This round table and discussion offers a chance to experience and discuss World Comes Alive [WCA], the first Virtual Reality [VR] experience to be developed as a resource for psychoanalytic reflection, launched at the Tavistock in 2025. The 13 minute VR experience will be made available to those wishing to take part, by appointment, prior to the Round Table. Inspired by artist and psychoanalyst, Marion Milner, the design of WCA was also informed by the work of Wilfred Bion, Donald Winnicott and others working in the object relations tradition. WCA immerses us in a series of spectacular virtual worlds, each of which offers a ‘potential space’, from within which we may attend to how we feel in the midst of rest, change, loss and expectation, as we find ourselves in environments that by turn interest, disappoint, excite or threaten us. WCA is an aesthetic container for use in the fluctuating experiences that are part of the unending process of going-on-being. It invites us to attune to embodied perception – to what Milner called the “special internal gesture” that enables direct and authentic engagement, avoiding the “blind thinking” or intellectual habit that defensively filters or prejudges experience before it comes to us. Developed as a tool for examining our anxious responses to change, WCA may also be used as a resource for training in reflective practice. It raises questions about the ‘evocative object’, the value of immersive experiences, and the oscillation between experience-nearness and experience-distance in psychosocial inquiry. It also invites us to reflect on the importance of trust in the holding environment and what happens when that environment dissolves and gives way to something new. What are the conditions in which we defend against change or open ourselves to the unknown?