Conference Programme
Saturday 18th June 2016
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9.00 | Registration |
9.30 |
The innate need for meaning: Introduction to the conference theme Dr Declan Lyons – Consultant Psychiatrist at St. Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin |
10.00 | Grasping the meaning Ezra Hewing – Community Development Manager for Suffolk Mind and training consultant on mental health issues |
11.00 | Coffee/tea break |
11.30 | Exploring meaning with cancer patients Patricia Shields – Cancer team: Royal Sussex Hospital |
12.15 | Naked on the beach Julia Welstead – Author and HG Tutor |
13.00 | Lunch |
14.15 |
The authenticity gradient |
14.45 | The joys and sorrows of the modern world: Finding meaning and pleasure in life, work and love Professor Patrick Jordan – Business Psychologist |
15.45 | Coffee/tea break |
16.15 | Case history - PTSD: How the rewind treatment restored my life 'Jane' |
16.45 | Questions from the floor to the day’s speakers |
17.15 | Ends |
20.00 | Dinner |
Sunday 19th June 2016
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9.30 | Introduction Dr Declan Lyons |
9.35 | Modern organisations: using or abusing the human need for meaning? Julie Lawrence – HG therapist and civil servant |
10.10 | How the need for meaning is driving current events in the Middle East John Bell – Director of the Middle East & Mediterranean Programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace |
11.00 | Coffee/tea break |
11.30 | Memory and writing memoirs Ivan Tyrrell – Human Givens College |
12.00 | Religion in the modern world: meaning or mayhem? Professor Gwen Griffith-Dickson – Founder and Director of Lokahi Foundation |
13.00 | Lunch |
14.15 | What comes next – stories – meaning-centred living Robert Twigger – Author and explorer and John-Paul Flintoff – Writer, performer and coach |
15.30 | Coffee/tea |
16.00 | Questions to the day’s speakers from the floor |
16.45 | Thanks and close |
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