Alone & Together

a facilitated monthly reading group

Monday Mornings, 10 – 11.45am

initial series begins October 19th and runs to Jan 18, 2027

I’ve had a wish for some time to create a space that supports deep, open reading of some of the richer voices in independent psychotherapy: writers like Christopher Bollas, Philip Bromberg, Neville Symington and Nina Coltart. This group arises from that impulse. It aims to encourage – and accompany – our reading selves, and to help us rediscover alone and together the pleasure of engaging with elaborative, evocative writers in our field.

Our Format…

We will be a small group of 6-12 practitioners* meeting on zoom.

Each month, we will engage with just one text – usually a carefully chosen single chapter.

We will be deliberately unambitious about volume, usually reading 20-40 pages or so. This format invites us to dwell with a piece slowly over several weeks – entering a dialogue on our own terms before our meeting and allowing its language, ideas and sensibility to move in us. This is to support each participant’s contemplative, relaxed encounter with the text.

Within the Meeting:

In our meetings together, we will have the opportunity to sense and share the different ways in which our reading is speaking to us and through us. We will do this via a blend of full group dialogue and some smaller break outs. The focus throughout will be on an embodied, presence-based exploration that celebrates our different sensibilities and intelligences.

My why:

This group arises from a convergence of several threads that have been life-long sources of joy and interest for me: a love of philosophy, ideas and language; the field of experience stirred in psychotherapy; and an appreciation of the unpredictable enrichment that can occur among adults in small group fields.

2026 October 19, November 16, December 7.

2027 January 18

€240 early bird to September 20

€280 regular to end September

€300 late registration from October 1

Initial Series: 4 meetings from October to January 2027

My intention is for this to evolve into an ongoing group. These initial meetings will allow us to experiment with the form, refine what works, and clarify whether it’s the right fit – in format and content for each of us. Fees include 1-1 space for check in’s before we launch and as we complete this initial series so that we can discern this together.