2024 CPD Programme
ICTEPP : INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED TRAINING in EXISTENTIAL PRACTICE for PROFESSIONALS
with Bárbara Godoy, Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Guest Speakers
ADVANCED APPLIED SUPERVISION GROUP
with Dr Betty CannonUnlocking Our-Selves 2024: “The Seekers”
Experiential Group and Process Work with Bárbara Godoy
A playground for therapists to nurture the imagination,
release inhibitions and mobilise therapeutic insights
“Supportive, thought-provoking, emancipating, grounding”
Inspired by the most prominent world seekers from antiquity to date. This year’s programme will take us on a profound personal journey of enquiry by cultivating presence and activating aliveness in the group environment
Friday Lunchtime Group
12.30 pm to 1.45 pm (UK Time)
Existential Dialogues 2024: “In Search”
Phenomenological explorations for existential seekers. Ten live dialogues between Prof Ernesto Spinelli and International Existential Therapists which clearly illustrate their own personal journey intertwined with the method of the investigation. We are looking to highlight the role of the researcher as an existential seeker.
2024 PROGRAMME:
27 January “Placebo” between Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Bárbara Godoy
24 February “Reflexivity” between Prof Carla Willig and Prof Ernesto Spinelli
23 March “Homecoming” between Prof R. Romanyshyn and Prof Ernesto Spinelli
27 April “Ungraspable” between Dr Todd DuBose and Prof Ernesto Spinelli
18 May “Homelessness” between Dr Greg Madison and Prof Ernesto Spinelli
22 June “Psychedelics” between Dr Yaqui Martinez and Prof Ernesto Spinelli
20 July “Anxiety” between Prof Kirk Schneider and Prof Ernesto Spinelli
26 October “Intentionality” between Dr Betty Cannon and Prof Ernesto Spinelli
23 November “Vulnerability” between Prof Simon du Plock and Prof Ernesto Spinelli
14 December “Enacting” between Bárbara Godoy and Prof Ernesto Spinelli
Saturdays 2 pm to 5 pm
2023 CPD Programme
ICTEPP : INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED TRAINING in EXISTENTIAL PRACTICE for PROFESSIONALS
with Bárbara Godoy, Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Guest Speakers
ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION GROUP
with Prof Ernesto SpinelliADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION GROUP
These monthly workshops
provide the opportunity
to ‘look again’
at our practice
and re-view
assumptions and expectations
regarding
being a therapist.
Maximum: 11 participants
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ADVANCED APPLIED SUPERVISION GROUP
with Dr Betty CannonADVANCED APPLIED SUPERVISION GROUP
Betty Cannon,
the author of Sartre and
Psychoanalysis, offers a playful,
active, experientially based
form of supervision
that is deeply and specifically
grounded in the philosophy of Sartre
Maximum: 10 participants
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UNLOCKINGOUR-SELVES
with Bárbara GodoyUNLOCKINGOUR-SELVES
Group for practitioners
A playground for therapists to nurture the imagination, release inhibitions and mobilise therapeutic insights
Fridays 12.30pm to 1.45pm
Existential Dialogues: The Therapist in the Mirror
Ten live dialogues between Prof Ernesto Spinelli and International Existential Therapists based on case studies that illustrate key existential topics. Followed by a group experience facilitated by Bárbara Godoy and Guest Teachers to reflect on how clients
are affecting, disturbing and inspiring our own relationship with Being.
2023 PROGRAMME:
28 January “Space” with Prof Ernesto Spinelli
25 February “Resoluteness” between Prof E. Spinelli and Dr Todd DuBose
11 Mar. “Meaning” between Prof E. Spinelli and Dr Katerina Zymnis
15 Ap.: “Responsibility” between Prof E. Spinelli and Dr Ken Bradford
20 May “Embodiment” between Prof E. Spinelli and Dr Greg Madison
24 Jun. “Sexuality” between Prof E. Spinelli and Niki D
08 Jul. “Play” between Prof E. Spinelli and Dr Betty Cannon
28 Oct.: “Identity” between Prof E. Spinelli and Dr Yaqui Martinez
11 Nov. “Dreams” between Prof E. Spinelli and Prof Robert Romanyshyn
02 Dec. “Spirituality” between Prof E. Spinelli and Barbara Godoy
Saturdays 2 pm to 5 pm
2022 CPD Programme
New! INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED TRAINING in EXISTENTIAL PRACTICE for PROFESSIONALS
with Bárbara Godoy, Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Guest Speakers
ADVANCED
EXISTENTIAL
SUPERVISION GROUP
with Prof Ernesto SpinelliADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION GROUP
These monthly workshops
provide the opportunity
to ‘look again’
at our practice
and re-view
assumptions and expectations
regarding
being a therapist.
Maximum: 11 participants
Read more >
ADVANCED AFFECT-BASED SUPERVISION GROUP
with Dr Manu BazzanoADVANCED AFFECT-BASED SUPERVISION GROUP
Supervision is not ‘management’ but open exploration. It is a soulful endeavour. At the heart of group supervision is the crucial notion of affect, the modification or variation produced in a body/mind by the interaction with other bodies/minds.
Maximum: 11 participants
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UNLOCKINGOUR-SELVES
Group for practitioners with Bárbara GodoyUNLOCKINGOUR-SELVES
Group for practitioners
Experiential Group
and Process Work.
