The Metis Institute

13/04/2026

Training begins with letting in the light of possibilities, the quiet, persistent sense that becoming a therapist might be more than a passing thought, even if you don’t yet know where to start. It often arrives as a kind of dreaming: tentative, searching, uncertain, but alive enough to follow.

What unfolds at Metis is not just academic learning, but a creative process, one that asks something of your imagination as much as your intellect. It’s a gradual, sometimes unsettling, often enlivening act of daring to become something else, guided not by certainty but by a willingness to stay with what is opening.

Want to find out more?

https://metisinstitute.co.uk/

Giovanni Felice Pace

10/04/2026

Learning doesn’t stick when we simply agree with it. At we see that real understanding comes when ideas are questioned, tested, and worked with. It’s in the tension, when something doesn’t quite fit, that thinking deepens and insight begins to take root.

To truly learn, we have to interact. Turn ideas over, challenge them, reshape them, even disagree. At Metis, learning is an active process—one where engagement transforms information into something lived, felt, and genuinely understood.

Take a step towards your counselling and psychotherapist training

Open Evening - Saturday 11th April - Worth School
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/open-evenings-4809507

Giovanni Felice Pace

08/04/2026

Learning comes alive when we make it our own. At , we don’t just take in ideas - we shape them, play with them, and turn them into something real. Every sketch, every word, every small creation is a step toward understanding.

When we make, we notice. We experiment, we reflect, we discover what truly matters. At Metis, this act of creating isn’t extra - it’s how we learn, how we grow, and how ideas become alive in our own hands.

Take a step towards your counselling or psychotherapist training

Open Evening - Saturday 11th April -6.30pm - Worth School
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Giovanni Felice Pace

06/04/2026

Our approach at the Metis Institute encourages you to honour your own rhythm. Whether it’s in learning, in conversation, or in creative exploration, giving yourself space to breathe transforms how you engage with the world. Taking time isn’t about doing less - it’s about experiencing more, with presence, awareness, and purpose. Here, every moment becomes an opportunity to grow, notice, and connect with what really matters.

Take a step towards your counselling or psychotherapist training.

Open Evening - Saturday 11th April 6.30 Worth School
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/open-evenings-4809507

Giovanni Felice Pace

03/04/2026

A one-day workshop on therapist identity, stereotype, and presence in the clinical encounter, for therapists and trainees.

Who enters the room first: you, or the therapist you believe you are supposed to be?

This one-day experiential workshop invites therapists and trainees to explore the internalised roles, stereotypes, and unconscious expectations that shape therapeutic presence before a single word is spoken.

A reflective and psychologically rich day on therapist identity, performance, and the possibility of more authentic contact.

We often imagine that we arrive in therapy as neutral, thoughtful professionals. Yet before any intervention is made, something may already be present: an image of the therapist. The calm one. The endlessly containing one. The expert. The fixer. The one who must always know, must never fail, must never get it wrong.

At The Metis Institute, we are interested in what happens when these identities become too fixed. Some professional ideals support ethical practice and containment. Others can quietly narrow spontaneity, inhibit authenticity, and interfere with genuine relational contact. What begins as a professional aspiration can become a defensive position, shaping not only how the therapist is perceived, but how they listen, respond, and take up space in the encounter.

Who Says Hello? is an experiential and reflective workshop exploring the powerful myths, expectations, and internalised images that influence therapeutic presence.

Trainer: Gill Dawson PG Adv Dip.Couns (Co founder)

Date: Saturday 11th April 10.00 - 17.00

Location: Worth School (Nr Gatwick)

Fee: Includes 2 course lunch and free parking on campus

Trainee - £75

Qualified - £100

Book Here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-says-hello-therapist-identity-performance-and-the-relational-event-tickets-1985355777575?aff=oddtdtcreator

Giovanni Felice Pace

02/04/2026

This CPD workshop is for therapists and supervisors who want to deepen their understanding of relational presence and strengthen the quality of contact they bring to clinical work.
Join us for a rigorous and reflective exploration of how personal history, identity, and context shape the therapeutic relationship.

At The Metis Institute, we understand relational psychotherapy as more than a model: it is a way of being with another person in depth, complexity, and difference. Designed for therapists and supervisors who want to deepen their professional development, this workshop creates a rigorous and reflective space to explore what it truly means to be relational, and how this shapes therapeutic work at every level.

