These meetings are at the heart of our project: small, informal gatherings for therapists to talk about our thoughts and feelings in relation to our personal process or clinical work. It is not peer-supervision but a mutually supportive, informal conversation-round.

We are inspired by the initiative of www.deathcafe.com and the culture of the intellectual Salon and we use participatory relational leadership methods such as the Art of Hosting (AoH) to facilitate conversations at relational depth.

More information on meeting content/structure under ‘About/How the cafes work’.

£15 per event

CPD: 1.5 hours with certificate. In-person event. For therapists only. 

For dates please see Events Calendar. 

This course will cover everything from marketing, product development, product placement, management in the mental health sector, starting a charity and non-profit business, start-ups and ethical for-profit business, business consulting and  therapists writing skills and publishing.

As well as expert speakers on the subject, each session will have dedicated space for colleagues to showcase what they are already doing and offering mentoring, and other colleagues seeking support or collaborative partners for new ventures.

We now also have a monthly online peer-support Salon for business skills development – therapists discussing where they are currently at with private practice or other projects, and supporting each other by sharing ideas and tips.

More info and speaker line-up in About/Business Skills Course. 

These meetings are at the heart of our project: small, informal gatherings for psychodynamic/-analytic therapists to talk about our thoughts and feelings in relation to our personal process or clinical work. It is not peer-supervision but a mutually supportive, informal conversation-round.

We are inspired by the culture of the Intellectual Salon and the initiative of deathcafe.com and we use participatory relational leadership methods such as the Art of Hosting (AoH) to facilitate conversations at relational depth.

More information on meeting content/structure under ‘About/How the cafes work’ and CPD.

£15 per event

CPD: 1.5 hours with certificate. In-person event. For therapists only. 

For dates please see Events Calendar. If you can’t make the dates advertised, please be in touch anyway, as we’re creating a group of therapists interested in this meeting – then there will be multiple dates/times.

There are many good-quality professional trainings available on this subject: for example, by Confer (https://www.confer.uk.com/on-demand-events/space.html), Object Relations Institute NY (https://orinyc.org/8-8-25-friday-12-2pm-edt-the-spiritual-brain-a-functional-psychoneurobiological-exploration-of-transcendence-and-healing-grand-round-event-with-inna-rozentsvit-m-d-phd/) or Dr Jeffrey Rubin (https://www.drjeffreyrubin.com/index.html).

This Cafe/Group is for therapists interested in this area. As always, it will contain a ‘sharing space’ for colleagues to talk about their personal or clinical experience, followed by perhaps some theoretical explorations of theories of consciousness development.

In-person meeting in central London (near Bond Street) and possible online versions joining with US-based discussion groups.

£20 per event

CPD: 1.5 hours per module with certificate. 

This group is not a formal screenwriting training. But we take our inspiration from Psychoanalysis Goes To The Movies (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1544839415632398)

and our recognition that many of us love to analyse TV shows and movies and also have our own ideas of what could be created. Many colleagues also write blogs, guest columns, or novels. This group invites colleagues to join a supportive and fun atmosphere to discuss plot-lines, share the enjoyment (and pain) of existing shows/literature, and support colleagues who are actively writing something to develop their skills.

If you are a therapist involved in (creative) writing, whether with the intent of publishing or just for fun, and would be interested in contributing to leading this group, please be in touch.

£20 per event

CPD: 1.5 hours with certificate. Online | In-person | Hybrid

These groups are for therapists only. Therapeutic qualification and registration with a UK accrediting body (UKCP, BACP, HCPC, BABCP, analytic institutes etc) will need to be verified upon booking.

There is a huge variety of therapeutic methods and interventions on the current ‘market’, which can be confusing and overwhelming for a client. How to know which one is best? Even within each approach, therapists’ skills vary, and some therapists are undoubtedly better than others.

There are big areas of research concerned with the questions of which therapy approach is best. And: what skills do therapists need to have within each approach to be ‘good’? 

This interview series will talk about this research, by starting from the end of ‘the client’s experience’. Therapists can have all kinds of ideas of what we think we are doing – but let’s start by asking the client: how is this for you? What are you getting out of this?

Clients will be explicitly invited to talk about the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’. This is so that we (therapists) can learn where we need to improve.

NB: no names or identifying details of therapists involved in the client’s care will be shared – this is a general discussion. 

This is a CPD event for therapists only, to discuss the client interview exploring the client’s experience of their therapy, and examine what could have been done better from the side of the therapist(s) involved. The interview will not share any names or identifying details of particular therapists, but is an invitation to generally discuss therapeutic models and approaches and effects of therapeutic interventions on the client.

Interviews will be conducted with people who had substantial experiences of psychotherapy as a client, and who are used to being in the public spotlight – this is to ensure maximum ethicality in terms of ‘informed consent’.