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1st December 2011 TLC Charity Event for the Maya Centre

TIME
6.30 - 8.30pm

LOCATION
Free Word Centre (map)

The Literary Consultancy presents a fundraising evening on behalf of The Maya Centre, a charity providing free psychodynamic counselling and group psychotherapy for women in Islington Novelist, journalist and campaigner Melissa Benn will host an illustrious line-up of writers who will read from their work highlighting a variety of experiences from women's lives. The event will entertain, dazzle and help us reflect about the work of the Maya Centre and many aspects of our society.

Jill Dawson * Margaret Drabble * Helen Simpson *Sarah Waters

Join us for an intimate evening at the vibrant Free Word Centre. Enjoy a glass of wine, canapes and a sparkling raffle that will kick December off with a bang.

Tickets are £25 but we have offered various pricing options so that you can donate more if you wish. All proceeds go to the Maya Centre.

You will also have the chance to donate more on the night, and we are of course extremely grateful for anything you can manage.

Tickets: £25 £50 £75 £100

Click here to book or call Free Word at: 020 7324 2570.

For more information please email TLC at info@literaryconsultancy.co.uk.

Click here to download a poster for the event

Archive

Adidas Women’s 5K challenge

We will be taking part in the Adidas Women’s 5K challenge, if you would like to support us please click the link below..

www.justgiving.com/mayacentre

Launch of our Domestic Violence Project

We will be launching our Domestic Violence Project on 11th October 2010 at the Free Word Centre. This project will provide free individual and group therapy for Women Affected by Domestic Violence within Islington.

The Maya Centre works with women for whom violence has been or is a significant part of their lives; we also work with front line providers of services targeting women affected by domestic violence, providing training or supervision.

There will be three experienced therapists providing counselling for this project, offering support in several languages.

We would like to invite you to attend the launch of our valuable Domestic Violence Project at the Free Word Centre on 11th October 2010.

Click here to download a leaflet about the event(PDF)

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy NOW 2010

The Maya Centre is a partner in the British Psychoanalytic Council Conference: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy NOW 2010

We shall be taking part in the Complex problems, complex situations:

Complex lives
Therapeutic work in tough urban settings needs the insights of psychoanalysis, but… Chair Matthew Patrick Presentations Camila Batmanghelidjh (founder Kids Company), Lisa Baraitser (Trustee, Maya Centre)

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy NOW 2010 - Click here to download the Event Flyer

Maya Centre 25th Birthday Party

Thank you so much for supporting the Maya Centre’s fundraising birthday party on 5th October. I am happy to report that it was a great success and thoroughly enjoyed by all who came.

The beautiful new Free Word venue and the glorious spread of mezze provided by Moro set the tone. Everyone was enthusiastically complimentary about the delicious and beautifully displayed food. Sandi Toksvig had us all laughing with her psychotherapy jokes and then proved to be an adroit auctioneer of our lovely prizes, helped of course by a very generous audience.

Thanks to your and others generosity the evening raised over £8,000 to support the work of the centre. This money will be allocated to our domestic violence project, the funding for which was removed by the Safer Islington Partnership in Autumn 2008. We will now be able to provide 150 counselling sessions during the remainder of this financial year for women in Islington affected by domestic violence.

Thank you again for your support.

With best wishes

Margaret Bluman
Chair of Trustees
The Maya Centre