Quarterly Meeting for Members And Colleagues (QMMAC)

Friday 5^th December 2025, 9.30am – 4.00 pm

Quaker Meeting House, Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh

Celebrating a decade of QMMAC A facilitated creative workshop

 QMMAC was established over 10 years ago in 2015 with the aim of bringing together the group analytic community in Scotland and forging connections with other practitioners interested in understanding group dynamics through a psychoanalytic lens. Since then, quarterly meetings have been held with Sally Mitchison as the group conductor. Our December meeting will be Sally’s last in this role, and we plan to look back and reflect on the life of QMMAC so far as we say goodbye.

Meetings typically consist of two median groups morning and afternoon which bookend a seminar. The day includes lunch and coffee breaks, with time to network and socialise. In December, the seminar will take the form of a creative workshop, facilitated by Bridget Grant, in which participants will be guided in the use of art materials to express and share something of their experiences and memories of QMMAC over the decade. All art materials will be supplied, and you do not need to have any prior experience of art making.

Whether you are an infrequent or regular attender or even seeing notice of this group for the first time, you are invited to join us and be part of the QMMAC community.  If you are unable to attend, we would welcome your thoughts and contributions in whatever form, to be shared with the group on the day.

Bridget Grant is a qualified art psychotherapist. She is part of the QMMAC organising group, a lecturer in Art Psychotherapy and an experienced group and workshop facilitator.

Programme

09.30   Registration 

10.00   Large group

11.30   Break

11.50   Creative workshop

13.15   Notices

13.30   Lunch

14.30   Large Group

16.00   End 

Provisional Future Dates 

27^th February 2026 

12^th June 2026 

4^th September 2026 

4^th December 2026 

QMMAC offers 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. 

QMMAC is 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  

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