board development.  He is the author of many books and papers in the field of supervision, coaching, leadership and change, including “The Wise Fool’s Guide to Leadership” and “Leadership Team Coaching”.

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Richard House

England’s Early Childhood Education: The Urgent Need for a Humanistic Psychology Perspective

Session description:

In this part didactic, part participative seminar, and drawing on over a decade’s experience of campaigning (latterly with the Open EYE campaign and Early Childhood Action) on England’s early education provision, Richard will argue that we can draw upon the insights of Humanistic Psychology both to critique existing policy configurations (specifically, the statutory Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum), and to offer a viable and empowering vision of the principles and practices that should underpin our approach to early childhood experience

Biog:

Richard House lectures in early childhood, University of Winchester, formerly lecturing in psychotherapy at Roehampton University (2005–12). He co-edits Self and Society, and is a founder-member of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the IPN. Books include Too Much, Too Soon? (2011) and Therapy Beyond Modernity (2003). [email protected]

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Colin Lago

Cultural Sensitivity for Therapists: A humane endeavour, an ethical necessity and a considerable challenge

Session description: 

“Culturally skilled counsellors (psychotherapists, counselling psychologists etc) understand how race, culture, ethnicity and so forth affect personality formation, ……, manifestation of psychological disorders, help seeking behaviours and the appropriateness or inappropriateness of counselling approaches. They understand and have knowledge about socio-political influences that impinge upon the life of racial and ethnic minorities. Immigration issues, poverty, racism, stereotyping and powerlessness all leave major scars that may influence the counselling process.” (Sue, Arredondo and McDavis 1992, p.482)

These days, the world (in the shape of other people) can and does enter our interview room. How equipped are we, as a profession, to respond therapeutically to such a wide range of clients?

The above quotation was included in a key American Psychological Association text that set out to recommend and detail the professional skills, necessary knowledge and awareness of issues that were considered as desirable when working therapeutically across issues of race, culture and ethnicity. Since this original publication these ‘categories’ have been extended to include several other arenas of difference under the wider umbrella term of ‘diversity’.

This workshop will offer participants an opportunity to reflect upon these current challenges to therapeutic practice and to begin to consider what elements of skill, awareness and knowledge might we, as one particular working group at this conference, wish to embody in our therapeutic work across difference.

Biog:

Colin Lago was Director of the Counselling Service at the University of Sheffield, U.K., from 1987 – 2003. He now works as an independent counsellor, trainer, supervisor and consultant. Trained initially as an engineer, Colin went on to become a full time youth worker in London and then a teacher in Jamaica. He is a Fellow of BACP, an accredited counsellor and trainer and UKRC registered practitioner. He was recently awarded a D.Litt. and Hon. Prof. in recognition of his publications, particularly in the field of multicultural counselling and psychotherapy

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Amanda-Leigh Damms

 ‘State management for incorporating common patterns of genius.’

Session description: 

In this session we will be exploring drama and performance techniques to access and optimise powerful and resourceful states of being ‘in the flow’. We will be focusing on ‘centering’ – strategies and techniques for cultivating generative states of mind and positive self relation.

Biog:

Amanda-Leigh Damms has worked as a coach, therapist, trainer and teacher within private and public sectors.  Currently researching application of expressive arts to development of self-esteem and effective communication, Amanda is employed as a teacher of Drama and Theatre at an international school.

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Catherine Llewellyn

Five rhythms dance

 Session description:

Movement meditation and physical embodiment – using the 5rhythms model to explore our truth.

A movement session based on the teachings of Gabrielle Roth, connecting with the deep self housed within our bodies, accessing energies and multiple layers of awareness and expression – all within the context of connecting with our truth about our past, present and future as travellers of the Humanistic path together.

Using the body as a medium for connection with energy and spirit, this practice is enjoyable and effective for all ages, shapes, sizes, and body images – there are no steps to learn, nothing to get wrong or right.

Biog:

Catherine has 30 years participation in the UK Human Potential movement, 25 as a change agent, often in parallel with various senior management roles.  Catherine is also a Board Member of AHP.

