Robin Shohet with Sandra & John Wilson:Celebrating 15 Years of Digital Learning, Human Connection, and the Future of Practice.
Join Robin Shohet in conversation with Sandra and John Wilson as they reflect on the unfolding story of Onlinevents — from its founding at the first ACTO conference in 2009 to becoming a source of online learning for the helping professions.
For over 15 years, Sandra and John have been at the heart of a powerful shift: how we learn, connect, and grow as practitioners in a rapidly changing digital world. From the early days — when few could imagine using the internet for meaningful development — through the pandemic’s surge in online connection, to today’s landscape shaped by AI and the deepening question of how we preserve genuine human contact. This is more than a retrospective.
It’s a live, values-led reflection on vision, resilience, and what it means to hold the human thread together in times of accelerating change.
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I am a co-founder and Director at Onlinevents, dedicated to democratising learning in the helping professions. We host the world’s first and largest video learning library akin to “Netflix” for these professions.
Additionally, I serve as a Director at Temenos Education and lead the Counselling & Psychotherapy Programme. Our focus is on nurturing students to become their most potent selves, both personally and professionally.
With over 20 years of experience, I currently manage a private practice as a Psychotherapist and Supervisor, offering services through video, text chat, and virtual environments.
I also facilitate groups and am involved in the Going Global and La Jolla programmes, rooted in Carl Rogers’ Encounter Group movement.
I am a past Chair and now an Honorary Fellow at the Association for Counselling & Therapy Online (ACTO). I have served on the board of the World Association for Person Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counselling for 6 years.
Robin Shohet has been supervising for nearly fifty years beginning when he met Peter in 1976 and they staffed a therapeutic community for people coming out of psychiatric hospital. They combined to write Supervision in the Helping Professionsin 1989 which is now in its fifth edition. He co-wrote In Love with Supervision with Joan Shohet and his next book, Supervision as Spiritual Practice, an edited one, is due out in December 2024. He has organised two international conferences on forgiveness and is aiming to do another for 2026. He is a long time student of A Course in Miracles.
Known as ‘Saz’ around social media; I’m a social media coach, the creator of the 2019 Social Media Planner for Private Practice, and the co-founder of Onlinevents CPD.
I support therapists as they start to use social media to promote their private practice. Being visible online can make therapists feel vulnerable but, at the same time, in the today’s world of accessible technology, it is often an essential part of promoting their practice. Online is where people are searching now for goods and services, including therapy.
Specialising in the ‘How To’ of social media marketing, I teach therapists how to get started with different platforms, how to create content, how to use free tools, and how to create a regular ongoing online presence without having to be on their phone or at their PC every day. Support from me is in the form of 1-1 online coaching, a free Facebook community, and an Online Content Planner (an image and caption for every day of the year).
I really believe the more people start to see and hear therapists on Social Media, the stigma of ‘going to therapy’ will start to change. Through social media, people will become aware of the faces and voices of the therapists in their local community. This can make it easier for them to take the step to reach out and book a session for themselves, or even encourage a friend or family member to reach out to someone they can talk to. I am here to support therapists in growing and enriching their practice.
