Information and Updates – Pluralistic Practice

The Inventory of Preferences: An International Evaluation

Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton Over the past few years, a team of us have been working together to bring together all the datasets on the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP). The tool was developed by John Norcross and myself to support the assessment of clients’…

Submission Extension Deadline

March 29, 2023 CPD Information and Updates Networking Online No Comments

We are delighted to be able to extend the deadline for submissions for our June conference. The new deadline is the 28th April 2023. This year’s theme is ‘Applied Pluralistic Therapy: What are we doing in practice?’ and will explore the impact of collaboration and taking our practices beyond the…

Conference Tickets and Call for Papers

March 17, 2023 CPD Information and Updates Philosophy Practice Training No Comments

The International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy is excited to invite practitioners, academics, and individuals interested in the Pluralistic approach to our annual event. This year’s theme is ‘Applied Pluralistic Therapy: What are we doing in practice?’ and will explore the impact of collaboration and taking our practices beyond…

Sixth International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy. Save the Date!

January 11, 2023 CPD Information and Updates Online Practice 5 Comments

We are delighted to announce the date and theme of this years conference! It will be on 2nd and 3rd June 2023, and will be titled Applied Pluralistic Therapy: What are We Doing in Practice? Although we are keen to get in person events back up and running, we have…

Interview with Artificial Intelligence Bot ‘ChatGPT’ about Pluralistic Therapy… and It Writes Us a Poem, Too

December 14, 2022 Information and Updates Integrative and Eclectic Practices 4 Comments

Nicola Blunden, Metanoia Institute. Some of you may have seen the incredible new Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, released recently for free use. I asked it to describe itself for this blog, and it replied: I am a large language model trained by OpenAI. I am designed to generate human-like text…

International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Prize Winners

October 20, 2022 Arts therapies Children Co-production Cultural resources Deliberate practice Goals Information and Updates Preferences Research Young people 2 Comments

We are delighted to announce our conference prize winners from the last two years. You can find more information on each of the projects and links to watch the presentations below. You can watch all of the recordings from the conference here. Congratulations to all of our prize winners! Senior…

New edition of Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy: Call for Feedback and Suggestions

July 6, 2022 Information and Updates No Comments

John McLeod & Mick Cooper, PCP2e@pluralisticpractice.com When Pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy was published by Sage in 2011, it offered an introduction to a collaborative way of working with clients, based on a relatively limited body of practice and research evidence. Over the last decade, pluralistic theory, training, and practice has…

Pluralistic Therapy Meets Global Mental Health

June 17, 2022 Cultural resources Information and Updates Networking Politics Strengths and Resources No Comments

Lynne Gabriel, Christine Kupfer, John McLeod, Kate Smith and Mhairi Thurston A group of members of the pluralistic network recently participated in a two-day on-line conference on Pluralizing Global Mental Health Care: crisis, and critique, hosted by the University of Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology. We presented two papers –…

ICPCP 2022 Conference Next Week!

May 24, 2022 CPD Information and Updates Training No Comments

Hope everyone’s getting excited for the conference next week! If you still need to get a ticket you can get one here. As a taster, you can find videos with our wonderful keynote speaker below;

Deadline for Submissions Extended

April 4, 2022 Information and Updates Practice Research No Comments

We are delighted to invite further submissions for the fifth international conference on pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy, hosted by The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. Please find the submissions form here. Venue: Online via ZoomFriday 3rd June (6.00 pm – 7.30 pm) (social event from 8.00 pm)Saturday 4th June (9.15 am…

Call for Papers

February 10, 2022 Information and Updates Networking Online No Comments

We are delighted to invite submissions for the fifth international conference on pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy, hosted by The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. Please find the submissions form here. Venue: Online via ZoomFriday 3rd June (6.00 pm – 7.30 pm) (social event from 8.00 pm)Saturday 4th June (9.15 am…

5th Annual Pluralistic Practice Conference – Hold the Date!

January 13, 2022 Information and Updates Networking No Comments

We are delighted to announce that the 5th annual conference in pluralistic practice will take place in early June 2022, with a number of practice and research-focused presentations, as well as several leading international keynote speakers (details and ticket information to be announced). Conference TitleThe Power of Collaborative Relationships: Working…

Shirley Brennan (1965-2021) Obituary

December 13, 2021 Information and Updates Personal 2 Comments

Julia McLeod, Lecturer in Counselling, Abertay University On the day I learned about Shirley’s death I had just finished reading Mariana Lecky’s book What you can see from here in which a much-loved member of a small community unexpectedly dies and one of the characters describes his heart as ‘weighing…

The Creativity Gathering: Multilingualism and Creativity in Pluralistic Practice (May 29, 2021)

July 14, 2021 Arts therapies Groups Information and Updates Integrative and Eclectic Practices Networking Practice No Comments

Tatiana Stoyko, pluralistically-minded integrative counsellor, MBACP, www.counsellingnest.com Hello and welcome to the Creativity Gathering! I am writing this with an incredible sense of belonging to the community of people passionate about creative approaches to therapy. The group draws together therapists from different theoretical orientations and promotes openness and curiosity to…

