Kate Smith PhD, MA (CANTAB), DipPsych, PGDip Counselling, sfHEA

Head of Division Health Sciences

School of Applied Sciences

Abertay University

Dundee

DD1 1HG

Third International Conference of Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Dublin, 28-29th March 2020 :www.pluralistic2020.com



 

Hello all,

I hope you are all keeping well, and adjusting to the life changes following the lockdown.

We had planned to have a face to face group meeting in Dublin to review the purpose and direction of the Steering group, and I think that this is so timely that I want to propose a different focus from our usual agenda for the meeting tomorrow.

Essentially I would like to consider that instead of a single steering group where people drop in and out, the community and conversations are now broad enough that we could develop sub-groups for a variety of interests or links and have the steering group as a forum for representation and overview of these groups.  I also worry that the single conversation model in the meetings is silencing some of the valuable voices we have in the community.

I wonder if we could have (for example)

• A community support group for those who are pluralism-curious or in training (run by students?)
• An academic/research community group where research activities can be shared and ideas or bids developed (could link to the RTCC; could have on-line seminars etc)
• A group who work to increase engagement in pluralism, to share understanding and ideas and build an identity for Pluralists (social media, webpages, bloggs)
• A conference group who could also start to co-ordinate and promote other events
• A professional development group (who could maybe start thinking about how we engage in the 'business' of accreditation, or how we define ourselves however loosely)
• A dialogue and discourse group for the philosophy of pluralism and the development of ideas around our approach to helping
• Special interest groups e.g. CYP, disabilities...

I really want to develop a discussion through the meeting, and by email to generate responses to these ideas - and see where that gets us.  I would be very keen for people to come together with alternatives if they have them.

 

 

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The dial-in is a Roehampton service that we will use until Mick is told otherwise.

 

Details are:

 

Dial in: 0800-6948053, Local access: 08444-934865, Conference code: 2475407223#, (Chair’s pin: 704873#)

 

These dates and times are just placeholders – I know some of you may not be able to make the Friday afternoon slot, and we can change them to suit

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