CPD & Training Programme 2019 – 2020

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli. An innovative combination of lectures and exercises specially designed to “bring to life” key existential topics. For those wishing to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by deepening and widening their “felt sense” in a group setting.

Saturdays 10am to 1pm

Programme:
Worldview – 18 January
Sedimentation – 29 February
Tensions – 28 March
Identity – 25  April
Conflict – 16  May
Change – 27  June
Temporality – 18 July
Space – 17 October
Aloneness – 14 November
Authenticity – 12 December

Fee: £70 per workshop or £500 the 10 dates

These Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.

“Group supervision sessions seek to provide participants with a safe, yet challenging, space, to consider and address the issues that arise for them when discussing their own, or another participant’s, experience of being a therapist. They provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at their practice and re-view their assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist and doing therapy. Group supervision can be a valuable and enriching experience for all participants since even though the focus may be on a particular supervisee’s account, it is likely that all participants will discover broader issues and concerns that resonate with their own encounters with clients.” Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential therapy and, more recently, the related areas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKPC) registered existential psychotherapist. As a Coach Ernesto is an APECS accredited executive coach and supervisor as well as a founding member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair as the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. In 2019, he received the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. Between 1997 and 2008, he was the Academic Dean, and subsequently Senior Fellow, of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London. Ernesto many publications and textbooks appear on the reading lists of numerous training programmes in the UK, North America, Australia and continental Europe. In a survey of over 1000 existential therapists worldwide, Ernesto’s most recent book, Practicing Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd Edition (2015) has been identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice. Author of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd ed (Sage, 2015), The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001).

All dates:  Saturdays 18 January, 29 February, 28 March, 25 April, 16 May, 27 June, 18 July, 17 October,  14 November, 12 December
Afternoon option: from 2pm to 5pm

Fee: £1260 the whole year (£140 per session)

BPS award for distinguished contribution

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapy and coaching training programmes around the world. His latest book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

In modern society public discourse on dying and death has become more prominent over the past decade, however, scholarly attempts to systematically explore the phenomenology of death confrontation within a professional context are so far fragmented.

Repeated death confrontation is part of the professional role in hospice and palliative care. It is also an institutional duty, which binds health care professionals to normative and regulated behaviour (e.g. Oliver, Porock, & Oliver, 2006; Seymour, 2000). It is an existential and phenomenological given of health care professionals who care for the dying to encounter dying patients, dead people, and to be existentially present (being-with) during the transformation of the other from “dying” to “dead” (e.g. Klass, 2015; Ramsay, 1995; Zust 2006). It follows that these individuals must have at the least an implicit knowledge and understanding of what “death of the other” means to them (Gamino 2012; Hinderer 2012).
Interestingly, although the potential risks involved in working in a field of frequent death confrontation are well documented, including burnout, compassion fatigue (CF) and poor quality of care, the reported numbers remain consistently low in palliative care as compared to other medical specialities (Asai et al. 2007, Dunwoodie and Auret 2007).

During this one day workshop, we will use a mix of interactive, reflective and small group exercises to develop our own phenomenology of death awareness. We will also look at three short-term psychotherapeutic interventions which can be implemented into day-to-day practice in patients with serious illnesses.

AGENDA*
10.00-10.45 Reflective Group session
11.00-12.00 Death Awareness and the Health Care Professional – Research Update
12.00-13.00 lunch break
13.00-13.30 Meaning-Making Intervention (MMI)
13.45-14.15 Dignity Therapy
14.30-15.00 Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM)
15.10-16.00 Reflective Group session

Fee: £150

Dr Christian Schulz- Quach has a keen interest on the interplay between mind and body. His therapeutic work centres around how symptoms in both domains are a form of communication which if better understood can inform a more authentic way of living.

Christian has over 10 years of clinical experience as a senior specialist in Palliative and Hospice Care and has worked internationally in this field. He consults in English and in German.

Christian is a Visiting Lecturer in Palliative Care Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and Liaison-Psychiatrist at St Christopher’s Hospice London. He has received training in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy from Germany, the UK and the US and is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych). He is a Consultant in Psychosomatic Medicine, Medical Psychotherapy and Palliative Medicine in Germany, where he was co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine at the University Hospital Dusseldorf, Germany.

Christian is trained in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, as well as Existential-Phenomenological Therapy. Christian has an academic track record with a Doctorate in Neurobiochemistry from Germany and post-doc research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Additionally, he is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Existential-Phenomenological Psychotherapy in the UK. He has published internationally in the field of palliative care psychiatry, psycho-oncology, medical education and psychotherapy. He has edited and co-edited numerous books in Germany.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Schulz-Quach

Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli. An innovative combination of lectures and exercises specially designed to “bring to life” key existential topics. For those wishing to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by deepening and widening their “felt sense” in a group setting.

