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 >

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