The Psychology of Bratting

What do you enjoy about being a brat (or being on the receiving end of one)? Is it the wit, the anticipation, the challenge? Perhaps it’s the pleasure of showing someone a more audacious part of yourself and discovering they want to play.

The Psychology of Bratting explores what draws us to this kind of play and dynamic, and what we want to experience through it. What are we inviting when we provoke a response? What makes a challenge enjoyable to receive? We’ll make room for humour, creativity and desire as we consider what makes the exchange satisfying for everyone involved.

Through a Gestalt therapy lens, with attention to embodied awareness and relationship, we’ll explore what happens within us and between us during brat play: how we express an invitation, what we notice in our bodies, and how our responses shape the interaction.

Combining education, personal reflection and playful experiential…