DIPLOMA IN TRANSPERSONAL COUNSELLING

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The Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling is a state-of-the art program that offers students both preparation for professional practice and a profound personal development experience. It is for people who are seeking to gain methods of healing based on both modern and traditional knowledge.

The Diploma has been developed by Dr Rafael Locke at the IKON International Institute. IKON's philosophy is aimed at producing new kinds of practitioners who not only deliver superior services but also offer leadership in social change, community building and creating bridges between people and cultures.

The Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling is available to study part time at our Sydney campus only. To find Transpersonal courses available in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, please click on the link below.
Transpersonal courses available in other states


What is Transpersonal Counselling?

Transpersonal Counselling focuses on self-realisation, dealing less with curing and more with healing. Curing without healing is a triumph; healing which may entail curing is a necessity.

Transpersonal Counselling looks beyond the personality self.

The mind and body is more than just an extremely complex machine. We are also spiritual beings learning from life, searching for meaning in birth, death, and all that precedes and follows our life cycle.

Our sense of self and the world we inhabit is determined by our states of consciousness. For example, in our normal awakened state, we perceive the world through our limited senses of sight, hearing, smell and touch. Impressions from these senses (with the exception of smell) are modified by our subconscious brain before they are processed by our conscious mind. What we see and perceive depends greatly on our pre-established belief systems and prior associations.

When dreaming we are open to a very different view of the world, not limited by our senses or prior programming. There are other states of consciousness that can be used to broaden our awareness of self and the world.

The psycho-spiritual traditions of the world's cultures offer us the potential for new models of health and wellbeing. Comparative studies of spiritual and religious systems and transpersonal anthropology are an important part of the program.


What you gain from Transpersonal Counselling

•  vocational training that enables you to work in a wide variety of rewarding areas
•  a deeper understanding of yourself and others
•  a stronger sense of purpose and direction in life
•  greater access to personal resources
•  life skills for managing transitions
•  personal healing and greater sense of self
•  deepening of relationships and personal expression
•  a supportive network and community beyond the course

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Transpersonal courses are different!

•  they value the individual and their life experience
•  they are focussed on the person as the instrument of healing
•  they recognise the importance of self awareness
•  they value the use of various states of consciousness in healing
•  are client centred and based on the model of 'authenticity'
•  the programs are rigorous and bridge the medical and traditional models
•  they recognise that healing is an ongoing journey of emergence and growth
•  they recognise the importance of culture building in a society undergoing severe transitions

What our students say about Transpersonal Counselling


"In 2004 I embarked on a different kind of journey, studying transpersonal counselling through IKON in Sydney. It was confronting and revealing, but most of all deeply connecting. The process was creative and helped me understand my masks, my gifts and gave me insights that helped me connect to my inner spirit and wisdom.

As a result I have had tremendous growth and life changing experiences. The journey has helped me grow as a human being and has given me a deeper appreciation of the cycle of life and its role in transformation. The course provided the right space for me to learn new skills, and access different parts of myself. I am now working back in the community with support groups and meeting people at where they are in their life.

I have to acknowledge the skills and support of a great bunch of gifted lecturers and to our tutor Vicki Dean for her encouragement and support and keeping us grounded. I will always be eternally grateful to this special group of people."

Margie Cartisano, Transpersonal Counselling Graduate 2005
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Study Schedule

Transpersonal Counselling comprises 11 modules. There is also a practical placement that is completed at the end of the course. Transpersonal Counselling is offered part time at the Sydney College of Complementary Medicine.

Students study each module in a four day block over approximately 21 months. Also, in the part time course there are evening tutorials. Five to six of these are held between most modules. The tutorials are there to help support and guide you through your studies.

Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling

Module 1. Foundations of Transpersonal Studies: The Spectrum of Consciousness
This foundation module introduces students to the core concepts and theories in transpersonal work through a historical and comparative approach. The central focus is upon establishing a model for transpersonal work drawing upon both cross-cultural perspectives and an understanding of the nature of consciousness.

