‘Don’t go wasting your emotion’ Interdisciplinary views on emotional life
Updated: Oct 20
Saturday 5th December 2026
10.00am - 5.00pm
About the Day
This workshop is an interdisciplinary exploration of human emotion and emotional life. The three speakers - each noted authors - bring perspectives from contemporary emotion research, DBT approaches to on emotion, the historical and cultural study of emotion, and group analytic reflections.
Christine Dunkley
Emotion, too much or not enough?
Why intensity matters and how to change it
Consultant psychotherapist and international DBT trainer. Author of Regulating Emotion: The DBT Way (2020, Routledge).
Tiffany Watt Smith
Making Emotions Strange Again
Historian, award-winning author and former Director of the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. Author of The Book of Human Emotions.
Martin Weegmann
‘Stars or constellations?’ Emotions and affective movement in groups
Group analyst, psychologist and writer. Amongst his many interests is developing an understanding of human emotions, based upon psychology research and group practice of many years. Author of Permission to Narrate (2016, Karnac).
Fees:
Public: - In person £50 / Online £40
Members: - In person £40 / Online £30
IGA Trainees: - In person £35 / Online £25
In-person places are limited to 25.