Public speaking
I am happy to speak at conferences and other events. My style is informal and inclusive and may incorporate arts and sensory activity as well as communicating through words.
Rather than give a formal lecture I like to involve an audience in lively debate and often weave into my talks a mixture of brief illustrative activities that they can experiment with for themselves. I am familiar with working with translators.
Here is a selection of organisations that I have addressed:
- Association for Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, Philadelphia (child and adolescent discussion moderator) 2010
- Association of Jewish Refugees/ Kindertransportees/ Second Generation Trust joint conference , London 2015 (on shame)
- Association of Jungian Analysts (with Roz Carroll) London 2016 (‘Diaspora Stories’)
- British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy conference, London 2012 (using creative arts in therapy)
- Chestnut Grove School, London 2009 (staff training day on adolescence)
- Chiron Association for Body Psychotherapy: The Connected Baby: Colwyn Trevarthen lecture, London 2013 (panel discussant)
- Confer Big Idea conference, London 2010 (on stepfamilies, with Claire Asherson Bartram)
- Confer Therapy in Motion conference, London 2015 (on movement and music in therapy)
- European Interdisciplinary Association for Therapeutic Services for Children and Young People, Zagreb, 2016 (on rage)
- Friends of the British Gestalt Journal London 2008 (on adolescence)
- Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London 2018 (Commemorative Kindertransport research symposium)
- Stillpoint Spaces, London Jan 2020 (on Gestalt therapy and intersubjectivity)
- The Sunflower Network, London 2019 (How canine-assisted therapy promotes wellbeing)
- ‘Super Parents’: child psychologists conference, Kyiv, Ukraine, September 2020 (keynote speech on working with anger – Oaklander approach)
- TAE-Vienna symposium 2015 (on attachment-based baby watching)
I have facilitated/co-led workshops on the following topics:
- arts-related therapy practice
- intergenerational dialogue
- fatherhood
- beginnings and endings in therapy
- collective trauma and its aftermath
- music for health & wellbeing
Recent and future engagements include:
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UKAGP conference, Leamington Spa, 14 to 16 June 2024: ‘Stuckness and Play Three Ways’. Keynote and workshop with Roz Carroll
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Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Conference: “Who I really am”, 29 to 30 March 2025, Warsaw, The Palace of Culture and Science. Keynote and workshop: ‘Introducing the Violet Oaklander Approach to Therapy with Young People’
If you’d like me to speak at your event, please feel free to get in touch