Saturday 26th – Monday 28th of September 2026
London Workshop
COGNITIVE FUNCTIONAL THERAPY
MASTERCLASS
with Professor Peter O’Sullivan
Format
3 Full Days
who?
Real stories of people 
with chronic pain
date
Sept 26-28 2026
Location
Royal Free Hospital,
London, UK.

About the Workshop

  • An immersive three-day experience guided by Professor Peter O'Sullivan, pioneer of Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT).
  • Not a lecture series — Peter works with real people with chronic pain, demonstrating full CFT interview, assessment, clinical reasoning and intervention in real time.
  • Negotiating the roadblocks and challenges - working with people living with pain.
  • Opportunities for discussion, deeper learning and connecting with the CFT community.

CFT is a person-centred cognitive and behavioural approach for individualising the management of disabling low back pain — targeting unhelpful cognitions, emotions, movement and lifestyle behaviours, tailored to each person's unique story.

Published in The Lancet, CFT has demonstrated long-term reductions in pain and disability with significant cost savings versus usual care.

The workshop is run by James Davis Physiotherapy in collaboration with Evoolve pain care academy

Learning Outcomes

1. Lived experience of chronic pain 6. Guided behavioural examination
2. Making sense of chronic pain 7. Clinical reasoning framework
3. Triage & red flags 8. CFT intervention and progressions
4. Person-centred communication 9. Exploring barriers & opportunities for recovery
5. Clinical interview – exploring the story 10. Evidence for CFT and Tiered training pathway

Facilitator

Professor Peter O'Sullivan — Curtin University — with his team has developed and conducted CFT research for over three decades. The teams landmark Lancet RCT demonstrated clinically meaningful, long-term improvements in pain and disability for persistent low back pain with significant cost savings versus usual care. Peter brings exceptional skill in live clinical demonstration — weaving real peoples stories, assessment, reasoning and intervention in a way that is immediately applicable to practice.

Preparation & Registration

Prior learning recommended (not mandatory): participants without prior CFT workshop experience are encouraged to complete the online Knowledge workshop at evoolvepaincare.academy before attending.

A 50% discount to Tier 1 Knowledge is offered to Masterclass enrollees after they send a copy of their invoice to admin@evoolvepaincare.academy.
⚠ This workshop will NOT be recorded — in-person attendance only.
Student discount available for full-time undergrad and postgrad students (limited places).
Pre-course reading sent by email after registration.