Saturdays 10am to 1pm

Programme:
Worldview – 18 January
Sedimentation – 29 February
Tensions – 28 March
Identity – 25  April
Conflict – 16  May
Change – 27  June
Temporality – 18 July
Space – 17 October
Aloneness – 14 November
Authenticity – 12 December

Fee: £70 per workshop or £500 the 10 dates

These Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.

“Group supervision sessions seek to provide participants with a safe, yet challenging, space, to consider and address the issues that arise for them when discussing their own, or another participant’s, experience of being a therapist. They provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at their practice and re-view their assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist and doing therapy. Group supervision can be a valuable and enriching experience for all participants since even though the focus may be on a particular supervisee’s account, it is likely that all participants will discover broader issues and concerns that resonate with their own encounters with clients.” Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential therapy and, more recently, the related areas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKPC) registered existential psychotherapist. As a Coach Ernesto is an APECS accredited executive coach and supervisor as well as a founding member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair as the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. In 2019, he received the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. Between 1997 and 2008, he was the Academic Dean, and subsequently Senior Fellow, of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London. Ernesto many publications and textbooks appear on the reading lists of numerous training programmes in the UK, North America, Australia and continental Europe. In a survey of over 1000 existential therapists worldwide, Ernesto’s most recent book, Practicing Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd Edition (2015) has been identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice. Author of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd ed (Sage, 2015), The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001).

All dates:  Saturdays 18 January, 29 February, 28 March, 25 April, 16 May, 27 June, 18 July, 17 October,  14 November, 12 December
Afternoon option: from 2pm to 5pm

Fee: £1260 the whole year (£140 per session)

BPS award for distinguished contribution

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapy and coaching training programmes around the world. His latest book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS

Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli. An innovative combination of lectures and exercises specially designed to “bring to life” key existential topics. For those wishing to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by deepening and widening their “felt sense” in a group setting.

Saturdays 10am to 1pm

Programme:
Worldview – 18 January
Sedimentation – 29 February
Tensions – 28 March
Identity – 25  April
Conflict – 16  May
Change – 27  June
Temporality – 18 July
Space – 17 October
Aloneness – 14 November
Authenticity – 12 December

Fee: £70 per workshop or £500 the 10 dates

These Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.

“Group supervision sessions seek to provide participants with a safe, yet challenging, space, to consider and address the issues that arise for them when discussing their own, or another participant’s, experience of being a therapist. They provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at their practice and re-view their assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist and doing therapy. Group supervision can be a valuable and enriching experience for all participants since even though the focus may be on a particular supervisee’s account, it is likely that all participants will discover broader issues and concerns that resonate with their own encounters with clients.” Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential therapy and, more recently, the related areas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKPC) registered existential psychotherapist. As a Coach Ernesto is an APECS accredited executive coach and supervisor as well as a founding member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair as the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. In 2019, he received the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. Between 1997 and 2008, he was the Academic Dean, and subsequently Senior Fellow, of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London. Ernesto many publications and textbooks appear on the reading lists of numerous training programmes in the UK, North America, Australia and continental Europe. In a survey of over 1000 existential therapists worldwide, Ernesto’s most recent book, Practicing Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd Edition (2015) has been identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice. Author of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd ed (Sage, 2015), The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001).

All dates:  Saturdays 18 January, 29 February, 28 March, 25 April, 16 May, 27 June, 18 July, 17 October,  14 November, 12 December
Afternoon option: from 2pm to 5pm

Fee: £1260 the whole year (£140 per session)

BPS award for distinguished contribution

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapy and coaching training programmes around the world. His latest book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli. An innovative combination of lectures and exercises specially designed to “bring to life” key existential topics. For those wishing to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by deepening and widening their “felt sense” in a group setting.

Saturdays 10am to 1pm

Programme:
Worldview – 18 January
Sedimentation – 29 February
Tensions – 28 March
Identity – 25  April
Conflict – 16  May
Change – 27  June
Temporality – 18 July
Space – 17 October
Aloneness – 14 November
Authenticity – 12 December

Fee: £70 per workshop or £500 the 10 dates

These Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.

