Coherence Therapy — Introductory Training (Level 1)
Kotor, Montenegro · 9–11 October 2026
Join us in Kotor, Montenegro for a 2.5-day introductory Coherence Therapy weekend designed for psychotherapists, mental health professionals and advanced students in psychotherapy and psychology. Across approximately 15 hours of theory, live demonstrations and structured experiential practice, you will learn how Coherence Therapy leverages memory reconsolidation to produce deep, lasting change in emotional and behavioural patterns.
Working in small groups with rotating roles of therapist, client and observer, you will practise experiential techniques for accessing and transforming implicit emotional constructs, explore the constructivist foundations of the model, and learn to facilitate symptom resolution in a coherent, non-counteractive way.
What is Coherence Therapy?
An integrative, experiential approach grounded in constructivist principles and the process of memory reconsolidation — understood as a universal mechanism of transformational change in psychotherapy.
A central pillar of the model is the well-established idea that symptoms are coherent with underlying, implicit, adaptive constructions of reality that require their presence. This means that symptoms such as depression, anxiety or procrastination typically serve adaptive functions related to survival, even though they simultaneously generate suffering for clients.
The founders of Coherence Therapy, Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley, observed that the most significant and lasting change occurs when clients directly experience and discover the personal meaning of their symptoms, and then juxtapose these meanings with experiences that contradict them — either uncovered or created within therapy. Through this process emotional schemas are transformed, the symptom loses its necessity, and clients become free from their suffering.
What you will learn
The training combines a theoretical understanding of Coherence Therapy with demonstrations and extensive experiential practice.
Understanding the model
- Core principles and methodology of Coherence Therapy
- Memory reconsolidation — a natural, universal mechanism enabling deep, sustainable therapeutic change
- Clinical examples and session analyses showing how the coherence-based approach leads to lasting symptom transformation
Practising the work
- Group viewing and discussion of recorded sessions by Bruce Ecker and Michał Jasiński
- Two live demonstration sessions followed by collective reflection and analysis
- Small-group practice with rotating roles of therapist, client and observer
Covered across the weekend
- Therapeutic process and constructivist foundations of Coherence Therapy
- Mapping the process of memory reconsolidation step by step
- Experiential techniques for accessing and transforming implicit emotional constructs
- Handling resistance coherently
- Facilitating transformational change and symptom resolution
- Integrating Coherence Therapy with other experiential models
Skills and knowledge you will gain
- A basic set of experiential techniques for discovering and integrating unconscious emotional constructs that drive symptoms — practised in therapist, client and observer roles
- The principle of symptom coherence, including a “not-knowing” (credulous) stance and prioritising experiential over cognitive work
- Being a coherence therapist in practice: tracking the experience, attunement, and being directive about the process but not the content
- Applying the universal Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process map as a framework for integration across modalities such as IFS, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and schema therapy
- Core constructivist epistemology and methodology of Coherence Therapy, applicable to other experiential approaches
- How to recognise the steps of the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process (TRP)
- The brain’s requirements for transformational change and how these can be induced via the TRP
Who is this training for?
- Psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and counsellors
- Certified coaches working in recognised organisations
- Advanced students in psychology or psychotherapy
All teaching will be in English.
No previous training in Coherence Therapy is required.
International Level 1 credential
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance and the international credential:
(Level 1: Introductory Training)”
issued by the Coherence Psychology Institute (CPI).
Dr Michał Jasiński
Michał Jasiński, PhD is a licensed psychotherapist and cross-cultural psychologist specialising in constructivist psychotherapies, with Coherence Therapy as his primary approach.
He is a Certified Trainer and Research Associate at the Coherence Psychology Institute, where he also serves as Director of Global Education and Partnerships. He has been teaching Coherence Therapy and memory reconsolidation across Europe and online since 2013.
Michał maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Barcelona and is a lecturer at SWPS University in Poland.
Training programme
Total duration: approximately 15 hours of instruction and experiential learning. The programme includes theory, clinical material, live demonstrations, discussion and small-group experiential practice.
Kotor, Montenegro
The training takes place in Kotor, a historic coastal town in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. The venue — Kulturni centar “Nikola Đurković” — is located in the historic centre of Kotor.
Getting to Kotor
Kotor is easily accessible from several international airports:
- Tivat Airport (TIV) — approximately 15 minutes from Kotor
- Podgorica Airport (TGD) — approximately 1.5–2 hours from Kotor
- Dubrovnik Airport (DBV), Croatia — approximately 1.5–2 hours, depending on border traffic
Participants arrange their own travel and accommodation. Registered participants receive practical information and accommodation recommendations before the training.
Training fee
The fee includes:
- 2.5 days of training (≈ 15 hours of instruction and experiential learning)
- Training materials
- Certificate of attendance
- International Level 1 credential issued by the Coherence Psychology Institute
Registration is confirmed upon payment of the training fee. Spaces are limited to ensure an intimate and interactive atmosphere.
Reserve your place
To register for the Coherence Therapy Introductory Training in Kotor, complete the registration form. After submitting it you will receive confirmation, payment instructions and further practical information by email.
9–11 October 2026 · Kotor, Montenegro
Training language: English · Spaces are limited
Register for the trainingOrganised in partnership
Association for Constructivism
Montenegro
Educational Center for Constructivist Paradigm in Psychotherapy
Serbia
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Coherence Psychology Institute (CPI)
USA — in collaboration
Kotor · Montenegro · 9–11 October 2026
Spaces are limited.
