Join us this January for a lecture that begins with a provocation: Most modern therapy is built to change behaviour. But what if that's not the most ideal approach?
About the Lecture
Contemporary psychotherapy, especially in institutional and digital spaces, is dominated by behavioural and solution-focused frameworks. These approaches prioritise measurable outcomes, symptom reduction, and efficiency. They work. And yet, they often leave behind the messier questions of meaning, grief, identity, and existence.
Drawing from theory, literature, and clinical practice, the lecture explores what it means to practise therapy in the Indian context, where history, culture, and collective identity complicate Western models of healing This is not a guide on how to do therapy. It is an inquiry into what kind of therapy we are doing..
About the Lecturer
Varghese John is a counselling psychologist specialising in grief and trauma, and the founder of XIST Mental Health Services. His clinical work draws heavily from existential, narrative, and emotion-focused modalities, with a focus on culturally responsive therapeutic practice.
With an interdisciplinary background spanning psychology, sociology, boxing, rap, and public speaking, his approach resists reduction, treating therapy as an encounter with uncertainty rather than a checklist of solutions.
PS: Your ticket includes a complimentary beverage or snack at the venue.
About unLecture
unLecture brings experts out of classrooms and into cafés, bars and neighbourhood spaces across Delhi. Created by three friends from St. Stephen’s, Delhi who wanted learning to feel warm, social and alive. unLecture turns an ordinary evening into a conversation you’ll think about long after it ends.
Where it is
Address : Uncle's Delhi, First floor, Community Centre, 24, Main Market Rd, Basant Lok, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi 110057, India
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