Developing Pluralistic Encounter Groups

July 13, 2021 Groups Information and Updates Networking Person-centred Practice 1 Comment

Ani de la Prida, University of East London, Association for Person Centred Creative Arts My training was person-centred, and my practice has always been on the experiential and integrative end of the spectrum of person-centred practice rather than classical client-centred therapy. In my practice I draw on various types of…

Conference Conversations

June 30, 2021 CPD Information and Updates No Comments

Andrew Reeves, Chair of our Pluralistic Practice Steering Group, Kate Smith, former Chair, and Mick Cooper, Pluralistic Therapy co-founder, discuss the forthcoming pluralistic practice conference. Come and join us, July 16th!

4th International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy – Conference Programme

June 25, 2021 Information and Updates Research No Comments

With 3 weeks to go we are pleased to update everyone with the final programme for our 2021 conference! For more information about our presenters you can check our webpage here and if you’re still to buy tickets you can pick them up here.

4th International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy – Conference Booklet

June 21, 2021 Information and Updates Networking Practice Research No Comments

Under a month to go now! There are still tickets left, so if you are yet to buy one you can get one here. We’re operating on a pay what you can afford system when it comes to tickets to make it accessible for everyone. We now have our conference…

4th International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy – Submission Deadline Extended!

May 25, 2021 Information and Updates Networking Research Training No Comments

We have now extended the deadline for submissions to Friday 11th June due to ongoing interest. Please find more information regarding submissions here and book tickets here. We welcome submissions from trainees, practitioners, and service users, as well as more experienced academics and researchers. Our aim is to create a warm, friendly, and…

Conference 2021 Update – Tickets and Abstracts

April 27, 2021 Information and Updates Research Training No Comments

Call for Papers and Ticket Information We’re so excited for this years conference on the 16th and 17th July. Our annual conference will be held online, and hosted by the University of South Wales and Online Events. They are seeking submissions of abstracts from trainees, practitioners, and service users, as…

2021 Conference Announcement – Save the Date!

March 29, 2021 Information and Updates Online 6 Comments

We’re very excited to announce the date and theme of our 2021 conference! The 4th International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy will be on Friday 16th July (evening) and Saturday 17th July. It will be held Online via Zoom and hosted by the University of South Wales, with the…

The Creativity Gathering

March 24, 2021 Arts therapies Information and Updates Networking Online Practice Strengths and Resources Therapeutic approaches No Comments

Janie Keddie – 3rd Year MSc student, studying pluralistic counselling at Abertay University Janie mooted the idea of Creativity Gathering in 2020 as a way of bringing together people who are passionate about creative approaches to therapy. When we entered lockdown a little over a year ago, I never anticipated…

Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Challenge

February 5, 2021 Arts therapies Groups Information and Updates Practice 4 Comments

Marianne Reilly Following on from Roddie McKenzie’s blog post 18/1/2021, this is an open invitation to all who might be interested in something old, or new, to do in 2021. Would you like to join our Creative Gatherings, hosted on Zoom, on the last Saturday of each month at 10:00am…

Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Storytelling Gathering

January 18, 2021 Arts therapies Groups Information and Updates Practice 5 Comments

Roddie McKenzie PhD, PG Dip. Counselling Our October 2020 gathering was the second Zoom meeting of this group and the first to have an agreed theme: creative writing. At that meeting we decided to adopt the term ‘gathering’ rather than ‘meeting’: partly to indicate that we aim to have an…

Survey of Pluralistic Practice: Key Findings

December 17, 2020 Information and Updates Practice Research Training 2 Comments

Julia McLeod, School of Applied Sciences, Abertay University An on-line survey of counselling and psychotherapy practitioners who identified themselves as using, or influenced by, a pluralistic framework for practice, was conducted in April 2020. Invitations to complete the survey were circulated by email to a wide range of individuals who…

Pluralistic Practice Network: Creativity and Storytelling Gathering

October 7, 2020 Arts therapies Information and Updates Networking 1 Comment

Mo Szulejewska, qualified pluralistic counsellor currently working as mental health mentor with university students, member of the counselling team at Tayside Centre for Counselling. The first gathering of this new special interest group took place via Zoom on Saturday, 26th September 2020 and it was indeed a gathering where creativity…

East Scotland PPN Meeting

July 26, 2020 Information and Updates No Comments

We’re planning to have a Pluralistic Practice Network (PPN) meeting on Sat 1st August 10am-12pm. It’s open to everyone in East Scotland who is training, qualified, or interested in pluralism. It’ll be on Zoom this time; apologies to people who tried to get on last time and encountered difficulties! Following…

Pluralism – Navigating Change in Counselling & Psychotherapy

July 6, 2020 Information and Updates No Comments

We’re very excited to be able to share the timetable of our online conference! It’s now under two weeks away and tickets are selling fast, so if you haven’t got tickets yet you can get them here. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!