Physis – The Force for Growth in a World Obsessed with Pathology: Cup of TEA

Physis – The Force for Growth in a World Obsessed with Pathology

This evening seminar explores Petruska Clarkson’s re-introduction of Berne’s concept of Physis—the innate life-force that moves toward healing, creativity, and evolution. While traditional clinical language often fixes clients within diagnostic or script-bound narratives, Physis invites us to recognise the irrepressible energy that strives toward change. In contrast to static models of pathology or immutable life scripts, Physis insists that growth and transformation are inherent possibilities within every psyche. The first hour will offer a theoretical overview drawing on Clarkson and Mavis Klein’s contrasting perspectives on health and pathology. The second hour opens the space for live dialogue, case discussion, and supervision—where we’ll consider how a physis-centred stance might re-animate our clinical work and ethical positioning. Come for a cup of TEA—Theory, Ethics, and Application—and leave renewed in your confidence in the human capacity for evolution and becoming.