general dynamics Sydney

We are closing down general dynamics Sydney and putting the webpage into “mothballs” status. This means that the information on it will remain accessible for now but there will be no new information going up on it, nor will there be further group emails. Over the seven years since Lorraine and I came up with the idea […]

Now in its 6th consecutive year, the Australian Association of Group Psychotherapists will run the Large Group, conducted by Teresa von Sommaruga Howard, this year from Friday 21 June (evening), Saturday 22 June (all day) to Sunday 23 June (morning), at the North Sydney Community Centre.  For further details and registration, click here.

Saturday 23 March 2019 Joy Stewart  Jude Reggett  Lorraine Rose  Vera Auerbach  Andrea Bloom This year’s Australian Association of Group Psychotherapists Sydney Open Day will explore the gendered experience, through a learning framework designed by five women. Through this process, a particular female experience will be invited into the room, one that is often not […]

Saturday 2 February 2019, 9:30AM – 4:30PM, Rex Centre, Potts Point, Sydney The Australian Psychological Society Psychoanalytically- Oriented Psychology Interest Group (NSW) has invited the APS Sydney Branch to jointly convene a study day on psychoanalytic psychotherapy with transgender children. The topic of transgender children generates very strong emotions and anxieties in many of us. […]

The Couple & Family Psychotherapy Association of Australasia (CAFPAA) marks a strong return to form with a one and half day conference (17 & 18 March 2018) GrrrOWING UP IS HARD TO DO. The conference combines the following. Didactic presentations from members George Haralambous, Laurie Lovell-Simons, Jenny Berg, Lissy Abrahams, and Penny Jools. Affective Learning Groups […]

Hey psychologists, have you been watching the splits form in our profession in recent years, gathering strong emotion as it goes, powered by its own self-generated steam and wondered: is this really in the best interests of our profession? And you feel no more able to intervene or know what to think than when the […]

Dr Bruno Boccara – a former Lead Economist at the World Bank and Director of Sovereign Ratings at Standard & Poor’s and UBS – is keynote speaker at the Getting the Policies we Deserve? The Dynamics of Making Policy symposium convened by the National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) in Melbourne 8th and 9th September 2017. […]

At a time when: the Building Bridges initiative appears to remain washed out; the Couple and Family Psychotherapy Association of Australia’s excitedly announced two day conference with Professor Brett Kahr for April this year has quietly disappeared without a trace (replaced perhaps by a Day with the Family 11 March 2017, although – as I understand it […]

This year, AAGP has separated their Sydney meeting (and the associated conference) from the AAGP Sydney Large Group series with Teresa Howard, now in its third year. Please note, different dates, different venues, different structures, although perhaps somewhat overlapping themes. Special warning if you participated in the AAGP Sydney Large Group in 2014 and 2015 – […]

When Joy Humphries (Melbourne organizational consultant) told me this week about the group relations conference that she is directing next month in the Amazon, conducted in English, Spanish and Indigenous languages (I kid you not), I was blown away and thought gdS news subscribers might want to know about it even though you may not be in a position to get […]