“Group supervision sessions seek to provide participants with a safe, yet challenging, space, to consider and address the issues that arise for them when discussing their own, or another participant’s, experience of being a therapist. They provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at their practice and re-view their assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist and doing therapy. Group supervision can be a valuable and enriching experience for all participants since even though the focus may be on a particular supervisee’s account, it is likely that all participants will discover broader issues and concerns that resonate with their own encounters with clients.” Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential therapy and, more recently, the related areas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKPC) registered existential psychotherapist. As a Coach Ernesto is an APECS accredited executive coach and supervisor as well as a founding member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair as the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. In 2019, he received the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. Between 1997 and 2008, he was the Academic Dean, and subsequently Senior Fellow, of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London. Ernesto many publications and textbooks appear on the reading lists of numerous training programmes in the UK, North America, Australia and continental Europe. In a survey of over 1000 existential therapists worldwide, Ernesto’s most recent book, Practicing Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd Edition (2015) has been identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice. Author of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd ed (Sage, 2015), The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001).

All dates:  Saturdays 18 January, 29 February, 28 March, 25 April, 16 May, 27 June, 18 July, 17 October,  14 November, 12 December
Afternoon option: from 2pm to 5pm

Fee: £1260 the whole year (£140 per session)

BPS award for distinguished contribution

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapy and coaching training programmes around the world. His latest book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

An experiential and theoretical workshop facilitated by Manu Bazzano

Informed by post-phenomenology, other-centred psychoanalysis as well as counter-traditional philosophy, we will investigate the above three topics through dyad work, group work and discussion.

Dreams, traditionally the province of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapy – can be  explored phenomenologically rather than being interpreted.

The Daimonic is any natural function which can invade the person. It is essential to human experience. To be overwhelmed by the daimonic opens the door to psychosis; to suppress it leads us to apathy, or the absence of pathos – i.e., suffering, passion and ‘pathology’.

Existential approaches have rationalized the Daimonic, while Jungian analysis has understood it in terms of archetypes. In what another way can it be understood and experienced? The Dionysian is closely linked to the Daimonic, with one fundamental difference: it cannot be rationalized away or purified through catharsis but requires embracing the tragic joy of existence, the person’s identification with the wider domain of organismic experiencing. *

Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist, supervisor, visiting lecturer at Roehampton University. He facilitates men’s groups as well as workshops on Zen and Phenomenology in the UK and abroad. He has a background in philosophy and rock music and is the author and editor of several books, including Haiku for Lovers (Ed); The Speed of Angels; Zen Poems (Ed); Re-visioning Person-centred Therapy (Ed); Zen and Therapy: Heretical Perspectives; Therapy and the Counter-tradition (co-editor), Nietzsche and Psychotherapy and the forthcoming Re-visioning Existential Therapy. He has been editor of Person- Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, and is associate editor for Self & Society. He studied Eastern  contemplative practices since 1980 and in 2004 was ordained in the Soto and Rinzai traditions of Zen Buddhism. www.manubazzano.com.

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

One-Year Course

Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Bárbara Godoy

This certified one year course* provides participants with the opportunity to examine the book Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World in detail both with its author, Professor Ernesto Spinelli, and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops facilitated by Bárbara Godoy.

Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice (according to an independent published survey of over 1,000 existential therapists worldwide).

“This book is about much more than how to practice existential therapy; it’s about how to be an existentialist.” Dr Greg Madison

This experiential study group is for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by immersing themselves mind, body and soul in a relational world.

Programme 2019/2020

Autumn Term 2019
Co-creating the Therapy-world
17, 24 and 31 October
(7 reading week), 14, 21 and 28 November

Winter Term 2020
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
23 and 30 January
6, (13 reading week), 20 and 27 February
5 March

Spring Term 2020
Closing Down the Therapy-world
14, 21 and 28 May
(4 reading week), 11, 18 and 25 June

* The final certificate requires all three terms completed BUT each term can be taken individually and CPD hours can be claimed.

Fees:
£1200 for the certified course (all three terms)

Download the full programme >

Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli. An innovative combination of lectures and exercises specially designed to “bring to life” key existential topics. For those wishing to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by deepening and widening their “felt sense” in a group setting.

Saturdays 10am to 1pm

Programme:
Worldview – 18 January
Sedimentation – 29 February
Tensions – 28 March
Identity – 25  April
Conflict – 16  May
Change – 27  June
Temporality – 18 July
Space – 17 October
Aloneness – 14 November
Authenticity – 12 December

Fee: £70 per workshop or £500 the 10 dates

These Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.

