World Café Style Conference

The World Café is a structured, conversational process that encourages collaborative dialogue and exploration.

We have reduced prices so that money is less of a barrier. We have kept a small charge for the day so we know who will be attending, and we will cater for teas, coffees and snacks.

If price remains a barrier for anybody, please get in touch with Kajal at events@ptrust.org.uk as we believe in learning and would like to support you.

This day will be a rich opportunity to meet collaboratively with colleagues, discuss potentially innovative ideas, building new levels of depth through informal dialog. There will be a maximum of 10 different conversations to choose from, which will need to be selected by participants in advance.

Confirmed topics are:

Hycinth Taylor (Trust Supervisor) – Intergenerational Trauma and Collective Wounding

Arran Knight (Trust Trainer) – Male Isolation and Therapy

Victoria Penfold (Graduate) – The Role of Nutrition and Physical Health in the Therapy Space

Linda Barrett (Trust Supervisor) – Elderhood – Facing up to it

Diana Whitmore (Trustee and Trust Trainer) – Living in a Volatile and Unstable World

Christopher Connolly (Trustee) – Transition

Rebecca D’Arcy (Graduate) – Exploring the Archetypal Divine Feminine

Poppy Cross (Student) – (Millennial) Women and Modern Dating

Kalvin Ryder (Graduate) – Sex and Sexuality

There will be four to five conversational rounds, each with a new group of participants. It’s a rich, generative format – and often surprisingly energising.

The conversations will be facilitated by: Current trainers, current students and graduates of the Trust, who have expressed their interest in topic areas.

🌱 Format of the Day

· 10:00 – 10:30 | Welcome & Opening Session (all participants)

· 10:30 – 12:30 | First Two World Café Rounds

· 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break

· 13:30 – 16:30 | Three More Café Rounds

· 16:30 – 18:00 | Whole Group Closing Session & Reflections

☕ What is the World Café Format?

The World Café is a structured, conversational process that encourages collaborative dialogue and shared insight in small groups. It’s grounded in the belief that conversations matter, especially when they’re held in a warm, thoughtful, and inclusive setting.

Key principles:

• Each round lasts about one hour with 5–9 participants per group. The facilitator will have the first 10 minutes of each session to set their intention and the remainder of the time, will facilitate conversation with the group, capturing ideas generated to share more widely with participants in the reflection at 5pm, and will be sent to participants after the event.
• On the sound of a gong, participants will rotate between sessions, cross-pollinating ideas as they go. This will be similar to being at a conference, where you will choose topics and tables in advance
• Facilitators guide the conversation, not as experts, but as hosts of inquiry
• Topic facilitators bring a subject of their specialism, lived experience, or passionate interest
• The focus is on questions that matter, not final answers or deciding the Truth

This isn’t about giving a talk or presentation – it’s about inviting conversation, offering a lens or provocation, and creating a space for ideas to emerge collaboratively.

Celebrating 60 years!

When we were thinking about the auspicious starting of the Trust in May 1965, the key ideas at this time were about exploring new technologies and ideas, within the psychosynthesis family of ideas. To read more, please click on the following link: Click here to read our extended blog on how the Trust was seeded back in the 1960s.

We thought that the World Café format would continue to develop this particular theme of building new thought ideas, working out for ourselves seems to be part of our history, and so continuing this tradition certainly seems like something we wish to take forward.

Pricing

£25 for current students of the Trust

£35 for graduates of the Trust

£45 for the wider community of people.

Places are strictly limited to allow for meaningful, intimate conversations. However, we don’t want cost to be a barrier. If you would benefit from additional financial support, please reach out to Kajal events@ptrust.org.uk.