REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. 10th to 12th November - 46th SPR International Annual Conference 2023

This hybrid conference will be residential and in-person at Woodland Grange and also online.

IMPORTANT:

Registration to attend the conference in person at the hotel will close on 31st October.

Registration to attend via Zoom will close on 8th November.

Woodland Grange is an award-winning residential conference venue and hotel, set in 16 acres of beautiful gardens in the heart of the Midlands. Whilst offering a quiet, retreat-style setting, the venue is located at the heart of the motorway network, with the M40, M42, M6 and M69 all within a 20-minute drive.

The venue can turn from a professional business environment during the day, to a more informal setting at night. With a range of outside areas, an on-site restaurant, bar, games room and gym, it’s the ultimate venue to balance both work and relaxation.

Woodland Grange is near to Royal Leamington Spa. Also nearby are Warwick, Coventry and Stratford-upon-Avon.

Getting there:

BY CAR – the venue is easily accessible from the M1, M69 and M40, with ample free on-site parking. Use postcode CV32 6RW for Sat Nav.

BY TRAIN – Leamington Spa and Warwick are the closest to the venue, with Coventry Train Station approximately a 15-minute car ride away.

BY AIR – Birmingham Airport is approximately 15 miles away from Woodland Grange. It has direct flights from other UK airports and international airports around the world.

Taster video of the venue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

Friday 10th November

 

19.30 - 21.00

Welcome DINNER

Adrian Parker on behalf of the SPR Programme Committee

 

Saturday 11th November

 

 

Historical

 

9.00 - 9.30

The King of Mediums: Franek Kluski, his Mediumship and the Survival Question

Michael Nahm

9.30 - 10.00

Crystal Ball and Crystal Clear: The Differing Methodologies of Eleanor Sidgwick and Ada Goodrich Freer

Muhamet Alijaj

10.00 -10.30

´Who speaks from the dust?’: Mediums in the Life and Work of Kathleen Raine

Eric McElroy

10.30 - 11.00

BREAK

 

11:00 - 11.30

Can Thomas Aquinas’ Views on Apparitions of the Dead Leave Any Room for Psychical Research?

Michael Potts

 

NDEs and ADEs

 

11.30 -12.00

An Update on Prolonged NDEs: “Being Alive When You are Cold and Dead”

Annekatrin Puhle & Adrian Parker

12.00 - 12.30

Investigating After-Death Communication: An Analysis of Crisis Cases and a New German Sample

Sophie Morrison, Evelyn Elsaesser, Chris A. Roe, Callum E. Cooper & David Lorimer

12.30 - 13.30

LUNCH

 

 

Experimental and Theoretical

 

13:30 - 14.00

Changes of Thermodynamic Entropy at a Physical Site Enhances the Quality of Psi for that Site

Edwin C. May, Laury Hawley & Sonali Bhatt Marwaha

14.00 - 14.30

Parapsychology and Cyberpsychology

Claire Murphy-Morgan & Callum E. Cooper

14.30 - 15.00

Researching the Researchers: An Exploration into the Experiences and Beliefs of Investigators of Paranormal Phenomena

Urszula Wolski

15.00 - 15.30

BREAK

 

15.30 - 16.00

Childhood Trauma and Paranormality: A Critical Review and Meta-analysis

Malcolm B. Schofield, Ian S. Baker, Paul Staples & David Sheffield

16.00 - 16.00

“They’re not gonna want airy-fairy stories”: Childhood Anomalous Experiences and the Implications for Therapists

Natalia Lavin & Rachel Evenden

16.30 - 17.00

Testing the theory of “first sight” using a retroactive priming task: Individual difference factors

Chris A. Roe, Deborah Patton, Matthew Hopkins & David Vernon

17.00 - 18.00

Panel Discussion Ghosts and Poltergeists - Separate Entities or Potentially Elements of the Same Anomalous Power

Chaired by John Fraser with Alan Murdie & Annekatrin Puhle

19.30 - 21.00

DINNER

 

21.00

Invited Address. The Day Before the Paradigm Shift

Terje Tofteness, New Paradigm Films, Oslo

 

Sunday 12th November

 

 

Investigations of Spontaneous Cases

 

9.00 - 9.30

Contamination of Investigations:  Case Purity and Investigator Objectivity versus Clients’ and Investigators' Search for Answers

Ciaran Farrell

9.30 - 10.00

Spontaneous Case Committee Report case 354: ADC? EMF, EVP (Ovilus) and Video

Aaron Lomas

10.00 - 10.30

Disappearing Vehicles and Reappearing People (or Go Home, Time, You’re Drunk!)

