Quarterly Meeting for Members And Colleagues (QMMAC)
- Mar 4, 2025
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Updated: Jul 15
Friday 4th September 2026, 9.30am – 4.00pm
CHANGE OF VENUE
The Salisbury Centre, 2 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5AB
"All I ever wanted was to Come in from the Cold" – Joni Mitchell
Clive Garland is a psychotherapist, group analyst, supervisor, and organizational consultant. After a 51-year career largely spent trying to understand and “decode” human behaviour, he now lives and works in a small village on the northwest coast of Ireland. Trained in business, social work, education, family systems, and group analysis, Clive will reflect on his career with a particular emphasis on the people and situations that have most inspired him.
While he didn’t know then what he knows now, the encouragement, enthusiasm, and emotional honesty he encountered early in his career became the backbone of his development. These experiences opened doors in his mind that he didn’t even know existed, teaching him about the complicated business of trying to help others. In doing so, they provided valuable insights into the lifelong task of learning how to mature.
The very sensitivity that had once been his greatest difficulty began to propel his curiosity, ultimately becoming the turning point in his professional development.
His talk will trace the evolution of the “interior architecture” of a therapeutic mind. He will take us on his journey through the infancy of Irish social work, the beginnings of therapy in Ireland, the process of learning to teach and educate, and his discovery of the power of groups—which ultimately led to his training as a group analyst and a profound feeling of "coming home," or "coming in from the cold."
Fee: £40 (£25 for Students)
If you have any issues with the online booking, please call 020 7431 2693 or email
Programme
09.30 Registration
10.00 Large group
11.30 Break
11.50 Presentation
13.15 Notices
13.30 Lunch
14.30 Large Group
16.00 End
Future Dates:
4th December 2026, at the Friends Meeting House
QMMAC offers the exciting opportunity to meet colleagues and students from group analysis, psychoanalysis and related professional fields for shared experience of large group work and presentations relevant to working in psychotherapy. This quarterly meeting provides an enjoyable and supportive space for thinking, dialogue and learning. The regular meetings aim to reduce feelings of professional isolation, stimulate creative discussion and develop a sense of community among those involved in psychodynamic work. Through shared learning and dialogue, we grow stronger and more confident about our work and its place in the psychotherapeutic milieu. Suitable for past and present trainees in group analysis (at any level), group analysts, individual analysts and colleagues in other fields with an interest in groups.
IGA SCOTLAND
Part of the Institute of Group Analysis