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Forgiveness Without Pressure: A Framework for Agency After Harm
About This Event 11.00 - 13.00 CET
This two-hour workshop is designed for counsellors who work with clients caught in the long shadow of past harm. Drawing on the work and insights of Desmond Tutu, the session explores how not forgiving—while often a protective and understandable stance—can leave clients emotionally bound to those who hurt them.
Rather than promoting forgiveness as a moral requirement or therapeutic goal, this workshop offers a nuanced framework for understanding not forgiving as a position with psychological and relational costs. Participants will examine how clients can remain “at the mercy” of past injury, even when the harm is long over, and how forgiveness—when freely chosen—can function as an act of self-liberation rather than reconciliation or excusing abuse.
The workshop emphasises client agency, and readiness, equipping counsellors to hold complexity: honouring the reality of harm while gently opening space for freedom, choice, and the reclaiming of power.
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Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
Understand not forgiving as a meaningful and often protective client stance, rather than resistance or pathology.
Identify the emotional and relational costs that can arise when clients remain bound to past harm.
Articulate forgiveness as a potential pathway to agency and freedom, distinct from condoning, forgetting, or reconciling.
How to Help Your Clients Navigate Ageism in a Youth-Focused World
About This Event 14.00 - 16.00 CET
Sub-title: Recognising, Assessing, and Addressing Age-Related Bias
Ageism is a pervasive yet often overlooked form of bias that can significantly impact clients’ identity, mental health, relationships, and life choices across the lifespan. In a culture that prioritises youth, clients may present with distress linked to ageing, invisibility, internalised stereotypes, workplace discrimination, health care experiences, or fears about relevance and worth.
This 2-hour CPD workshop supports counsellors to recognise how ageism—both external and internalised—may be shaping clients’ narratives, emotional wellbeing, and presenting issues. Participants will explore the psychological and relational impacts of age-related bias and learn how ageism can intersect with other forms of marginalisation.
Through theory, clinical reflection, and applied discussion, counsellors will develop skills to assess ageism sensitively in the therapeutic space and to respond in ways that support resilience, agency, and meaning-making. The workshop will offer practical strategies for helping clients challenge limiting beliefs about ageing, process age-related loss or transition, and strengthen a more integrated and compassionate sense of self.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
Increased awareness of ageism and its clinical manifestations.
Enhanced assessment skills for identifying age-related bias in client work.
Practical interventions to address internalised ageism.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
Counsellors, clients
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
Help participants have greater confidence supporting clients across different life stages.
How to Help Your Clients get Free from Resentment
Resentment is a common yet often entrenched emotional response to pain, disappointment, and perceived injustice. While it may initially serve a protective function, ongoing resentment can significantly impact psychological wellbeing and therapeutic progress.
This workshop explores resentment from multiple perspectives, supporting practitioners to identify its underlying emotional drivers. Participants will examine when resentment is primarily linked to anger, and when it is rooted in envy or jealousy. The workshop also considers how resentment can gradually develop into bitterness, and the consequences this has for mental health and relational functioning.
Drawing on psychologically informed approaches to working with anger and envy, the workshop introduces practical strategies and interventions to help clients respond more skilfully to hurt and disappointment. By normalising human vulnerability and shared experience, practitioners are encouraged to support clients in moving towards greater acceptance, perspective-taking, and forgiveness where appropriate.
The workshop is delivered through a combination of short teaching inputs, video material, reflective exercises, group discussion, and experiential learning. Participants will receive a PDF workbook containing key concepts, quotations, diagrams, and practical exercises for use in clinical practice.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
Recognise the different expressions of resentment and explore alternative strategies for working with these feelings
Understand how the brain’s threat-based focus reinforces resentment, and learn ways to counterbalance this tendency
Appreciate the cumulative impact of unresolved resentment on overall wellbeing
How to Help Clients Learn to Forgive Themselves
Learning to forgive ourselves is not easy but it essential for our wellbeing. When we forgive ourselves we allow ourselves to be free of the past and begin to heal and grow. It’s through forgiveness that we make meaning out of our suffering and restore our self-esteem. It's a chance to tell a new story of who we are but we need to be authentic. We won't be able to enjoy the peace of forgiving ourselves by faking it. We must endeavour to take an honest look at ourselves and to go through the process.
