Overview

Therapy is an intricate dance, an ongoing interplay of skill, emotion, cognition and intuition.

Join us in this practical webinar to explore how Aristotle’s skill of practical wisdom allows therapists to navigate moments of uncertainty and complexity. Through the lens of a real-life therapeutic moment with Mark, we examine how clinical judgment, emotional wisdom, and the therapeutic alliance come together to support a client’s journey. 

Learn how to stay present, interpret cues, and balance care with professional boundaries, all while maintaining reflexive awareness of your own interventions.

Discover the art of weaving together the whole and parts of a client's narrative, and how to rely on both experience and spontaneity in therapy.

Whether you're an experienced therapist or just beginning your journey, this webinar will provide insights into the practical wisdom that lies at the heart of therapeutic practice—addressing the challenge of uncertainty and transforming it into an opportunity for growth and healing. Therapeutic wisdom is a core competency of a psychologist. Techniques, skills, strategies work well as long as they are underpinned by therapeutic wisdom.

Without therapeutic wisdom, therapeutic practice is reduced to a set of skills or techniques that show no appreciation of the subtle nuances in each therapeutic encounter.  

Level of Learning

Foundational. This activity is targeted to those new to the topic.

Duration of access

These webinars will be recorded and made available only to registered participants of the live event. 

Participants of the live events will have access to the recording and presenter slides (once available) for 12 months from the date of confirmed registration.

IMPORTANT: Places are limited and registration will not be available after the webinars have taken place.

APS CPD-Approved

This activity has been assessed against the APS Standards for CPD activities and approved for its education quality. Learn more about the APS CPD Approval process.

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Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• apply the (Aristotelian) skills of practical wisdom to further develop clinical judgement and therapeutic excellence,

• develop therapeutic wisdom as the basis to integrate techniques, skills and knowledge of psychology, and 

• incorporate insights of philosophers into their therapeutic practice.

Presenter(s)

Dr Steven Segal MAPS

About the presenter(s)

Dr Steven Segal is a registered and practising Psychologist. He was appointed Associate Professor of Management at Macquarie University, Sydney where he taught psychology and philosophy in the context of management and leadership. Dr Segal has conducted professional development workshops in a range of areas including executive education, management development, education, psychology, and psychotherapy. He brings a unique combination of psychology, philosophy, education, leadership, and sociology to enable professionals at all levels to develop their practice. Themes which have driven his interest in psychology and philosophy include anxiety and depression. He has always been focused on the practical application of philosophy which gives him an additional and helpful lens in his practice as a psychologist. Utilising philosophy, he enables clients to gain insight into themselves and the social context in which they live. He has an action orientated view of philosophical reflection and believes that action and reflection form an ongoing cycle on the psychotherapeutic journey. Dr Segal’s Masters and PhD focus on educational frameworks for working with anxiety and despair. His most recent research project focused on the challenging psychological experiences involved in management and leadership development. He has published two books which both deal with anxiety and emotion in the context of management: - Business Feel and Management Practice, and - Creative Destruction: Existential Skills for Inquiring Managers, Researchers and Educators. He has edited books including Face to Face with Management Practice and been the section editor of the Handbook on Managerial Philosophy. Dr Segal has published over 30 peer-reviewed scholarly articles in a range of disciplines including philosophy, psychology, and management.