Dr Aaron Balick
Author, consultant and the CEO of international psychology hub, Stillpoint Spaces
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About Dr Aaron Balick
For over two decades, Aaron has expanded the reach of psychology beyond traditional methods through innovative and accessible applications. In addition to his work as a clinician and academic, he is an engaging public speaker, author, and broadcaster, as well as a leading advocate for the public understanding of depth psychology and its potential for positive change. His experience as a founder and business leader adds personal depth and practical insight to his expertise in organisational leadership and workplace dynamics.
Aaron’s talks captivate audiences by leveraging his deep psychological knowledge to address the challenges of today’s fast-changing world. Known for translating complex ideas into relatable, actionable concepts, he has become a trusted resource for organisations navigating the human impact of emerging technologies.
Building on his work with social media, Dr. Balick offers a distinctive perspective on the psychological impact of AI. He explores how technologies like generative AI and algorithmic decision-making tools influence creativity, identity, and relationships. Drawing on depth psychology and psychoanalysis, he highlights how unconscious processes shape our engagement with AI—from the allure of hyper-personalised content to the ethical dilemmas posed by artificial intelligence. Through his talks and consultations, Aaron equips organisations with strategies to maintain creativity, authenticity, and ethical integrity in an AI-driven world.
A regular voice in the media, Aaron has appeared on BBC Radio 1’s The Surgery, the BAFTA-nominated BBC Three documentary Suicide and Me, and BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze and The Digital Human. His expertise has been featured in publications such as The Guardian, The Independent, Wired Magazine, GQ, and Newsweek. In academia, he serves as an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Department for Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, contributing to research and teaching.
Based in London, Aaron balances his professional roles with a private psychotherapy practice. He is also the author of two popular self-help books, The Little Book of Calm and Keep Your Cool, the latter of which was shortlisted for the Educational Writers Award.
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AI, Ethics, and the Modern Psyche:
How artificial intelligence is reshaping minds, meaning, and human relationships
AI isn’t just changing the world of work, it’s influencing the architecture of our inner -worlds. As people increasingly turn to machines for reassurance, advice, intimacy, and decision-making, new psychological and ethical challenges emerge. Organisations are navigating anxiety, uncertainty, over-reliance, moral unease, and a profound shift in how people relate to their work, their leaders, and themselves.
This keynote cuts through hype and and moral panic to explore the psychological reality of AI: what it does to identity, thinking, emotional regulation, and human connection.
Key themes:
- The Digitally Mediated Self: How AI reshapes identity, meaning-making, and the internal world
- Outsourcing Our Minds: what happens when we let AI think for us and tell us how we feel
- AI and Mental Health: Loneliness, connection, and the human/machine relationship
- Staying Human in an Artificially Intelligent Hyper-Connected World
The Digitally Mediated Self:
Emotion, Intimacy, and the Loss of Interpersonal Complexity
People are more “connected” than ever, and yet struggling with loneliness, polarisation, emotional avoidance, burnout, and relational shallowness. Organisations feel the knock-on effects like conflict avoidance, communication breakdowns, overstimulation, collapsing attention and the challenges of working with difference. By using depth psychology to understand digital culture, we can reveal what technology is doing to our inner lives, and how we can recover depth, presence, and human connection.
Key takeaways:
- The Fragmented Self: Identity, performativity, and authenticity
- The Threat to Relational Complexity and How to Reclaim It
- Intimacy by App: Dating, relating, and debating
- Recovering Depth, Meaning, and Embodied Connection
The Elements of Personal Leadership:
Building psychologically intelligent organisations in an era of uncertainty and change
Modern leadership demands far more than communication skills and strategic vision. Leaders must navigate anxiety, change, emotional complexity, unconscious group processes, and the human consequences of hybrid working and technological acceleration.
This keynote gives leaders a psychological map of their organisation: how people defend, project, fragment, idealise, resist, avoid, and attach — and how understanding these processes is the key to trust, clarity, and high-quality decision-making.
Key themes:
- Psychological intelligence vs superficial “EQ”
- Navigating uncertainty, anxiety, and emotionally charged environments
- The unconscious complexities of groups and teams
- Defences in leadership: narcissism, imposter syndrome, perfectionism
- Emotional safety and the real meaning of “wellbeing at work”
- Hybrid teams, burnout, and the emotional labour of digital workplaces
- Why psychologically intelligent organisations create better outcomes
Client Feedback
"Aaron's mental-health content was spot-on and specifically tailored for our audience."
Qatar University
"Loved this – my brain hurts from how much I need to process and reflect on. Thank you!"
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
"A world-class thought-provoking speaker who made our event a massive success."
Hamayesh Farazan Co.
"Aaron uses interesting real-world examples to explain complex theories."
Freud Museum London
