Therapy is one of the few places where adults are actively encouraged to engage in imaginal dialogues.
In consulting rooms across the land, conversations are going on right now between human persons and the many non-human persons found in photographs, drawings, sculptures, and maybe even the occasional teddy bear and potted plant.
This workshop introduces animism (most simply, as the attribution of personhood beyond just human persons) as an intellectually rigorous and experientially aligned basis for the enhancement of imaginal communications in the consulting room and beyond.
Course Content
Presenter
Allan Frater is a UKCP psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. He has taught at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London since 2011, on the Foundation and Diploma courses as well as CPD events related to his research interests in imagination, ecopsychology and transpersonal psychology. His book ‘Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy & Everyday Life’ (2021, Transpersonal Press) presented a critical development of standard approaches to ‘active imagination’ and ‘guided imagery’, incorporating paradigm shifting ideas and methods from ecopsychology, complexity theory, fractal geometry and transpersonal psychotherapy. He lives in London with his wife and a three-legged dog called Milly.
