A Psychospiritual Approach to Counselling and Psychotherapy
An 8 day course for counsellors and psychotherapists. The course will offer a theoretical framework, experiential exploration and skill building exercises in order to bring a spiritual approach to talking therapies. Based around the concepts of Psychosynthesis, IFS, Mindfulness, Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Theory.
All the weekends will be a mixture of personal exploration of the territory, theory and skills practice.
This course is intended to run online as well as face to face, please get in touch if you are interested in the online course.
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Dates for 2025: 8+9 March, 5+6 April, 10+11 May, 7+8 June
Times: 9.30am till 5.30pm on Saturdays and 10 till 5 on Sundays
Cost: £800, early bird till end of January. £880 from beginning of February
Venue: Stroud, TBC
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Weekend 1 – Introduction to Psychosynthesis
Introduction to the Egg Diagram – the core psychospiritual model for the course.
Exploring the Phenomenological Approach of our experience of body, feelings and mind.
Weekend 2 – Subpersonalities
Subpersonalities theory has become popularised by IFS. This weekend will give an introduction to working with parts.
Weekend 3 – The Will
Psychosynthesis works with both will and consciousness. Will is necessary in order to change and find direction.
Weekend 3 – Spiritual
Introduction to psycho-spiritual theory. Learning to work with spiritual emergence/emergency. Becoming a psycho-spiritual practitioner.
Talking Skills for Body Workers and Holistic Therapists – A somatic psycho-spiritual approach
A 6 day course for body workers, counsellors and holistic practitioners who would like to improve their verbal skills at working somatically with clients. We will explore a somatic psycho-spiritual approach to talking therapies. The course will help you to integrate talking skills into body based and other holistic therapeutic interventions. It will be a mixture of theory, experiential reflections and skills practice.
This course is intended to run online as well as face to face, please get in touch if you are interested in the online course.
Dates for 2025: 12+13 April, 17+18 May, 14+15 June.
Times: 9.30am till 5.30pm on Saturdays and 10 till 5 on Sundays.
Cost: £600, early bird till end of January. £660 from beginning of February
Venue: Stroud, TBC
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Weekend 1 – Exploring the Phenomenological Experience
Introduction to the experience of body, feelings and mind (experiential)
Introduction to talking skills.
Working safely with trauma.
Weekend 2 – Working with the Parts
Introduction to parts, subpersonalities and inner voice dialogue.
Experiential exploration of parts using a somatic approach.
How to work with clients and their parts.
Weekend 3 – The Wholistic Self – Beyond the Parts
Introduction to identification, disidentification and psychosynthesis theory.
Experiential exploration of the wholistic self.
Skills practice, working in pairs.