Events
PsychMatters Podcast on Balint Groups
Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce that today an episode about Balint groups was released in the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' PsychMatters podcast series. This has been a wonderful collaboration between the PsychMatters team and...
2026 BalintANZ Intensive Workshop
Plans are already under way for the 2026 Binational Workshop. The likely dates are 27 to 30 August 2026 but this will be confirmed in due course. Further details will be available soon. If you would like to be kept up to date...
2025 Balint Workshops – details coming soon!
BalintANZ is delighted to announce that in place of a binational intensive workshop, in 2025 we are planning to support a number of smaller weekend workshops to be held in various places around Australia and New Zealand. Accredited leaders have been invited to propose...
Weaving Seminar 11 May 2025: Susan Long – Social Dreaming
A Balint Weaving seminar… Social Dreaming. Professor Susan Long
Weaving Seminar 21 June 2025: Heide Otten – Pushback: What does it mean?
A Balint Weaving seminar.. Pushback: What does it mean? Dr Heide Otten
Weaving Seminars 24 August and 12 October 2025: Leonie Sullivan, Shana O’Marra
Balint Weaving … August and October Dates
Past Events
Weaving Seminars – 2024 Notice
Weaving Seminars 2024 Notice.
Our second Weaving Seminar of the year is presented by Dr Claudia Gross and chaired by Assoc Prof Hamish Wilson. The topic is “Ritual Process and Ritual Practice: reflections on diversity and holding in Balint groups”. Sunday 4th August, 2024.
Balint Weaving 2023: A Series of Seminars on Balint Group Work
Balint Weaving 2023: A Series of Seminars on Balint Group Work. Planning is under way for a series of interactive meetings on Zoom in 2023.
Online Workshop – March 2023
Following the success of the workshops we held in November 2021, the Balint Society of Australia and New Zealand is pleased to offer an online Zoom workshop on the weekend of 18-19 March 2023.
13th Balint Intensive Workshop – Hobart, November 2023
The BSANZ is pleased to announce that the annual intensive workshops will resume in November 2023 in Hobart. Members and non-members are encouraged to join us for the first in-person BSANZ event since 2019.
Shifting Ground
A regular place for doctors to talk about their lives and their work. Free monthly facilitated conversations via Zoom for medical practitioners. See below for information about how to join.
Balint Weaving 2022: Balint Group Work in Times of Change
Balint Weaving 2022: Balint Group Work in Times of Change. Planning is underway for a series of interactive meetings on Zoom.
Reconnecting in Balint Groups – Podcast from The GP Show
Dr Frank Meumann is a GP with 40 years’ experience and a senior medical educator with General Practice Training Tasmania. He received the 2010 GPET Medical Educator of the Year award for excellence in GP registrar training, and he is the past president of the Balint...
Australian Medical Student wins International Balint Federation Ascona Essay Prize
Australian Medical student wins International Balint Federation Essay Prize
IBF Congress Report – An Introduction to Balint – by Beth Hamilton
The 2017 International Balint Conference was held in Oxford at Keble College from 6 -10 September 2017. I had the privilege of attending the Conference as a first year Doctor, and one of the recipients of the Ascona Prize- a reflective essay competition open to...