Therapy Harley Street

FROM FEAR TO INSIGHT: Life as Experiment & Adventure with Manu Bazzano
2020-09-12 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online (Zoom), United Kingdom
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

The whole Programme:
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
Whole course £600 (15 participants max.) – Lectures booked individually £30

WORKING THROUGH COVID-19 TIMES: From Fear to Insight with Bárbara Godoy
2020-06-20 10:00 - 13:00 | Online (Zoom), United Kingdom
A three-hour FREE online reflective workshop for Therapists who want to grow stronger together.
Led by Bárbara Godoy, M.A., Adv.Dip.
Exi.Psy, UKCP, MBACP and SEA .
Existential Psychotherapist and UKCP accredited supervisor, Director of Therapy Harley Street

Saturday 20 June 2020
from 10am to 1pm (fully booked) – New date: 2pm to 5pm online via Zoom.

EXISTENTIAL PRACTICE: THE RELATIONAL WORLD with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Barbara Godoy
2020-01-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Therapy Harley Street, 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, United Kingdom
One-Year Course
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
Autumn Term
Co-creating the Therapy-world
Winter Term
Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world
Spring Term
Closing Down the Therapy-world
* 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)
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ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli
2020-01-18 14:00 - 17:00 | Online (Zoom), United Kingdom
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 with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli
2020-01-18 10:00 - 13:00 | Therapy Harley Street, 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, United Kingdom
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

EXPERIENTIAL STUDY GROUP with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Bárbara Godoy
2019-03-30 10:00 - 13:00 | Therapy Harley Street, 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, United Kingdom
An innovative combination of lectures with exercises specifically 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 2019:
30 March: Relatedness
27 April: Uncertainty
18 May: Anxiety
29 June: Meaning
12 October: Choice
9 November: Freedom (Guess teacher: Amano Godoy)
7 December: Responsibility
£50 each Workshop
Saturdays 10am to 1pm
Programme 2020:
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

WORKING WITH MOMENT-TO-MOMENT EXPERIENCE IN SESSIONS with Dr. Greg Madison
2019-03-23 10:00 - 17:00 | Therapy Harley Street, 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, United Kingdom
“We will work from ’the body’ backwards to how we think; inverting our usual habit of putting concepts first. The day will centre around the practice of Focusing and the philosophy of Eugene Gendlin to develop an embodied-relational mode of therapy.” Dr Greg Madison
Dr. Greg Madison, AFBPsS, UKCP, EAP, WCPC, BPS CPsychol, HCPC, EuroPsy –
Dr. Greg Madison is a Chartered Psychologist (BPS) and Registered existential Psychotherapist (UKCP). Greg’s academic studies in psychology began in 1979. He has been practicing as a psychotherapist and Focusing trainer for over twenty-five years. He is also a registered coaching psychologist, accredited mediator, senior lecturer, supervisor, author and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Over the years Greg has been exposed to many psychological theories and most of the various models of psychotherapy. These, sometimes competing theories and models, suggest that there is still much that we can learn about psychology, and about life. Greg believes that it is crucial that we remain as open as possible to the complexity of human existence. Each person teaches us a lot about the everyday dilemmas we all encounter throughout life.
In his work, Dr. Madison emphasises what a person concretely experiences and how each of us makes unique sense of how we live. This requires taking account of our cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and relational spheres of being – balancing the intellect and emotions.

ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli
2019-01-19 10:00 - 13:00
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, Fellow of the British Psychological Society, (BPS), UKCP registered existential psychotherapist and an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. 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 19th January, 23rd February, 30th March, 27th April, 18th May, 29th June, 12th October, 9th November, 7th December
Morning Option: from 10am to 1pm
Afternoon Option: from 2pm to 5pm

REFLECTIVE SUPERVISION with Bárbara Godoy
2019-01-12 10:30 - 12:30 | Therapy Harley Street, 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, United Kingdom
A creative and uplifting monthly group that aims to strengthen the therapists’ own existential awareness – Support with Case Study writing and presentations is optional.
All therapists have an original project, which can be mastered through observing their work with perspective and bringing themselves as co-creators of the narrative they bring to supervision.
Includes experts in different fields.
Bárbara Godoy – Clinical Director of Therapy Harley Street and the Mind Body Centre, UKCP accredited psychotherapist and supervisor, professional member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and former committee member (and current professional member) of the Society for Existential Analysis (Bárbara’s profile)
Dates: 12th January, 9th February, 9th March, 25th May, 8th June, 6th July, 7th September, 5th October, 2nd November, 30th November
Ten monthly Saturdays from 10.30am to 12.30pm

