Mentalising focuses on mental states such as emotions, desires, thoughts and so on, trying to understand your own as well as other people’s behaviour.

In a sense mentalising happens all the time, whenever human interaction is involved, but you can learn to be more aware of different mentalising processes.

What defines mentalising and how do you learn to be aware of these processes? Is it something everybody can benefit from learning?

Keynote speakers dealing with mentalising try to shed more light on the term and its various facets.