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Professor Else Guthrie will explore The Chronicle and Stimulus Entrapment, two Mearesian concepts that illuminate how individuals navigate the impact of trauma. These ideas offer powerful insight into the way painful experiences are processed and endured.

Associate Professor Anthony Korner will present Dreaming as Big Idea, positioning the Conversational Model in contrast with classical psychoanalytic frameworks. Drawing on Meares’ appreciation for Indigenous Australian concepts of the Dreaming, this talk highlights the model’s unique emphasis on feeling, cultural resonance, and conversation as a pathway for healing and growth. Korner will reflect on Meares’ vision of self as dynamic and forward-oriented, and how the model remains open, evolving, and deeply grounded in neuroscience, linguistics, and the humanities.