11.15am to 12.00pm
This workshop is aims to support trainees and newly qualified practitioners to achieve have a basic understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential effects in counselling practice.
The workshop considers how AI may effect your counselling practice.
As AI becomes an integral part of our everyday lives it’s crucial to stay ahead of the curve and adapt to the changes it presents. This session aims to empower you with a foundational knowledge of how to ethically and effectively integrate AI tools into your work while maintaining precious human connection.
This session aims to raise the collective bar of awareness of ethical considerations and data privacy issues associated with the technology that now plays a large role in how counselling is delivered.
Participants are not required to have pre-existing technical knowledge of AI or computing and will be invited to explore new challenges to feel well-prepared.
This presentation is available in person and online.
11.15 to 12.00pm
The session will ask: In a time of deep change, who or what needs to change?
What does counselling and psychotherapy have to contribute in a time of global upheaval, when the familiar is dying? And how might counselling and psychotherapy have to change in order not to perpetuate the same patterns that keep the system in a stuck place?
I will introduce the main findings of my book “Climate Psychology and Change’ (2024), which explores the ways in which power, colonialism, capitalism and our innocent seeming familiar practices and theories impact our myriad crises - while also shaping Western psychology as we know it.
The findings of the book suggest that we can no longer think of therapeutic practice as bringing clients back to baseline “normal” when our society’s ‘normal’ is profoundly unwell and our familiar ways of being reflect the same unsustainable systems that erode our ecosystems, accelerate global destruction, and extract our humanity.
Together, we will reflect on the aspects of our profession that are urgently needed in a world in crisis whilst not shying away from a critical reflection of some familiar professional lenses that seem to collude with a system that is costing us the Earth.
This presentation is available in person only.