Retreat nr London: May 14-16, 2027
Join like-minded colleagues to facilitate deep healing for our clients facing these times of upheaval and threat, amid the polycrisis of climate change, war, pandemics and artificial intelligence. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a case study in cruelty, colonialism and dehumanisation where ai-surveillance and weapons are tested on Palestinians before being turned on us in one possible dystopian future. The time is now to change the narrative and stand up to tyranny.
- At T4W all human life is equal, we share a precious planet in an interconnected web of life with all living things.
- Most therapy and psychology involves healing the individual’s symptoms and maladaptive behaviours. But what if those maladaptive behaviours are symptoms of a dysfunctional system of neo-liberalism and hyper-individualism? Then as therapists and healers do we need to offer new therapies? Maybe it’s more about the narratives we offer and explore with clients.
- Join us for a weekend retreat in May 2027 to reframe our healing narratives that not only include attachment to parents and children, but attachment to the web of life, to all living things:
- Explore love for each other and the earth.
- A new compassionate politics of belonging.
- Explore what ‘hereness’ could offer communities in crisis.
- Starting Friday 4pm May 14th until Sunday 16th 4pm, join a community of skilled, experienced, wise, concerned colleagues who come together to share and learn.
- Venue: Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire.
- The event is like a shared meal, where everyone brings something: a meditation; a yoga class; a family constellations workshop for the planet; EMDR resourcing; Internal Family Systems (IFS) workshop on how our inner world is impacted by the outer world; storytelling; Jungian architypes; workshop to release your primal rage at abuse of power; moral injury – how to access your inner moral compass and stick to it; liberation psychology workshop on how to integrate in your practice; workshop to rebalance the masculine and feminine.
- Aim: This event aims to connect and refresh therapists of any modality. To inspire your practice with new hope from narratives of change and liberation.
- Cost TBC. All profits donated to Palestinian relief.
- All of the organisers and presenters are donating their time.
- Want to join? email: info@emdrinsight.com
This article includes reflections from the therapists, thinkers, feminists, activists, academics, and peace makers who were to speak at T4W to help us and our clients make sense of where we are, and where we’re going in an upside-down polycrisis world. It was written after postponing our launch in-person event of Therapy 4 the World on July 2026, in London to make way for the UK Psychologists for Palestine.
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How do we help our clients sit with conflict, hold different views yet stay in relationship? One of these women was tortured by the Israeli army, left with a broken spine. The other served in the Israeli army before leaving to become a passionate advocate of justice.
We plan to interview Avigail and Ashira in a future podcast to hear how, as human beings, they can come together in dialogue with compassion and understanding.
Therapy 4 the World grew out of a recent webinar with Gabor Mate, Breaking the Silence for trauma therapists to talk about the genocide in Gaza. Future workshops will focus on tools and exercises for clients. Initially, I need to gauge the appetite for world work:
The workshop is for therapists of any modality to awaken your activist parts, set your own compass on a path to change yourself and change the world.
- Ultimately, I am developing these ideas into a book on the topic, and some in-person workshops. Watch this space and join the conversation.
- To read more about Annabel’s work in Peace Journalism and her academic writing on the topic go here.
- To read Annabel’s article on EMDR & Palestine, go here. And her article in Pearls & Irritations.