Mercury Conference
In 2024 we hold two Conferences
Meeting the I, Freeing the I, Safeguarding the I. What does this mean for our times? Explorations in Anthroposophic Psychotherapy and Biographical Counselling. 5-6 April 2024, Stroud UK
During this conference we will explore how in Anthroposophic psychotherapy and Biographical counselling we work with the mystery of the human I, how we understand it and how we understand its language in the experiences personally and professionally.
What are the ways we relate to the I and how we meet it at different life stages and in our responses to life events? What do Anthroposophy and Spiritual science offer to mainstream therapies and to the needs of our time?
The conference will include conversations, shared question and examples from our clinical work, artistic work/movement to connect deeper with our experiences of this essential theme.
For the first time this conference is held by Mercury-UKAACP and PABC together. We cordially invite Mercury and PABC members and colleagues who are practicing within helping professions and would like to bring their own understanding, research and questions on this theme.
Email us to apply to attend and further details.
MERCURY professional CONFERENCE will take place 5th October 2024. More details to follow.
MERCURY CONFERENCE’23 took place Saturday 7th October 2023 in Temple Lodge, London. We continued working with the theme of the previous conference. ‘Working with clients on the Threshold. Supporting clients unconsciously approaching the threshold at this time of consciousness soul development.’
This year the Conference was held in collaboration with the Professional Association of Biographical Counsellors (PABC).
Conference’22: was rescheduled from October 2022 - to 28th January 2023.
‘Meeting with clients is a threshold experience requiring counsellors and psychotherapists to bring internal resources and personal qualities into the service of the client. During this conference we will begin to identify these resources and qualities through sharing and discussing experiences of the therapeutic relationship.
We will engage in sharing intimations of both personal and collective motifs arising in consciousness out of the therapeutic process. There are many issues, such as: how does the future announce itself in ways which are exciting but also may be fearful; the role of the therapeutic relationship; and what resources are available when we work with attendant difficulties and dangers?’
This participatory process will be introduced in the morning and we will develop it further between ourselves throughout the day, bringing in our own clinical experience and art to assist us.
Suggested preparatory reading: The Mission of the Archangel Michael. GA 194, Lecture VI
Email us to receive the enrolment form and fee and payment details.
Since its foundation Mercury-UKAACP has held annual Conferences in London, Stroud, Stourbridge and in Forest Row. This year we are gathering again in the welcoming rooms of Temple Lodge, London.
The timetable for the day: 9.30 am - 5 pm
Temple Lodge: https://templelodgeclub.com/
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Two previous conferences were held in Emerson College, Forest Row, East Sussex.
2021 Conference: Here is the human being truly understood. Understanding what this means for us as counsellors and psychotherapists.
2019 Conference: Working with traumatic effects in the individual. Nationalistic and sexual impulses in our time.
