You are warmly welcomed to our Professional (and Personal) Development Courses!
Our Mission is to support the therapeutic endeavour in the community, not just in terms of its practice but also generating an environment for continuing professional development and research in a way that facilitates self-enquiry and creativity.
Ultimately, we aim to come together and share insights regarding the meaning of being human and through this promote a deeper understanding of “how to live well”.
Reflexions on Covid19 times: From Fear to Insight
One-hour lecture led by different guests and followed by two-hour group session with Bárbara Godoy.
Guest Lecturers: Manu Bazzano, Dr Christian Schulz Quach, Barbara Godoy, Victor Perez, Pat Spink, Prof Robert Romanyshyn, Dr Yaqui Martinez, Dr Greg Madison and Prof Ernesto Spinelli. Read more >
ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION GROUP WITH PROF. ERNESTO SPINELLI
These monthly workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.
An ONLINE group journey for therapists who want to grow stronger together .
Ten Saturdays 10am to 1pm. Starts 12 September.
One-hour lecture led by different guests and followed by two-hour group session with Bárbara Godoy
Life as Experiment & Adventure Manu Bazzano 12 September But What About You? Dr Christian Schulz Quach 19 September Fear as Contained Excitement Bárbara Godoy 26 September New Technologies: Impact on Self & Culture with Victor Perez – 3 October Adapting Your Professional Practice: Online Presence with Pat Spink – 10 October Therapists’ Grief as Healing with Prof Robert Romanyshyn – 24 October Different Views on Death and Dying Dr Yaqui Martinez 31 October How to Experientialise Your Pandemic Dr Greg Madison 7 November Relatedness Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 21 November
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
ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli
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: Saturdays18 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
ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli
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: Saturdays18 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
ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli
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: Saturdays18 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
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One-hour lecture led by different guests and followed by two-hour group session with Bárbara Godoy.
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’.