THE LABYRINTH AND THE MASK An Exploration of Nietzsche’s Life-affirming Psychology with Manu Bazzano
2018-04-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Therapy Harley Street, 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, United Kingdom
“To you, bold searchers, tempters, experimenters, and whoever has embarked with cunning sails upon terrifying seas” A course comprising of lectures on Nietzsche’s vibrant thought, with links to Zen, contemporary psychotherapies and philosophies and featuring experiential exercises and meditations.
“What would it be like to apply Nietzsches ideas to the art of psychotherapy and, more generally, to our way of being in the world? How can we make creative use of Nietzsches thought in our life and practice? Here is a little taste.The first step is embracing naturalism. This means giving primacy to nature and the body over consciousness. The latter needs to occupy, in this naturalistic view, a humbler position. Consciousness observes the body and the complexity of bodily affects and passions and then sends dispatches of this vast and complex felt text. Its relation to the body and the instincts, consciousness is subordinate. It is an aspect of the instinctual life, one that is not particularly better, more moral, or even fairer. What we call our thinking is also the result of a relationship between natural forces. ” Manu Bazzano
The course will be divided into three parts:
(a) We will look at the intrinsic intelligence of feelings, emotions and passions, comparing Nietzsches breakthrough insights about the Dionysian and the Apollonian dimensions with contemporary notions of eudaimonía or flourishing, developed against more facile notions promoted by the happiness industry.
(b) We will explore notions of time in relation to what Nietzsche calls eternal recurrence, an exhilarating myth as well as a koan (or existential riddle), potentially useful in bringing forth a bold affirmation of existence and one that is intimately linked to a path of self-acceptance and deep appreciation of self-other-world.
(c) We will sketch two powerful and far-reaching themes from the Nietzschean corpus: 1) morality and its close link with the notion of the self as-we-know-it, i.e. the Cartesian self and its various surrogates and dead ringers; 2) power, reassessed, paradoxically, not as power over others (for Nietzsche a sign of weakness) but as active cultivation of vulnerability and generosity.
Part One: 19th April, 26th April and 3rd May.
Part Two: 17th May, 24th May and 31st May.
Part Three: 14th June, 21st June and 28th June
Nine Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm
Fee: £600 for the whole course

REFLECTIVE SUPERVISION with Bárbara Godoy
2018-02-01 19:00 - 2019-02-01 21:00 | Therapy Harley Street, 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, United Kingdom
A creative and uplifting monthly group that aims to strengthen the therapists’ own existential awareness – Support with Case Study writing and presentations is optional.
All therapists have an original project, which can be mastered through observing their work with perspective and bringing themselves as co-creators of the narrative they bring to supervision.
Includes experts in different fields.
Dr. Tom Cotton, Existential-Analytic Psychotherapist
Writing clinical case studies – can the principles of storytelling help?
In this one-hour workshop, psychotherapist Dr Tom Cotton, who worked previously as a screenwriter, talks about some of the principles of storytelling that he has found helpful when writing clinical case studies.
Bárbara Godoy – Clinical Director of Therapy Harley Street and the Mind Body Centre, UKCP accredited psychotherapist and supervisor, professional member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and former committee member (and current professional member) of the Society for Existential Analysis (Bárbara’s profile)
Dates: 1st February, 1st March, 29th March, 10th May, 7th June,
5th July, 13th September, 4th October, 1st November
and 6th December.
Ten Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm

ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli
2018-01-20 10:00 - 13:00 | Therapy Harley Street, 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, United Kingdom
These 4 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
All dates: 20th January, 28th April, 23rd June and 27th October
Morning Option: 10am to 1pm
Afternoon Option: 2pm to 5pm

