The Collaborating Centre for Values-based practice in Health and Social Care

St Catherine's College Oxford

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French collection now added to the wikiVBP Library

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August 13, 2025

Save the Date – A change of heart: exploring the psychiatric remaking of our emotional lives

Save the Date - A change of heart: exploring the psychiatric remaking of our emotional lives. Seminar - 5th November 2025 A change of heart: exploring the psychiatric remaking of our emotional lives Modern psychiatry has given us novel ways of thinking and talking about human experience. The resulting transformation in our self-understanding is especially evident in the domain of emotional experience

June 20, 2025

Save the Date: Aesthetics in Mental Health Seminar

4th March 2026, St Catherine's College, Oxford. 'Mental Health in Contemporary Western Aesthetics' Contemporary Western aesthetics embraces aesthetic experience that is participatory, immersive and connective with oneself and through this, with others and the environments we meet them in. Such encounters are central in healthcare practice.

June 20, 2025

The Phenolab Summer School 2025

The Phenolab Summer School 2025 – Phenomenology in mental health. Transdisciplinary approaches and qualitative research – in Umbria (OR ON-LINE), June 9-13, 2025 – is open for applications until JUNE 1st

May 11, 2025

Obstetric Violence in the Mexican Context a workshop by the Uehiro Institute

March 6, 2025

Calculating Experience? A New Role for Phenomenology in the Development and Application of Artificial Intelligence.

This seminar will reflect on the possibilities of integrating phenomenology (with its focus on embodiment, enaction, engagement, intersubjectivity, values, and empathy) with “conscious-less” artificial intelligence technologies. In particular, it will explore the potential of the phenomenological approach to contribute to computational approaches to psychopathology and vice versa to advance synthetic phenomenology for mental health care.

February 1, 2025

Seminar – 9th April 2025 Forming a Practical Wisdom Network

Navigating in high seas: how could collaborative Practical Wisdom help steer professional practice and leadership in health, social care and education?

February 1, 2025

Phenomenology, Values-based Practice and Personalisation in Mental Health: New Models for Global Clinical Care

We would like to invite you to a seminar titled ‘Empathy in Clinical Psychiatry: Aspiration and Reality’, at St Catherine's College, Oxford, on the 5th of March 2025.

February 1, 2025

Calculating Experience? A New Role for Phenomenology in the Development and Application of Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health – 12 February 2025

This seminar will reflect on the possibilities of integrating phenomenology (with its focus on lived experience, embodiment, intersubjectivity, and empathy) with “conscious-less” artificial intelligence technologies. It will explore the potential of the phenomenological approach to contribute to computational approaches to psychopathology and vice versa to advance synthetic phenomenology for mental health care.

January 18, 2025

Summer School – 14-18 July 2025

Phenomenology, Values-based Practice and Personalisation in Mental Health: New Models for Global Clinical Care We would like to invite you to a summer school at St Catherine's College, Oxford, on the 14-18th July 2025.