Received my copy this week of Simon Wharne’s book ‘Psychological Growth after Trauma’. Delighted to have contributed a chapter to it.
Dr Claire Arnold-Baker
@drclaireab.bsky.social
Principal of NSPC, existential psychotherapist, counselling psychologist. Passionate about maternal mental health and ecopsychology.
Our president @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social gave a keynote on Purpose and Paradox at the 10th World Congress for Psychotherapy in Vienna. Here it is, in its entirety. #existential therapy finally on the map. youtu.be/TJsiGU8pWcc?...
Purpose and Paradox
YouTube video by Emmy's Existential Zone
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It’s Birth Trauma Awareness Week. This year, we focus on marginalised groups facing extra barriers in maternity care, from racial disparities to challenges faced by disabled and neurodivergent mothers. Let’s listen. Let’s learn. Let’s do better. #GoodMaternityCareforAll #BTAW25
Are we reaching endgame capitalism? So much global wealth inequality - has anyone stopped to think how this all ends? The march for more, effects the environment but ordinary people too as the rich/poor divide becomes greater. There must be better ways of living not based on wealth accumulation.
An Introduction to the Life and Philosophy of #FrantzFanon with Dr. Lewis Gordon www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXhN...
An Introduction to the Life and Philosophy of Frantz Fanon with Dr. Lewis Gordon (UConn).
YouTube video by The Young Idealist
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A great time spent with Emmy van Deurzen & Dr Claire Arnold-Baker talking about the new book: Structural Existential Analysis An Existential-Phenomenological Method for Researching Life. @drclaireab.bsky.social @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social 📘 Book details www.routledge.com/Structural-E...
⏳ Happening This Friday, 28th March!⏳ Don’t miss this LIVE event with @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social & @drclaireab.bsky.social An Existential-Phenomenological Method for Researching Life. 📅 Friday 28th March 💻 Live event only 🪙 Free Register: buff.ly/OAWvFVc #TherapistsConnect #Training4Therapists
Onlinevents@onlinevents.bsky.social · 2y agoNEXT WEEK! SEA: An Existential-Phenomenological Method for Researching Life - LIVE event with Emmy van Deurzen & Claire Arnold-Baker. This event is LIVE only. Use the link below to register. buff.ly/OAWvFVc #therapistsConnect #training4therapists #counselling
What makes you and your childhood self the "same" person, despite a lifetime of cellular, psychological, and societal change? Fascinating read from philosopher Rebecca Goldstein: www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/07/r...
“My community has been gutted. The trail crew, wilderness crew, timber crew. We truly care for this resource we’ve been protecting. You have to be standing there to understand the beauty of it & how delicate it is.” On Trump's felling of the US Forest Service. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Felling of the U.S. Forest Service
The Trump Administration has cut two thousand workers, making it harder for the service to fight wildfires and repair storm damage across the country.
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Find out a bit more about our existential coaching courses. m.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPN...
Existential Coaching at The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling
YouTube video by New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling (NSPC)
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Martin Crawford’s book and work has changed how I garden and think about food security. I’m currently creating my own food forest garden. This is a devastating decision by the landlords to destroy this established and important forest garden. Please support or share if you can. chng.it/FVdBTRrqQX
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Stop the Destruction of the World-Renowned Dartington Forest Garden
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Our newly validated MSc and PGCert in Existential Coaching has more of an emphasis on psychology, making it ideal for those wanting to combine psychology and coaching with existential philosophy. Find out more at www.Nspc.org.uk Admissions@nspc.org.uk
It arrived today ahead of publication day! Wonderful feeling to hold this book in my hands. Such a lot of work went into this book! @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social #existential #methodology
What is existential coaching? It’s a philosophical approach to implement change in a person’s life, which is deeply personal. Teaching clients to claim their complexity and empower them to take ownership of their lives. Nspc.org.uk/about-the-sc... #existential #coaching
What is Existential Coaching? | NPSC Ltd
The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, the foremost higher education college applying existential ideas to its courses and its approach to student support
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On the Covid day of reflection, explore our collection of psychological perspectives going right back to March 2020 www.bps.org.uk/collections/...
Covid-19: Psychological perspectives | BPS
Articles, interviews and more from The Psychologist and Research Digest.
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What better way to celebrate #philosophy's unsung heroines than to binge-listen to our #WiseWomen series on International Women's Day: www.philosophytalk.org/wisewomen. #PhilSky
Let’s not forget the unseen and often undervalued work that parents do raising the next generation. For something so important and essential for our humanity it is given so little acknowledgment, recognition and support. Mums - we see your hard work balancing life, work and children!
"Our difference was really magnified" - Waveney Bushell, often referred to as the first black female educational psychologist in the UK. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... #IWD2025
‘Our difference was really magnified’ | BPS
Educational Psychologist Dr Melernie Meheux in conversation with Waveney Bushell, Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
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On this International Women's Day, I propose from the archive this interview with Fiona Woollard on the philosophy of pregnancy and motherhood: youtu.be/nNq-kpQXqAs... #IWD2025 1/3 #philsky
Women in Philosophy: Pregnancy and Motherhood
A Women in Philosophy initiative to promote inclusion and diversity in access to philosophical research! In this 30 minute interview, Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham) asks Fiona Woollard (University of Southampton) about how a philosopher can help improve the wellbeing of pregnant women an
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I also have this starter pack of people and organizations that focus specifically on the intersection of climate and mental health, anxiety, and behavioural change ⬇️ go.bsky.app/EMFbgjG
BOOK LAUNCH SEA: An Existential-Phenomenological Method for Researching Life 🎟️ Register free here onlinevents.co.uk/event/sea-an... With @drclaireab.bsky.social @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social
Excited to announce the launch of our new book, Structural Existential Analysis on 28th March. Do join @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social and I with @onlinevents.bsky.social for exerts, discussion and Q&A. Open to all!
#WorldBookDay is an opportunity to remind you that my new book 'What I Believe' is out now, containing interviews with dozens of fascinating humanists about their worldviews including Alice Roberts, Stephen Fry, Jim Al-Khalili, Sandi Toksvig, and many more! humanists.uk/whatibelieve/
There is a direct correlation between how bad things are getting in the world and the number of seeds I am planning to sow this year.
“Nigel Farage talks about family but the only MPs actually doing anything for dads are those of us fighting for parental rights. If men are worried no one is fighting for their rights they shouldn’t be looking to Reform, they should be looking to us.” www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Labour’s workers’ bill ‘may increase discrimination against mothers’
Stella Creasy, a Labour MP, says the legislation should give new fathers protected leave or risk reinforcing the idea that ‘it’s ladies who do babies’
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T.S Elliot reminds us to appreciate time and to think about the unopened doors in our lives. #existential
