Psychosynthesis: Therapy in a Time Between Stories
Online Learning Programme
Unlocking Imagination in Practice
Join Allan Frater for a practical workshop exploring imagination as a powerful tool for therapy and everyday life. Build confidence in applying skills that release imaginative potential, moving beyond rigid, scripted approaches. Understand imagination as a meta-function integrating thoughts, feelings and actions as well as its role in psychosynthesis. This workshop is suitable for therapists, coaches, creatives and anyone interested in transformation and change.
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Programme Type: CPD workshop (certificate of attendance)
CPD: 7 hours
Next Intake(s): Saturday, 27 June 2026
NFQ: N/A
ECTS: N/A
Academic Validation: N/A
Professional Accreditation: N/A
Overview
Introduction
This workshop will expand upon the role of imagination in psychosynthesis psychotherapy — moving beyond a narrow focus on scripted visualisations to present a broader, image-based approach to therapy and everyday life.
Rather than viewing images as purely subjective/personal mental pictures, separate from a purely objective reality, this workshop demonstrates how the act of imagination connects self and world, creating opportunities to understand and work with personal issues within the surrounding context of world issues.
Healing and transformation will be presented not, as is often assumed, as the replacement of fantasy with reality but rather as the cultivation of imaginative life itself—through the activity of images within everyday life, work and relationships.
The workshop will include a mix of presentations, discussions, live demonstrations of practical skills and short practicum opportunities.
Date
Saturday, 27 June 2026, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Who Should Apply
- Psychotherapists, counsellors and coaches (from any and all orientations)
- Art, drama and family constellation therapists
- Ecotherapists and anyone interested in an image-centric approach to ecopsychology
- Artistic creators (writers, storytellers, painters, directors and so on)
- Artistic consumers (fiction readers, movie watchers, art gallery visitors and so on)
- Anyone interested in transformation and creative change
Certification
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance.
CPD: 6 hours
Cost
The cost of the workshop is €95.00. (15% discount for IICP College students/alumni and VCS counsellors)
This workshop is part of IICP College’s Summer Series and is eligible for our 3 for 2 offer — book any two summer series workshops and get a third one free!
(Note: The discount for IICP College students, alumni and VCS counsellors cannot be used in conjunction with the 3 for 2 offer.)
Venue
This workshop will take place online using Zoom. Participants will be sent a link to join the online platform before the workshop commences.
Expert Programme Facilitator
Allan Frater
Allan Frater is a UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. He has taught at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London since 2011 on the foundation and diploma courses as well as continuing professional development (CPD) events related to his research interests in imagination, ecopsychology and transpersonal psychology.
His first book, Waking dreams: imagination in psychotherapy and everyday life, presented a critical development of standard approaches to active imagination and guided imagery, incorporating paradigm-shifting ideas and methods from ecopsychology, complexity theory and fractal geometry. His second book, The act of imagination: psychosynthesis psychotherapy in experiential context, builds on his work.
