MSc course module
Transpersonal Counselling and Psychotherapy
Explore historical and contemporary influences of transpersonal psychotherapy and counselling and consider how such approaches inform current psychotherapeutic understanding and practice.
Overview
Transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy situate the process of psychological healing and maturation in the wider context of spiritual development. This option explores the main features of these approaches, and their associated techniques and models.
- What does transpersonal counselling and psychotherapy look like in practice?
- Which techniques do transpersonal psychotherapists and counsellors use in their therapeutic practice?
- What are the challenges therapists face when drawing on transpersonal perspectives and approaches within the practice and the contexts in which they work?
- How can transpersonal psychotherapists work on their own shadows and egoic patterns so they minimize their interference in the clients’ therapeutic process?
- Which models of psychopathology best fit within a transpersonal perspective?
Synopsis
This option explores the main features of the transpersonal approaches to counselling and psychotherapy, covering a wide range of aspects such as the diverse transpersonal therapeutic frameworks, the integration of the spiritual connection in the therapeutic process, the rich variety of transpersonal techniques, and the transpersonal models of psychopathology. Special attention is given to analyse the challenges and dangers associated to these approaches, and to how to work on the shadows and egoic patterns of the therapist so their interference in the therapeutic process is minimized.
The option combines theoretical contents with practical exercises which provide an experiential understanding of the involved concepts and techniques. Whether wishing to explore how transpersonal psychotherapy and counselling theory and techniques might be integrated into practice, if already a trained therapist, or whether aiming to learn how transpersonal perspectives might inform understanding and involvement in wider contexts, this option will provide a general perspective of how to foster and assist processes of psychospiritual healing and maturation.
- Explore what a transpersonal approach to counselling and psychotherapy looks like in practice.
- Get to know a wide range of transpersonal techniques.
- Explore a set of experiential exercises related to the main features of transpersonal counselling and psychotherapy, with application to a variety of contexts and professions.
- Participate in experiential webinars that provide sample experiences of the core concepts and techniques.
- Deepen the awareness of the negative role that shadows and egoic patterns may play in therapeutic settings and more generally in interpersonal relationships, and learn some approaches to overcome and heal them.
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