Diploma Transpersonal Therapy Counselling | Art Therapy Counselling

Program Overview

This Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy (Counselling) program provides a comprehensive understanding of transpersonal psychology and its application in counselling. Through experiential learning and self-reflection, students develop skills in transpersonal counselling, dream work, and mind/body techniques. The program prepares graduates for careers as transpersonal counsellors, art therapists, and counsellors in various settings, including private practice, healthcare, and education.

Program Outline

Outline:

This Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy (Counselling) course is highly experiential and centres on the “whole person” in counselling and therapeutic practice. You will not only learn transpersonal counselling approaches, but also be guided through your own powerful process of self-awareness and reflection.

• Module One: Foundations of Transpersonal Therapy
• Introduces students to the core concepts and underpinnings 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
• 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
• Examines 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
• Includes a 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
• 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
• Looks 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
• Explores 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
• Explores 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
• Provides 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 underpinnings of a Rogerian, client-centered counselling approaches.
• Module Ten: Transpersonal Counselling Skills
• Extends the fundamentals of communication and counselling skills 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
• 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

Teaching:

• Teaching Methods:
• Interactive online platform
• Real-time Q&A
• Group work
• Faculty:
• Over 200 years of combined professional experience
• Run their own successful clinics
• Use personal experiences to create engaging teaching methods
• Unique Approaches:
• Heart-centered approach
• Small class groups
• Personalized teaching approach

Careers:

• Career Opportunities:
• Transpersonal counsellor
• Art therapist
• Counsellor in clinic or organisational setting
• Aged care
• Alcohol and drug centres
• Rehabilitation and outreach services
• Health centres
• Schools
• Private practice
• Career Outcomes:
• Many graduates start their own private practice
• Others have gained employment in sectors such as:
• Art Therapy/Counselling Services
• Government Agencies
• Aged Care
• Alcohol & Drug Centres
• Rehabilitation & Outreach Services
• Health Centres
• Schools
• Private Practice