Fourth World Conference of Existential Therapy - Denver - 3-6 June 2026

NSPC SPEAKER LINE UP

Tuesday 2 June

Existential Works with Dreams Emmy van Deurzen

Wednesday 3 June

Roundtable: Africa and the 1 African Diaspora; Sheba Boakye-Duah

Marcel Contra Sartre. Who is the real existentialist? Digby Tantum

Transience, Authenticity and Freedom: An Existential Phenomenological Arc; Burcu Tuncel

Roundtable: Frantz Fanon and Existential Psychology; Neresia Osbourn

Phenomenology Beyond What They Teach: Tapping into Husserl's wisdom to widen our phenomenological practice; F. Jak lcoz

Phenomenological practice; F. Jak lcoz

Working existentially with displaced populations; Maria Galani, Samira Ghasemi

Landscapes: Aligning an Ecological and Existential Model of the Self; Kate Thompson

Thursday 4 June

Authenticity is Not Individuality: A Closer Look at Authenticity in the World of Psychotherapy; F. Icoz

Steppingstones: Writing Landscapes of our Lives; Kate Thompson

Roundtable: Existential Therapy and Community; Emmy van Deurzen

Health, Trauma and Existential Shattering; Andreas Ioannou

Friday 5 June

The Art of Existential Freedom; Emmy van Deurzen

Vita Activa - A Call for Existential Rebirth; Claire Arnold-Baker

Being with Addiction; Raquel Gloria Mert Ulusoy

Roundtable: Terror Management; Brad Johnson

Saturday June 6

The Humorous Condition; Exploring the Nature of Humour and the Tragi-comedic Dimensions of Being; Neil Gibson

UK Primary School Teachers' Lived Experience of Workplace Bullying; Maria Galani

Intimacy with Waters of Body and Waters of Earth; Alja Lah

The Psychoses of Existential Training; Sheba and Neresia Boakye-Duah and Osbourne

From Defence to Dialogue: Using the Four Worlds in Existential Coaching and Practice; Brad Johnson

Disembodied Support: A Phenomenological Study of Therapeutic Engagement with AI Chatbots Following In-person Therapy; Max Karlin

Voicing the Censored Self: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration of Navigating Silence and Authenticity in South-East Asia; Magdalen Cheng.

Carried in Silence: The Lived Experience of Iranian Childhood Migration and the Search for Belonging: Samira Ghasemi