# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Death Mother and the Singing Bone: A Day of Reflective Group Practice
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 10:00 am – Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 03:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: A reflective training day exploring trust, neglect, and imaginative repair in mental health services through story and group analysis.About this EventThe Death Mother and the Singing Bone: A Day of Reflective Group Practice. Exploring organisational neglect, symbolic reanimation, and team vitality through story and group processTuesday 19 May 2026 | 10:00 – 15:30 BSTMidlands Arts Centre, BirminghamOverviewA story-led reflective practice day for mental health professionals, exploring the psychic toll of organisational neglect and the symbolic pathways to reanimation within teams and clinical systems. Grounded in group analytic theory and clinical experience, this workshop invites participants into an experiential group space where fairy tale and reflection serve as mirrors for institutional life.Together, we will consider how despair is metabolised, vitality reclaimed, and new forms of holding imagined—within ourselves, our teams, and the wider organisational matrix.Learning AimsThis workshop will support participants to:Understanding group dynamics and defencesWorking symbolically with loss, vitality, and ethical presence.Themes for ExplorationThroughout the day, we will explore key dimensions of group life and organisational care through a story-led and analytic lens:Dynamic AdministrationAttending to the symbolic and practical scaffolding that allows a group to form, breathe, and metabolise experience.Group AttachmentProtecting reflective space and cultivating a culture of support—where safety, trust, and imaginative repair can take root amidst psychic and institutional neglect.Group DevelopmentTracing the rhythms, ruptures, and transformations that unfold as a group moves from survival toward presence.Staying with the Group TaskWorking together while holding the tension between individual and collective needs, resisting pseudo-mutuality and fragmentation.Location of DisturbanceExploring how conflict reveals buried truths, unspoken griefs, and the potential for reanimation through recognition.Social MatrixMapping the wider organisational field—its defences, distortions, and symbolic residues—and how they shape group life.Structure of the DayWelcome & Orientation (09:30 – 10:00)Arrival and Tea/CoffeeSession One (10:00 – 11:15) —What Holds and What Harms: Introducing the Death MotherIntroduction to the Group Analytic Lens and the Death Mother ArchetypeExamining how organisational neglect leaves psychic residues that shape team dynamics and institutional life.Mid-morning breakSession Two (11:45 – 13:15) — The Singing Bone: Truth-Telling and the Ethics of BurialPresentation: Narrative Distortion, Pseudo-mutuality, and the Group MatrixStorytelling: The Singing BoneGroup Dialogue: What truths remain buried in our teams, and what might it take to let them sing?A session on the symbolic labour of truth-telling, the aesthetics of rupture, and the group’s role in metabolising what has been silencedLunch breakSession Three (14:00 – 15:30) — The Skeleton Woman: Reanimation Through RecognitionPresentation: Containment and Imaginative RepairStorytelling: The Skeleton WomanGroup Dialogue: What restores us when we feel stripped to the bone?A session on the ethics of presence, the slow return of vitality, and the group’s capacity to hold what has been cast out.Closing ReflectionsFacilitatorDr. Libby Nugent is a Clinical Psychologist and group work practitioner in group analysis. Her work explores the intersection of clinical practice, group process, and symbolic life, with a focus on organisational health and collective repair.
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- **Event Categories**: workshops, health-wellness, mental-health, storytelling, art
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## Ticket Details

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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 125, max: 145, currency: GBP

## Event venue details

- **city**: Birmingham
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Midlands Arts Centre
- **lat**: 52.4528742
- **long**: -1.9037783
- **full address**: Midlands Arts Centre, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: DR Libby Nugent  (https://allevents.in/org/dr-libby-nugent/17709056)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 10:00 am (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Midlands Arts Centre, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 125 up to 145 GBP
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** DR Libby Nugent
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, health-wellness, mental-health, storytelling, art
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