This is intended for those who have completed the Foundation in Contemplative Group Work, and is intended as Continuing Professional Development for Accredited Practitioners and for those engaged in facilitating Group Work.

The Intention of this training is to build on the Foundation experience and further develop and establish Contemplative Group Skills within a group as a facilitator. This can include environments whose participants are involved in a diversity of group work including psychotherapeutic work. The training will offer active supervision to those colleagues currently offering Group Work.

The Training is intended for those colleagues who are UKCP Registrants wanting to be eligible to apply for the UKCP Directory of Recognised Supervisors, for those attending as a CPD (80 hours) and for colleagues who want to participate in this model of Contemplative Supervision developed at the Karuna Institute.

This Diploma course is intended to give Qualified Practitioner’s grounding in the theory and practice of mindfulness within psychotherapeutic practice. The course introduces participants to key therapeutic contemplative practices and relational skills, grounded in the practice of Core Process Psychotherapy, one of the original mindfulness-based therapeutic forms. Its curriculum draws on over thirty years of experience in offering psychotherapy trainings based on depth mindfulness practice. It invites us to practice deep listening to self, other and to the relational field through adapting ancient Buddhist meditation practices for working jointly in relationship.

In this immersive lucid dreaming retreat specifically aimed at Karuna psychotherapists, meditation teachers and experienced meditators we’ll explore how to transform the third of our lives that we spend in bed by learning how to dream lucidly and sleep consciously.

The retreat will be led by Charlie Morley who has been teaching lucid dreaming for the past 15 years and will include everything you need to learn how to lucid dream yourself while forming the foundation course for possible future training in how to offer lucid dreaming to clients.

This is a foundation week for Contemplative Group work, intended as Continuing Professional Development for Accredited Practitioners.

The Intention of the training is to establish the Contemplative Holding Field through the power of shared attention and awareness. This contributes to building safety and trust, helping to constellate a robust and benign field of cooperative enquiry. In this environment receptivity deepens to include the individual and the group and deepening realms of subliminal and subtle collective wisdom.

loosening the warp of whiteness is a retreat space for ‘white’ bodied kin to attend to the racialised ‘whiteness’ which influences our psyches and social systems. In a sanctuary space we explore embodied and ritual practices to support our part in dismantling racism. These are sacred, responsive and artful encounters for reweaving the cloths of culture for collective liberation.

The Speech of Earth gathering may call to you if:

You wish to explore your relationships with the wider than human world and what the intimacy of these relationships mean for our collective health and wellbeing, in these times of great change, challenge and opportunity.

You feel a longing to live more soulfully in tune with the natural rhythms and cycles of your body and our vaster body – Earth.

You have an interest in Earth-based spiritualities or spiritual ecology.

You are a therapist, trainee or practitioner curious about working outside in our broader nature, exploring ecotherapy, wellbeing and embodied presence, for yourself, or in your work with others.