• MSc in Change Agent Skills & Strategies from the Human Potential Research Group at Surrey
• co-developed the ‘Seven Energy Levels’ model of organisational change with Dr Paul Tosey at Surrey
• Facilitated over 1000 senior executives in leading organisational change; trained over 3000 people in self-management and interpersonal skills
• Researched into the experience senior executives have of using external consultants: a phenomenological study entitled “Why am I not satisfied?”
• Founder member of Programmes Ltd/Merchants Group: a social/commercial/educational experiment in values based working
• Reiki Master
• 5rhythms dance teaching accreditation

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Janet Love

A Systemic Constellations Approach to the Transpersonal in Psychotherapy

Session description:   

A short introduction on the Systemic Approach to the Transpersonal.  All living systems from neurons to neighbourhoods depends on their interactions with others.  The systemic constellation therapy approach organically links the web of unseen interrelationships between the intrapsychic dynamics of the individual, to the family system, and beyond to nature and the cosmos .  This allows us to move effortlessly away from the idea of the individual ‘self’ as a separate isolated consciousness.ourselves into the domain of the transpersonal.

The participants to explore and experience ‘The Knowing Field’ through constellation methodology revealing underlying unconscious energies outside of normal awareness.

Biog:

Janet’s personal journey led her to Systemic/Family Constellation Therapy and her book ‘Psychosis in the Family – The Journey of a Psychotherapist and Mother.’  She is currently writing her second book ‘Healing Inherited Scripts of Suffering.’ She is a member of the UKCP Book Editorial Board & UKCP Transpersonal Faculty

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Lyndsey Moon

Boying the Boy and Girling the Girl: Affective Interpellation and the cis-gendering of emotion

Session description:

In this workshop we will focus on what gender means in therapy – and how emotion plays a central role in the naming of the body as either male or female and how, once named, affect constitutes subjectivity. The idea of affective interpellation is drawn from the work of Althusser  later added to by Judith Butler, and rests on the idea that once the person is hailed, then the constitution of subjectivity begins. In this theoretical perspective, it will be shown how the boying of the boy and the girling of the girl rely to a large degree on the role of affect. We shall also focus on what happens when the body of the child fails to show a cis-gendered presentation and how the regulatory forces subjugate the body to a psychological re-ordering.

Biog:

Dr Lyndsey Moon is a Counselling Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University. She has received two ESRC postgraduate awards. Dr Moon has worked in the field of drugs and alcohol for 20 years, and has a private psychotherapy practice. 

Her research interests are queer theory, sexualities, genders and emotion. She has edited two books.

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Nicola Muir

Session description

Yoga means union. We will be focussing on uniting body and breath with steady movement in both standing and seated postures. Gentle yet invigorating… bring yourself into alignment for the day! Please wear comfortable clothing in which you can freely move.

Biog:

Nicola’s mum introduced her to yoga when she was 12. After hanging up her ballet pointe shoes when she was 14, Nicola practised Hatha and Ashtanga yoga before finding Jivamukti Yoga in London in 2005.

In 2007 Nicola trained as a Jivamutki teacher and taught in New Zealand for over a year before returning to teach in London.

Nicola read English at Oxford, and uses her literary skills to write yoga blogs and articles. Currently, Nicola is writing about her work and experiences with her transpersonal therapist.

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Aqualma Murray

Supporting Victims of Social Networking Abuse

Session description:

The workshop will look at the issue of how adults and children are at risk of abuse via the internet and what professionals need to know in order to assist with offering assistance and support to victims.

We will outline the dangers to adults who may be abused on line and will look in depth at the impact on children who are abused via the web. Participants will have the opportunity to gain an understanding of the complexities in relation to internet abuse of children and the on line grooming process. We will explore what is known about on line abusers and consider the things we can do to safeguard children. We will then consider what professionals can do to look after themselves while interacting with service users on line.

Biog:

Aqualma Murray has international experience in the field of social work, having worked for over twenty-five years with a wide range of client groups. She has been a child protection social worker specialising in working with children and adults who have experienced sexual abuse. She is now a trainer and consultant, addressing issues of abuse, challenging behaviour, mental health, children’s rights, anti-discriminatory and diversity issues, implementing policies and procedures. She is also an ordained interfaith minister.

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Tom Ormay

In it together

Session description:

Our social nature had been an intelligent assumption for a long time, until biology demonstrated it in the nineteen sixties. With our scientific knowledge of the social nature of human beings we need to rethink our approach to psychotherapy regardless of which modality we follow. In psychoanalysis, the science of human nature has been based on selfish foundations, and its structural theory presents us with a single, lonely person of id, ego and superego. Even Foulkes, who based his group theories on psychoanalysis, could only speculate about our social nature, but gave us the fundamental notion of the social unconscious. In the nineteen sixties biology scientifically demonstrated the social instinct. Yet, the various thinkers, who tried to enlarge group analytic thinking, continued speculating, and did not make use of the social instinct, although it was there. As if the body, the material part of us was not important, as if we existed all up there, in some higher regions. We need our body for love, and a theory good enough to understand it. What I have to offer is a personality theory based on instincts, or with other words, on the psychological affects of our genes. Our ego develops out of the older selfish instinct, as it has been elaborated by psychoanalysis. But the new social instinct provides the foundations of our genuinely social nature, I call “nos”, Latin for “we”. Accordingly the new structural theory is made up of the id, ego and nos. On such a foundation we can build a consistent social image of man.

