The Breakthrough Process - One Day Workshop, London

One day to find direction and map your path to breakthrough

This one-day Breakthrough Process Workshop is for a maximum of 8 people who are looking for a breakthrough on a work / life challenge.

Some examples of challenges might be: a career change, a difficult professional or personal relationship, a persistent behavioural pattern that prevents forward momentum, or simply feeling stuck.

Facilitated by The Breakthrough Process' multidisciplinary team of experts in psychotherapy, coaching and creative techniques, the workshop will help you to:

• Define your current challenge
• Identify what is preventing progress
• ⁠Develop a meaningful plan for next steps

“The combination of group work, creative sessions and psychological guidance were very effective. By the end, I felt capable of moving forwards.”

Charlotte, Lawyer

What to expect

When we’re trying to overcome a challenge we tend to tackle it with the solution-focussed part of our minds. That’s an excellent tool for many tasks, but when it can’t find meaningful answers it can prevent us from seeing the bigger picture more clearly. Without seeing this, we tend to get trapped looking for a solution that can’t be found.

Based in the peaceful urban oasis of St Ethelburga's Centre in Bishopsgate London, we take you on a deep-level journey into your challenge, help you identify some of the psychological forces that underpin it, and support you to develop a solution-focussed plan for next steps.

By the end of the workshop, you will have developed:

• Clarity on your challenge
• Insight into emotional drivers
• Newfound direction
• Plan for next steps

More about The Breakthrough Process and our facilitators:

In 2018, psychotherapist and leadership coach Dr Tom Cotton founded Mind Environment to help individuals and leaders develop greater clarity on the unconscious forces that shape work and life in our fast-changing world. In 2025, Mind Environment became The Breakthrough Process.

The Breakthrough Process team comprises specialists in psychotherapy and coaching, leadership, entrepreneurship and business. Collectively, we have guided clients through life, work and relationship challenges, run successful businesses, and led change at the highest level of global organisations. This combined knowledge allows us to lead deep work safely, and helps you translate your breakthrough into an actionable plan.

Our tried and tested Breakthrough Process dives deep into the rational, emotional, and unconscious dimensions of your challenge, by combining four core elements:

• Group discussion
• Inner work
• Creative techniques
• Coaching

Combined, and facilitated with psychological rigour, these elements act as a force multiplier to provide rapid clarity on hidden obstacles and a realistic path forward in a compressed timeframe.

This one day Breakthrough Process Workshop provides a comprehensive grounding for participants who would like to join our five-day intensive Breakthrough Programme in France, where we provide the structure and facilitation for participants to arrive with a challenge, experience breakthrough, and leave with a plan for meaningful change.

One-day workshop facilitators:

Dr Tom Cotton – Programme Director & Group Process Facilitator

Tom is a UKCP Reg. Existential-Analytic Psychotherapist, an EMCC Accred. executive coach, and founder of The Breakthrough Process. Before training as a psychotherapist, Tom worked as a writer and director in the film industry for 15 years. Both disciplines come together in his passion for helping people see the world around them more clearly.

Andy Iwaniec – Group Process Facilitator

Andy is a leadership coach and change consultant, and former Global Organisation Development Director at Unilever. With 30 years’ cross-industry experience, he has designed and rolled-out large-scale organisation change and leadership development programmes, ranging from firm-wide culture change to bespoke leadership development.

More about the workshop location:

We’ve chosen St Ethelburga's Centre in Bishopsgate for both its accessible London location and its tranquil environment to deep-dive into this intensive work.

FAQs:

• Is lunch provided?

Lunch isn’t provided on site, however there are many eateries and shops nearby, or alternatively you are welcome to bring a packed lunch.

• What to bring?

We provide pens and large format paper for the creative dimension of the workshop, but please do bring your own notepad and pen. We will provide tea, coffee and refreshments throughout the day.

• Further queries

Please do let us know if you have any other questions regarding the day or the process ahead of time.