Finding our voices in a noisy world: Voice, Connection, and the Fragile Pause in an Age of Constant Contact
In this webinar, Steve Potter and Lucy Cutler explore the paradox of being constantly connected yet longing to connect meaningfully. We have never been easier to reach, yet many of us feel its harder to meet and be met. In this webinar, we explore how constant connection, social media, and AI are reshaping the way we speak, listen, and relate and what happens when the pause that allows meaning and connection to form begins to disappear.
They will use the concept of voice, where they will examine how communication is shaped across our internal worlds, our relationships, and the wider systems we live within. Drawing on methods from Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), they approach voice as relational and co-created, held not only within the individual, but between people, in society and within an ever-changing context.
Date: Tuesday 14th July 2026
Time: 6PM – 7PM (London time)
Price: Free
Presenter(s): Steve Potter and Lucy Cutler
They will consider how hyper connection, social media, and AI are influencing not only what we say, but how we listen, how we form meaning, and how we come to understand ourselves and one another. In particular, they will explore the tension between emergent, relational voice and increasingly curated, streamlined forms of expression shaped by digital environments. In their book on the voice, they explore the daily orchestral challenge of owning and helping each other find our voices. They explore the central part the voice plays in and beyond the therapy room and through all the stages of life.
At the centre of this session is the art of the fragile pause, the brief but essential space in which thought, feeling, and meaning begin to take shape and the concept of internalese, the capacity to remain present with our multiplicity of voices, to be able to orchestrate these parts of ourselves more freely both internally and in relationship with others, particularly in moments of uncertainty, difference, or misattunement. They will draw on the use of mapping and writing therapeutic within and between sessions to learn to hover and shimmer in among our own and others’ voices.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Recognise how saturating connection, social media, and AI are reshaping communication, contributing to both overstimulation, disconnection and loss of voice.
- Understand voice as a relational, multiple, and co-created process (CAT-informed), and identify the therapeutic art of hovering and shimmering around moments of fragile pauses in enabling meaningful speaking and listening.
- Apply the concepts of the fragile pause and internalese (co-orchestration of multiple inner and outer voices) to support more reflective, attuned, and effective communication, particularly in moments of uncertainty, difference, or misattunement
