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Course: Psychodynamic and Jungian Theory for Qualified Practitioners

Seminar Leaders Needed – Psychodynamic and Jungian Theory for Qualified Practitioners

Closing date for expressions of interest: Open call 

Start date: October 2025.  

Salary: £400 per seminar leader (for 4 hours). 

Please direct any questions to: [email protected]

About the role

We are recruiting several Seminar Leaders (mostly theory) for our new certificate course in Psychodynamic and Jungian Theory for Qualified Practitioners.  

This certificate course is designed specifically for any qualified counsellor, psychotherapist, or applied psychologist who is not trained psychodynamically but wants to learn enough theory to be able to bring psychodynamic thinking to their practice. 

This is not a clinical training but rather students on this course will already be working in other modalities of therapy (e.g., CBT, Person Centred, Humanistic, Counselling Psychology) but want to learn about psychodynamic and Jungian theory and how they might integrate it into their own approach to psychotherapy and examine their own and others’ practice through a psychodynamic/Jungian lens. 

The programme encourages a dialogue between classical and contemporary psychoanalytic/Jungian thinking and an exploration of the connections and differences between the course content and each participant’s clinical work.  

You can view the course here: Psychodynamic and Jungian Theory for Qualified Practitioners – The British Psychotherapy Foundation 

The course is entirely online and will take place one Saturday a month for 10 months (October – July).  

Each Saturday study has a thematic focus (see below), and seminar leaders will introduce relevant theory linked to that theme as well as its application to and implications for clinical practice.  

For each Saturday study day, we are looking for: 

• One psychoanalytic/psychodynamic practitioner to deliver a seminar on the designated theme for that month (1 hour) and then to facilitate two discussion groups (1.5 hours each), so 4 hours in total. 

• One Jungian practitioner to deliver a seminar on the designated theme for that month (1 hour) and then to facilitate two discussion groups (1.5 hours each), so 4 hours in total.  

We provide an indicative schedule of the study day, with timings, below. 

Qualifications: 

Must be a qualified psychoanalytic/psychodynamic or Jungian analytic psychotherapist registered with BPC, UKCP or other registration body relevant to dynamic or analytic training. 

Experience: 

• You must have experience of delivering seminars and of facilitating discussion groups, preferably online 

• You will have some knowledge and respect for other therapy modalities and be open to theoretical pluralism and integrating psychodynamic/Jungian therapy with other therapeutic frameworks. 

Responsibilities:

Reminder: This is not a clinical training. Students on this course will be working in other therapy modalities (e.g., CBT, Person Centred, Humanistic, Counselling Psychology) and wanting to integrate psychoanalytic/Jungian ideas into their work. 

For each study day, you will be expected to suggest at least four papers for students to read in advance, with two essential papers and a minimum of two recommended for further reading. One of the essential readings should cover key foundational ideas, while the other should offer a contemporary perspective. We would expect the set papers to reflect critical thinking on both classical and new approaches and developments to theory and practice. The papers should allow for a rich and enlivening critique of classical assumptions regarding race, gender and varied expressions of desire and sexuality, offering different positions on the same topic or theme. 

In your seminar/lecture, you will be expected to do the following in your own way and style: 

1. Explain and develop ‘the theme’ to be discussed in the seminar, including its historical origins. 

2. Include recent developments (including research), thinking and controversies in the subject area. 

3. Provide several clinical examples from your own practice or clinical vignettes to bring the theme ‘alive’ clinically.  

In the follow-up discussion groups, you will be expected to: 

1. Promote respectful discussion between the students, allowing them to explore connections and differences between the reading papers and other theoretical modalities.  

2. Allow space for each student to think about how the theme introduced that day can be applied to their own current practice with patients.  

3. Encourage questions, debate, critical thinking and to allow challenge. 

4. Encourage co-operative learning and minimise competitiveness.  

The intention is to encourage creativity and playing with ideas, sharing approaches so that students’ learning and development is maximized. 

Students should leave each study day with a basic knowledge of key analytic terms, theoretical concepts and their varied uses to clinical material, and be able to discuss how to apply psychodynamic/Jungian thinking to their current work with clients.  

Seminar leaders are asked to ensure they are familiar with current thinking relating to diversity and equality matters in analytic work, and for this to be reflected in how the seminars are taught and in how discussion groups are facilitated.   

In September, seminar leaders will be required to attend an orientation day (a Saturday) prior to the course start date.  

Designated ‘themes’ for the study days are as follows: 

• Study day 1 (Oct ‘25). Core assumptions of psychoanalytic and Jungian theory 

• Study day 2 (Nov ‘25). The therapeutic relationship and the analytic frame  

• Study day 3 (Dec ‘25). Working with the unconscious 

• Study Day 4 (Jan ‘26). Unconscious conflict and defence mechanisms  

• Study Day 5 (Feb ‘26). Human development and the lifespan  

• Study Day 6 (March ‘26). Our patients’ feelings about us and our feelings about our patients (transference and countertransference) 

• Study Day 7 (April ’26). The implications of attachment theory for understanding our patients 

• Study Day 8 (May ’26). Working with trauma from a psychodynamic and Jungian lens. 

• Study Day 9 (June ’26). Working with difference, diversity and social justice 

• Study Day 10 (July ’26). The neurosciences and ‘the evidence base’ for analytic and Jungian approaches 

Indicative Schedule

Indicative Schedule: 

10am. Psychodynamic clinical lecture on designated theme (All students attend) 

11am. Jungian clinical lecture on designated theme (All students attend) 

11 – 11.30: Break 

Students are divided into 2 smaller groups. 

11.30: 1.00. 2 x discussion groups happen simultaneously. ½ the student group attend discussion with psychoanalytic/psychodynamic practitioner, other ½ of the student group in Jungian group. 

1.00 – 1.30: another break  

1.30 – 3.00: The groups swap over. 2 x discussion groups happen simultaneously. ½ the student group attend discussion with psychoanalytic/psychodynamic practitioner, other ½ of the student group in Jungian group. 

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