An interactive presentation and discussion of ideas from Val's recently published book: 'A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix: How Siblings Shape our Lives' (Routledge 2020), recently described in the journal Psychodynamic Practice as 'a gem of a book.'

This evening will offer you an opportunity not only to think more deeply about working with sibling issues in your practice, but also how your own sibling matrix may impact on your life and work.

Truly integrating body psychotherapy with verbal work means recognising that our embodied perception is fundamental to all psychotherapy practice. Embodied relating is not an obscure psychotherapeutic theory, but something embedded in our everyday life: we can all ‘do’ embodied relating, though some do it better than others. Like many other important aspects of life, it generally happens of its own accord, but sometimes benefits from close examination.