Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy (Art Therapy)

Module One: Foundations of Transpersonal Therapy

This foundational module introduces students to the core concepts and underpinning of transpersonal psychology through a historical and comparative approach. Transpersonal work is based on a psychological-spiritual model, which focuses on encouraging greater authenticity and creativity in life.

Module Two: Foundations of Transpersonal Practice

The second foundational module introduces students to the underlying principles and core values, to develop the skills to work with clients, in a safe and ethical manner, sensitive to cultural, and personal differences. These core values underpin our approach to our art therapy course.

Module Three: Integral approaches to Mental Health

This module will examine mental health from mainstream and transpersonal perspectives. The purpose is to familiarise transpersonal therapists with the psychological, psychiatric and transpersonal paradigms in order to work within the client’s belief system.

Module Four: Healing Dialogues with Art and Images

Transpersonal Art Therapy introduces techniques to work creatively, with paint, clay and other mediums, with the aim of encouraging students to communicate through creative expression and discover their own journey to healing and well-being. From these embodied skills they then can apply this with clients in a therapeutic setting.

Module Five: Transitions and Healing across the Life Cycle

During this module students experience their life journey and specific challenges and gifts related to each of its development phases. Here the idea of movement through the life cycle, as a series of transitions that can be understood and the therapeutic resources that can be accessed through Art Therapy are explored.

Module Six: Navigating the Psyche

Students explore the structure and dynamics of the psyche in ways related to a central concern of transpersonal work: self-realisation. This module is designed for students to journey into their inner personal worlds and navigate towards our centre or authentic self.

Different techniques are employed to enable this: including Divination – the process of looking beyond appearances, and engaging with symbols, that are personal meaning maps and how these maps help us make sense of the world.

Module Seven: Exploring Life Transitions: Myth and Ritual

Myth and ritual have been the cornerstone of the health and well-being of individuals and communities since Palaeolithic times. This module will explore the nature and use of myth in the healing process and in a cross-cultural context. Traditional, shamanic cultures will be compared with our own in terms of managing and mapping our various life changes.

Module Eight: Transpersonal Approaches to Mental Health

Exploring approaches to illness, suffering, life transitions and problems with living from a Transpersonal perspective. Looking at detailed coverage of the spiritual crisis, emergence literature, practice implications and process versus diagnosis.

Module Nine: Client Centred Engagement

This module is designed to provide students with a comprehensive foundation in inter-transpersonal skills which are essential to being an effective healer using the Client Centred Model. This is a practical counselling module that revisits the underpinning of a Rogerian, client-centred counselling approach.

Module Ten: Transpersonal Counselling Skills

In this module the fundamentals of communication and counselling skills are extended into Transpersonal dimensions of human interaction, using a self-realisation model.

Students learn to assess where the client is at and what technique/s would be most appropriate to support the clients healing and journey.

Module 11: Transpersonal Practice Skills

This module focuses on the ways in which a Transpersonal practice can be implemented. Detailed analysis of major approaches to Transpersonal Therapy practice e.g. Wilber, Grof, Krippner and Rowan will be explored.

Module Twelve: Professional Practice – Ethic and legal Guidelines

This module covers the current climate of professional practice in Australia, ethico-legal matters, inter-professional relationships in referrals and integrative practice, case studies and practice work. It also develops a framework for developing a private practice and introduces students to further structural matters in relation to being a counselling professional.

For a more detailed explanation of all our modules please download our course information flyer.