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Dreams, humour, and symbolism

With Rachel Cook TSTA

This 2-Day Experiential Workshop will help you

  • Explore dreams, humour, and symbolism as powerful, playful means of communication and meaning making
  • Engage more deeply in your life and practice with the uncertainties of life, death, anxiety, choice, and change
  • Discover how symbolic material can raise awareness and offer wisdom, guidance, and creative direction
  • Learn how humour can act as a vital, confronting bridge between the creative and destructive

What to Expect

  • Group dialogue, discussions and shared inquiry in a safely challenging and intimate learning environment
  • Experiential exercises and reflective practices
  • Grounded theoretical teaching from an author on existential philosophy and psychotherapy
  • Working with your clients' and your own dreams and symbolic material
  • Practical ways to use symbolism and humour in therapy, coaching, and life

About Rachel

Rachel Cook TSTA UKCP MSc is a highly skilled Transactional Analyst, existential psychotherapist, and educator with over 30 years' experience. She is author of Existential Perspectives in Transactional Analysis: The Development of the Adult Self and the Human Search for Meaning (Routledge, 2026)

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Price

£225 for 2 days 2 days
  • 2 days, 12 hours of CPD (in-person)
  • 10:00am-5:00pm each day
  • Tea, coffee, & homemade cake from 9.30am
  • In-person in the beautiful New Forest – soulful, satisfying, connecting
  • Small, supportive, intimate groups for personalised learning
  • Beautiful, welcoming, nature-inspired learning environment
  • Experiential learning
  • All psychotherapists, counsellors, coaches and trainees welcome
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Dates

2-Day Workshop

Thurs 16th & Fri 1Th April 2026
Neacroft, New Forest, BH23 8JW

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  • UKCP psychotherapy
  • professional standards authority
  • DBS Checked
  • Metanoia Institute

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