The Politics and Ethics of Love in person-centred therapy today

On Saturday 23rd November Brighton Person-Centred Community will be hosting the wonderful Suzanne Keys to hold a CPD event exploring The Politics and Ethics of Love in Person-Centred Therapy today. To buy tickets and for more information follow this link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/brightonpersoncentredcommunity3/1312643

This will be an experiential workshop including time for input, personal reflection, small group work and large group discussion. Suzanne will draw on their work with young people and as a supervisor but also ecotherapy, political activism, spirituality, creativity and the arts as ways to stay connected and hopeful whilst experiencing the realities of the deep divisions, disconnections and incongruencies of the worlds we live in both internally and externally.

The workshop is an opportunity for us to connect with each other; explore why we do what we do; and how we can maintain our integrity and congruence in relation not only to our clients but in the contexts that we live and work in.

• Can we hope, and have faith, in human potential when there is so much cause for despair, so many adverse living conditions, so much evidence of abusive human behaviour and so much 'us versus them'?
• How do we embody congruent, non-oppressive and transformative relationships with our clients?
• What is our humanity in a 'post-humanist' world and what does this mean for person-centred therapists? What does an ethic of love look like in practice in our contexts
• Rogers’ relational conditions for therapeutic change and growth can be understood as different aspects of loving. But what is the impact of the contexts that we live and work in on our capacity to love and be loved?