What is Freedom?
Recent global events have confronted us with many new moral and emotional challenges, tensions and realities that impact on our work as therapists. It is vital to arrive at a position of clarity that allows us to continue working well with clients who have been caught in these difficult situations. In this workshop, offered across 2 evenings in Australia, we will consider a number of paradoxical realities, including those of sickness and health, freedom and responsibility, self and other, good and evil. The objective will be to recover our flexibility of thinking and being in a world full of obstacles and limitations so that we can live more deliberately. This is the best way to find the courage to stand with our clients when they are confronted with difficult situations in which they feel alienated and estranged.
Presenter: Professor Emmy van Deurzen
Professor Emmy van Deurzen is a philosopher, counselling psychologist and existential therapist, who has worked with people on transformative life events and experiences for 49 years. She is a visiting professor in psychology and psychotherapy with Middlesex University and the founder Director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the Existential Academy, in London. She is a fellow of the British Psychological Society, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and an Honorary Life Member of the European Association for Psychotherapy, the Federation of Existential Therapists in Europe and the Society for Existential Analysis. Her eighteenth book, entitled Rising from Existential Crisis: Life Beyond Calamity was published with PCCS books in 2021 and she is currently completing a book on Existential Freedom for Penguin Books.
clinical experience, and seventeen years of teaching, supervision and consultation. He was also a former chaplain, and holds degrees in contemporary continental and comparative philosophy of religion (B.A., Georgia State University; M.Div., Union Theological Seminary, NYC) and in human science clinical psychology (Ph.D., Duquesne University). He integrates these traditions in a clinical specialization of caring for others in existential and spiritual crises during encounters with the impossible, or “no way out” situations, and limit or boundary events (violence, loss, trauma, transitions, psychosis, nihilism). His research and scholarship also takes this integrated approach to critique ideologies of standardized practices of care that intentionally or unwittingly leave out someone and/or their alternative views about such posited categories as science, evidence, method, empiricism, data, outcome, truth, reality, suffering, care, person and “the good life”. He is the winner of numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship and is known globally for his ongoing teaching, supervision and presentations on existential-hermeneutical-phenomenological approaches to therapeutic care.
Cost: $300 (flat rate)
This course counts towards 5 hours of category A CPD.
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