A reflective conversation for psychological practitioners exploring where thinking feels pressured, constrained, or difficult to voice.
Many practitioners are noticing that certain areas of psychological and social life (including questions around identity, politics, and culture) have become harder to think about together. Conversations can feel pressured, quickly polarised, or difficult to enter at all.
Professional conversations can also be deeply personal. Theoretical ideas become intertwined with identity. The question of whether the therapist is an activist, or whether political restraint is required, now sits close to the surface of much of clinical and organisational life.
The fear of misattunement can begin to narrow a group’s capacity to remain curious. Anticipated threat or shame can enter the room before dialogue has had a chance to unfold.
This conversation is shaped around the belief that some questions benefit from being stayed with rather than resolved or defended.
Unsettled Minds begins from the premise that these tensions deserve thoughtful, spacious attention rather than avoidance or premature certainty.
The evening is an invitation to think together about questions in professional life that can sometimes feel pressured, constrained, or prematurely settled, and to notice what happens to thinking under those conditions.
This online gathering is intended as a first conversation. It is an opportunity to bring together people who are interested in these questions, to reflect together, and to begin shaping what a larger in‑person forum might become later in the year.
What we’ll be exploring
During the evening, we may return to questions such as:
- When do ideas begin to feel like identity
- What happens to thinking when we fear getting it wrong
- How do threat and shame shape professional discourse
- Under what conditions does curiosity collapse and how might it be restored
- Where does thinking currently feel hardest in psychological and mental health work
The aim is not to reach agreement, but to notice together what becomes possible when we slow down and remain curious.
Format of the evening
5:30 – 7:00
Welcome, introductions, and presentation for group analytic framing of the conversation
7:00 - 7:30 Break
7:30 – 8:50
Open reflective discussion
8:55 – 9:00
Shared reflections and closing thoughts
9:00
Close
This event will also help inform a possible in‑person Unsettled Minds forum in autumn 2026.
Who this conversation is for
Unsettled Minds welcomes people working across mental health and psychological practice, including:
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists and Counsellors
- Psychiatrists
- Social workers
- Nurses
- Trainees
- Others whose work engages closely with psychological ideas and practices
The shared ground is not a professional role or theoretical orientation, but an interest in thoughtful conversation about how psychological work is currently shaped, spoken, and constrained.
Participation
Many of us feel some apprehension about entering conversations where uncertainty or difference may arise, particularly among professional peers.
This is not a space for debating positions or reaching consensus on contested issues. Instead, the focus is on how wider social and political climates shape clinical work, professional relationships, and our internal landscapes as practitioners. The focus is on the conditions of thinking, not the content of any particular position.
Confidentiality
To support open conversation, we ask participants to respect a simple confidentiality agreement: what is shared in the space stays in the space.
The session will not be recorded.
About the host
Unsettled Minds is convened by Dr Libby Nugent, a Clinical Psychologist who works across clinical practice, reflective spaces, and public‑facing psychological writing.
An invitation
If you find yourself professionally articulate but privately uncertain; if particular conversations feel harder than they once did; or if you are interested in thinking carefully with others rather than arriving at ready‑made answers, you are warmly invited to join this opening conversation.
This event marks the beginning of the Unsettled Minds project, with the possibility of a larger in‑person forum later in the year.
A reflective conversation for psychological practitioners exploring where thinking feels pressured, constrained, or difficult to voice.
Many practitioners are noticing that certain areas of psychological and social life (including questions around identity, politics, and culture) have become harder to think about together. Conversations can feel pressured, quickly polarised, or difficult to enter at all.
Professional conversations can also be deeply personal. Theoretical ideas become intertwined with identity. The question of whether the therapist is an activist, or whether political restraint is required, now sits close to the surface of much of clinical and organisational life.
The fear of misattunement can begin to narrow a group’s capacity to remain curious. Anticipated threat or shame can enter the room before dialogue has had a chance to unfold.
This conversation is shaped around the belief that some questions benefit from being stayed with rather than resolved or defended.
Unsettled Minds begins from the premise that these tensions deserve thoughtful, spacious attention rather than avoidance or premature certainty.
The evening is an invitation to think together about questions in professional life that can sometimes feel pressured, constrained, or prematurely settled, and to notice what happens to thinking under those conditions.
This online gathering is intended as a first conversation. It is an opportunity to bring together people who are interested in these questions, to reflect together, and to begin shaping what a larger in‑person forum might become later in the year.
What we’ll be exploring
During the evening, we may return to questions such as:
- When do ideas begin to feel like identity
- What happens to thinking when we fear getting it wrong
- How do threat and shame shape professional discourse
- Under what conditions does curiosity collapse and how might it be restored
- Where does thinking currently feel hardest in psychological and mental health work
The aim is not to reach agreement, but to notice together what becomes possible when we slow down and remain curious.
Format of the evening
5:30 – 7:00
Welcome, introductions, and presentation for group analytic framing of the conversation
7:00 - 7:30 Break
7:30 – 8:50
Open reflective discussion
8:55 – 9:00
Shared reflections and closing thoughts
9:00
Close
This event will also help inform a possible in‑person Unsettled Minds forum in autumn 2026.
Who this conversation is for
Unsettled Minds welcomes people working across mental health and psychological practice, including:
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists and Counsellors
- Psychiatrists
- Social workers
- Nurses
- Trainees
- Others whose work engages closely with psychological ideas and practices
The shared ground is not a professional role or theoretical orientation, but an interest in thoughtful conversation about how psychological work is currently shaped, spoken, and constrained.
Participation
Many of us feel some apprehension about entering conversations where uncertainty or difference may arise, particularly among professional peers.
This is not a space for debating positions or reaching consensus on contested issues. Instead, the focus is on how wider social and political climates shape clinical work, professional relationships, and our internal landscapes as practitioners. The focus is on the conditions of thinking, not the content of any particular position.
Confidentiality
To support open conversation, we ask participants to respect a simple confidentiality agreement: what is shared in the space stays in the space.
The session will not be recorded.
About the host
Unsettled Minds is convened by Dr Libby Nugent, a Clinical Psychologist who works across clinical practice, reflective spaces, and public‑facing psychological writing.
An invitation
If you find yourself professionally articulate but privately uncertain; if particular conversations feel harder than they once did; or if you are interested in thinking carefully with others rather than arriving at ready‑made answers, you are warmly invited to join this opening conversation.
This event marks the beginning of the Unsettled Minds project, with the possibility of a larger in‑person forum later in the year.
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- 3 hours 30 minutes
- Online
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