Ann R Winsper

10.30 - 11.00

BREAK

 

11:00 - 11.30

The Importance of Training for SPR Members Engaged in Spontaneous Case Investigation

Steve Parsons

11.30 - 12.00

The Phenomenology of Anomalous Experiences Reported During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Update

Aaron Lomas

12.00 - 12.30

Paranormal Perception in Sleep Paralysis Experiences:  An Exploratory Analysis

Sheila Pryce Brooks

12.30 - 13.30

LUNCH

 

  Mediumship  

13:30 - 14.00

Mediumship and Well-being

Valerie Harkness

14.00 - 14.30

The Experience of Developing as a Spiritualist Medium: Preliminary Results of a Qualitative Study

Fil Kinnersley

14.30 - 15.00

Pathways to Mediumship: Clients’ Experience of Mediumship in Contemporary Britain

Chris A. Roe, Callum E. Cooper, Glenn Hitchman & Ewen Maclean

15.00 - 15.30

BREAK

 

 

Experimental

 

15.30 - 16.00

A Perfect Solution? Sensory Isolation in Floatation Tanks as a Method of Promoting Psi Phenomena

Kirsty L. Allan, Callum E. Cooper, Glenn Hitchman & Chris A. Roe

16.00 - 16.30

Retroactive Priming of a Compound Remote Associates Task (CRAT) Using Pre-selected Participants

Malcolm B. Schofield & David Vernon

16.30 - 17.00

Two Field Studies of ‘the Sense of Being Stared at’

Eleanor Chambers, Benjamin Unick-Wagg, Callum E. Cooper & Matthew Colborn

17.00 - 18.00

Panel Discussion: Where Are We Heading: A “discordant farrago” or a “paradigm shift”?

 

 

When
10th November, 2023 3:00 PM to 12th November, 2023 6:00 PM
Location
Woodland Grange
Old Milverton Lane
Royal Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 6RN
United Kingdom
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Conference Fees
RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE SPR MEMBERS FEES - SINGLE OCCUPANCY
MEMBERS - FULL CONFERENCE KING SINGLE OCCUPANCY £380.00
SPR STUDENT MEMBERS FULL CONFERENCE KING SINGLE OCCUPANCY £340.00
HOTEL CONFERENCE NON-MEMBERS - FULL CONFERENCE - KING SINGLE OCCUPANCY £420.00
RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE SPR MEMBERS' FEES - KING (or Twin) TWO SHARING £285.00
RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE NON-MEMBERS' FEES - KING (or Twin) TWO NON-MEMBERS SHARING £325.00
RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE SPR MEMBERS' FEES - KING (or Twin) Two SPR STUDENT MEMBERS sharing £245.00
RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE ONE DAY ONLY. SPR MEMBERS - SINGLE OCCUPANCY - DB&B plus conf
SATURDAY 11TH NOV £200.00
SUNDAY 12TH NOV £200.00
SPR STUDENT MEMBERS DAY DELEGATE (per day) WITH LUNCH AND CONF BAG
SPR STUDENT MEMBERS DAY DELEGATE per day NO LUNCH NO BAG
SPR MEMBERS DAY DELEGATE - per day (with lunch and conf bag) OCT PRICES
NON-MEMBERS DAY DELEGATE - per day (with lunch and conf bag) OCT PRICES
ZOOM ATTENDANCE FEES
MEMBERS OF SPR - ZOOM - FULL CONFERENCE £55.00
NON-MEMBERS - ZOOM - SATURDAY 11th ONLY £30.00
NON-MEMBERS - ZOOM - SUNDAY 12th ONLY £30.00
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