The Weekend University

Updated: 17 Mar 2025 • 233 episodes
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The Weekend University aims to make the best psychology lectures available to the general public. To do this, we organise 'lecture days', on the last Sunday of each month, where you get a full day of talks from leading psychologists, university professors and authors. This podcast features in-depth interviews with our speakers, so you can learn more about their work. For more information, please see: http://theweekenduniversity.com

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Dr. James Hollis is one of the world’s leading Jungian analysts. Across a career spanning decades, he has written extensively on how we confront the unconscious, navigate midlife, and live with greater courage and self-awareness. His books include: Living an Examined Life, Under Saturn's Shadow, and a Life of Meaning.

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Dr Bessel van der Kolk is a clinician, researcher, and teacher who has spent his professional life studying how children and adults adapt to traumatic experiences. He specialises in translating emerging findings from neuroscience and attachment research to develop and study a range of effective treatments for traumatic

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In this interview, I’m joined by Derek Sivers. Derek is the Founder of CD Baby — a company he sold for $22 million, and then gave pretty much everything to charity. He has written multiple bestselling books, given TED talks which have reached millions, and been a circus performer for 10 years. There have been few peopl

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In this episode, I’m joined by Linda Thai — a mental health clinician, storyteller, and educator who has had her own lived experiences of individual, collective, historical and cultural traumatization...and healing. I’ve interviewed many fascinating individuals in the past seven years of running The Weekend University,

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Join Dr. Richard Schwartz for a life-changing nature immersion combining scenic walks on the breathtaking Camino de Santiago, with deep experiential Internal Family Systems (IFS) workshops along the way: https://theweekenduniversity.com/ifs-camino This experience is tailored for leaders interested in using IFS to creat

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Dr Laurence Heller is the founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ - often referred to as NARM. This is a psychobiological approach known to be highly effective for working with developmental trauma. He is the author of “Healing Developmental Trauma”, which is currently published in more than 10 languages. For t

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