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

PROGRAMME

9am to 9.45am: For the first time conference will begin with a “breakfast club” to give those arriving early, perhaps having stayed locally overnight, the opportunity to connect with fellow members, new and familiar friends over tea, coffee, and a pastry. Do let Jo, our administrator know if you are attending in person to allow her to provide enough breakfast fare. The link for those attending conference online will be live from 9am allowing you to connect with colleagues and friends informally prior to the formal programme starting at 10am.

10am - 11.30 am: Every BAPPS conference has at its heart, challenge, 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 founding BAPPS member presenting a paper titled “Substance Abuse and Addictive Behaviours. Enhancing insight and therapeutic efficacy through reflective practice”

Charles Brown is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and UKCP Fellow, training therapist, addiction therapist and supervisor. He is registered with the Council for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and Jungian Analysts (CPJA). He is a member of The College of Psychoanalysts and an Honorary Fellow of The British Association for Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Supervisors (BAPPS).

11.45am - 1pm: A session of live supervision, and supervision of supervision.

The opportunity to participate in the core activity of our craft. This supervision continues the theme from one the year’s masterclasses, with Forensic material, provided by Sam Russ, a Clinical Psychologist, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist.

1pm - 2pm: Lunch

2pm – 3pm: We continue thinking on another recent theme, that of spirituality in supervision, as we ponder the question: “In our efforts to respect our patients’ beliefs, faithful customs and cultures, do we ‘excommunicate’ crucial material”?

3.15pm to 4.15pm: All are welcome to participate in our AGM, to hear about our plans for BAPPS in the next year, and years moving forward. Members will vote on exciting plans, measures to ensure BAPPS is fit for purpose going forward.

4.15pm to 5pm: We conclude with a party, cake, and the voices that founded us, as we celebrate BAPPS work and achievements across these 30 years.

Ticket Information

In person, to include lunch:

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

All day online only:

Members: £40 Non-Members: £45 Retired-Members: £25

Half day online only:

Members: £20 Non-Members: £22.50 Retired-Members: £12.50

Booking for attendance at Guild closes Wednesday, 8th 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.