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447 is training. Again, training has from the start been foundational to values-based practice. Among new training initiatives is an international web-based masters-level programme in Phenomenology and Values-based Clinical Care (PVbCC). Jointly sponsored by the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Oxford and the Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences in Brazil, with international partners (including the WPA Section on Philosophy and Humanities), the programme offers a series of master classes delivered by experts from different parts of the world (see https://metamastersonline.com). Participating students will thereby gain an additional international level of experience over and above their respective national home study programmes. As such, the PVbCC programme will help to build what, many years ago, and anticipating contemporary developments, a former President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, J. Birley, called an international “open society” of mental health stakeholders underpinning best practice in personalized mental health care. Kenneth W.M. Fulford, Ashok Handa St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, J. Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK