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Lifetime is an outward-looking community. We believe connectedness with others and our surroundings enables us to thrive. Lifetime’s community is enriched by business, cultural, educational and ecological connections that help us to accept and find joy in others, and to develop healthy, compassionate relationships with those around us.

Events at Lifetime are varied and inclusive. They have included Body Positivity, Nutrition and Yoga Workshops; Artist Showcases and Life-Drawing; as well as Counselling Lectures and Workshops for professionals. We work with others to offer inspiring events that support positive change.

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Existential Therapy: An Introduction – with Mick Cooper

20th June 2026

The workshop is appropriate for training and practising counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists and other mental health professionals. Existential therapy is a diverse, vibrant, and wonderfully rich tapestry of understandings and methods that has the potential to make a valuable contribution to the work of any counsellor, psychotherapist or psychologist. It is one of the oldest forms of therapy, yet still one of the most innovative and radical. Existential therapy is orientated around the development of a deep relational bond with the client, which allows the client to explore the most fundamental aspects of their existence. This includes questions like: ‘What is the meaning of my life?’ ‘What choices can I make?’ and ‘How do I face the limits of my circumstances?’ This workshop introduces participants to the basic principles of existential philosophy and therapy, and looks at how practitioners of all orientations can integrate these ideas and practices into their own work.

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Goals in Therapy: Actualising Our Deepest Directions – with Mick Cooper

21st June 2026

This interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to develop their understanding of goals in counselling and psychotherapy, and to develop their skills and knowledge in this area. The workshop is particularly oriented towards participants from a humanistic or integrative background: who are interested in an understanding their clients as agentic and purpose-oriented beings, but wary of more mechanistic or ‘outcome-oriented’ goal-based approaches. The workshop starts by introducing the concept of ‘directionality’—that human beings are always oriented towards future possibilities—and looks at how this can be applied to an understanding of self. The workshop then explores what has been learnt from the psychological research about the nature of goals and goal processes (for instance, distinguishing between ‘approach’ and ‘avoidance’ goals). It then goes on to a more practical exploration of working with goals, including skills practice and video demonstrations.

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