The Evolution of Human Cooperation
Ever wonder how we went from this: To this? In other words, how did we go from small insignificant primates on the savannas of Africa, to building large cooperative societies with hundreds of millions of [...]
Reading Recommendations – A Day on Emotional Intelligence
Existentialism, Neuroscience & Emotional Intelligence: A full day of talks exploring the fascinating psychology of human emotions. Does changing how you think about an emotion, change the way you feel it? How? How can you use the latest research into [...]
Reading Recommendations – A Day on Wellbeing
How do traumatic events in early life affect you in later years? And how can you best heal from them? Why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in the 1960s, to around 370 [...]
A Day on Sleep & Dreams – Reading Recommendations
Can you learn to ‘wake up’ and be conscious in your dreams? What does the latest neuroscience reveal about the connection between sleep, circadian rhythms, and mental health? How can Jungian Psychology help you interpret what your dreams mean? These [...]
A Day on Behaviour Change – Recommended Reading
This month’s event at The Weekend University will be ‘A Day on Behaviour Change.’ In this series of talks, we’ll explore evidence-based approaches to behaviour change from psychotherapy, addiction treatment and existential positive psychology, to help you make changes that [...]
A Day on Depth Psychology – Reading Recommendations
This month’s event at The Weekend University will be ‘A Day on Depth Psychology’. In this series of talks, we’ll explore the key ideas of Freud, Jung and Adler, and examine them in light of modern, scientific research. Attendees will [...]
A Day on Psychotherapy – Reading Recommendations
This month’s event at The Weekend University will be ‘A Day on Psychotherapy’. In this series of talks, we’ll explore how psychedelics, music and meaning are being used in a therapeutic context to help people overcome psychological problems and live [...]
Existential Therapy: An Introduction – Professor Mick Cooper
Mick Cooper is an internationally recognised author, trainer and consultant in the field of humanistic, existential and pluralistic therapies. He is a Chartered Psychologist, and Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton. Mick has facilitated workshops and lectures [...]
Archetypes & Evolutionary Psychology
The brain you’re reading this with has existed (in its current form) for about 200,000 years. For most of that time, we were hunter gatherers. The two hundred years that we've lived in cities, and the ten thousand years we’ve [...]