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Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy (Expressive Group Work)

Learn how to create group programs for a diverse range of clients in a variety of environments. Through a person-centred approach, you will develop the leadership and management skills needed to effectively manage complex or high-demand groups. With an emphasis on creative expression, this course empowers you to lead and facilitate group dynamics with ease and confidence. 

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Join this course to become a Group Leader or Facilitator using the Expressive Arts.

Embrace your passion for change, innovation and transformation.

Discover the art of leading and organising groups through inventive and dynamic techniques that inspire participants to bring their best selves to the table. Set purposeful objectives and tackle group challenges with creativity while cultivating spontaneity and enthusiasm through stimulating group activities, challenges and games.

As a Group Facilitator or Leader, you will be empowered to use expressive arts in a wide range of adult/youth groups such as health, well-being, personal development, art therapy, corporate and community groups. You’ll gain the skills to plan and conduct group activities, which is highly valued by organisations.

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Delivery Modes

Online Full Time

Online Weekend

Online night study

Course Structure

See current timetables for more info in delivery modes, course structures & duration.

Duration

14 – 18 Months

Course Fees

2024 Fees, pricing & payment options

Payment Plans

Payment plans available.

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Join us online. It’s the best way to find out more about our college, courses, art therapy study options, career outcomes as well as discover if this course is right for you

All attendees receive generous discounts towards their diploma studies.

Format: Online
Duration: 2 Hours

Why more people choose to study Expressive Group Work with us?

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Wide Diversity of Employment Opportunities

You will be equipped to work in organisations and as a self-employed Group Facilitator/Leader or Consultant. This creative skill set complements other professions in the fields of teaching, social/community work, counselling and human resources.

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Unique Online learning

We use an interactive online platform so students can ask questions in real-time, interact and practise on other students or in groups, and feel like they are in a classroom even though they are studying from home. Our entire curriculum is available online. All our teachers are experienced in delivering online lectures ensuring the experience is fun, interactive and personally fulfilling. We use online classes to teach students to become proficient at online consultations – opening up a whole world of potential clients.

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Experienced teaching team

When you study with us you get the best of both worlds: cutting-edge theoretical knowledge along with tried and tested field experience. Our teachers have a combined 200 years of professional experience and most run their own successful clinics. Over the last 20+ years, they have infused their personal experiences into engaging teaching methods to ensure you get the most out of your mind body medicine study. Find out more about our teaching team.

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Heart centered approach

We favour small class groups and a personalised teaching approach to create strong bonds with our students, and a more intimate learning experience. We strongly believe in the human-to-human connection between client and therapist, and strive to embody that in our teaching style.

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Multiple study options & a supportive community

With online full-time, weekend, night and face-to-face study options, you can find a study option that perfectly fits your lifestyle and other commitments.

When you study your art therapy course with our college, you also join an active community that supports you beyond your training.

Testimonials from our students

I decided to study Transpersonal Art Therapy and in the first week it was like coming home for me. Transpersonal Art Therapy pulled together everything I had experienced over the past 10 years and the course gave me the foundations to move forward, combining all my skills and knowledge, deepening my art expression and being able to help others on their journey

Stephanie Gregory

My recent education in counselling left me longing for a more creative way to deal with people wanting and needing counselling. I wanted to be able to address the whole human experience. I’ve enjoyed learning in a group capacity as well as doing creative art throughout the course. Having done the course themselves, the lecturers could give me a deeper understanding of the modules – the way they delivered the learning through their own experiences was inspiring.

Christopher Watt

What’s in our Expressive Group Work course?

Become a Group Leader and embark on a fulfilling journey of fun, self-realisation and healing, delving into the following areas:

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: Soul and Spirit of Groups

In this module, you’ll learn the fundamentals of transpersonal group work. Discover how to read group dynamics, foster group cohesion and create a space for creativity and transformation. We’ll explore various theories of group work within a transpersonal framework, with a focus on the facilitator’s role in guiding group members through the psyche using expressive arts.

Module Five: Dynamic Creativity in Group Leadership

Explore the integration of expressive arts modalities for different community or group needs. By the end of this module, you’ll feel confident in developing structured programs using mask work, clay, movement/dance, drama, music, poetry, stories and journaling.

Module Six:  Myth and Archetypal Patterning

Gain a deeper understanding of your Self and enhance your leadership abilities through a transpersonal perspective. Explore your own myths, dreams, connection to nature and archetypal influences to tap into a

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.

