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, and its role in psychosynthesis. Suitable for therapists, coaches, creatives, and anyone interested in transformation and change.
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Programme Type: IICP will issue a CPD Certificate of Attendance.
CPD: 7 hours
Next Intakes: Saturday 27th June 2026
NFQ: N/A
ECTS: N/A
Academic Validation: N/A
Professional Accreditation: N/A
Overview
Introduction
This workshop will expand upon the importance of imagination in psychosynthesis psychotherapy, going beyond a narrow focus upon scripted visualisations, presenting a broad image-based approach to therapy and everyday life.
Instead of assuming images to be only subjective-personal mental pictures, separated from a purely objective reality, the act of imagination will be shown to connect self and world – creating the opportunity 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, by the replacement of fantasy with reality, but rather with the cultivation of imaginative life itself – in the activity of images within normal everyday life, work and relationships.
The workshop will be a mix of slideshow presentation, discussions, live demonstrations of the practical skills and short practicum opportunities.
Date
- Saturday 27th July 2026, 10am – 5pm
Who Should Apply:
- Psychotherapists, Counsellors & Coaches (from any and all orientations)
- Art, Drama and Family Constellation Therapists
- Ecotherapists (& anyone interested in an image-centric approach to ecopsychology)
- Artistic Creators (writers, storytellers, painters, directors etc.)
- Artistic Consumers (fiction readers, movie watchers, art-gallery goers etc.)
- Anyone interested in transformation and creative change.
Certification:
- The college will issue a certificate of attendance to those who take this workshop.
- CPD: 6 hours
Cost:
- €95.00 (15% Discount for IICP Students/ Alumni and VCS Counsellors)
- This course is part of IICP’s Summer Series and eligible for our 3 for 2 offer so book any two summer series workshops and get a third one free!
- Note: The discount for IICP Students / Alumni and VCS Counsellors cannot be used in conjunction with the 3 for 2 offer.
Venue:
- This workshop will take place online, using software called Zoom. Participants will be sent a link to join the online platform before the course commences
Expert Programme Facilitator
Allan Frater
Allan Frater is a 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 CPD events related to his research interests in imagination, ecopsychology and transpersonal psychology. His first book ‘Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy & Everyday Life’ (2021, Transpersonal Press) 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 is ‘The Act of Imagination: Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy in Experiential Context’.
