Centre for Existential Practice

Events by Month

Enrich your practice with small-group experiential learning that gives you the opportunity for tangible personal and professional growth. Our Trainings and CPD offerings incorporate existential and complementary themes that you can integrate into any therapeutic approach. The list below is not exhaustive and new offerings are added throughout the year. We suggest checking in with this page periodically to peruse recent additions.

You can search the list by month and/or by type of event you are looking for:

Local CPD
Local CPD
International Guest Events
International Guest CPD
Training
Training

AUGUST 2026
Training
Clinical Supervisor Training
A comprehensive training program with a primary focus on the person of the supervisor. Designed to engender skills and relational-based competency with official recognition as such Full details here
AUG: Thur 13 & Fri 14, Thur 20 & Fri 21 and
SEP: Thur 3 & Fri 4, Thur 10 & Fri 11, Thur 17 & Fri 18 -ONLINE
FULL waiting list only
 
Local CPD

A Focusing Approach to Stuck Ways of Being: Untangling Entanglements
Explore how embodied patterns of experience become sedimented and how Focusing-oriented practice can help therapists and counsellors work more effectively with stuckness and repetitive ways of being. Full details here.
Facilitators: Dr Alison Strasser and Jane Quayle
Thur 27 & Fri 28 AUG 2026 – IN PERSON (SYDNEY)
FULL waiting list only

SEPTEMBER 2026
Training

Grief and Trauma  (Training or CPD)
Engage with a unique blend of grief and trauma theory, experiential learning and opportunities to explore effective and embodied ways of working with clients living with grief and trauma.
Full details here
Facilitator: Dr Greg Roberts 
Thur 3 & Fri 4 and Thur 10 & Fri 11 SEPT 2026 – ONLINE
FULL waiting list only

OCTOBER 2026
Training

Working with Complex, Prolonged Grief (Training or CPD)
Explore modern notions of complex and prolonged grief while considering how to work therapeutically with clients in a way that facilitates growth and a re-engagement with life.
Full details here
Facilitator: Dr Greg Roberts 
Thur 15 & Fri 16 and Thur 22 & Fri 23 OCT – ONLINE
FULL waiting list only
Local CPD

Working with Existential Dread in a Profoundly Shifting World
Explore how to meet clients experiencing existential dread without rushing to explain, reassure or resolve it.
Full details here
Facilitators: Dr Alison Strasser & Dr Adam Mclean
Thur 29 & Fri 30 OCT – ONLINE

 

NOVEMBER 2026 
Training

Introduction to Existential Theory and Practice (Training or CPD)
An intensive introduction to the fundamental concepts and themes that inform the practice of existential counselling and psychotherapy, together with the philosophical foundations.
Full Details here
Trainers: Dr Alison Strasser & Dr Adam Mclean
Thur 12 & Fri 13, Thur 19 & Fri 20 and Thur 26 & Fri 27 NOV – ONLINE

DECEMBER 2026
International Guest Events

International CPD Details TBC

Presenter: Prof. Todd DuBose

Thur 3, Fri 4 & Sat 5 DEC  – ONLINE