I’ve started Reading the World because I’ve noticed how much of my own curiosity about people, relationships, and communities is sparked by what I read outside the psychotherapy journals. Articles about loneliness, technology, politics, or intimacy often feel just as relevant to our work as theory papers. They remind me that therapy doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it’s always in dialogue with the world around us.

I wanted to create a space where we, as therapists, can gather around those ideas. Not to come to one neat conclusion, but to open things up. To practice thinking together, to hear perspectives from outside our own modality bubble, and to explore what these cultural questions might mean for the therapy room.

What can you expect if you join? A small group, a shared article each month, and a facilitated conversation that links what we’re reading to our clinical work. You can expect curiosity, difference, and sometimes disagreement - all held in a respectful and thoughtful way. What you shouldn’t expect is a single outcome or “answer.” Each session will end with more possibilities than it began with, and that’s the point.

For trainees, this is a chance to build confidence in finding your professional voice. For practitioners, it’s an oppotunity to stretch your thinking and stay alive to culture as it shifts. For all of us, it’s a reminder of EATA’s ethical call to account for community in our work, because therapy is never just about two people in a room, it’s about the bigger picture too.