Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy (Counselling)

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 art therapy throughout the 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: Wisdom and Healing in Dreams and Symbols

This module includes detailed examination of some major dream work processes, the history of dream work and current trends in dream research and application (for example: neuropsychology of dreams). Psychoanalytic, experiential and transpersonal dream work will be introduced. The language of dreams from a Jungian perspective will introduce archetypes and how this show up in dreams. Students learn how to understand and respectfully engage with dreams.

Module Five: Mind/Body Technologies

This module extends the work around the spectrum of consciousness and introduces techniques to change states to facilitate health and wellbeing. The purpose of this is to facilitate awareness of how four states; thinking, feeling, intuition and sensation (bodily) function either consciously or unconsciously, and how they impact on our lives. It is an opportunity to become more consciously aware of how these elements work in us. We also learn about focusing techniques, induction states and somatic awareness.

Module Six: Healing and Human Potentials

As humans we are multi–dimensional beings with a multiplicity of potentialities. In this module we will be Looking at human potentials and their application in healing, notions of the paranormal and other exceptional human abilities. Human energetics, healing and perspectives from modern physics and biology, as well as state-specific healing, resonance phenomena and energetics

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 Centered Model. This is a practical counselling module that revisits the underpinning of a Rogerian, client-centered counselling approaches.

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.