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Live Online · 3–5 December 2026 · 9:00 UK · 20:00 AEDT

What's new in Explain Pain, Embodiment & Graded Motor Imagery

New science, clinical challenges and practical applications.

Pain science is evolving. Are our clinical approaches evolving with it? Join Tim Beames, Bernhard Taxer and Martina Egan for three interactive Live Online sessions.

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GBP £250 › EUR €295 › AUD $475 ›
DATES
Thu 3 – Sat 5 Dec 2026
TIME
9:00–12:00 UK (GMT)
20:00–23:00 AEDT (Sydney)
DURATION
3 × 3 hours, incl. breaks
FORMAT
Live Online · Q&A
RECORDINGS
Unlimited access, 1 month
CERTIFICATE
Certificate of attendance

From understanding pain to changing experience

Pain science continues to evolve, challenging how we understand pain, the body and human experience, and how we translate that knowledge into meaningful clinical change.

Across the course, we'll examine emerging research, challenge established assumptions and explore how contemporary science can inform clinical reasoning and treatment. Rather than treating pain education, embodiment and movement rehabilitation as separate approaches, we'll consider the connections between understanding, experience and action.

THREE PERSPECTIVES. ONE SHARED CLINICAL CHALLENGE

How can we use contemporary pain science to help people not only understand their pain, but experience meaningful change?

The programme

Three days. Three perspectives.

THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER
TIM BEAMES
9:00–12:00 UK (GMT) · 20:00–23:00 AEDT (Sydney)

What's new in Graded Motor Imagery?

GMI has changed.

Two decades of research and new thinking from predictive processing and ecological-enactive approaches have reshaped how we understand left/right judgements, imagined movement and mirror therapy. Explore what's new, what still holds up and what we're still unsure about, so you can use GMI with more flexibility, more honesty and more confidence.

  • Two decades of GMI research: what have we learned?
  • Left/right judgements, imagined movement and mirror therapy
  • Predictive processing and ecological-enactive approaches
  • Moving beyond graded cortical activation
  • Body perception, movement confidence and sense of agency
  • GMI through a person-world perspective
  • Clinical applications beyond CRPS and phantom limb pain
  • Working with what remains uncertain
FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER
BERNHARD TAXER
9:00–12:00 UK (GMT) · 20:00–23:00 AEDT (Sydney)

What's new in Explain Pain?

What do people with persistent pain actually gain from pain education?

Understanding pain does not automatically translate into meaningful changes in experience, behaviour or participation. Examine what current evidence tells us about pain education, its challenges and limitations, and how education can become more personalised and clinically meaningful by connecting with a person's experiences, values and goals.

  • What current evidence says about pain education
  • What people actually gain from pain education
  • The relationship between knowledge and outcomes
  • Translating understanding into meaningful change
  • Designing education around values and goals
  • Moving beyond explaining pain mechanisms
  • Personalising education for different presentations
  • Practical implications for persistent pain rehabilitation
SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER
MARTINA EGAN
9:00–12:00 UK (GMT) · 20:00–23:00 AEDT (Sydney)

What's new in Embodiment?

The body is not simply an object to be observed or treated.

Beyond viewing the brain as the generator of experience, explore how the subjective, lived body is shaped through our engagement and relationships with the world and others; the interplay between nervous, immune, hormonal and autonomic systems; and the values, meanings and personal experiences that make our experience uniquely human.

  • Beyond brain-centred explanations of experience
  • The subjective, lived body
  • Embodied, embedded and enactive perspectives
  • Brain, body and environment
  • Predictive processing and prediction errors
  • Homeostasis and interconnected physiological systems
  • Identity, meaning, values and relationships
  • Clinical implications for persistent pain rehabilitation
How the sessions connect

Understanding. Experience. Action.

Explain Pain
UNDERSTANDING AND MEANING

How do people understand their pain, and how can education become personally meaningful?

Embodiment
EXPERIENCE AND SENSE OF SELF

How do bodily experience, physiological regulation, relationships and identity shape the way we experience ourselves and the world?

Graded Motor Imagery
ACTION AND AGENCY

How can movement-related experiences help people rebuild confidence, regain a sense of control and reconnect with meaningful activities?

Who is this course for?

Physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other healthcare professionals interested in contemporary pain science and its clinical application, particularly those working with persistent pain, movement rehabilitation and complex presentations.

Why join live?

This is more than watching presentations. Ask questions, take part in discussions and explore how emerging science relates to real clinical challenges, with educators who combine scientific understanding with extensive clinical experience. Can't attend every session? Recordings stay available for one month.

3, 4 and 5 December 2026

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EUROPE

London · Dublin · Lisbon
9:00–12:00
Amsterdam · Paris · Berlin · Rome · Madrid
10:00–13:00
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11:00–14:00
Istanbul
12:00–15:00

ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST

Dubai
13:00–16:00
Mumbai · New Delhi
14:30–17:30
Singapore · Hong Kong
17:00–20:00

AUSTRALIA

Perth
17:00–20:00
Darwin
18:30–21:30
Brisbane
19:00–22:00
Adelaide
19:30–22:30
Sydney · Melbourne · Canberra
20:00–23:00

NORTH AMERICA

New York · Toronto
4:00–7:00
Chicago
3:00–6:00
Los Angeles · Vancouver
1:00–4:00

Too early? Every session is recorded and available for one month.

Registration

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UNITED KINGDOM
£250 GBP
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EUROPE
€295 EUR
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AUSTRALIA
$475 AUD
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What's included

  • Three Live Online sessions with experienced Noigroup educators
  • Nine hours of scheduled course time, including breaks
  • Contemporary pain science and emerging perspectives
  • Practical clinical examples and applications
  • Interactive teaching, discussion and Q&A
  • Unlimited recording access for one month after the course
  • Certificate of attendance

Good to know

Language
English
Platform
Zoom; joining links are sent to participants before the course
Recordings
Unlimited access for one month after the course
Certificate
Certificate of attendance available
CPD
No formal CPD accreditation
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