Seminar Focus
The focus for the seminars is “Applied Group Analysis” and topics recently covered have included: Eating Disorders; Academic Writing; Groupwork with Students; Staff Support Groups; Groups for Older People.
Venue Location
All seminars are online and run from 1.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. – the GAN administrator will provide the zoom links.
Booking
Please use the links underneath to download an application form and then email this to the GAN adminstrator.
If you have any problems, or need any help, please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly support team through the contact form on the website on our contact us page.
Course Fee
£75.00 per seminar (or book all 5 for discounted price of £250)
or £25 per seminar for GAN members and students on IGA Courses. (GAN annual membership available for a fee of £65) click here for details
Course Content & Presenters
29th November 2024 – Martin Weegmann
Title: Questions of substance: dangerous desire and addiction
Martin is a clinical psychologist, group analyst and writer, working (mostly in the NHS) and living in London. He has contributed to group analysis in a range of ways, including 3 books- The World Within the Group (Karnac, 2014), Permission to Narrate (Karnac, 2016) and Barwick, N. & Weegmann, M. Group Therapy: A Group-Analytic Approach (Routledge, 2018).
Martin worked for twenty years in NHS substance misuse services, in a range of settings. Psychodynamics of Addiction (Wiley, 2002) was his first book. The illustrated workshop is an introduction to the psychodynamics of addiction- (substances and more) from which we look at how addictive suffering is addressed and recovery from substance misuse is supported.
31st January 2025 – Marci Lopez Levy
Title: Rewilding the group analytic matrix: conversations about climate justice
Marci López Levy is a Latin American group analyst and writer with a background in sociology and anthropology. She has co-convened a series of experiential workshops on models of group dialogue on climate justice for the IGA. She is the Seminar Lead for the IGA Diploma in London and works in the NHS developing trauma informed practice, as well as providing reflective spaces in a wide range of organisations.
7th February 2025 – Jacinta Kent
Title: The use of multi-dimensional attunement when working therapeutically with women of colour
Jacinta is a group analyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist (IGA, UKCP) based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. She works with minoritised and/or marginalised groups and individuals within the NHS and charitable sector; namely people who have experienced trauma, such as child sexual abuse, trafficking, racism, and rape. Her practice draws upon trauma-informed, intersectional, and analytic principles and theory, but is interested in how all fields of study and lived experience can intersect in and around the therapeutic space. Jacinta also delivers training to specialist services and clinicians; leads the Embrace Ethnicity Network within Leeds’ primary care consortium; and publishes academic works relating to power, privilege and position within mental health provision.
7th March 2025 – Kay Young
Title: Sex, class and woke culture- how does class affect current attitudes to sex?
Kay is a Group Analyst, from a background in Education, Child and Family Social Care, Adolescent Forensic Services, Adult mental Health /Child and Adolescent mental health within the NHS. She currently works as a Group and individual Psychotherapist in the third and private sector. In addition, Kay is a former Clinical Supervisor on the IGA Qualifying Course in Group Analysis in Manchester and is a current seminar leader on its foundation course.
23rd May 2025 – Teresa von Sommaruga Howard
Title: The larger group: It’s history in group analysis, how it is different and why it’s important?
Teresa has many cultural influences in her personal and professional background. Born in England of a German Jewish refugee father and British mother, she emmigrated to New Zealand as a child. She is a registered architect, trained as a systemic family therapist and is an honorary member of the Institute of Group Analysis and Fellow of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes. Teresa has applied these three disciplines: architecture, systemic practice, and group analysis in larger settings in various contexts around the world. Increasingly Teresa has focused on the way unrecognised trauma resulting from socio-political upheaval that is transmitted through generations and influences descendants’ lives, reveals itself in the large group. She has written extensively about her work with larger groups. She also co-authored Design through Dialogue: A Guide for Clients and Architects (Wiley, 2010), and co-edited The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past (Peter Lang, 2022).
