Staying Close to Experience: Practising the Existential Stance
Tue 24-02-2026, 18:00
Cultivate presence and openness by engaging with lived experience rather than interpretation.
Staying Close to Experience: Practising the Existential Stance is a psychotherapy workshop with Dr Yaqui Martinez-Robles exploring existential-phenomenological practice as a way of being rather than a set of techniques. The session invites participants to move beyond certainty and interpretation, cultivating presence, openness, and phenomenological attention to lived experience as it appears.
Through reflection on unknowing, diversity, and encounter, the workshop re-centres psychotherapy as an ethical, responsive dialogue grounded in respect for the uniqueness of each person.
For: Therapists, counsellors, psychologists, and advanced trainees across orientations
Impact: Deepened therapeutic presence, greater sensitivity to difference, and a more authentic, experience-near way of working.