bridge icon C.G. Jung Public Lectures, Bristol

C.G. Jung Public Lectures,
Bristol

October 10 2026 10.30am-12.45pm

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Foluke Taylor

 therapeuteX: Common Groundings with Poets, Therapists, and Other Freedom Dreamers


In this presentation, Foluke will draw from Black feminist writing, including her own, to think about writing as a liberatory, world-building practice. 

The invitation to join this event has multiple threads. It is an invitation to be with Black feminist futurity and a future that can be lived now. 

It is an invitation to consider a specific vision of social transformation - a world without the mass caging and exclusion of human life - and the therapeutics required to usher it into being. 

It is an invitation into questions of common grounds: 
      What connects therapists, poets, and abolitionists? 
      What is made possible when they (we) move together? 
      What supports the enlivening of collective imagination?

It is also an invitation to participate - to listen-with and/or dream-with and/or write-with as we go.

Foluke Taylor is a therapist, writer, and author of Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room (2023 W.W. Norton). Her research focuses on Black feminisms, creative writing, and abolitionist world-building, exploring therapeutic possibility through an engagement with Black feminist poetics. Foluke has an abiding passion for spaces that nurture emergent formations and as such is a big fan of dance floors, living rooms, and kitchen tables. She is accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Other publications include: 

A Note From the Annotator (when the reading kills you) in Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures (2025 VALIZ NL) 

Lively up we self: A portal, some letters, and a black feminist chorus (with Gail Lewis) in Black women, trauma and therapy: Revolutionising therapeutic thought and practice (2025 PCCS Books London) 

Re-imagining the space and context for a therapeutic curriculum - a sketch (with Robert Downes) in White Therapies + Black Identities (2021 PCCS Books) 

Otherwise: Writing Unbearable Encounters Through the Register of Race (2021 LIRIC)

Black Paranormal: A Playlist in What is Normal: Psychotherapists Explore the Question (2020 Karnac Books)

How the Hiding Seek (2018 KDP)

General information

Since the early eighties, the C.G. Jung Public Lectures have played an important part in establishing and maintaining Bristol's reputation as an acknowledged centre of interest in Depth Psychology.

The monthly lectures are on current issues and topics broadly related to the field of analytical psychology and are given by a variety of professional and established speakers. They are open to everybody with an interest in depth psychology, the therapies, philosophy, religion, mythology, life and the arts.

The aim is to provide a friendly, informal space for Jung's ideas and philosophy to reach a wider public. There is time for refreshment, socialising, and networking after the lecture followed by participative discussion with the speaker in the round.

 


A reduced-price bookstall is sometimes provided by Bookmark, Bristol. Their website includes a good selection
of Jungian and Analytical Psychology titles (also at reduced prices)!
Tel: (0117) 9672928  www.psychologicaltherapybooks.co.uk

 

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