Biog:

A. P. Tom Ormay has been a psychoanalytic psychotherapist for the last forty years and a group analyst for the last thirty years, in private practice. In his recent book: The Social Nature of Persons, he presents an instinct based theory of group analysis. He taught at the Royal College of Art and at Goldsmith College in London, and also in various professional institutions. Presently living in Hungary, he is teaching at the Eötvös Lóránt University, at the Semmelweis University, at the John Wesley University of Budapest and at the University of Szeged. He is the editor of Group Analysis, the journal of the Group Analytic Society International.

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Martin Pollecoff

If Humanistic Psychology was a burning building – what would you save?

Session description:

Those of us with a love of Humanistic Psychology have every right to be peeved.  We see its societal influence in the Occupy Movement,  the Feminist movement, the Gay movement, it’s the mainstay material of Business Coaches and self-help books and yet HP is seldom acknowledged or even name checked.  Its radicalism and freshness has lost its lustre.  Indeed, in some circles it’s seen as simply ‘that old thing’.   So what would a re-radicalised, re-invigorated ,HP look like?  How can we reformulate the spirit of HP?  Even if you feel that nothing should change, come along, join in and help shape a future.  (it could be fun)

Biog:

Martin Pollecoff describes himself as a ‘Jobbing Psychotherapist’.   He is an elected UKCP board member and the founder of www.the longboathome.co.uk  a National psychotherapy network which serves Veterans and their families.  He also founded the UKCP’s Psychotherapy Club an attempt to have therapists enjoy each other’s company.  His interest in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology began in the 70′s with Exegesis and has wavered ever since  - for more information on this nebbish try www.psychotherapyW2.co.uk

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Jocelyne Quennell

Developments from Humanistic Psychology: Creative and Relational Approaches

Session description:

This workshop will offer the opportunity to explore the themes of the conference through a range of creative and relational approaches to personal growth and self-development. It will support engagement with, reflecting on and communication about our pasts, presents and futures in symbolic ways acknowledging fifty years of Humanistic Psychology

Biog:

Jocelyne Quennell is an arts-based psychotherapist. She was the Course Leader for the Sesame Training in Drama and Movement Therapy at Central School of Speech and Drama and Principal of the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. She is Director of Education and Innovation at Kids Company with responsibility for courses in Therapeutic Communication Skills for working with children and young people.

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Dr. John Rowan

How Humanistic Psychology can Save the World from Sloppy Spirituality. A talk with poems

 

Session description:

Ask people what spirituality is, and they will lamely utter the immortal words – “It is not the same as religion, is it?”  That is about as far as most people are willing to go.  What I want to say is that there is a structure to spirituality, that it is a process and a journey, well summed up in the immortal words of Angelus Silesius, who said “First find yourself, thou’rt half the way to God; now lose thyself, then all the way is trod.”  Humanistic psychology is all about the first half of this journey; transpersonal psychology can help with the second half, which naturally divides itself into two different areas.  In this workshop we shall look at and experience the three great fields here described – the Centaur, the Subtle and the Causal.

Biog:

John Rowan devoted himself to humanistic psychology for a number of years, and then added a deep involvement with transpersonal psychology.  He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the British Association for Counselling and Psychology, as well as a founding member of the UK Association for Humanistic Practitioners.  He is the author of about twenty books, and has led workshops in 25 different countries

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Julian Russell

What if your client was a Buddha, and you were too?

Session description:

Tantric Buddhism says we all have Buddha nature, but we have temporally forgotten.  Recognising this nature in another helps us recognize it in ourselves. During this workshop we will weave Buddhist psychology, the history of the universe, the theory of evolution and evocative stories together with some simple exercises to allow ourselves to experience the miracle of being.

