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

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 wait- ist 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
FULL wait-list only

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 and Thur 19 & Fri 20 and
Thur 26 & Fri 27 NOV – ONLINE 

DECEMBER 2026
International Guest Events

Moving from Body as “Thing” to Bodyhood as “Event”
We live in a world profoundly invested in the body as a thing.  But what if the body is not a thing at all, but an event? In this workshop you’ll explore with Todd what happens when we move from seeing the body as an object to encountering bodyhood as lived experience.  Drawing on a variety of existential and phenomenological thinkers and practitioners,  Todd will invite you to consider a radically different way of understanding embodiment. Full details here
Presenter: Prof. Todd DuBose
Thur 3, Fri 4 & Sat 5 DEC  – ONLINE
FULL wait-list only

FEBRUARY 2027
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
FEB: Thur 18 & Fri 19, Thur 25 & Fri 26 and
MAR: Thur 4 & Fri 5, Thur 11 & Fri 12, Thur 18 & Fri 19 –
ONLINE
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 11 & Fri 12 FEB – ONLINE