Why Love Matters

Trainer: Sue Gerhardt

Date: Saturday 10th March

Venue: Scope Centre, 6 Market Road, N7 9PW, London.

Duration: 10-4pm

Overview:

The day will highlight our growing understanding of the importance of emotional regulation in mental health and well-being. In an accessible way, it will outline the neuroscience of early development, and show how early experiences shape our self-regulation and brain development, as well as our expectations of later attachment relationships.

Acquiring a firm grasp of these issues can help make sense of many emotional difficulties ranging from depression to aggression, poor parenting, fears of intimacy and personality disorders.

The course will:

• provide an up to date account of thinking about emotional regulation
• give an accessible account of early brain development and its impact on later mental health
• show how these factors play a vital role in later attachment relationships

Trainer Biography:

Sue Gerhardt is a practising psychotherapist based in Oxford.

She was the co-founder of the Oxford Parent Infant Project (OXPIP) in 1997, a charity which continues to provide therapy to around 50 families a week in Oxfordshire.

Her first book, WHY LOVE MATTERS: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain (2004) has enjoyed wide acclaim. Virginia Ironside called it “a wonderful book” which she would recommend to all parents, whilst Sue’s second book THE SELFISH SOCIETY has been described by The Observer as “inspiring”.

Previously a community worker and film-maker, Sue is currently working on a documentary series about empathy.