Talks & Lectures
Trauma Therapy: An Adlerian Perspective
Tue 18 Jun 2013, 19:30
Adlerian Society London present:
HERTHA ORGLER MEMORIAL LECTURE
'Trauma Therapy: An Adlerian Perspective'
Anthea Millar
Trauma is an experience of powerlessness when our physical and/or psychological integrity is threatened. Traumatic events can overwhelm and disrupt our normal systems of connecting, seeking control and having meaning in life, and may be experienced as the ultimate sense of inferiority.
In recent years there has been greatly increased understanding of the complex interactions of neurobiology and psychosocial aspects of trauma. This in turn has enabled the development of more effective approaches to trauma therapy, these more recent developments integrating well with an Adlerian approach.
In this lecture, illustrated with case studies from her own practice, Anthea will draw from both Adlerian core tenets and recent practice research to present a perspective of therapy that emphasizes the importance of understanding safeguarding behavior in biological as well as psychosocial terms. She will also give a particular focus on the importance of ensuring the client’s stabilization and sense of safety.
Anthea Millar MA, DipIIP, MBACP (Snr Accred), UKRC, is an Adlerian psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor working in independent practice, and with organisations in the UK and abroad. She coordinated the 4 year Adlerian counselling training in Cambridge for 26 years and is a co-founder of Cambridge Supervision Training. Anthea is actively involved in ASIIP as a member of the training committee and co-editor of the Year Book, and is also on the board of ICASSI, an Adlerian international summer school, where she offers training in trauma therapy.
Brockway Room, 19.30
TICKETS:
Admission £7 (concessions £4) All welcome. No need to book. CPD certificates are available. Lecture enquiries: evans_patel@hotmail.co.uk
Vedanta: Public Lecture
Tue 18 Jun 2013, 19.00
Vednata World London Presents a public lecture on "Life is to Give" by Swami Parthasarathy.
Science and NonDuality
Thu 20 Jun 2013, 19.00
Peter Lloyd presents
Science and NonDuality
Discussion of the nature of the conscious mind.
Is it possible to establish a bridge between the Western, scientific understanding of the brain and mind, and the Eastern - especially Vedantic - notion that reality is ultimately an ineffable nonduality, while the manifest world is an illusion? The discussion covers: the modern debate on consciousness (cf David Chalmers); Western idealism (George Berkeley); Eastern idealism (Shankara); and whether the nature of reality is amenable to ratiocinative investigation or whether it must hand over to mysticism.
Each session will consist of a 45 minute presentation by Peter B Lloyd, followed by up to two hours of structured discussion.
Lectures starting on the 20th & 28th June 2013 in the Bertrand Russell Room.
Entry: £7
For any queries please email: peter.b.lloyd@fencroft.com
Shenanigans!
Fri 21 Jun 2013, 19.30
GALHA presents
SHENANIGANS! Gay Men Mess With Genre
Earlier this year Obverse Books published a short story collection titled 'Shenanigans! Gay Men Mess With Genre'.
Several of the authors will be reading out their contributions to the book, including:
JOSEPH LIDSTER has written scripts for radio and television, including episodes of Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. He is currently working on scripts for other TV projects as well as a micro-budget film. You can follow him on twitter at twitter.com/joelidster.
JONATHAN KEMP was born in Manchester and lives in London. His first novel, London Triptych, won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. A collection of prose poems, Twentysix, was published in 2011, and his second novel, All There Is + All There Is Not, is forthcoming in 2014 (all published by Myriad Editions). He teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Birkbeck.
RUPERT SMITH is the author of several novels, including the Stonewall Award winning Man's World. He has written genre fiction of various types under various names, notably erotica as James Lear (including the best-selling The Back Passage) and blockbusting 'women's fiction' as Rupert James. For over twenty years he was a journalist, contributing to dailies, weeklies and monthlies; for eight years he was a TV critic for The Guardian. He lives in London.
NICK CAMPBELL is an administrator and research student living in London. He blogs about books at leaf-pile.blogspot.co.uk, and in 2010 and 2011 was a judge of the Green Carnation Prize for great modern gay writing.
With more to be announced.
The readings will be followed by a discussion about gay men and genre fiction.
Sauniere Society - In Memory of John Millar
Sat 22 Jun 2013, 9.30
Sauniere Society Meeting - In Memory of John Millar
12th November 1929 – 23rd June 2012
Chairman of the Sauniere Society, Philosopher and Seeker of Truth
Dr. Robert Lomas – Physicist and author of a number of books on Freemasonry and esoteric subjects including ‘The Hiram Key’, ‘The Second Messiah’, Nikola Tesla’ and ‘The Lost Key’. He will lecture on ‘The Understanding of Symbolism’.
Dr. Helen Nicholson – Chair of the History department at the University of Cardiff, is a leading authority on The Templars and author of some of the more accurate books and publications on Templar History, will give a dissertation that helps sort Truth from common misunderstanding about the original Templars.
Hugh Thomas – International forensic surgeon and author with unique research and information on Hitler, Himmler and Hesse will present his views on Rudolph Hesse – his beliefs, motives, capture and incarceration.