Biog:

Julian Russell has worked in personal development since 1975, has been an executive coach since 1992 and facilitates personal development workshops called The Life Talent Programme.  He is a regular speaker at Alternatives, St James’s Piccadilly and helped introduce NLP into the UK, which, for him, stands for ‘Naturally Loving Person’. His Life-Calling is ‘personal transformation, starting with myself’. www.LifeTalent.com

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Judy Ryde

A Challenge to Individualism

Session description:

Humanistic psychologists have always been at the forefront of liberal social policy, believing in freedom of expression and freedom from oppression. In this context it goes without saying that any self-respecting humanistic practitioner would regard themselves as upholding the rights of minorities. Yet it is not always simple. Privileging the rights of the individual can seem enlightened to us but selfish and puzzling to those who come from more collectivist cultures. In this workshop I will look at how we as humanistic practitioners can learn from those for whom the basis of society is not the individual but the family, tribe or community and for whom the idea of an authentic sense of self does not make sense.

Biog:

Judy Ryde is a co-founder of The Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (BCPC) and teaches supervision through The Centre for Supervision and Team Development Bath (CSTD Bath).  She directs and supervisors  the Trauma Foundation South West in Bristol. She has completed doctoral research into ‘whiteness’ within psychotherapy and psychotherapy organizations and published the book ‘Being White in the Helping Professions’.

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Andrew Samuels

Always look on the bright side of life?

Aggression, lust and other complicated feelings in Humanistic Psychology

Session description:

Summary: Is there still a problem for humanistic psychology with certain feelings such as aggression and lust? Or is this a strength when other schools (for example, psychoanalysis) have such a tragic view of the world, seemingly obsessed with aggression and other Id impulses? In other words, how do we here today evaluate the humanistic stress on positive emotions such as hope, joy, inspiration, and regard for the other? Some talk, some interaction, some experiential work – divided equally between aggression and lust.

Biog:

Andrew Samuels is professor of analytical psychology at Essex and holds visiting chairs at New York, Roehampton and Goldsmiths. A Jungian training analyst, he also works internationally as a political consultant. Member AHP. On Editorial Board, Self & Society. Former chair, UKCP. Former Honorary Secretary, International Association for Analytical Psychology. Co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, and of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Founder board member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis. His many books have been translated into 19 languages. www.andrewsamuels.com

 

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Pete Sanders

Elitism, accessibility and humanistic psychology in the 21st century

Session description:

Beck might not have lived in Birmingham, but Pete Sanders grew up in Kingstanding*, Birmingham**. He tries to imagine a conversation about humanistic psychology on Kingstanding circle without being beaten up. Windy Dryden (who did live in Birmingham) prescribes ‘engagement with reality’. If humanistic psychology has no future in Kingstanding, it has no future anywhere.

*Featured on the website ‘chavtowns’: ‘Kingstanding is like a lot of big city down-trodden suburbs – right to buy pre-war council houses, chavs wandering aimlessley, grafitti and vandalism and a high white van count … ’

** Featured on the website ‘Birmingham – It’s Not Shit

Biog:

Pete Sanders retired from practice after over 30 years as a counsellor, trainer and supervisor. He now lives a long way from Kingstanding. He is a trustee of the Soteria Network UK.

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 Martin Seager

Psychological Mindedness: From treating psychological conditions to meeting psychological needs

Session description:

I will examine the “bad science” that still underpins the way we think about mental health, creating a medicalised and “mind-blind” service culture that hampers our capacity to respond to mental distress in a humane way.  I will then look at the universal psychological needs of the human condition and show how a psychologically minded approach is badly needed to take us further forward.

Biog:

Martin Seager is a consultant clinical psychologist and an adult psychotherapist. He is a clinician, lecturer, campaigner, broadcaster and activist on mental health issues. He studied at Oxford University, Edinburgh University and the Tavistock Clinic and has worked in the NHS for nearly 30 years. He had a regular mental health slot on BBC Radio “Five Live” from 2007-2009. He spent over a year working in the homelessness field with St Mungos and also the “Big Issue”. He is currently working part-time with the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and in private practice. He is also an honorary consultant psychologist with the Central London Samaritans and a member of the Mental Health Advisory Board of the College of Medicine.

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Tricia Scott

How has the humanistic movement impacted on each of us personally and on today’s culture and society? What role do we see for humanistic philosophy and practice in the future?

