Psychotherapy, social context & transpersonal perspectives: A Reflective practice group
Sept
11
to 11 Feb

Psychotherapy, social context & transpersonal perspectives: A Reflective practice group

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Psychotherapists practise within social, cultural, political, and ecological contexts - whether these are named or not. At the same time, many of us work with depth, symbolic meaning, and transpersonal dimensions of experience that extend beyond the individual and the purely personal.

This reflective practice group offers a contained space to explore how these domains meet in therapeutic work and where tensions, contradictions, and ethical questions emerge.

The group invites thoughtful reflection on how power, difference, social justice, and the more-than-human world live within the therapy room, and within us as practitioners.

This group is for psychotherapists who:

  • Are interested in social justice, systemic thinking, and their place in therapeutic practice;

  • Are curious about how positionality, power, and difference shape the therapeutic relationship;

  • Work with depth, symbolic or transpersonal perspectives and wish to critically reflect on spiritual meaning without bypassing psychological or social realities;

  • Value nuance, complexity, and reflective dialogue.

Themes may include:

  • Therapist positionality: identity, culture, privilege, marginalisation, and invisibility;

  • Power and authority in the therapeutic relationship, particularly across difference;

  • Systemic oppression and its psychological and relational impacts;

  • Gendered violence and the systemic silencing of women and LGBTQ+ people;

  • Ecological collapse, climate grief and meaning, including work with more-than-human perspectives;

  • Recognising and reflecting on spiritual bypass in therapeutic work;

  • Where transpersonal and spiritual frameworks can support liberation and care VS where they risk obscuring harm, inequality, or material reality.

Clinical work may be explored where appropriate, within a confidential, ethical frame.

This group is an invitation to think carefully, critically and compassionately about what it means to practise psychotherapy in complex social and ecological times.

The group will run online, on the second Friday of each month between September 2026 to February 2027, from 2pm to 3:30pm.

A breakdown of dates can be found below:

11 September 2026 | 9 October 2026 | 13 November 2026 | 11 December 2026 | 8 January 2027 | 12 February 2027

Get in touch to reserve your spot. Places are limited to 6.

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Braving the Storm: an integrative exploration of Ecological Grief
Nov
22
to 23 Nov
Ecological Grief, Climate Change, Polycrisis, Workshop

Braving the Storm: an integrative exploration of Ecological Grief

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“The climate crisis may bring up difficult questions around meaning and purpose. It may elicit complex, anticipatory grief as we are part of the very system that is killing the world - yet unable to stop its engines. It may even impact major life choices, like bringing children into this world. If you find yourself increasingly unsure as to how to stay present to your pain, this workshop is for you.”

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Navigating Ecological Grief: a Transpersonal Exploration for Practitioners
Nov
9
to 10 Nov

Navigating Ecological Grief: a Transpersonal Exploration for Practitioners

This workshop is designed for psychotherapists and counsellors who are grappling with Ecological Grief - both in their practice and their private life.

We are living through extremely uncertain times, where a series of intersecting crises are contributing to biodiversity loss, the melting of ice caps, acidification of the oceans and rising temperatures, making the planet increasingly uninhabitable for humans and other species.

As 6 of 9 planetary boundaries have now been crossed and climate chaos is no longer a possibility - but a certainty we are sleepwalking into - what do we do with the difficult feelings that may start to arise at the unfathomable losses we are becoming aware of?

Join this space to learn to navigate ecological grief from a transpersonal integrative perspective, resourcing yourself as you resource your clients. Together we will look at this crisis through a systemic, multimodal lens while connecting with our own feelings of anxiety and grief over the crisis - but also with our deep love for this planet.

Through creative and embodied practices borrowed from psychotherapy, spiritual traditions and the Work That Reconnects, we will honour our grief for that future that has already reached us. At the end of our journey, you will come away with tools you can use in your own practice, with an embodied remembrance of your Natural Self and with a newly found sense of connection and resilience in the face of the 6th mass extinction.

This workshop counts as 12 hours of CPD, and a certificate will be issued on completion. The event will not be recorded and it is therefore for in-person attendees only.

Cost: £300 - or £250 early bird discount if you book by August 31st, 2024

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