SEMINAR: EXISTENTIAL GROUP WORK with Karen Weixel Dixon
2017-09-09 13:00 - 17:00 | Therapy Harley Street, 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, United Kingdom
The proposal that Being-in-the-world is always being with others is one that provides a sound basis for therapeutic group work in the existential model: (12 participants max.)
“Psychology is neither ‘individual’ nor ‘group’, except by abstraction” S.H. Foulkes
The proposal that Being-in-the-world is always being-with-others is one that provides a sound basis for therapeutic group work in the existential model.
No-one can do nothing in a group: everyone is in some part, and in some way, responsible for the quality of relationship(s) that are created. What better stage on which to discover how you are experienced, how clear or ambiguous are your communications, and under what circumstances might you retain or modify your intentions and strategies of being-with-others?
Facilitator and group members are all in this together. Anyone can be a participant/observer, but in any case, everyone is being and doing.
Part 1 of this two-part CPD event will consider some queries about the nature of the format. Why group work? What are the therapeutic possibilities and what might be the risks for both facilitators and members? How is it the same and different from individual work?
In discussing these we will refer to some existential proposals that are particularly relevant for group work; inter-subjectivity, time, choice, uncertainty, the self, meaning/meaninglessness- to name a few. These topics will serve to illuminate the process of group work and what it offers in terms of an existential phenomenological endeavour.
Theory and practice will be presented as aspects of an attitude that informs an existential model. This premise will facilitate explorations of such issues as: What is the role of the facilitator? What is the responsibility of the members? What are the possibilities for therapeutic interactions and effects? What are the possible implications of facilitator styles? These proposals are likely to be complementary to any humanistic model of therapy and counselling.
Part 1 and 2 of this series are interconnected, but may be taken independently.
Subsequent to a brief summary and review of the basic points explored in part 1, part 2 of this CPD event will continue with an exploration of process and procedure. This will include the issue of themes, in contrast to ‘problems’, and ‘dialogue’, in contrast to structured interventions.
There will also be an opportunity to consider the temporal stages of the group: beginning, middle and end, all of which may be characterised by similar qualities and difficulties. ‘Endings’ as an issue that is present from the very beginning of the group will be discussed as a significant factor in all human relationships.
There will be a presentation of an existential phenomenological theory of emotions, what makes them important, and how to work with them. A review of common difficulties with procedure, such as boundary settings and with inter-personal engagements, such as conflict and drop-outs, will facilitate a deeper appreciation of these aspects.
These proposals are likely to be complementary to any humanistic model of therapy and counselling.
Those in attendance will be welcome to offer their own experiences and questions.
Come join us for a one day afternoon seminar that will provide both experiential and theoretical material for the facilitation of and participation in existential groupwork.
Second date 18 November 2017

ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION with Prof Ernesto Spinelli
2017-06-17 10:00 - 13:00
These 4 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

SELVES, DIVIDED SELVES AND EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY with Prof Ernesto Spinelli
2017-01-28 10:00 - 17:00
The question of ‘the self’ and the issues that it raises for psychotherapy is a persistent and seemingly irresolvable dilemma.
Many of the assumptions regarding ‘the self’ that are maintained by psychotherapists and psychologists a reveal decidedly dominant Western cultural bias and emphasis. We tend to speak of ‘the self’ as an object or thing. Equally, we imagine ‘the self’ as originating from within us in some way and serving as agent of our thoughts and behaviour. Further we assume ‘the self’ to be singular and to remain more or less constant over time. We claim to be able to distinguish ‘the real self’ from false, or alien, manifestations. We claim to be able to “lose” our self and, perhaps with the aid of psychotherapy, to “find” our self once again.
All of these ideas, and many more like them, seem somewhat obvious and common sensical to most of us in the West. But what if other, less attractive but equally far more challenging ideas regarding ‘the self’ were to be considered? What would be their impact upon psychotherapeutic interventions or our psychological understanding of ‘self’ in general?
This two-day workshop considers the issue of ‘the self’ from the standpoint of contemporary contributions from the British School of Existential Analysis. These contributions combine various strands and strategies derived from contemporary phenomenology, narrative theory and post-modern discourse.
In brief, this alternative way of thinking about ‘the self’ challenges each and every one of our “common-sense” biases and assumptions.
According to this existential-phenomenological approach, human existence reveals ‘the total, indissoluble unity or interrelationship of the individual and his or her world … In the truest sense, the [self] is viewed as having no existence apart from the world and the world as having no existence apart from persons … (Valle and King, 1989: 7)
Such a view rejects the trend in modern personality theories which seeks to categorize or `typologize’ individuals or which attempts to divide and reduce people in terms of various `parts’ or components. Instead, it aims to remain at a descriptive and open-ended level of analysis of human experience.
Considered in such ways, ‘the self’ can be seen to be more ‘process-like’ rather than a set of characteristics or components. As such, when speaking of ‘the self’ what we might actually be doing is attempting to ‘capture’ or structure lived experience from a particular point of focus that we are calling ‘the self’. Narrative theory, for instance, speaks in terms of ‘storying’. More generally, it might become more appropriate to consider and discuss ‘the self-structure’.
The workshops will focus on central areas of concern regarding ‘the self-structure’.
They will focus on such topics as:
The self-construct as the central structure of reflective experience.
The impact of rigid or sedimented beliefs regarding a self-structure.
The dissociation of experience as a consequence of sedimentations in the self-structure.
The experience of divided, dissociated or multiple ‘selves’ reconsidered from the standpoint of sedimentations in the self-structure and dissociations from lived experience.
The reconsideration of ‘unconscious’ mechanisms as views from psycho-analytic perspectives from the standpoint of sedimentations in the self-structure and dissociations from lived experience.
The reconsideration of ‘real’ versus ‘false’ manifestations of ‘the self’ sedimentations in the self-structure and dissociations from lived experience.
Working psychotherapeutically with the self-structure.
Dates: 28/1/2017 and 4/3/2017
