Calendar
Please see below details of any event of interest to the psychotherapy and counselling community that is scheduled to take place in the East Anglian region. All educational events put on by the Zeitlyn Training Fund are listed, together with details of how to book to attend.
Contact us if you have a forthcoming event – a lecture or seminar, workshop or conference – that you would like to advertise on our calendar.
AI and Psychotherapy
A series of three events in 2027 (plus one bonus event in November 2026!)
We are pleased to announce our new series of talks in Cambridge from November 2026 through to May 2027.
This year the theme will be AI AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Until very recently, AI was far from centre stage in our lives. Today, it is headline news every day, more and more of us are adopting, or wrestling with adopting AI in our working lives. The noise and chatter around the subject is deafening.
We have devised a series of talks with three speakers from different backgrounds and different approaches to create some space for us to think collectively on AI, its impact, and how we adjust and live with AI and its massive implications in our work.
Addtional free event – 21 November 2026
In addition, and to start the discussion, we are holding an event on 21 November 2026, at which we will be showing an episode from the series Black Mirror, entitled San Junipero, (series 3, episode 4, available on Netflix for those who wish to watch it in advance).
The event will be free to all who book one or more of the talks starting in January 2027 and you can register your attendance as an ‘add on’ ticket during the checkout process. Contributions towards tea and coffee are welcome.
**There is a bundled discount for all events**
The Bernard Zeitlyn Memorial Lecture
Can Machines Mourn? Affective neuroscience, artificial intelligence and the work of grief
Speaker: Paul Moore
Friends Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove, Cambridge CB1 7UB
Saturday 23 January 2027
10.00am – 1.00pm
Coffee from 9.30am
This talk will explore the affective neuroscience of separation distress, Panksepp’s PANIC/GRIEF system and its opioid basis, alongside Freud’s account of mourning as slow, piecemeal reality testing. Whether or not an AI system can be said to mourn or only to speak of mourning is a key focus of the paper, and therefore what, if any, the therapist’s affective presence, the felt availability of one mind to another, appears to add to the work of mourning.
Cost is £45.00
A discounted ticket of £22.50 is available for students (please email administrator for details).
Booking closes on Friday 22 January at 4.00pm – early booking is recommended as places are limited.
Please use the booking link below to book one or more of the events, or use our Word or PDF format booking forms.
The Return of Pan: AI and the Psychotherapeutic Encounter. A Jungian perspective
Speaker: Huan Wang
Friends Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove, Cambridge CB1 7UB
Saturday 6 March 2027
10.00am – 1.00pm
Coffee from 9.30am
This presentation explores what happens psychologically when we begin to think, imagine, and form relationships with machines. Particular attention will be given to the emerging phenomenon described as “AI psychosis”. The implications for adolescents will provide an important focus, as AI increasingly enters a developmental space already characterised by questions of identity, separation, experimentation, dependency, and belonging.
Cost is £45.00
A discounted ticket of £22.50 is available for students (please email administrator for details).
Booking closes on Friday 5 March at 4.00pm – early booking is recommended as places are limited.
Please use the booking link below to book one or more of the events, or use our Word or PDF format booking forms.
AI Intimacy and Techno-Transference: Psychoanalysis in the Age of the Speaking Machine
Speaker: Agnieszka Piotrowska
Friends Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove, Cambridge CB1 7UB
Saturday 15 May 2027
10.00am – 1.00pm
Coffee from 9.30am
What happens to transference when the object that appears to listen, respond and know is not human? Drawing on her recent book AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis, this talk explores the increasingly intimate relationships developing between people and generative AI. The term techno-transference is used to describe the projection of desire, need, knowledge, fantasy and relational patterns onto speaking machines whose responsiveness can create a powerful experience of attention and presence.
Cost is £45.00
A discounted ticket of £22.50 is available for students (please email administrator for details).
Booking closes on Friday 14 May at 4.00pm – early booking is recommended as places are limited.
Please use the booking link below to book one or more of the events, or use our Word or PDF format booking forms.
East Anglian Psychotherapy Network
3 October 2026
Please see flyers for information about this event:
Low-Fee Therapy
based in Cambridge, UK
Opportunity for 4 x weekly analytic sessions in Cambridge with experienced trainee.
Low-Fee Therapy
based in Cambridge, UK
Opportunity for 3 x weekly analytic sessions in Cambridge with experienced trainee.
Infant Observation Seminars
based in Cambridge, UK
Wednesday 12.45 – 2.15pm
These mother/infant studies are an hour’s observation weekly at the family home over a period of two years. Each observation is written up in detail and then discussed in a weekly group with other observers. The purpose is to learn how to observe emotional development in the infant and how to think about it.