We would like to invite you to the next session in our Meaningful Conversations series, where we will explore conflict, difference, rupture and the possibilities for dialogue and repair within the psychotherapy and counselling professions. Psychotherapy and counselling are professions in which questions of care, ethics, identity, social responsibility and professional values matter deeply. As a result, disagreement may sometimes carry considerable emotional and relational significance. Different understandings of professional responsibility, social justice, advocacy, activism, institutional responsibility and ethical practice can bring important issues into view, while also creating tensions that can be difficult for individuals, organisations and professional communities to navigate.

How might technology deepen our understanding of what works, for whom and under what circumstances? Can data help us deliver more personalised and responsive psychotherapy? What can qualitative research and lived experience tell us that algorithms cannot? And, as technology becomes more capable, what remains uniquely human about the therapeutic relationship? Metanoia Institute's 2027 conference, Human Insight, Digital Intelligence, brings together psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, researchers, educators and students to explore these questions — not by placing the human and the technological in opposition, but by asking what each can contribute to the future of psychotherapy.