BAPPS Annual Conference 2025: Mark, Celebrate & Set Sail

In 2025 we have had 30 years of life as BAPPS, home to psychoanalytic and psychodynamic supervision in Britain. To mark this, we warmly invite you to attend Conference, be this your 30th attendance, for your first time, as a member, or simply someone interested in our work. You may be returning to attending after the pandemic, or you regularly do. We hope you can be here to celebrate the work done, recollect the key figures, help us think on the crucial changes over the years, for psychotherapy. Especially there has been sea changes in our area of supervision.

Our Autumn conference is always the highlight of our year and on this occasion, we shall be busy, looking back, looking forward, continuing with the established ways while creating new paths to working with the new challenges in the practice room and with online patients and groups. Perhaps we need to acknowledge the changes in the setting the years have brought. We might consider the wider context of our present day economic, political and cultural currents and tides.

The day will be an opportunity to both hear, and tell of the past, and to use your voice and vote to shape BAPPS going forward.

A full programme for the conference will be published nearer the day. Here are some of the the highlights.

For the first time conference will begin with a “breakfast club” from 9am to 9.45am to give In 2025 we have had 30 years of life as BAPPS, home to psychoanalytic and psychodynamic supervision in Britain. To mark this, we warmly invite you to attend Conference, be this your 30th attendance, for your first time, as a member, or simply someone interested in our work. You may be returning to attending after the pandemic, or you regularly do. We hope you can be here to celebrate the work done, recollect the key figures, help us think on the crucial changes over the years, for psychotherapy. Especially there has been sea changes in our area of supervision.

Our Autumn conference is always the highlight of our year and on this occasion, we shall be busy, looking back, looking forward, continuing with the established ways while creating new paths to working with the new challenges in the practice room and with online patients and groups. Perhaps we need to acknowledge the changes in the setting the years have brought. We might consider the wider context of our present day economic, political and cultural currents and tides.

The day will be an opportunity to both hear, and tell of the past, and to use your voice and vote to shape BAPPS going forward.

A full programme for the conference will be published nearer the day. Here are the highlights:

For the first time conference will begin with a “breakfast club” from 9am to 9.45am to give those arriving early, perhaps having stayed overnight, the opportunity to connect with fellow members, new and familiar friends over tea, coffee, and a pastry.

Every BAPPS conference has at its heart, challenge, and the opportunity to think with rigour, on a topic key to psychoanalytic, psychodynamic supervision, and then to apply the learning to our own practice. This year we begin with a workshop led by Charles Brown, a distinguished BAPPS member.

There will be live supervision, and supervision of supervision. The opportunity to participate in the core activity to our craft, and this supervision continues one of the themes of the year’s masterclasses, on Forensic material.

The day will be an opportunity to both hear, and tell of the past, and to use your voice and vote to shape BAPPS going forward.. The afternoon session will present an opportunity to continue thinking on another recent that of spirituality in supervision.

Ticket Information:

In person, to include lunch:

BAPPS Members: £55 Non-Members: £65 Retired-Members: £35

Online only:

Members: £40 Non-Members: £45

Booking for attendance at Guild closes Thursday, 9th October 2025.

BAPPS Conferences are open to Supervisors and experienced Therapists - BACP, UKCP, BPS or BPC qualified, or anyone interested in Psychoanalytic Supervision. BAPPS is an organisational member of UKCP and aims to promote education, training and the highest ethical standards of practice in supervising psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy.