Keynote | Darryl Chow
| Friday, February 26, 2027 |
| 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM |
| Bellarine Rooms |
Overview
We Are Hungry for Depth
Presenter
Daryl Chow
Psychologist | Author | Trainer
Keynote | We Are Hungry for Depth
9:30 AM - 10:30 AMAbstract
Information is not transformation. If it were, generative AI can and will replace us.
People are hungry for depth.
We yearn not just for deeper conversations, but deeper connections. Connections that make us come alive.
Yet, we somehow do not go there very often.
Why is that? Is it too much to ask to have a good conversation? Is depth always necessary for a deeper connection to take place?
In the dialogical nature of this enterprise called psychotherapy, deep speaks to deep. We are in a profession where the personal cannot be divorced from the professional. When this is divided, technique is what we use until the therapist arrives. Yet the proper role of technique is to reveal rather than to conceal the personhood from which good therapeutic work can come from.
Learning Outcomes:
- The meeting between the therapist’s and client’s inner and outer lives,
- The five distinct levels of conversation that take place (and how not to prematurely scare one’s soul away), and
- How we can create a spaciousness that invites a more soulful living, so that we may touch, move and inspire the ones we seek to serve.
People are hungry for depth.
We yearn not just for deeper conversations, but deeper connections. Connections that make us come alive.
Yet, we somehow do not go there very often.
Why is that? Is it too much to ask to have a good conversation? Is depth always necessary for a deeper connection to take place?
In the dialogical nature of this enterprise called psychotherapy, deep speaks to deep. We are in a profession where the personal cannot be divorced from the professional. When this is divided, technique is what we use until the therapist arrives. Yet the proper role of technique is to reveal rather than to conceal the personhood from which good therapeutic work can come from.
Learning Outcomes:
- The meeting between the therapist’s and client’s inner and outer lives,
- The five distinct levels of conversation that take place (and how not to prematurely scare one’s soul away), and
- How we can create a spaciousness that invites a more soulful living, so that we may touch, move and inspire the ones we seek to serve.
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Daryl Chow, MA, Ph.D. (Psych) is a practicing psychologist and trainer. He is a senior associate of the International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE). He devotes his time to training therapists worldwide and research on the development of expertise and highly effective psychotherapists, helping practitioners become deep learners and improve client outcomes.
He is the author of several articles and books. Daryl and colleagues published the first ever study on deliberate practice in psychotherapy, a nominee for “most valuable paper” of 2015 by American Psychological Association. In 2025, his study on Improving Responses to Challenging Scenarios in Therapy appeared in APA’s Editor’s Choice, regarded as “...the best science in each area of our discipline, reflecting science that is exceptionally important, impactful, and deserves additional visibility for the whole field.”
His books include
His latest book is titled, Crossing Between Worlds: Moving and Being Through the Transitions of Life.
Daryl’s blog, Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (darylchow.substack.com) is aimed at inspiring and sustaining practitioner’s individualised professional development. See Daryl’s keynote in Sweden.
His other Substack is Full Circles (fullcircles.substack.com/): Reflections on the inner and outer life.
For more information, visit his online home at darylchow.com and darylchow.substack.com/
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