CCRI Seminars – 2025-2026 Programme

The CCRI Seminar Series (formerly the First Thursday Seminars) engages with innovative and radical conversations about creative-relational inquiry and counselling and psychotherapy research and practice.

This in-person seminar will provide insights into the embodied approach to bereavement support, its potential applications for mental health professionals and the wider community, and invite attendees to a demonstration of some of the key features of the project.

CCRI Seminar, presented by Fiona Murray, Edgar Rodríguez-Dorans, Jacqueline Karen Andrea Serra Undurraga, Zoi Simopoulou, and Jonathan Wyatt on Wednesday 8 October: 'Teaching and supervising qualitative psychotherapy research'

CCRI Seminar, presented by Amy Chandler and Zoi Simopoulou on Wednesday 5 November: 'Provoked Perplexity in Live Methods'

CCRI Seminar, presented by Dr. Francisco Letelier Troncoso on Thursday 4 December: 'The Communal as a Path of Transformation - Between Social Distress and the Search for Meaning'

CCRI Seminar, presented by Dr Iain Williamson on Tuesday 3 February: 'Unanticipated voices? Reflections from our ongoing ‘adventures’ with participant-authored photography, interviewing and interpretative phenomenology'

CCRI Seminar, presented by Dr. Celina Carter on Wednesday 4 March: 'Embodied Inquiry - Dance, Poetry, and Creative Methods in Applied Health Research'

CCRI Seminar, presented by Jocelyn Chaplin on Thursday 2 April: 'Deep Equality - Spiritual, Therapeutic and Political uses of the Equalising Rhythm Paradigm'