Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue 22 Oct 2024
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
On-line workshop with ‘Onlinevents’ – booking via eventbrite here
‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appears’ (Antonio Gramsci)
A client’s arrival in therapy can be considered a time of crisis. Previous certainties and securities have been lost, and hope of finding a new way forward, people turn to therapy. Often this will involve a personal-historical perspective, uncovering the origin story of the current crisis in the client’s biography. But what if the crisis is not all about the past? What if it is also about the current world-crises clients (and therapists) are living through – the on-going trauma of ecological anxiety, political confusion and economic distress?
This workshop explores how to work with client crises by placing them within a broad collective context. Firstly, by suggesting therapy itself is in a time of crisis, transitioning away from its origins in a personal-historical framework towards a more collective and societal perspective. And secondly, on a practical level, how to better notice and work with world-issues in the consulting room alongside a personal-historical perspective.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- How to help clients find meaningful lives within a world of increasing uncertainty and confusion.
- How to understand the place of systemic issues within client crises and find ways to work with them in the consulting room.
- How to avoid unwittingly exacerbating the internalisation of captialism and colonialism within therapeutic theory and practice.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Coaches and anyone interested in therapy, transformation and creative change.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Discover greater confidence, creativity and freedom in working with the impact of world-isues.