Introduction
This 18 month training is for those practitioners who have completed the
Diploma of Psychosynthesis Counselling and consolidated it appropriately.
The monthly occurring structure of intensives and course modules is designed
to allow students from out of Auckland to attend. The course will begin
with the 4 day Chakra intensive.
There are 7 intensives and 12 course modules. The intensives are listed
below. The components of the modules are: study seminars, group supervision,
Forum and group process. Students will also be expected to have regular
individual sessions, individual supervision and keep up with study, research
and assignment requirements. It is expected that students are working
extensively with clients.
Psychotherapy Courses
The Chakras as a Psychological System
This course will experientially explore the anatomy and physiology of
the chakra system, and the physiological, psychological and spiritual
experience of its unfolding within the individual. We will consider the
use of the chakra system as one model of diagnosis and its usefulness
for therapeutic process. Different psychotherapeutic approaches will be
examined within the context of the chakra system.
The Crisis of Meaning
This course addresses the construction of meaning and the symbolic of
language in developmental, existential and spiritual terms. Particular
attention will be given to the process of the therapeutic relationship
and the theoretical structures that support this – including self-object
relations, and consideration of disturbed meaning-making.
Psychospiritual Pathology
This course will consider the meaning and complexity of human suffering
within the context of the wounded healer. By acknowledging different psychological
levels students will address the question of how we recognise and be in
relation to personality disorder as well as acknowledging the pathology
of the sublime. The experience of depression is focussed upon to understand
this common affliction and appropriate therapeutic responses.
Quest for Wholeness
A philosophic and scientific focus on context can be thought of as reflecting a spiritual quest for wholeness. Virtual and actual realities included in an understanding of Consciousness and Will help contextualise a notion of wholeness that underpins synthesis: being distinct yet not separate. In this course, the experiential engagement with wholeness and fragmentation is approached through the dynamics around intimacy and connection, defence and protection.
These are examined on one hand with particular reference to borderline
phenomena and on the other through the metaphor of the quest, the lens
of mythologising. Viewing an expanded sense of self has important ramifications
for the way in which the therapeutic relationship is contextualised.
Exploring the Darklands: Power and Shadow
This course examines the territory identifi ed as the shadow in historical and theological context as well as psychological understanding of shadow phenomena such as scapegoating, repression and projection. The course requires a courageous opening to the motivations, beliefs and manipulative fantasies of our work as therapists in order to know basic unconscious experiences more consciously. The dynamics of transference and counter-transference in relation to both individual and collective experience will be a major focus.
Narcissism and Relating
Reflecting on relating patterns and experiences is one window on how will
is manifesting in ourselves and in our clients. With narcissism, will
is in maintaining quite distinctive relating patterns. Aetiological and
existential perspectives are available to us to consider these patterns.
What are our own narcissistic traits and tendencies, and how do we manage
when these manifest interpersonally in the therapeutic relationship and
outside it? These dynamics will be explored in terms of relatedness and
social acceptance.
Healing the Family Heritage
This course acknowledges that individuals are also products of the family systems that originally sustained them to a greater or lesser degree. These systems have tremendous power and influence, which derive from the past, and extend into the future. In terms of the soul-making context of the family over generations, how best can we work with and revision this relationship between the individual and their family so that appropriate resolution and healing is facilitated.
Study Seminars and Supervision
Study seminars
These will involve both theoretical and practicum material, both as follow
up to the intensives and presentation of other relevant therapeutic topics,
including:
• transference, counter-transference and beyond
• bicultural and multicultural issues and practice
• neuropsychology and psychotherapy
• diagnostic context and process
• psycho-pharmacology
• trauma and the complexities of memory
• psychotherapeutic strategies and techniques
• feminist, masculist and systemic analysis
Group Supervision
Students will be expected to make regular case presentations.
Ahuatanga Maori
This course provides a conceptual framework with which to develop awareness of the complex interplay of cultural beliefs, values, and expectations in the practitioner-client relationship.
Forum
Forum is the course component where students will attend to their professional
development as ethical and thoughtful practitioners within the multi-cultural
New Zealand environment.
Group Process
Group Process will be held every course module. The group process group
is for participants to recognise and work with the dynamics of transference
and counter-transference and to experience genuine encounter and I/Thou
meeting. Through working with interpersonal dynamics in a group setting,
participants will become more sensitised to systemic issues.
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