ANI - Adlerian Network of Ireland

09/05/2026

One of the workshops at the ANI Summer Conference 2026- online on the 16th and 17th of May is The Courage to Change.

Booking: https://ANIsummerconference2026online.eventbrite.ie
Price: €120

The Courage to Change is a reflective and experiential workshop grounded in the understanding that change is inevitable, yet deeply personal, and often challenging. Whether change is actively chosen and welcomed or arrives unexpectedly and unwanted, the way individuals experience and navigate it is shaped by their unique personality, coping style, and core beliefs. Recognizing that human beings naturally resist change and gravitate toward the predictable and familiar, this workshop explores both the universal psychological process of change and the individualized ways people respond to it.
Through a series of experiential exercises and the use of Basic Lifestyle strategies, participants gain insight into
1. Their strengths and vulnerabilities, and available resources,
2. Underlying beliefs, and maladaptive reactions that can emerge when coping with transition.
3. Self-awareness and understanding, to clearly identify their individual coping style,
4. Comprehend the stages of change they move through,
5. Develop the courage and flexibility needed to adjust their path when current strategies are no longer effective.
You will leave better equipped to cope with change in your own lives, and also to support others through change with greater empathy and confidence.

About the Presenter:

Peggy Pelonis is President at the American Community Schools; a K-12 International school in Athens Greece. She is an educational leadership trainer, a licensed Family Therapist, National Certified Psychologist and Educational Leadership facilitator. Her work and research in Educational Leadership looks at the complexities of professional development in international schools. She is devoted to facilitating positive change in people’s lives and has developed a ‘Process of Change’ Model to help individuals strengthen the skills needed to cope with life transitions and change.

09/05/2026

08/05/2026

One of the workshops at the ANI Summer Conference 2026-online on the 16th and 17th of May is Private Logic in Love: How Early Conclusions Shape Adult Intimacy.

Booking: https://ANIsummerconference2026online.eventbrite.ie
Price: €120

This workshop poses some questions about couples including: Why do couples remain stuck in the same painful patterns, even when there is love, insight, and effort? From an Adlerian perspective, relationship distress is not the result of deficits or incompatibility, but of discouraged movement shaped by early conclusions about belonging, safety, and worth.
Using Adlerian life style investigation, early recollections, and a relational mapping process, therapists will learn how partners unknowingly compete to move away from felt minus experiences (feeling insignificant) and toward deeply personal goals.
Couples conflict is conceptualized as purposeful and in this workshop emphasis is placed on encouragement and the Crucial Cs—Connected, Capable, Count, and Courage—as pathways back to cooperation and equality.
Couples rarely come to therapy because of a single disagreement. They come because they feel caught in the same cycle again and again, increasingly discouraged, misunderstood, and unsure how to move differently. From an Adlerian perspective, these patterns are not signs of pathology or poor communication, but predictable outcomes of two life styles interacting under stress.
This training offers a clear Adlerian framework, practical conceptual tools, and experiential processes that support meaningful and lasting relational change.

About the Presenter:

Lindsay Hill is a skilled and dedicated Adlerian counselor providing high-quality, effective, and socially responsible therapy to adolescents, adults, and couples.
She is a founding member of a private practice - Travelers Rest Counseling Associates. She provides therapy to adolescents, adults, couples, and families. She facilitates Adlerian workshops, trainings, and community talks. She provides supervision and mentorship to pre-licensed counselors.

07/05/2026

Booking: https://ANIsummerconference2026online.eventbrite.ie

05/05/2026

One of Alfred Adler’s most powerful ideas.

It’s not what happens to us that defines us. It’s the story we tell ourselves about it.

Adlerian psychology invites us to explore those meanings we’ve assigned to our experiences and to consider whether they’re serving us or holding us back.

Something worth sitting with this week 💭

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