Conference and keynote speaking

I am happy to speak at conferences and other events. My style is informal and inclusive and may incorporate arts and sensory activity as well as communicating through words.

Rather than give a formal lecture I like to involve an audience in lively debate and often weave into my talks a mixture of brief illustrative activities that they can experiment with for themselves. I am familiar with working with translators.

Here’s a selection of organisations I’ve addressed in recent years:

2025: New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy (on working with adolescents)
2025: Gestalt Therapy Institute Los Angeles (GTILA) salon (on playing with language)
2025: Who Am I Really? Child Therapy Conference, Warsaw (on working with anger – keynote)
2024: New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy (on Gestalt therapy with children)
2024: UKAGP Conference, Leamington Spa (on stuckness and play three ways)
2020: Stillpoint Spaces, London (on Gestalt therapy and intersubjectivity)
2020: ‘Super Parents’: child psychologists conference, Kyiv, Ukraine (on working with anger – Oaklander approach – keynote)
2019: The Sunflower Network, London (on how canine-assisted therapy promotes wellbeing)
2018: Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London (Commemorative Kindertransport research symposium)
2016: Association of Jungian Analysts (with Roz Carroll), London (‘Diaspora Stories’)
2016: European Interdisciplinary Association for Therapeutic Services for Children and Young People, Zagreb (on rage)
2015: Confer Therapy in Motion conference, London (on movement and music in therapy)
2015: TAE-Vienna symposium (on attachment-based baby watching)

I have facilitated/co-led workshops on the following topics:

arts-related therapy practice
intergenerational dialogue
fatherhood
beginnings and endings in therapy
collective trauma and its aftermath
music for health & wellbeing

If you’d like me to speak at your event, please feel free to get in touch