Making Connections Glasgow 08.07.26 - BACP - British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

We’re delighted to welcome back our free in-person Making Connections events.

These regular face to face conferences take place throughout the year and give you the chance to network with other members and our divisional executive members.

Programme

Click on the sessions to find out more. If you are viewing this page on a mobile, rotate your screen to view the programme.

10.00am – 10.30am	Registration
10.30am - 10.50am	Welcome from BACP
10.50am – 11.35am	Working with grieving children and young people: Beyond the 5 stages, presented by Rebecca Wemyss
11.35am - 11.45am	Comfort break
11.45am – 12.30pm	Lucid Dreaming For Psychological Healing for therapists, presented by Jennifer Glithero
12.30pm – 1.30pm	Light lunch
1.30pm – 1.50 pm	Local member two-minute platforms
1.50pm – 2.40pm	Connecting together The room will be divided into different areas of interest, for more focused and structured networking. You’ll be encouraged to move around the room and engage with colleagues, volunteers and BACP staff to network, share ideas and meet new people with similar interests. You’ll be able to add a new area of interest if yours isn’t represented.
2.40pm – 3.10pm	Refreshments
3.10pm – 3.55pm	Repairing Attention, presented by Akshi Singh
3.55pm - 4.00pm	Event close

This programme is subject to change.

Working with grieving children and young people: Beyond the 5 stages

10.50am – 11.35am

An exploration of how to work with children and young people who are grieving, drawing on theories of grief beyond the common Kübler-Ross ‘5 stages’ model (denial, anger, bargaining, depression & acceptance). Using Worden’s four tasks of mourning as a framework, this session will explore creative ways to engage children and young people in sessions where grief work is a focus, including how to adapt to working with different ages and levels of understanding, depending on where they are in their grieving journey, and how to adapt to online working and working with neurodiversity.

This session aims to facilitate an in depth understanding of Worden’s four tasks of mourning, in relation to working with children and young people, and to highlight other theories of grief which support this.

This session aims to provide specific ideas for activities that can be used in sessions with children and young people aged 6+ where grief is a focus, with examples and case studies to facilitate understanding and application.

Lucid Dreaming For Psychological Healing for therapists

11.45am - 12.30pm

An introduction to the benefits for lucid dreaming for psychological healing, the science behind the process and how lucid dreaming will support therapists and their personal and professional development.

This sessions aims to give therapists an understanding of how lucid dreaming offers an an intrapsychic tool for trauma integration and integration of unconscious parts of self as well as how lucid dreaming creates the right conditions for an emotionally regulated nervous system and psychological stability for trauma integration.

In 2021, Jennifer Glithero experienced a traumatic event (sudden emergency life saving surgery). As part of their healing process, they realised their dreams were providing unsecured information for them to intergrate their traumatic experience. Jennifer then discovered the benefits of Lucid dreaming for PTSD suffers and that this is beginning to be scientifically verified.

As a therapist, Jennifer then discovered how having a lucid dreaming practice aided her as a therapist and in her own personal development and drew connections between this work and the work of some of the great icons throughout psychotherapy and psychology. Jennifer is very passionate about transforming intergenerational trauma and she realises that the more therapists that understand the benefits of lucid dreaming, the greater the impact for positive intergenerational social development. Hence their work training therapists how to lucid dream and the benefits of this for self and other.

Repairing Attention

3.10am - 3.55pm

This session will support participants to develop an understanding of attention from a psychoanalytic perspective, with particular reference to the British Independent School. It will enable attendees to recognise both internal and external barriers that can impact the capacity for attention, and will introduce practical strategies to strengthen this capacity over time, including both immediate approaches and longer-term developmental techniques.

This session aims to identify barriers to attention, both for themselves personally, and socially prevalent ones while also giving delegates the opportunity to learn about psychoanalytic perspectives on attention.

Akshi Singh is a writer and trainee psychoanalyst. Born in India, she lives in Glasgow. Akshi is the author of In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner (Jonathan Cape, 2025). She works across genres, writing memoir, criticism, fiction, and poetry. Her writing on psychoanalysis, art, and politics has appeared in Granta, Parapraxis, The London Review of Books, Art Review and elsewhere. 

Akshi has a PhD in literature from the University of London. She was previously a Wellcome Trust funded postdoctoral fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, and Lecturer in Global Migrations at the University of Glasgow. She is Associate Editor at Parapraxis magazine and Deputy Editor at Critical Quarterly.