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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b1bde42af9271e5e29ae8/d3944857-97e6-4817-bdba-ac5a18c1703a/image.png Trauma and existence - Make it stand out Chapter 15: Trauma and Existence: existential-humanistic understandings of trauma, with existential-analytic and phenomenological implications for practice (2025). This chapter delves into, and critiques, some existential-humanistic approaches to trauma as a shattering of worldviews. It uses insights from existential analysis and phenomenology to suggest that trauma can result in an existential de-anchoring and incomprehensibility of our existence. It turns to consider how phenomenological approaches, including cultivating ontography, reflexivity and embracing our daimonics can provide the ground for re-anchorage, a comprehensibility of existence and experimentation with new modes of existence. Find out more about the book and order a copy here, online, or at your local bookshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b1bde42af9271e5e29ae8/7032b93a-0cf0-4d58-ac61-d9bb147d385c/9781837113316_bdb1181a-5d04-4da9-b560-d92e05194ff6_1296x.jpg Trauma and existence - Make it stand out Chapter 8: Existential anchorage: phenomenological notes on the pursuit of existential wellness in the wake of interpersonal violence (2026). 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Agreeing with contemporary perspectives, he seeks to make a phenomenological distinction between shame and humiliation. Incorporating insights from the contemporary phenomenology of movement, Boaz will explore the ways in which enactments of humiliation render us a surface, or the ground of existence, for the violent movements of others - thereby devaluing and dehumanising us. Book and find out more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b1bde42af9271e5e29ae8/28b8b3ea-2a56-463b-96c1-c58f0ed1893a/EA+Daimonics.jpg Events - Make it stand out Existential Academy workshop 10th March 2026 Daimonics in existential psychotherapy Existential daimonics refer to our human capacity to bring about both great destruction/devastation and construction/creation in our own lives, the lives of others, and the world around us. In this workshop, Marc builds upon and critiques the conceptualisations offered by Rollo May and Stephen Diamond. In doing so, he moves away from explorations of human ‘evil’ and towards everyday expressions of destructiveness and devastation. He then turns to provide a more detailed phenomenological description of the dynamic in the lives of people who have experienced sexual violence and resulting experiences of humiliation. IMAGE: © Ian Hodgson (2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b1bde42af9271e5e29ae8/acb5173b-34ab-4ddd-ad79-9ebc3dfb30c5/mboaz.png Events - Make it stand out In this unique workshop participants will be guided through PlayFight – a practice of relational movement that explores the shifting boundaries between play, assertion, and aggression. Drawing on existential somatic inquiry and community-based PlayFight traditions across Europe, this workshop invites you into individual, partner, and group explorations of emotions such as joy, rage, anticipation, threat, and curiosity. Together, we will experiment with new, embodied ways of responding to these experiences. PlayFight is not a self-defence class, martial art, or contact improvisation workshop. Instead, it offers a safe, structured space to move, connect, and encounter others – always within your own limits – through physical presence and proximity. 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Marc will talk through ideas that emerged from a recent Wellcome Trust funded project, and participants will be invited to explore their own experiences through creative activity, movement and discussion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b1bde42af9271e5e29ae8/7678c287-93bb-49e4-bccf-4a83eb44b85c/1726593305133.jpeg Events - Make it stand out A Pluralistic Approach to Trauma 7th International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy November 2024 Trauma and existence The paper provides an overview of prominent approaches to trauma in existential-humanistic psychology focused on ideas of existential shattering of worldviews. These will be critiqued and built upon using existential analytic and phenomenological approaches considering the ways trauma de-anchors our existence and leads to an incomprehensibility of existence. Finally, it will delve into three specific methods of working with experiences of trauma from an existential-phenomenological perspective and demonstrate how these can have trans-modal applications. It will end with a discussion of ontography, reflexivity and daimonics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b1bde42af9271e5e29ae8/06b04248-9a73-4e87-99de-964b7871613e/https---cdn.evbuc.com-images-915740643-731635275003-1-original.20241211-173056.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Into the Wild Woods: Existential Responses to Turbulent Times Existential Movement Conference 2025 February 2025 Encountering our daimonics In order to understand the turbulence of our times, we must first turn to understand our own daimonics. Existential daimonics refers to our human capacity to bring about both great destruction/devastation and construction/creation in our own lives, and the world around us. There is no us and them when it comes to daimonic destructiveness and constructiveness; what divides us is ethical and reflexive. Extending and reformulating the work of Rollo May, and drawing on the reflexions of James Baldwin, I will suggest that understanding and holding the existential tensions that arise from dynamic relationship within our personal and collective daimonics can cultivate the ground for hope, understanding and healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b1bde42af9271e5e29ae8/7d5cd4db-50f2-460a-86ef-9ef3ee18309a/1725370113962.jpeg Events - Make it stand out UK Trauma Council Insight Series 26th September 2024 Complex Trauma: contextuality and systemic factors Join our next webinar from the UK Trauma Council where Professor Claudia Bernard and Dr. Marc Boaz will explore contextuality and systemic factors relating to complex trauma. 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