Psychotherapy and Politics: Contributing to a Sustainable Society
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What are the characteristics of a sustainable society, and what can counselling and psychotherapy contribute to its creation? Like 'freedom' or 'justice', 'sustainability' is a complex and flexible term, but its key meaning could be rendered as improving the quality of current human life without damaging either future generations or present ecosystems. It includes such concepts as emotional sustainability and economic sustainability. There are many ways in which and levels on which the idea of sustainability interacts with the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy.
Following on from the successful conferences in London in 2008 and Glasgow in 2009, a diverse group of counsellors and psychotherapists, with representatives from the humanistic and psychodynamic communities and from Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, are organizing a major conference hosted by Leeds University to explore the interface between psychological therapies and progressive social-political-environmental perspectives.
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Saturday 08 May 2010
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08/05/2010--09/05/2010
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Leeds
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Mick Cooper
Counselling Unit, University of Strathclyde, 76 Southbrae Drive, GLASGOW, G13 1PP
0141 9503361
http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~zbs02125/
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Organisation: |
Psychotherapist and Counsellors for Social Responsibility
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Wheelchair accessible.
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