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A Collaborative Revolution: Pluralistic Practice and ChangeAbout this event‘A Collaborative Revolution: Pluralistic Practice and Change’ The 4th International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, hosted by University of South Wales and Online Events, will celebrate the development of the Pluralistic movement through the last 10 years, and consider how pluralism can contribute to the wider future of mental health. If you are interested in presenting, we have now extended the deadline due to ongoing interest and you can find more information regarding submissions, by clicking here (download the submissions form). Why a ‘Collaborative Revolution’? Pluralistic Counselling, as conceived by Mick Cooper and John McLeod in 2007 (Cooper & McLeod, 2007), is based on the belief that that different clients may require different models and strategies at different times during their therapy and therefore therapists should be open to learning about and using a range of models and strategies flexibly to create a bespoke approach based on the individual needs of their client (Perren, Godfrey, & Rowland, 2009). One element of the pluralistic approach is an openness of attitude and a willingness to enter into collaboration and dialogue with other therapeutic approaches without the need to reconcile differences in order to continually improve our understanding of how to work with different presenting issues and with diverse clients (Finnerty, Kearns and O’Regan 2018).