A playground for therapists
to nurture the imagination,
release inhibitions
and mobilise
therapeutic insights
Maximum: 10 participants
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EXISTENTIAL DIALOGUES
One-to-one dialogues between Prof Ernesto Spinelli and ten representatives of the existential approach from different parts of the world
PROGRAMME (CLICK FOR FULL PROGRAMME):
22 January: “Therapy and the Daimonic” with Dr Manu Bazzano
19 February: “Diving into the co-created world of the psychotherapeutic encounter” with Dr Katerina Zymnis
19 March: “The Power of Phenomenological Openness” with Dr Todd Dubose
23 April: “Reconciling the past” with Dr Michael Montgomery
21 May: “Challenges on Existential Therapeutic Practice” with Dr Yaqui Martinez
18 June: “Brainstorming the basis of an Existential Laboratory” with Bárbara Godoy
23 July: “In the Spirit of Play: Toward a Psychology of Freedom” with Dr Betty Cannon
15 October: “Is Existence the same as Experience in Existential Therapy?” with Dr Greg Madison
19 November: “Zhimian: Existential Approach from a Chinese culture” with Dr Xuefu Wang
17 December “Radical Authenticity” with Dr Ken Bradford
EXPERIENTIAL STUDY GROUP with Bárbara Godoy
These Group Process Work sessions include the Existential Dialogues mentioned above as trigger for an existential laboratory for practitioners who would like to engage in a highly experiential journey to explore the meaning of the three phases of the “Therapy-World” as formulated in the text book “Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World” (Prof E. Spinelli): 1) Co-creating the Therapy-world; 2) Co-habiting the Group Therapy-world and 3) Closing Down the Therapy-world.
Max. 15 participants . Read more >
2021 CPD Programme
EXPERIENTIAL STUDY GROUP with Bárbara Godoy with lectures by Prof Ernesto Spinelli & Prof Robert Romanyshyn
This phenomenological self enquiry is a full immersion into existential theory and depth psychology through an innovative combination of lectures and exercises .
ADVANCED
EXISTENTIAL
SUPERVISION GROUP
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.
ADVANCED PHENOMENOLOGICAL SUPERVISION with Prof Robert Romanyshyn
Our supervision groups draw upon the ways in which existential-phenomenology and depth psychology supplement each other and deepen our practice.
Unlocking Our-Selves
UNLOCKING OURSELVES with Bárbara Godoy
TERM ONE
Meditations for Practitioners who need to create a space in themselves to have the capacity to care for others. A safe place to let go and feel held!
UNLOCKING OUR-SELVES with Bárbara Godoy
TERM TWO
Experiential Group and Process Work. A playground for therapists to nurture the imagination, release inhibitions and mobilise therapeutic insights
UNLOCKING OUR-SELVES with Bárbara Godoy
TERM THREE
Experiential Group and Process Work. A playground for therapists to nurture the imagination, release inhibitions and mobilise therapeutic insights
2020 CPD Programme
EXPERIENTIAL STUDY GROUP with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli
Experiential Study Group for practitioners who want to “walk the walk” of Existential Enquiry with Barbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli.
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.
EXISTENTIAL PRACTICE: THE RELATIONAL WORLD with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Barbara Godoy
The book in detail both with its author and via a sequence of discursive, experientially-focused workshops.
WORKING THROUGH COVID-19 TIMES: From Fear to Insight with Bárbara Godoy
A three-hour FREE online reflective workshop for Therapists who want to grow stronger together.
FROM FEAR TO INSIGHT
One-hour lecture led by Dr Manu Bazzano, Dr Greg Madison, Dr Yaqui Martinez, Dr Christian Schulz Quach, Victor Perez, Pat Spink, Prof Robert Romanyshyn and Prof Ernesto Spinelli followed by two-hour group session with Bárbara Godoy.
2019 CPD Programme
REFLECTIVE
SUPERVISION
with Bárbara Godoy
A creative and uplifting monthly group that aims to strengthen the therapists’ own existential awareness – Support with Case Study writing and presentations is optional.
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.
WORKING WITH MOMENT-TO-MOMENT EXPERIENCE IN SESSIONS with Dr. Greg Madison
We will work from ’the body’ backwards to how we think; inverting our usual habit of putting concepts first…
EXPERIENTIAL STUDY GROUP with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Bárbara Godoy
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. Read more >
2018 CPD Programme
ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli
These 4 Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.
REFLECTIVE
SUPERVISION GROUP
with Bárbara Godoy
A creative and uplifting monthly group that aims to strengthen the therapists’ own existential awareness – Support with Case Study writing and presentations is optional.
THE LABYRINTH AND THE MASK with Dr Manu Bazzano
A course comprising of lectures on Nietzsche’s vibrant thought, with links to Zen, contemporary psychotherapies and philosophies and featuring experiential exercises and meditations.
2017 CPD Programme
SELVES, DIVIDED SELVES AND EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY with Prof Ernesto Spinelli
The question of ‘the self’ and the issues that it raises for psychotherapy is a persistent and seemingly irresolvable dilemma
ADVANCED EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION with Prof Ernesto Spinelli
These 4 Master Workshops provide the opportunity to ‘look again’ at our practice and re-view assumptions and expectations regarding being a therapist.
SEMINAR: EXISTENTIAL GROUP WORK with Karen Weixel Dixon
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