There are many layers to forgiving ourselves. Being able to acknowledge a mistake, and to attempt to put it right is one level. Feeling that we are unworthy of forgiveness and being steeped in shame for not being perfect is another deeper level.
How to Help Your Clients Overcome their Fear of Failure
In this workshop, we will explore how fear of failure can be seen as the dark side of perfectionism, leading to procrastination and a kind of immobilisation. Although these behaviours are often adopted as a way of protecting the individual, they can act as a brake on spontaneity, creativity, and self-worth. At its root, fear of failing can be seen as a fear of being unwanted and unloved—an attempt to please those around us in order to keep their affection.
Untitled Event
ATTENTION: Timings are according to European Central Time
It seems that two people celebrate their sixtieth birthday every second. By 2050 there will be two billion older people on our planet. As the amount of time that we can reasonably hope to stay alive increases, our whole view of ageing is called into question. Although the retirement age has increased considerably since our parents’ generation, we can look forward to a reasonable stretch of time to enjoy after we conclude our working lives.
Many of us look forward to our retirement with mixed feelings. We long for the space and freedom to do all the things we always wanted to do but we fear the loss of identity, purpose and social connectedness that our jobs have given us. It’s an important moment to recognise that retirement is a major transformation that will need time and work in order for us to truly benefit from it in a sustainable way.
This workshop will examine how we can prepare for retirement with enthusiasm by revisiting our sense of purpose and meaning. The values that have sustained us throughout our working life can be re-purposed to inspire our retirement years. Instead of seeing leaving work as a time of loss, we can reach out and embrace the freedom and opportunities opening up for us now that our life is changing. By facing our ageing process with confidence, we can make learn to view our retirement as a new chapter of experimentation and ongoing development.
This two hour workshop consists of talks, video extracts, exercises, sharing and discussion. Participants will receive a PDF workbook with all the main quotes, charts and exercises.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
Explore the worries and concerns surrounding retirement.
Understand what we want to gain from retirement.
Approach retirement as an opportunity for growth and personal development.
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How to Help Your Clients Resist Feeling Invisible
ATTENTION: Timings are according to CET
The ageing process is a life-long project effecting all of us—and yet it seems as if it can somehow be manipulated into a means by which many of our unworked out prejudices are allowed to run rampant.
Take the experience of people over 50 who feel as if they are becoming invisible. Although this can affect men as well, the people who describe this happening to them are overwhelmingly women. As we all know, women in their fifties are heading towards menopause and the end of their reproductive cycle. At the same time as their bodies are undergoing major changes, their appearance changes too and they can no longer be seen as youthful! When many men are at the zenith of their professional lives and commanding respect and attention, women—whether professionals, or not—become increasingly exposed to ageism.
This workshop will focus on enabling participants to face their ageing process head on and to discover how they want to deal with it on their own terms. Invisibility is not inevitable. Each of us can choose how we respond to it—whether we come to accept it and use it to our own advantage, or whether we debate it and demonstrate a different way of ageing.
This two hour workshop consists of talks, video extracts, exercises, sharing and discussion. Participants will receive a PDF workbook with all the main quotes, charts and exercises.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
To come to see the ageing process as an opportunity for increased self-awareness and development.
To uncover the underlying prejudices that society lays on the ageing process.
To experiment with fresh approaches to ageing that encourage flourishing.
How to Help Your Clients Let Go of Resentment
ATTENTION: Timings are according to CET
When we experience pain and hurt it's all too easy to cling to feelings of resentment like an old friend. We become afraid to let them go because then we don't know how to resolve our suffering. If we are free of resentment, how will others know we've been hurt?This workshop aims to look at resentment from several different angles. We will consider when resentment has more to do with anger and when it is a result of envy and jealousy. We'll explore the impact on our wellbeing and how easily resentment can slide into bitterness.
Through exploring the antidotes to anger, and envy the workshop will suggest alternative ways to cope with our challenges. By recognising that all human beings go through similar difficulties and disappointments, we begin to glimpse a bigger picture and open our minds to the possibilities of acceptance and forgiveness.
This two hour workshop consists of talks, video extracts, exercises, sharing and discussion. Participants will receive a PDF workbook with all the main quotes, charts and exercises.
For more information and to register click here