The following recordings are available to purchase, please email admin@wmip.org to request a copy and arrange payment.
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UNCARING’ – WHAT CLIMATE CHANGE CAN TEACH US ABOUT HOW WE AVOID PAIN – WMIP Spring 2022 Conference Sally Weintrobe, Rebecca Nestor and WMIP member Judith Anderson will offered ways to think about and work with the unthinkable and emotionally unendurable current predicaments as they emerge in society, the individual, the group and in the therapeutic role. |
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| SALLY WEINTROBE Care and its survival in increasingly unbearable times. Care is both resurgent and under increasing attack from the dominant culture of uncare. Also, as the climate crisis worsens, bearing climate reality becomes harder. Sally will explore what can make care stronger in this situation.
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| REBECCA NESTOR ‘The ticking clock thing’: trauma-infused social defences in climate change communication. In this talk Rebecca shares some aspects of her doctoral research (currently awaiting examination), which involved convening a group of leaders involved in climate change communication. Using the experience of the group over time, combined with individual interviews, the study explored the nature of leaders’ experience and found it to be trauma-influenced epistemologically, socially and emotionally. The session explores these three strands of experience and the ways in which they influenced organisational behaviour. She also explores the steps that could be taken to support people working in climate change communication and related fields. How does trauma scholarship help us to consider the nature of the support required?
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| JUDITH ANDERSON Standing in our Pain – Climate Crisis and the Therapist. Judith describes ways of being and methods that members of Climate Psychology Alliance and others are developing to play a crucial part in facing the triple crises of climate, biodiversity and ecology.
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WMIP Infant Observation event – Birds, Beast and Babies: Notes from an Infant Observation – An award winning paper by Sally McLaren Sally describes her experience of a two-year Jungian Infant Observation. This takes her into a number of different areas: into the content and symbolism of what she observed, into the relationships between observer and child, mother and infant, analyst and analysand and into stories and mythology. As images and symbols are amplified threads link together. Synchronicity is one of the uniting factors. Beasts appear – the goldfinch, the fly, the Gruffalo, the mouse, the Wild Things . . . and more – and she considers how these might offer a window into Max’s inner world. She focuses on the interface between internal and external worlds and reflects upon the concept of an intermediate space and the question of meaning. £20 |
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WMIP Conference The Use and Abuse of Power in Therapy Valerie Sinason – BETWEEN THE KING OF THE CASTLE AND DIRTY RASCAL: THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE When False Memory Groups began to attack trauma therapists in the 1990s, the key illogical thrust was that therapists had the power to install false narratives into their patients, including the estranged adult children of Group members. Yes, therapists could try to do that if they were abusers and, as we know, there is a small percentage of abusers in every profession. However, outside of that, we answered that if we were so very powerful all our patients would have got better! When working with trauma, dissociative identity disorder and disability the terms “power” and “therapy” do not sit comfortably together. And yet, in working relationally with people whose worlds have been sadistically contaminated or destroyed, as well as trying to examine errors and misattunements, we also need the power of truth, understanding and attachment within a safe-enough structure. £20
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