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Conferences | Public Talks

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The Feminist Therapy Network: Building Loving Community

Audacious Solidarity: Courage, Community & Workplace Justice for Therapists Conference

National Counsellor's Day, June 2025

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​Embodied Solidarities: Feminist Friendship, Therapeutic Resistance

Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment and Embodied Violation Conference

John Carroll University, Ohio, October 2024

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Existential Psychotherapy as Liberatory Praxis

Sponsored by the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies & Philosophy Department

John Carroll University, Ohio, October 2024

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Resistance Pathologised

Existential Perspectives on Psychological Complicity and Oppression

UK Sartre Society, Cardiff University, June 2024

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Buddhist Chaplaincy as Spiritual Activism

Les Atravesades en Comunidad: Coalition Building as Light in the Dark

El Mundo Zurdo Conference, The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, University of Texas, San Antonio, May 2024

 

Healing as Revolution, Revolution as Healing

'What is Healing?': R.D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium, Esalen Institute, California, September 2023

 

What is Feminist Therapy?

Feminist Therapy Network, September 2023

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Love and Liberation: the consulting room as liberatory praxis

Dissident Feminisms: Inaugural bell hooks center Symposium, Berea College, Kentucky, June 2023

 

Manifestos: Protest and Praxis

PROTEST! The Society For Existential Analysis Conference, NCVO, London, November 2022

withdrew from programme due to inclusion of a trans-antagonistic speaker

 

Towards an Ethics of Care

'What is Ethical': R.D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium, Esalen Institute, California, June 2022

 

The Therapeutics of Truth Telling: parrhesia and consciousness-raising

Gnosis Existential Salon,  Webinar, May 2021

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Spiritual Transformations: Philosophy As a Way of Life

'What is Spiritual': R.D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium, Webinar, July 2020

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Philosophical Askesis and Fragmented Agencies

'Fragments and Fractals', Department of Psychosocial Studies PhD Conference, Birkbeck University, London, June 2020

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The Anxiety of the Earth: ecological dimensions in existential psychotherapy

II World Congress for Existential Therapy, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, May 2019

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Existential Psychotherapy is a Social Practice

Asociation de Desarrollo y Capacitacion de la Argentina, Buenos Aires, May 2019

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The Next Fundamental Project: existential psychotherapy and social change

The Society For Existential Analysis Conference, NCVO, London, November 2018

 

Feminism and Love

'What is Love?': R.D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium, Esalen Institute, California, July 2018

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Being-with Psychosis: an existential approach

'Existential Psychoanalysis': 23rd Conference of the North American Sartre Society, University of La Verne, California, November 2017

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In Praise of the Unaltered State: the ethics of experience from a Zen perspective

'What are Altered States?': R.D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium, Asilomar Conference Grounds, California, July 2017

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Miaozong’s Dharma Interview: being naked amidst oppression

StoneWater Zen Centre, London, March 2017

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Existential Psychotherapy and the Therapeutics of Activism

'Existentialism and Engagement: The History and Future of Existentialism': 22nd Conference of the North American Sartre Society, University of North Carolina Wilmington, November 2016

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What Is This? Zen, phenomenology and therapy

'What is Therapeutic?': R.D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium, Esalen Institute, California, August 2016

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