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ONLINE COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY, PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 

(Theory & Practice)

 

This is a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Certificate course which is conducted online (via Zoom). As well as being an introduction to study at the Philadelphia Association, completion of this course or the in-person courses, is a requirement for anyone wishing to train as a psychotherapist with the PA. It does not, however, guarantee a place on the psychotherapy training. Many students take this course for its own sake rather than as a stepping-stone to further study.

Before the recent pandemic, all the PA's courses and events were exclusively in-person.

In common with most organisations in the UK during the pandemic, the PA had to move all its activities online. One of the discoveries we made, was that there is keen interest in the PA's Study Programme from people in other parts of the UK and around the world. Making courses accessible online has enabled people to participate when previously that would not have been possible. Whilst other courses returned to our centre in North-West London, a decision was made to maintain one online course. Students join from different continents, bringing a rich diversity of cultural perspectives which enhance the learning experience for all participants. The online course also makes participation possible for those unable to attend for other reasons.

As a relatively new innovation in the PA's Study Programme, this online course has been developed to meet the demand of those interested in the PA's work - our continuing enquiry into the assumptions we carry about ourselves and others.     

The course takes place on Wednesday evenings (seminar and experiential group) 

 

APPLICATION AND FEES

Application is by interview. The course costs £700 plus a £50 interview fee. There are a limited number of bursaries available for students surviving on low income.

 We are currently arranging interviews 

  Click here to apply.

Experiential Group

6 - 7.30pm​

The experiential group has no agenda apart from attending to how this particular group forms and develops, the contribution each person makes, and whether we can learn from the experience to understand what a group is.

 

Seminars 

8 - 9.30pm

2024/25 PROGRAMME

PA Office

Josh Foyster

Study Programme Administrator

Nefeli Tsakona

studyprogramme@philadelphia-association.org.uk

 

​Experiential Group Facilitators:

Jeremy Cutler & Emma Stroker

pa.online.course@gmail.com

​First Term 

16 & 23 October 

Use & Misuse of Theory 

Lucy King

 

30 October

What is Community?

Jake Osborne 

 

6 November 

PA Houses 

Kay Holmes & Jack Pepper

 

13 & 20 November 

Laing’s Anti-Psychoanalysis and Ontological Insecurity

Kevin Ball

 

27 November & 4 December 

Unthinking Hate 

The Conception of Abject

Lakis Georghiou 

 

11 & 18 December

AI Therapy - Philosophical, Ethical and Political issues

Paul Atkinson 

Second Term 

 

22 & 29 January 

The World Comes First: the social context of psychotherapy and its philosophical underpinnings

Paul Gurney 

 

5 & 12 February 

Decolonising Psychotherapy  

Alia Butt

 

19 & 26 February

Psychotic Delusion and the Concept of Reality

Daniela Bruni

 

5 & 12 March

Private Space 

James Mann 

 

19 & 26 March 

Exploring Suicide, what it evokes in us and what philosophy can be drawn from to help encountering the phenomena

Ben Scanlan 

 

2 April 

Scapegoat

Del Loewenthal

 

 

Third Term 

30 April & 7 May 

Buddhism & Psychotherapy 

Andreas Constandinos

 

14 & 21 May  

Title TBC 

Robbie Lockwood 

 

28 May 4 June -

Psychoanalysis & Gender 

Kit Zinovieff 

 

11 & 18 June 

Ethics & Psychotherapy

Elie Jesner

 

25 June 

Endings

Mark Elmer

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Saturday Morning Online Seminars.

In addition to the regular meetings of each individual course, students from all the courses are welcome to attend the PA Saturday morning online seminars via Zoom.

10 - 11.30am

 

Date tbc

PA Communities 

Kay Holmes 

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December 15 2024

Training to be a Psychotherapist

Jake Osborne

​The PA training Committee

January 11th 2025

Boarding School Syndrome

Nick Duffell

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January 25 2025

Hell is other people: existential approach to anorexia.

Kevin Ball

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1 & 8 February 2025​

The therapeutic use of photographs: phototherapy & therapeutic photography. 

Del Loewenthal

22 & 29 March 2025

Psychological Responses and Reactions to Climate Crisis

Paul Zeal

April 2025

Freud & Freud

Is this the way you see me ? 

Portraits 

Andrea Heath & Fiona Fawkes

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​May 10 2025​

Abandoned Communities 

TBC

 

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