Important dates to diarise for 2025

CGAS AGM – Thursday 13 February via Zoom (email with link sent to members)

Quarterly Meetings – Meetings will start with the median/large group and be followed by the webinar presentation on the following Saturday mornings from 09h00 to 12h30:

• • • • • 22 February
        • 10 May
        • 16 August
        • 15 November

Ethics Workshop – Saturday 13 September 2025 

Previous Speakers in 2024: 24 February – The colours of silence in post genocide communities in Rwanda (Diogene Karangwa); 11 May Foulkes meets Winnicott: interaction, destruction and discovery (Mike Tait); 17 August Larget groups: Why have them? (Teresa von Sommaruga Howard);  19 October – Ethics workshop on Truth, lies, and the in-between – ethical considerations and clinical realities in practice (Judith Ancer); 17 November – Locating unconscious trauma in groups: perturbations, glitches and glimpses (Howard Edmunds) 

Previous Speakers in 2023: 25 February – Healing a Nation. Can Group Analysis Help? (Dr Monica Spiro); 13 May Three Basic Principles in Group-analytic Psychotherapy: Finding A Voice,  Bearing Witness,  Coming Out Of The Shadows (John Schlapobersky); 12 August – Decolonising  Psychoanalysis: Collision, Recognition and the Search for Freedom (A/Prof. Sally Swartz); 11 November – Ukraine: Testing the Edges of Humanity (Natalia Pidkaliuk & Iryna Rtazke-Rybak) 

Previous Speakers in 2022: 19 February – Things I learned about (racial) groups in my leadership journey through (former) white universities – starting with my own story as a fundamentalist Christian (Prof. Jonathan D. Jansen); 21 May – Socialising the Individual, Humanising the Social Context (Dr Hilary Vice); 13 August – Trauma and its impact on superego function: an examination of how trauma undermines internal good objects in both individuals and groups (Sue Levy) ; 12 November – Does patriarchy equal violence… or… the tyranny of convention (Sue Einhorn)

Previous Speakers in 2021: 20 February – The Impact of Racial Trauma on Mind, Body, and Soul (Dr Stuart Stevenson, Dr Anne Aiyegbusi, and Anthea Benjamin); 22 May – Can we avert the intergenerational transmission of trauma, deprivation and racism through reflective practice? (Prof. Astrid Berg); 14 August – Thoughts on the Political Unconscious (Dr Wahbie Long); 13 November – What about the teachers? A group for educators (Joan Fogel & Belinda Moller)

Previous Speakers in 2020: Quarterly Meeting 16 May – Haim Weinberg; Quarterly Meeting 15 August – Dick Blackwell; Ethics Workshop 12 Sept  – Farhad Dalal: Codes of Ethics: Bureaucracies and the Policing of Psychotherapy Professions; Quarterly Meeting 21 Nov – Patricia Johnson-Peterson