 

Session Description

Tricia will reflect on the forces that have influenced her personal priorities and professional agendas.  She will facilitate participants in exploring their own experiences of humanistic work, how these have shaped their present world and create the basis of aims and goals for the collective future of the humanistic movement

Biog:

Tricia Scott’s career spans 45 years as a humanistic practitioner working with individuals, couples, families, groups and organisations. She has retired from clinical practice but continues to be involved in the profession as a writer, researcher, examiner, and advisor on professional regulation and complaints procedures. Her book ‘Integrative Psychotherapy in Healthcare: A Humanistic Approach’ was published by Palgrave/Macmillan in 2004.

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Robin Shohet

Forgiveness – letting go of a better past

 

Session description:

Forgiveness. A gift we can give ourselves.

Forgiveness has long been associated with religion and particularly Christianity, which may have stopped people embracing it as a concept.  I like the definition of letting go of a better past or bridging the gap between what you wanted and what you got.  In this way the content of what needs to be forgiven does not matter so much as the process of acceptance – a deep acceptance that is alive and vibrant.   it is  something we do for ourselves to move on beyond our stories of what should have been. It is not to be confused with reconciliation which involves another.

There is a time when a wound needs to be grieved, and anger expressed, and a time to move on and let go. We will explore the attractions of stories of betrayal, the addiction to revenge (in thought if not in deed) and the allure of the victim archetype which stop us doing that.  You  will be invited to explore something you find difficult to forgive or let go of, and to go beyond the beliefs that might keep you stuck in the past.

Biog:

Robin Shohet has been involved with the humanistic psychology movement since the very early days when he went to hear some of the pioneers from Esalen in 1971.  He has written and edited many books on supervision and is now focalising a conference on Forgiveness at the Findhorn Foundation, where he lives with his family (www.findhorn.org/forgiveness).

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Tree Staunton

Relationship with the Body in Humanistic Approaches

 

Session description:

From its beginnings Humanistic psychotherapy has embraced the body. More recently other modalities have developed an interest in the body – from Jungians integrating movement to the development of energy therapies – suggesting that the body has come of age in the psychotherapy world. The body is the sine qua non of Humanistic practice.

What is your everyday experience of your body? Do you actively engage with the experience and life of the body in your work?

Tree will share some of her research in this area, as well as inviting an embodied encounter with workshop participants.

Biog:

Tree Staunton (MA HIP, UKCP) Integrative Body Psychotherapist, Director of Bath Centre for Psychotherapy & Counselling, Vice Chair of the UKCP-HIP College; editor of Body Psychotherapy (Routledge 2002); MA Research Explorations in Body Consciousness. She lives in an Eco-Cohousing Community in Stroud, Gloucestershire, where she has a private practice

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The Orchestra That Fell to Earth

The Penguin Café Orchestra (PCO) first appeared in 1976. It was never in reality an ‘orchestra’ in the traditional sense, but a continuously evolving and eclectic musical experiment, centred around its founder Simon Jeffes. Simon gradually assembled a core group of like-minded musicians, and the band went on to tour and record extensively throughout the eighties and nineties, until his untimely death in 1997.

The PCO had come into being as a consequence of a disturbing experience Simon had during a bout of food poisoning in 1972. In his delirium he had a vision of a world of fearful, isolated individuals in which everyone and everything had been de-humanised, neutralized, and made grey and anonymous, a scene of “ordered desolation… a place which had no heart”. The next day he felt better and had another vision, of a place in which people could relax and just be themselves without fear, a place where humanity, spontaneity and the ‘random element’ could be embraced rather than suppressed; a place where a particular kind of music would be played and enjoyed; this place was called ‘The Penguin Cafe’ from which the original PCO took its name.  The Orchestra That Fell To Earth is the most recent evolution of the original collective, and includes long standing members Geoffrey Richardson, Jennifer Maidman, Steve Fletcher and Annie Whitehead, who all toured and recorded extensively for many years as part of the PCO. The Orchestra continues to play in ‘The Spirit of the Cafe’, and still performs many of the PCO’s best known pieces.

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 Nick Totton

Humanistic Psychology Beyond the Human

 

Session description:

HP practitioners frequently get frustrated by simplistic equations of ‘humanistic’ and ‘human’. But is there a grain of truth in this? Like psychotherapy in general, I suggest, HP has not yet paid enough attention to the role of the other-than-human as the ground of our physical, psychological and spiritual existence and wellbeing. The workshop will explore these issues, relating them to environmental degradation and climate change and to the nitty-gritty of work in the consulting room.

Biog:

Nick Totton is a therapist and trainer with 30 years experience. He holds an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, and has worked with Process Oriented Psychology and trained as a cranio-sacral therapist; he is currently involved with ecopsychology and addressing climate change. He has written several books, including Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction; Psychotherapy and Politics; The Problem with the Humanistic Therapies; and Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems.