“Group supervision sessions seek to provide participants with a safe, yet challenging, space, to consider and address the issues that arise for them when discussing their own, or another participant’s, experience of being a therapist. They provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at their practice and re-view their assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist and doing therapy. Group supervision can be a valuable and enriching experience for all participants since even though the focus may be on a particular supervisee’s account, it is likely that all participants will discover broader issues and concerns that resonate with their own encounters with clients.” Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential therapy and, more recently, the related areas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKPC) registered existential psychotherapist. As a Coach Ernesto is an APECS accredited executive coach and supervisor as well as a founding member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair as the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. In 2019, he received the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. Between 1997 and 2008, he was the Academic Dean, and subsequently Senior Fellow, of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London. Ernesto many publications and textbooks appear on the reading lists of numerous training programmes in the UK, North America, Australia and continental Europe. In a survey of over 1000 existential therapists worldwide, Ernesto’s most recent book, Practicing Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd Edition (2015) has been identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice. Author of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd ed (Sage, 2015), The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001).

All dates:  Saturdays 18 January, 29 February, 28 March, 25 April, 16 May, 27 June, 18 July, 17 October,  14 November, 12 December
Afternoon option: from 2pm to 5pm

Fee: £1260 the whole year (£140 per session)

BPS award for distinguished contribution

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapy and coaching training programmes around the world. His latest book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS

Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli. An innovative combination of lectures and exercises specially designed to “bring to life” key existential topics. For those wishing to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by deepening and widening their “felt sense” in a group setting.

Saturdays 10am to 1pm

Programme:
Worldview – 18 January
Sedimentation – 29 February
Tensions – 28 March
Identity – 25  April
Conflict – 16  May
Change – 27  June
Temporality – 18 July
Space – 17 October
Aloneness – 14 November
Authenticity – 12 December

Fee: £70 per workshop or £500 the 10 dates

These Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.

“Group supervision sessions seek to provide participants with a safe, yet challenging, space, to consider and address the issues that arise for them when discussing their own, or another participant’s, experience of being a therapist. They provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at their practice and re-view their assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist and doing therapy. Group supervision can be a valuable and enriching experience for all participants since even though the focus may be on a particular supervisee’s account, it is likely that all participants will discover broader issues and concerns that resonate with their own encounters with clients.” Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential therapy and, more recently, the related areas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKPC) registered existential psychotherapist. As a Coach Ernesto is an APECS accredited executive coach and supervisor as well as a founding member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair as the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. In 2019, he received the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. Between 1997 and 2008, he was the Academic Dean, and subsequently Senior Fellow, of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London. Ernesto many publications and textbooks appear on the reading lists of numerous training programmes in the UK, North America, Australia and continental Europe. In a survey of over 1000 existential therapists worldwide, Ernesto’s most recent book, Practicing Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd Edition (2015) has been identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice. Author of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd ed (Sage, 2015), The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001).

All dates:  Saturdays 18 January, 29 February, 28 March, 25 April, 16 May, 27 June, 18 July, 17 October,  14 November, 12 December
Afternoon option: from 2pm to 5pm

Fee: £1260 the whole year (£140 per session)

BPS award for distinguished contribution

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapy and coaching training programmes around the world. His latest book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS

How not-being-at-home can also be a way of being and that our moment-by-moment shifting of experience shows us a different kind of ‘ground’.

Based upon the practice of Focusing and research into existential migration, we will rethink ‘home’ as a an interaction, not as place. Our concepts themselves, can become momentary interactions, based upon process rather than fixed, set, defended. We will explore experientially our biases towards sedentary ways of being and thinking. Unsettledness can be aspired to rather than pathologised. Heidegger believed that our not being-at-home in the world is the more primordial condition . It is a strange inversion of lost and found in which we find ourselves most fully at the moment when the world sinks into insignificance and we appear most lost in the eyes of the conventional. In terms of existential migration, the suggestion is that we are not-at-home not because we have been exiled from home, but rather because we have been exiled by home from ourselves. The workshop will offer a mixture of experiential practice, discussion, and presentation, in a safe and respectful manner.

Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli. An innovative combination of lectures and exercises specially designed to “bring to life” key existential topics. For those wishing to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by deepening and widening their “felt sense” in a group setting.

Saturdays 10am to 1pm

Programme:
Worldview – 18 January
Sedimentation – 29 February
Tensions – 28 March
Identity – 25  April
Conflict – 16  May
Change – 27  June
Temporality – 18 July
Space – 17 October
Aloneness – 14 November
Authenticity – 12 December

Fee: £70 per workshop or £500 the 10 dates

These Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.