Trainer : Sam Carbon UKCP PTSTA
Dates: 30th 31st May 2026
Location: Worth School Nr Gatwick
Fee: Includes 2 course Lunch and Free Parking on Campus
£200 (book before 29th May)
£175 Trainee
Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-relational-are-we-really-sensing-the-therapists-relational-presence-tickets-1985100515078?aff=oddtdtcreator

01/04/2026

The biggest April Fool in psychotherapy?

Believing we should already know what we’re doing.

It shows up everywhere.

Trainees looking around the room, quietly assuming everyone else has grasped something they haven’t.
Therapists believing other therapists are more certain, more composed, more together.
Even clients, sensing hesitation, wondering if the person sitting opposite them really knows the way.

But this is the quiet truth at the heart of the work:

There is no moment where you arrive and finally know.

At the Metis Institute we don’t train people out of uncertainty.
We train them to stay with it.

To think deeply rather than reach quickly.
To tolerate not knowing, without rushing to fill the space.
To trust that something real can emerge, not from performance or certainty, but from attention, relationship, and depth.

So perhaps the real April Fool is the idea that therapy is about having the answers.

It isn’t.

It’s about becoming someone who can sit, steadily and honestly, in the absence of them.

Come and visit us on Saturday 11th April at Worth School to explore if you'd like to train with us.

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/open-evenings-4809507

30/03/2026

Something begins when we find the right language for what we have been living.

Join us for TA101: Introduction to Transactional Analysis on 11th and 12th April 2026 at Worth School.

Across two in-person days, this course offers a rich and accessible introduction to Transactional Analysis: a way of understanding relationships, communication, inner life, and the patterns that shape how we meet ourselves and others. Whether you are considering psychotherapy training, already working with people, or simply feel called to explore more deeply, TA101 offers a powerful place to start.

This is more than an academic introduction. It is a doorway into a psychological language that is practical, illuminating, and quietly transformative.

2 for 1 tickets are currently available.
Lunch and parking are included on both days, and a residential option is also available.

Come and join us at The Metis Institute.

30/03/2026

SPECIAL OFFER - 2 FOR 1 (£110 per person)

A TA101 is the official introductory course in Transactional Analysis. It’s recognised worldwide as the first formal step for anyone who wants to understand or train in TA.

The course was originally developed by Eric Berne, who believed psychological ideas should be accessible and practical rather than hidden in complex jargon.

For many people, the TA101 is a gateway experience. It often shifts how they understand relationships, communication, and themselves. Quite a lot of psychotherapists can trace the moment they first thought “this might be the work I want to do” back to a TA101.

Book onto our next weekend here OR using the link in our bio
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/ta101-4809254

29/03/2026

Who says hello.

The first moments of a therapy session matter. Before content, there is contact. Before technique, there is presence. And often, before we even realise it, a particular “therapist identity” is already in the room.

Who Says Hello? Therapist Identity, Performance, and the Relational Event is a CPD workshop exploring how therapist identity is formed, how it is performed, and what it does in the relational field. It is an invitation to become more aware of the parts of us that step forward to manage uncertainty, appear competent, or avoid being impacted.

This is not about losing professionalism. It is about deepening it, so that boundaries stay clear, and contact stays real.

Saturday, 11 April 2026, 11:00
Worth School, Crawley (near Gatwick)
Tickets from £100

Eventbrite booking link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-says-hello-therapist-identity-performance-and-the-relational-event-tickets-1985355777575?aff=oddtdtcreator

28/03/2026

28/03/2026

How relational are we, really.

We can understand relational therapy conceptually, and still miss something essential in practice: whether the client actually experiences us as present.

This CPD workshop, How Relational Are We, Really? Sensing the Therapist’s Relational Presence, explores what presence feels like in the room, how it is communicated (often non-verbally), and how it shapes safety, depth, and the possibility of change.

It’s a space to reflect on the subtle moments:
Where we become overly “professional.”
Where we rush to intervene.
Where we lose contact with ourselves, and the client feels it.

If you want your relational work to be more grounded, more ethical, and more real, this workshop offers a careful, experiential way in.

Sat 30 May 2026 • Worth School, Crawley (near Gatwick).
Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-relational-are-we-really-sensing-the-therapists-relational-presence-tickets-1985100515078?aff=oddtdtcreator