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Workshops

Enrich your practice with small-group experiential learning that gives you the opportunity for tangible personal and professional growth. Our CPD incorporates existential and complementary themes that you can integrate into any therapeutic approach. 

 

 

JUNE 2026

TIME LIMITED THERAPY

Examines time-limited therapy and the paradoxical freedoms that arise when an ending is agreed upon or acknowledged at the first therapeutic encounter. Explore how an awareness of finitude can enliven both therapist and client, opening up more intentional ways of working. 

Full details here

 

 

Facilitator: Dr Alison Strasser

CPD hours: 6
Cost: $320 (AUD flat rate)
Online via zoom across 2 half-days
Thur 4 & Fri 5 JUNE 2026

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JULY 2026

GRIEF AND THE BODY

Examines the embodied aspects of grief and loss, with body-informed responses explored, experienced and practised.

Full details here

 

 

 

Facilitator: Dr Greg Roberts

CPD hours: 12
Cost: $480 (AUD flat rate)
In-person MELBOURNE
Thur 2 & Fri 3 JULY 2026 – FULL wait-list only

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AUGUST 2026

 

A FOCUSING APPROACH TO STUCK WAYS OF BEING: Untangling Entanglements

Integrating existential enquiry with the Untangling approach developed by Barbara McGavin and Ann Weiser Cornell, this workshop explores how embodied patterns of experience become sedimented over time and how Focusing-oriented practice can help therapists and counsellors work more effectively with stuckness, inner conflict and repetitive ways of being.

Full details here

 

 Facilitators: Dr Alison Strasser and Jane Quayle

CPD hours: 12
Cost: $560 (or $480 Early Bird by 30 July)
In-person SYDNEY
Thur 27 & Fri 28 AUG 2026

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SEPTEMBER 2026

GRIEF & TRAUMA: working with sudden, unexpected loss

Certain types of loss are more likely to be experienced as traumatic, leaving an individual feeling overwhelmed. This workshop will engage you 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

CPD hours: 12
Cost: $480 (AUD flat rate)
Online via zoom across 4 half-days

Thur 3 & Fri 4 and Thur 10 & Fri 11 SEPT 2026

 

OCTOBER 2026

WORKING WITH COMPLEX, PROLONGED GRIEF: addressing crisis of meaning and existential angst

Sometimes grief has the power to significantly challenge the griever’s ability to function in their daily life. This workshop explores 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

CPD hours: 12
Cost: $480 (AUD flat rate)
Online via zoom across 4 half-days
 
2nd course for 2026:
Thur 15 & Fri 16 and Thursday 22 & Fri 23 OCTOBER

 

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