“Group supervision sessions seek to provide participants with a safe, yet challenging, space, to consider and address the issues that arise for them when discussing their own, or another participant’s, experience of being a therapist. They provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at their practice and re-view their assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist and doing therapy. Group supervision can be a valuable and enriching experience for all participants since even though the focus may be on a particular supervisee’s account, it is likely that all participants will discover broader issues and concerns that resonate with their own encounters with clients.” Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential therapy and, more recently, the related areas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKPC) registered existential psychotherapist. As a Coach Ernesto is an APECS accredited executive coach and supervisor as well as a founding member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair as the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. In 2019, he received the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. Between 1997 and 2008, he was the Academic Dean, and subsequently Senior Fellow, of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London. Ernesto many publications and textbooks appear on the reading lists of numerous training programmes in the UK, North America, Australia and continental Europe. In a survey of over 1000 existential therapists worldwide, Ernesto’s most recent book, Practicing Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd Edition (2015) has been identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice. Author of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd ed (Sage, 2015), The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001).

All dates:  Saturdays 18 January, 29 February, 28 March, 25 April, 16 May, 27 June, 18 July, 17 October,  14 November, 12 December
Afternoon option: from 2pm to 5pm

Fee: £1260 the whole year (£140 per session)

BPS award for distinguished contribution

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapy and coaching training programmes around the world. His latest book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS

Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli. An innovative combination of lectures and exercises specially designed to “bring to life” key existential topics. For those wishing to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by deepening and widening their “felt sense” in a group setting.

Saturdays 10am to 1pm

Programme:
Worldview – 18 January
Sedimentation – 29 February
Tensions – 28 March
Identity – 25  April
Conflict – 16  May
Change – 27  June
Temporality – 18 July
Space – 17 October
Aloneness – 14 November
Authenticity – 12 December

Fee: £70 per workshop or £500 the 10 dates

These Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.

“Group supervision sessions seek to provide participants with a safe, yet challenging, space, to consider and address the issues that arise for them when discussing their own, or another participant’s, experience of being a therapist. They provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at their practice and re-view their assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist and doing therapy. Group supervision can be a valuable and enriching experience for all participants since even though the focus may be on a particular supervisee’s account, it is likely that all participants will discover broader issues and concerns that resonate with their own encounters with clients.” Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential therapy and, more recently, the related areas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKPC) registered existential psychotherapist. As a Coach Ernesto is an APECS accredited executive coach and supervisor as well as a founding member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair as the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. In 2019, he received the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. Between 1997 and 2008, he was the Academic Dean, and subsequently Senior Fellow, of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London. Ernesto many publications and textbooks appear on the reading lists of numerous training programmes in the UK, North America, Australia and continental Europe. In a survey of over 1000 existential therapists worldwide, Ernesto’s most recent book, Practicing Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd Edition (2015) has been identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice. Author of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd ed (Sage, 2015), The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001).

All dates:  Saturdays 18 January, 29 February, 28 March, 25 April, 16 May, 27 June, 18 July, 17 October,  14 November, 12 December
Afternoon option: from 2pm to 5pm

Fee: £1260 the whole year (£140 per session)

BPS award for distinguished contribution

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapy and coaching training programmes around the world. His latest book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS

Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli. An innovative combination of lectures and exercises specially designed to “bring to life” key existential topics. For those wishing to “walk the walk” of existential enquiry by deepening and widening their “felt sense” in a group setting.

Saturdays 10am to 1pm

Programme:
Worldview – 18 January
Sedimentation – 29 February
Tensions – 28 March
Identity – 25  April
Conflict – 16  May
Change – 27  June
Temporality – 18 July
Space – 17 October
Aloneness – 14 November
Authenticity – 12 December

Fee: £70 per workshop or £500 the 10 dates

These Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.

“Group supervision sessions seek to provide participants with a safe, yet challenging, space, to consider and address the issues that arise for them when discussing their own, or another participant’s, experience of being a therapist. They provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at their practice and re-view their assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist and doing therapy. Group supervision can be a valuable and enriching experience for all participants since even though the focus may be on a particular supervisee’s account, it is likely that all participants will discover broader issues and concerns that resonate with their own encounters with clients.” Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential therapy and, more recently, the related areas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKPC) registered existential psychotherapist. As a Coach Ernesto is an APECS accredited executive coach and supervisor as well as a founding member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a personal chair as the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. In 2019, he received the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. Between 1997 and 2008, he was the Academic Dean, and subsequently Senior Fellow, of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London. Ernesto many publications and textbooks appear on the reading lists of numerous training programmes in the UK, North America, Australia and continental Europe. In a survey of over 1000 existential therapists worldwide, Ernesto’s most recent book, Practicing Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd Edition (2015) has been identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice. Author of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd ed (Sage, 2015), The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001).

All dates:  Saturdays 18 January, 29 February, 28 March, 25 April, 16 May, 27 June, 18 July, 17 October,  14 November, 12 December
Afternoon option: from 2pm to 5pm

Fee: £1260 the whole year (£140 per session)

BPS award for distinguished contribution

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapy and coaching training programmes around the world. His latest book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS