2025 Mary Kilborn Lecture with Gillian Proctor

** Please note this event is now full for in-person attendance but you can still register to receive the recording here. 

This year's Mary Kilborn Lecture will be given by Dr Gillian Proctor (University of Leeds) on Thursday 8th May at 6.30pm (tea/coffee from 5.45pm). It will be held at the Strathclyde Business School (Stenhouse Wing, Cathedral Street - plan your route in advance to avoid the steep hill from George Street). 

Attendance is free but we ask you to register in advance. Registration is now open. 

We are unable to livestream the lecture but Gillian has given us permission to record and share the recording afterwards with those who have let us know that they are unable to attend.

You can register to attend or register to receive a link to the recording here.

Gillian's lecture is called: Being Intraconnected: the ethical implications for relationship-centred therapists.

Gillian writes:

This is a call to relate in shared humanity with our clients.  We are intraconnected, not separate organisms. In a relationship-centred therapy, we share our vulnerability as humans who need connection and relationship and depend on each other. We share having been hurt but equally importantly, we share the ability and potential to hurt each other and others.

To explore what this means in practice, I shall discuss some potential interrupters for this experience of intraconnection in therapy and consider ways to be alert to this experience. The interrupters are overwhelm, fear, shame and despair. I argue that our ethical responsibility is to be alert to how these and other factors can take us away from a capacity for presence and connection and to work ongoingly to return from these interrupting experiences to the experiences of shared humanity from where we can truly serve our clients.

More about Gillian:

Dr Gillian Proctor is an associate professor at the University of Leeds, Yorkshire, UK where she has taught on the MA in psychotherapy and counselling since 2016. She is a clinical psychologist and person-centred psychotherapist who also has a small independent practice. She is passionate about ethics, politics and practice and has written and edited many books and articles on related subjects, most notably The dynamics of power in psychotherapy and counselling (PCCS books 2002, 2018) and Values and ethics in psychotherapy and counselling (Sage 2014).