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How do you experience your second language?

Is it your mother tongue you rarely speak?

What is it like to live in a second learnt language?

Do you feel exiled or do you feel it gives you a fresh perspective?

What is it like to speak many languages?

How does this affect how you relate to your surroundings, friends, family and above all yourself?

The Multi-Lingual Psychotherapy Centre was founded with Imago East-West in December of 1997 by a group of psychotherapists and analysts, writers and academics from various fields. Our first public event was a lecture on the multi-lingual experience held at Burgh House in Hampstead. Since then we have hosted three MLPC Lectures each year, exploring diverse experiences of multilingualism and how it affects our experience of ourselves, our work and our daily lives. We believe in the importance of creating a thinking space for our various languages and how they live inside us.

The aim of our clinical network is to provide a psychotherapy service in a number of languages including English. Since our inception we have built up a growing clinical network in which a diverse range of European and non-European languages is represented.

We have started a series of successful workshops exploring Personal Narratives, Social Dreaming and the Refugee Experience. We have been involved in a series of International Conferences in London, Paris and Budapest on 'Lost Childhood and the Language of Exile'. Future conferences are planned.

In our bi-annual Newsletter which is sent to all our members we write about our activities and clinical work. We also offer members of our clinical network, and other clinicians on our membership list, a multi-lingual supervision space for further exploration of clinical issues.

We live in an increasingly multi-lingual society and world, a world of exiles with cultural differences living in the spoken and written word. To open this up and explore is to open ourselves up to the other. It has so far been a fascinating journey but we have only just begun and we welcome your participation, experience and thinking to develop this important area of modern life.

You don't have to speak a second language to be member of MLPC. Membership is open to all those who are interested in language, culture and identity.

John Clare and Ali Zarbafi "Thinking of the Past: Looking to the Future"

THE MULTI-LINGUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY CENTRE

MLPC LECTURE

"Thinking of the Past: Looking to the Future"
Social Dreaming Matrix
Hosted by John Clare and Ali Zarbafi

Saturday 27th of February 2010

We are living in extraordinary times. We all feel challenged in different ways and these challenges are profound: professionally, economically and politically. When, in 1998, the Multi-Lingual Psychotherapy Centre was founded it captured diverse voices, personal journeys and stories. These gave birth to lectures, conferences, newsletters and books over the ensuing eleven years. We want to strengthen this creative tradition, which requires more energy now, given the stultifying times in which we live.

In this spirit our next MLPC meeting will start with a Social Dreaming Matrix of an hour followed by a thinking session. The session will be hosted by John Clare and Ali Zarbafi who have been involved in Social Dreaming for many years and have recently published a book by Karnac entitled 'Social Dreaming in the 21st Century: The World we Are losing'.

Social Dreaming invites participants to make dreams and associations to dreams available in order to discover new thinking and ideas. This will be followed by a short plenary where you will have the opportunity to become active contributors to the future of MLPC.

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, 120 Heath St, Hampstead, London NW3.
09.30 am - 12.30 pm

28 Jan 2010 by admin