Our feelings are fundamental to the way in which we connect to the world and make sense of it. If we suppress our feelings, we become detached and disengaged with the values that make life interesting.

In this lecture, Existential Philosopher and Psychotherapist; Emmy van Deurzen, will present her Emotional Compass Model, discussing each emotion in some detail. The talk will include interactive exercises, where participants will have the opportunity to work on their own experiences, and to learn to make connections between their sensations, feelings, thoughts, intuitions, and most deeply held values.

Emmy van Deurzen is a philosopher, counselling psychologist and existential psychotherapist. She has founded and directed a number of training organizations and continues to be the Principal of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the Existential Academy in London. She is a visiting professor with Middlesex University.

Amongst her 17 books are the bestsellers Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (3d edition 2012), Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (Sage, 2009) and Everyday Mysteries (2nd edition Routledge, 2010).

The second edition of Paradox and Passion in Psychotherapy appeared with Wiley in 2015. Her most recent publication is Existential Therapy: Distinctive Features, co-authored with Claire Arnold-Baker in 2018. This year will see the publication of the Wiley World Handbook for Existential Therapy, of which she is the Editor in Chief.

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