•  models of healing
•  states of consciousness
•  mythology and healing
•  hero's journey
•  models of the psyche
•  the shamanic model
•  the transpersonal approach and process

Module 2. State-Specific Knowledge and Techniques 1: Dreams, Images and Symbols
A detailed examination of some of the major dream work processes, including the history of dream work and current trends in dream research and application [e.g. Neuro-psychology of dreams]. Psychoanalytic, experiential and transpersonal dream work.

•  dream work
•  dream techniques
•  dream research
•  symbolism
•  Jungian approaches to dreams
•  archetypes
•  parapsychology and dreams

Module 3. State-Specific Knowledge and Techniques 2: Mind Technologies
This module extends the work begun in Module 2 through exploring specific techniques for generating healing processes.

•  meditation and healing
•  focusing
•  hypnosis and related states
•  state specific knowledge
•  introduction techniques
•  state enhanced exploration

Module 4. Ritual, Myth and Healing
The focus in this module is on the ways in which symbols, myth and consciousness are central ingredients in healing. The main focus is upon how human experiences can be translated into symbolic and then mythological terms so that healing rituals can be developed and used for individuals and groups.

•  culture and psyche
•  mythology
•  ritual construction
•  rites of passage
•  stories and healing

Module 5. Healing and Human Potential
Exploring the contribution which parapsychology and consciousness research have made to the understanding of human experience and behaviour and especially in relation to healing.

•  parapsychology
•  altered states & human potentials
•  energetic systems
•  consciousness research
•  traditional models for PSI

Module 6. Mental Health and the Transpersonal Perspective 1: Mental Health Paradigms
Coverage of the major, mainstream 20th century paradigms of mental health, the models of human beings and society implicit in them and their principal critics. The rise of DSM and the diagnostic process.

•  models and definitions of mental health
•  madness, mysticism and creativity
•  anti-psychiatry
•  existentialism
•  humanism

Module 7. Mental Health and the Transpersonal Perspective 2: Transpersonal Emergence and Crises
Approaches to illness, suffering, life transitions and problems with living from a transpersonal perspective. Detailed coverage of the spiritual crisis and emergence literature and practice implications. Process versus diagnosis.

•  spiritual crisis and emergence
•  madness, mysticism and creativity
•  psychosis and shamanic models

Module 8 & 9. Transpersonal Therapy Communication and Counselling Skills
These two modules are designed to provide students with a comprehensive foundation in interpersonal skills which are essential to being an effective healer. The fundamentals of communication and counselling skills are extended into transpersonal dimensions of human interaction using a self-realisation model.

• client-centred approach
•  counselling practice
•  healing relationships
• authenticity and self realisation

Module 10. Paradigms of Transpersonal Counselling Practice
This module focuses on the ways in which a transpersonal practice can be implemented. Detailed analysis of major approaches to TPC practice e.g. Wilber, Grof, Krippner, Rowan. Developing a personal style. Individual and group work modalities.

•  case studies & practical work
•  working with clients
•  the transpersonal counselling process

Module 11. Professional Practice Issues
Current climate of professional practice in Australia. Inter-professional relationships in referrals and integrative practice.

•  ethics and legal obligations
•  setting up a transpersonal practice
•  case studies and practical work

Module 12. Non-teaching practicum
This section of the course is concerned with practical work in an agency in a supervised environment.
50 hour voluntary community placement. Details of this will be discussed in class.
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Accreditation

IKON International Institute courses are nationally accredited with the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) which comes under the Federal Government's Higher Education Act, ensuring you receive quality training that meets national standards.

The courses can be found on the National Training Information Service website, www.ntis.gov.au. The course codes are as follows:

Diploma in Transpersonal Art Therapy 51939
Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling 51942

Click here to visit the NTIS website to view our course listing

Upon completion of the courses, graduates may apply for membership with the following organisation with whom our courses are accredited:

• The Society for Natural Therapists and Researchers (SNTR) which also falls under the National Charter for Natural Health covering Australia and New Zealand.

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