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Rosalind Turner

Walking for Change ~ talking the difference

This 90 minute workshop offers us the opportunity to step out, air our thoughts and share some fresh thinking . .  Inspired by, and working with Nef’s 5 ways to wellbeing, Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning, and Give, and her own 5 ways, Listen, Feel, Explore, Play and Reflect, Rosalind runs four projects with ‘walking and talking’ as a way into the work. Rosalind invites us to join her for a ‘walk and talk’ in the surrounding area as she shares the work she is so passionate about.

Biog:

Following her IDHP post-graduate diploma in ‘Leadership, Facilitation and Coaching’, Rosalind runs four projects with ‘walking and talking’ at their core.  Passionate about working in and with nature, Rosalind is interested in how we can be more of who we truly are with all its depth, glory and contradictions.  rosalindjturner.co.uk

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Tom Warnecke

What can psychotherapy do?  Psychotherapy paradigms and sexual orientation

 

Session description:

Homosexuality and same-sex attraction have vexed the psychotherapy field for much of its history. Psychotherapy ideas, while revolutionizing the understanding of human functioning in the 20th century, blindly incorporated many common western cultural values but also a Christian-Judaic premise that procreative sex was normative. The ensuing conjecture of hetero-normativity created a conceptual bias about minority sexual orientations and left psychotherapy with a toxic legacy that continues to cast its shadow today. This seminar will re-examine the troubled relationship of psychotherapy with gender and sexual orientation.

Biog:

Tom Warnecke trained in Gestalt Therapy and subsequently with David Boadella and maintains a psychotherapy practice in London. He worked in community mental health services, developed a relational – somatic approach to borderline dynamics, and teaches relational body psychotherapy in various settings. His publications include several journal papers and book chapters. He is a vice chair of the UKCP and represents the UK on the Board of the European Association for Psychotherapy.

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Heward Wilkinson

Primal Poetics: the Humanism of Poetic Inspiration in Therapy and Art

 

 Session description:

Psychotherapy and Therapeutics have been around for thousands of years. Their roots, in parallel with those of Philosophy and Religion, are in poetry and poetic inspiration. Poetic inspiration, the upsurge, and the unaccountability, unmanualisability, and sheer human idiosyncrasy, of poetic creation, is the foundation of human culture. It is the origin of human institutions. If we work therapeutically, in touch with the twin root in inspiration, of therapy and poetry, we are realising, enacting, and presenting for reflection and reintegration, our full humanity. We are enacting the humanistic origins of creativity, which includes both light and shade. Rediscovered in the Renaissance, and in Shakespeare, from this primal humanism all psychotherapeutic healing derives.

This experiential workshop, which presupposes no prior knowledge, will explore the humanism of inspiration, jointly, in relation to therapy and to artistic-poetic creativity.

Biog:

Dr Heward Wilkinson is Chair of the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College of UKCP. He co-founded Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute in 1991, and is its delegate to UKCP. He pursues in depth studies, teaching, and presentation in relation to Literature and Philosophy and their relationships with Psychotherapy. He is author of The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy  

http://hewardwilkinson.co.uk

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Jessica Woolliscroft & Kerry Lane

From Spirals of Erosion to Spirals of Abundance

(How permaculture principles helped revitalise a humanistic organisation – UKAHPP).

Session description:

Permaculture designs sustainable systems by revealing how elements work together to create spirals of abundance or spirals of erosion. Originally applied to land based systems, permaculture is increasingly applied to organisations or even one’s relationship with oneself. Discover how UKAHPP used permaculture principles to identify leaks, harvest resources and build resilience.

Biogs:

Jessica Woolliscroft has been an accredited member of UKAHPP since 1994 and is currently on the UKAHPP Ethics Committee and Communications Team. She works as a psychotherapist, trauma therapist (EMDR) and supervisor. Jessica is a Director of Brightstone Clinic, a community interest company which provides low cost counselling and training placements. She qualified in 2012 with her much loved Permaculture Design Certificate from Treflach Farm.

Kerry Lane has a degree in Environmental Science at UEA, and has only fairly recently forayed into the world of permaculture, but now it has her hooked. As well as building her experience in designing and teaching permaculture, she is currently cultivating herself a job in environmental education and community engagement. Kerry is a regular contributor to the Transition Towns Social Reporters blog.  www.transitionnetwork.org.uk/stories

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