This event has been postponed due to COVID-19 and will be rescheduled at a later date. 

Join us in discovering what Marion Milner calls ‘butterfly thoughts’, which flutter in from nowhere and are gone in a moment, in Chapter 8 – ‘Discovering that Thought Can be Blind’ – of A Life of One’s Own.

Join us in experimenting with ways of seeing, following from Milner’s observations in Chapter 7 – ‘Two Ways of Looking’ – of A Life of One’s Own.

Can we be ourselves ‘at all costs’? Join us to discuss the fifth chapter of A Life of One’s Own: part diary, part detective story, and above all an experiment in writing, thinking, and observation.

What is it like discover an unknown aspect of one’s self? Join us in discussing Milner’s exploration of the hinterland of thought: ‘happenings of vital importance to me… going on, not somewhere away from me, but just underneath the calm surface of my own mind’.

Have you ever kept a diary? Join us in discussing Marion Milner’s experiment in living and writing – ‘the facts of my life were not so many fixed items which only needed adding up and balancing… Writing down my experiences then seemed to be a creative act which continually lit up new possibilities in what I had seen’.