Terry Boardman – Author of ‘Mapping the Millenium – behind the plans of the New World Order’ will introduce his new book ‘Kasper Hauser – where did he come from?’ a question Rudolph Steiner asked in the last month of his life, with an amazing answer.
To book contact: The Secretary, Sauniere Society, Arpinge Court, Arpinge, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 8AQ. Tel:07842 426751 or email:
saunieresociety@thought.globalnet.co.uk
Starting from 9.30am until about 5pm - £35 including lunch (members £30 plus a discount on book purchases – new and second hand including a sale of some rare books). Places are limited so early booking is advisable.
Sunday Lecture: The Driller, the Banker and the Minister. Tom Rubens
Sun 23 Jun 2013, 11.00
The Driller, the Banker and the Minister. Tom Rubens
A huge power-nexus exists in Britain between the fossil fuel industries, the big banks and central government. This oligarchical network is a fundamental threat to democracy. Can it be combatted only by a truly radical political initiative?
Tom Rubens is a long-standing member of the Conway Hall Ethical Society and a regular contributor to the Ethical Record. He has worked in the Conway Hall Library & Archives in collating and editing the Conway Memorial Lectures to the present day.
11.00, £3 on the door/free to members
Tea & Coffee will be available.
Sunday Lecture: Spirits on the Brain
Sun 30 Jun 2013, 11.00
Spirits on the brain: Insights from psychology and neuroscience
Belief in spirits can be found in all human societies and a substantial proportion of the population claim to have had direct contact with a spiritual realm beyond ordinary experience. This talk presents an overview of scientific research into sleep paralysis, near-death/out-of-body experiences and reincarnation claims in support of the claim that such topics can be understood without recourse to paranormal explanations.
Chris French is a Professor of Psychology and Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association and former editor of The Skeptic.
11.00, £3 on the door/free to members
Bottomless Tea & Coffee will be available.
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The School of Life: Brené Brown on Courage
3 Jul 2013
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
—Brené Brown
Brené Brown returns to The School of Life by hugely popular demand to give her first secular sermon. Our culture teaches us that the courageous are invincible and only the weak are vulnerable. But that state of indestructibility doesn’t exist, argues Dr Brown. It’s a damaging myth. In this profound and playful sermon, she’ll help us see why the ability to live with vulnerability is the “most accurate measure of courage”. It is, she argues, “the core of all emotions and feelings. To feel is to be vulnerable. To believe vulnerability is weakness is to believe that feeling is weakness. To foreclose on our emotional life out of a fear that the costs will be too high is to walk away from the very thing that gives purpose and meaning to living.”
To be open to uncertainty and hurt, and honest about our flaws, takes guts. But without it we would never have the bravery to take risks. We’d miss out on the depth of hope, joy and discovery that comes from living life wholeheartedly.
Join the congregation this weekday evening to find out how we can gain more courage to be vulnerable in ways that help us love, parent, collaborate and create.
Tickets £15.00
Sunday Sermon - Carol Dweck on Being Perfect
Sun 7 Jul 2013, 11.30
The School of Life presents...
Sunday Sermon - Carol Dweck on Being Perfect
Striving for self-perfection is considered a high virtue. And, as one of the world’s leading psychologists, we might be assume Carol Dweck is a paragon of self-perfectionism. She was, once. That is, until her lab studies revealed the irony that wanting to be perfect stops people reaching their potential.
Dweck discovered the desire to be perfect comes from having a fixed sense of what it is to be a viable person in the world. The person with the fixed mindset needs constant reassurance that they are fulfilling their set self-image. Anything that might crack that open is rejected. Anything less than flawless feels like too big a risk to their whole being. And that attitude closes the perfectionist off to growth.
On the other hand Dweck found that people with what she calls a growth mindset don’t fear failure and embarrassment in the same way. Where someone with a fixed mindset is afraid to persevere in the face of a setback or big challenge, the growth mindset person jumps in. They see it as an opportunity to develop and grow. That makes growth mindset people potentially more resilient and creative.
Dweck is here to deliver the good news through this secular sermon: the growth mindset can be learnt, and she’ll show us how we can start. We are not all doomed to be perfect.
ABOUT SUNDAY SERMONS
Since 2008 The School of Life has presented strictly secular Sunday Sermons exploring the values we should live by today. We ask maverick cultural figures to give us their take on the virtues to cling to or the vices to be wary of in our complex world.The Sermons take place at Conway Hall. Expect persuasive polemics, pop-song hymns, artist-made buns and biscuits and the possible appearance from the devil himself.
Sunday Lecture: Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde's Nemesis
Sun 7 Jul 2013, 11.00
Marquess of Queensberry
The Marquess of Queensberry is perhaps as famous for his role in the downfall of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. The imprisonment of Oscar Wilde following his romantic interest in the marquess' son, left Wilde a broken man and Queensberry labelled a spiteful and villainous bigot. In this talk Linda Stratmann paints a more complex picture of a man who suffered tragedies of his own and who at the time was considered a radical thinker and a champion of women's rights.
Linda Stratmann is the author of eleven books on crime, fiction and historical biographies including Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion,Notorious Blasted Rascal and Greater London Murders.
11.00, £3 on the door/free to members
Bottomless Tea & Coffee will be available.
