New Year, New Start

A life experience is something that happens to us. After the event, we retain something of its existence as a memory. We are our memories.

Because we are our memories, life experiences that cause damage of any kind have a more profound effect than just the immediate impact of the event. A damaging life experience becomes a damaging memory. The damaging memory can continue to exert an influence long after the traumatic experience has ceased.

Painful memories can clutter our brains, impeding our progress and weighing us down. But how can we cleanse the brain?

There are three routes to cleansing the mind: medication, surgery and therapy. Scientist and counsellor Hanno Koppel will put the third approach, therapy, into a context with the other two. He will explain how it does and does not sit well within a medical model, and explore how else talking therapies may be understood.

Event organised by:
The European Dana Alliance for the Brain

Speaker

Hanno Koppel, Dover Counselling Centre
Facilitator:Elaine Snell, European Dana Alliance for the Brain