Damian White, assistant.
Damian White is a UKCP accredited Existential psychotherapist and supervisor. He initially trained in person centred therapy under Professor Mick Cooper (1998-2000) before completing an Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy at Regent’s College (2001-03) under Professor Ernesto Spinelli. Damian is currently a tutor at the University of Oxford where he teaches courses on Existential Therapies and, in July this year, an International Summer School on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World.
Therapy Harley Street Existential Practice – The Relational World
One Year Course Programme 2019/20 with
Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Bárbara Godoy Thursdays 6pm to 9pm in 10 Harley Street, W1G 9PF
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 arenas 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 and in 2000 he received 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’s many publications and text books 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.
Bárbara Godoy M.A., Adv.Dip.Exi.Psy, UKCP, MBACP and SEA – Director of Therapy Harley Street. Bárbara’s academic experience includes lecturing on Doctorate level courses in London where she also provided clinical supervision and conducted personal and professional development groups, as visiting lecturer of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology, Regent’s University and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling founded by Emmy van Deurzen.
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Term One ~ Autumn 2019 “Co-Creating the Therapy-World”
Session Date Focus Facilitators
One 17/10/19 Overview of Phase One Prof. Spinelli assisted by Godoy and White
Two 24/10/19 Foundational Principles – Relatedness, Uncertainty, Anxiety
White assisted by Godoy
Three 31/10/19 Exploring our Magic Feathers – Key focal points: Settings (contract, frame), Conditions (placebo effects, client’s journey, greetings, initial narrative) Descriptive Attunement
Godoy assisted by White
Break 7/11/19 READING WEEK "The Unfinished self: inclusivity in experiential-existential therapy" by Greg Madison. In du Plock, S. (2018) Case Studies in Existential therapy: Translating Theory Into Practice, PPCS Books.
Self-led
Four 14/11/19 Key focal points: Descriptive Enquiry Godoy assisted by White
Five 21/11/19 Creative student presentations: highlight a specific personal insight, awareness or connection from the term that has provoked you in your journey towards embodying an existential way of being.
Participants led assisted by Godoy and White
Six 28/11/19 Review of Phase One - Q and A Indications of/and obstacles to a shift to Phase Two
Prof. Spinelli assisted by Godoy and White
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Term Two ~ Winter 2020 “Co-habiting the Group Therapy-World”
Session Date Focus Facilitators
One 23/01/10 Overview of Phase Two Prof. Spinelli assisted by Godoy and White
Two 30/01/10 Sedimentation and Dissociation White assisted by Godoy
Three 06/02/20 Key focal points: Listening to and challenging the client’s narrative Working with existing polarity tensions Exploring the primary structures and core existential issues of the client’s worldview
Godoy assisted by White
Break 13/2/20 READING WEEK “Fat Lady” by Irvin D. Yalom in Love’s Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom (1989) Penguin books
Self-led
Four 20/02/20 Dreamwork - Key focal points: Exploring sedimentations and dissociations in the worldview; Working with inter-relational realism of encounter and intimacy; Reconfiguring setting, contract, frame etc.
Godoy assisted by White
Five 27/02/20 Creative student presentations: highlight a specific personal insight, awareness or connection from the term that has provoked you in your journey towards embodying an existential way of being.
Participants led assisted by Godoy and White
Six 05/03/20 Review of Phase Two - Q and A Indications of/and obstacles to a shift to Phase Three
Prof. Spinelli assisted by Godoy and White
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Term Three ~ Spring 2020 “Closing Down the Therapy-World”
Session Date Focus Facilitators
One 14/05/20 Overview of Phase Three Prof. Spinelli assisted by Godoy and White
Two 21/05/20 Focal Points: Working with the They-Focus Possibilities and limitations in bridging the Therapy World and Wider World
White assisted by Godoy
Three 28/05/20 Existence Themes/Broader Issues – Returning to the broad principles and themes of existential thought and exploring how the group is living them in the present
Godoy assisted by White
Break 04/06/20 READING WEEK “Lifting the veil” by Ernesto Spinelli in Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective (2006) PCCS Books
Self-led
Four 11/6/20 Focal Points: Endings Godoy assisted by White
Five 18/6/20 Creative student presentations: communicate in whatever way you prefer what you have found to be most significant in embodying an existential way of being.
Participants led assisted by Godoy and White
Six 25/6/20 Review of Phase Three - Q and A Prof. Spinelli assisted by Godoy and White
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