Events & Seminars

Existential Approach to Coaching

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

24 Feburary 2012 (10:00 - 17:00) , Central London

£245 plus VAT

The Event

In today's world of accelerated change and complexity, choices, responsibility and conflict lead to questions about the quality of life and their impact personally and professionally in achieving goals and aspirations.

Leading existential author and well-known educator, Prof. Ernesto Spinelli will introduce participants to an existential approach to coaching that is based on the premise that uncertainty is something we can rely on, and will use practical exercises to demonstrate its application.

What is an Existential Perspective?

Drawn from contemporary applied psychology and philosophy, an existential perspective bases its approach upon the central assumption that life is uncertain and that paradoxically uncertainty is the one thing that we can rely on at any point throughout our journey.

As human beings we all share the experience of facing and confronting the uncertainties of living and our experience of uncertainty can provide a sense of unease or anxiety.

The existential perspective recognises that anxiety is not necessarily "a bad thing" or a problematic presence that must be reduced or removed. Rather the feeling of anxiety can be stimulating, can put us in touch with our sense of being alive and is the source to all creative and original insight and decision-making.

The Presenter

Prof. Ernesto Spinelli BA, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS, UKCP Reg, Fellow BAC (Acc)Ernesto's seminars, lectures and writings have earned him an international reputation as an innovative theoretician and practitioner in contemporary existential psychotherapy and psychology. His interests in existential theory and the demystification of psychotherapy have influenced him in extending psychotherapeutic insight into the field of coaching. As well as maintaining a private practice as a psychotherapist, executive coach and supervisor, Ernesto is the founder of ES Associates, a faculty member of the i-coach academy and Senior Fellow at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regents College. Having recently published a new edition of his bestselling book, The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology (Sage, 2005), Ernesto is currently completing a practice-focused book on existential psychotherapy and is in the early stages of writing a text entirely devoted to the theory and practice of existential coaching. Ernesto is a Founding Member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology and is on the editorial board of the International Coaching Psychology Review.

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