Every culture contains a Script. An invisible yet powerful collection of injunctions, permissions and attributions passed down through generations via language, rituals, stories and relationships. This workshop will consider the Child in the context of the Cultural Script.
We invite participants to think openly and creatively together about the intersection of cultural scripting and the Child ego state development of the individual. We also consider the Child within the Cultural Parent and how it relates to and differs from other elements of the Cultural Script. We explore the symbolism of light and dark in Nordic culture and the relevance of cultural scripting to global migration, multiculturalism and intersectionality. Rather than presenting fixed answers, we create a collaborative thinking space where diverse international colleagues can meet, brainstorm and enrich one another.
The Child is not only a personal story, it is a cultural inheritance. When we listen to the Child within the Script of a whole people, we begin to understand something profound about what it means to be human in a particular time and place.
Come ready to think, collaborate, and consider new perspectives.
Kate Svensson
Kate is a dual American-Swedish national who has lived and worked across multiple countries and knows firsthand what it means to navigate different cultural worlds. She is now based in Espoo, Finland and works online with clients across cultures and time zones in English and Swedish.
She is drawn to the territory where the personal and the collective intersect—where our inner landscape connects to something older and more shared than we might expect. Her work with expats, global nomads, and people navigating multiple cultural identities has made the questions at the heart of this workshop not only a theoretical interest but a lived one.
Kate is a trainee psychotherapist working toward UKCP registration through The Link Centre in the UK. Her primary modality is Transactional Analysis, held within a broader integrative and depth psychology orientation. She is a member of FinTA, EATA, NCPS and The Link Centre.
In this workshop, she invites colleagues to think together rather than be taught—to bring their own cultural inheritances into the room.
Hasan Kurtarici
Hasan is a dual-cultured British Turkish-Cypriot who has worked across multiple countries and cultures. He knows from the inside what it means to move between cultural worlds, to carry more than one inheritance, and to feel the tension and richness that comes with it.
Based in England, Hasan works with clients across cultures and time zones. His practice sits at the intersection of the personal and the collective: exploring how our inner worlds are shaped by layers of culture, some chosen, some inherited, some barely visible until they are named.
Hasan works with individuals holding multiple cultural identities including those shaped by gender, sexuality, disability, race, religion, and language. Witnessing how people navigate these intersecting worlds has made the questions at the heart of this workshop not merely a theoretical interest, but a lived one.
He is a CTA trainee psychotherapist whose primary modality is Transactional Analysis.
He holds membership with ITAA, EATA, UKATA, BACP, and NCPS.
In this workshop, Hasan and Kate invite colleagues to think together rather than be taught, to bring their own cultural inheritances into the room, and to explore what the Cultural Child holds within our scripting.