Exploratory Encounters
Exploratory Encounters is a series of ten monthly workshops that bring together qualified therapists from all modalities with students and trainees to explore the encounter between patient and therapist.
Each workshop will examine a particular aspect of the work that can challenge our hearts and minds. How can psychoanalytic thinking help us to understand what is happening?
For more details, please contact us at headofeducation@sipsychotherapy.org.
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It’s all a Dream
6th June 2026
11 Orchard Street in central BristolDo we do anything differently as therapists when a client or patient tells us a dream?
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What’s money got to do with it?
NEW DATE: 11th July 2026
11 Orchard Street in central BristolWithout money there is no therapy. It is how we earn our living and what we live on.
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How can Balint help?
12th September 2026
11 Orchard Street in central BristolBalint groups have proved an enduring and effective approach to “help patient-focussed professionals reflect on their work and gain a greater understanding of the relationship between the helper and those seeking help”
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Working in the Borderlands
3rd October 2026
11 Orchard Street in central BristolTwo senior psychoanalytic psychotherapists from Severnside will each present a paper describing work which presented unusual challenges.
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Endings
21st November 2026
11 Orchard Street in central BristolThe ending of a therapy is always a powerful experience for both parties (if not, one might wonder what has been going on).
Artwork by Holly Warburton