Career Opportunities

After completing this course, you will be skilled in developing programs that meet group needs through an integrated, transpersonal and artistic approach. With enhanced creative leadership abilities, you’ll be able to tackle complex systems, apply innovative solutions, and confidently apply transpersonal therapy methods such as mindful meditation, imagery exploration and consciousness states, to promote well-being and optimal living.

Your career opportunities will span a vast range of environments, whether you want to work in organisations or pursue self-employment as a Group Leader, Group Facilitator, Community Manager or Consultant.

Become a creative group worker and take your career to new heights, whether you’re a Teacher, Social Worker, Community Worker, Counsellor or Human Resources Officer.

Payment Plans

We don’t want you to miss out on making your dream career a reality due to finance, therefore we have multiple payment options available.

We offer discounts on the registration fee to those who attend our free discovery sessions and short courses.

We have partnered up with Handypay. With Handypay you can learn now and pay later. Handypay is committed to providing flexible and affordable payment plans to enable better access to quality education. Click here download an information flyer. You can make a no obligation enquiry here. Get approved in minutes, no monthly, exit, or early repayment fees, an inquiry will not impact your credit score.

Interested in Earning a Double Diploma?

Broaden your career options and skill set

If you have enrolled in or completed this program, you can easily broaden your skills and knowledge with a double diploma. By completing just 4 more modules, you can acquire the following additional diploma:

11156NAT Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy Art Therapy 

Our 11156NAT Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy (Expressive Group Work) is a nationally recognised qualification

This program is recognised by the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) and by leading industry associations:  

Nationally Recognised Training logo
ANZACATA logo
International institute for Complementary Therapists logo
Holistic Therapists Australia logo

Frequently asked questions

We like to say that Art Therapy is like a doorway into your inner world.

Art therapy is a type of therapy that uses  creative media such as paint, crayon, collage, textas, clay and pastels to express and explore your emotion and experience. 

Techniques used in art therapy can also include: music, dance, drama, movement, photography, digital media, psychodrama and sand play. These visual, physical, tactile and auditory media are a form of non-verbal expression that help you externalise your internal experience.

Learn more about art therapy at our free discovery session.

A qualified Art Therapist will have a diploma in art or creative therapies. Transpersonal Art Therapists have a wealth of tools and techniques to work with clients. During a session the therapist would begin with client-centred counselling to establish a rapport and get an insight into why the client is seeking therapy.

Various techniques would be offered to help the client explore their issues or life concerns. The therapist may then take them into a process, for example, a guided visualisation to access deeper waters.

An art process would be offered and then the therapist would amplify the symbols and how it relates to the client’s present life.

Expressive Art Therapy is a form of therapy that uses ​​processes such as mask-making, puppetry, dance and movement, storytelling, art, poetry.

This form of therapy facilitates positive change with individuals and groups. It is effective in treating people with trauma, PTSD, sexual abuse victims, people with addictions, domestic abuse victims and many more.

We offer art therapy courses that can be studied anywhere in Australia.

Many people consult with a Transpersonal Art Therapist to address issues in their life for example relationship problems, depression or loss of a loved one. Art therapy can assist clients to reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, develop social skills, solve problems, reduce anxiety, provide orientation and increase self-esteem.

People also seek a transpersonal practitioner as they have a sense that there is more to life, that they are not living to their full potential. We offer accredited online art therapy courses to help you achieve a career in this exciting field.

With online full-time, weekend, night and face-to-face study options on offer it means you can study our art therapy course from anywhere in Australia. No matter where you are located, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin and Gold Coast our online study options  means you can gain an Art Therapy qualification from the comfort of your home.

To become an Art Therapist you will need to gain an accredited art therapy qualification.

Our Art Therapy course is delivered online. This means you can study art therapy from anywhere in Australia. Study art therapy in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or wherever you are based.

Our 10701NAT Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy (Art Therapy) is government accredited and industry approved meaning you can apply for membership with an industry association. Membership with an industry association gives you access to discounted insurance which you will need in order to practise.

Our course is ideal for those considering the Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy & Expressive Arts Group Work at CCM. If you’re interested in enriching your leadership skills and aiming for a transformative experience, our program may be the perfect fit for you! 

This course caters to individuals looking to enhance their leadership abilities and undergo a personal transformation, making it an excellent choice for those seeking leadership training, leadership courses, or leadership training programs. Whether you are currently a team leader or aspire to become one, our course equips you with the knowledge and expertise to excel. 

It’s particularly suited for individuals interested in leadership development, team leadership training, and leadership courses in Australia. If you are drawn to roles involving group facilitation, this program will provide essential skills. If you’re seeking creative and expressive arts facilitator training, art therapy courses, or a diploma of art therapy, this course offers a solid foundation to align with your future goals.

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