Transpersonal Psychology Counselling- 2 yr Curriculum & Syllabus
TP Counselling Curriculum Overview
Overview: The 2-Year Transpersonal (TP) Counselling program, includes the TP coaching program for its first year (TP coaching curriculum) and then then builds to take students deeper into content, felt experience and personal practice (PiP). The counselling course in the second year of consecutive study, will achieve its objectives with repetition of the Chakra & their Elements healing models: and a refinement of techniques that resonate with independent style of each student: students now encouraged to fully express themselves through a refinement of their own style- which they will share with their clients.
Structured over 24 'Live' weekend experiences, and 88 weekly online segments over two years of study, students will build knowledge & resilience becoming not only a powerful TP psychology coach but with further skill, depth and maturity, a more seasoned and experienced transpersonal psychology counsellor. Below are curriculum learning pillars of the program, which facilitate a students transformation:
Learn-by-Experience: The learn-by-doing approach trains students interactively with direct ‘Live’ in-the-room content, practices, partner & group-work. Special emphasis is placed on felt experience, whereby material is immediately worked with personally or interactively with inquiry, creatively, reflectively assessing maps of meaning. For the TP Counselling second year, fundament components of the first years material is deepened through repetition and working with the Gestalt of experience and parts of the Self. Exercises, interventions and techniques are re-worked, re-felt and confronted, in a supportive and safe contained environment, to allow students to break-through aspects of defence, sensitivity and resistance.
Self-Mastery: Both 1-2-1 transpersonal therapy & personal integral practice (PiP) is required for the TP psychology coaching and counselling courses. Self observation, inquiry toward confrontation (shadow-work), supported by professional guidance and inner-work methods, cultivates a students' Self-mastery; so they feel knowledgeable & seasoned with their own transformation process. Self inquiry & practice also allows students to submerge into lived experience, vital to attune to their clients unfolding process. Self-mastery which is anchored in personal experience, creates not a mold for clients to copy, but a blueprint of possibility for their own transcendent process.
Customised Approaches: The coaches and counsellors that we train are different to most, because as part of what is refined over the course of study, students are trained, invited and encouraged to personalise their own approach to work with their clients. Anchored in their personal integrated practices (Pip), and drawing from a range of techniques and interventions, our coaches and counsellors are encouraged to refine what works best for their own client-counsellor applications. Students are encouraged to polish their own therapeutic persona, to trust their insights & instincts, and to refine their own approach for their clients, as part of their transpersonal unfolding process.
Multi-Dimensional: The theory and content covered adhere to eastern philosophical models and western Transpersonal Psychology. The Tantric Chakras and their Elements provide an archetypal framework and the client research theories of pioneers such as Freud, Jung, Maslow & Grof, provide perspectives for western experience & a transpersonal paradigm. The Humanistic coaching approaches of Carl Rodgers will also be taught as a cornerstone of the client practice work. Key transpersonal tools & techniques, supporting these eclectic approaches will be: Integrated Healing Technique (IHT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)- core belief reprogramming and family constellation & gestalt/ parts integration. In the TP counselling program further dimensions of ancestral healing (family constellations), family systems theories and archetypal shadow-work and integration will add a broader range for students to enrich their skillsets and knowledge.
Trained & Qualified Differently: Most healing professionals are trained largely academically with some schools offering more in-depth and experiential programs through a structured 5 year process. At tpinstitute the intention has been to create a TP counselling program that creates the most impact from the deepest sources, from each students independent healing process. Students emerge with greater inner integration, felt personal power & certainty with a clear vision of what they can facilitate for their clients and manifest for their healing career ahead. courses carefully select content & methodologies that are effective, disregard what is erroneous or outdated, and amplify what is profoundly impactful. The recipe of east & west philosophies & psychology within experiential & disciplined Self practice, create the best transpersonal psychology coaches & counsellors available.
Sample of Core Curriculum Subjects:
- Opening to be a TP Healing Counsellor
- Deepening Theories of Energy Healing
- Deepening Theory of Transpersonal (TP) Healing
- Deepening Somatic Mapping & Awareness: energy balancing techniques
- Deepening Chakra Archetypal Theory & Healing Process
- Deepening Elemental Archetypal Theory & Healing Process
- Deepening Jungian Personality Typology as related to the Elements: Ether, Air, Fire, Water, Earth
- Working with Energy Therapeutically: Client, Counsellor, Self
- Carl Rogers – 3 Principles of Humanistic Counselling
- Influences, Strengths & Differences of Transpersonal & Jungian Counselling
- Ethics/ Holding Space/ Safety/ Protocols in TP Counselling
- Deepening TP Counselling Interventions & Techniques: Archetypal Parts Integration (API), Integrated Healing Therapy (IHT), and Core Belief Reprogramming (CBR), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Family Constellation Tracing (FCT).
- Parts Work: Discovery, Relating, and Integrating
- Deepening Personal Integrated Practice (PIP), Theory & Assessment
- Triad Transpersonal Counselling Practice & Supervision
Syllabus Overview
Overview of syllabus: In summary, the essence of the TP counselling syllabus is to combine eastern philosophy and practice with western depth psychology with selected and personalised therapeutic TP counselling techniques that effectively transform clients within a transpersonal transcendent process.
The learning structure is 24 'Live' weekends and 80 week day lectures online, over twenty three months of study, including 450 hours of content with 450 hours of triad practice and supervision. Specialised focus of the TP coaching protocols, ethics & boundaries, transference, & safety with family systems, parental introjects, codependency & agency, archetypal programming, resolution and integration, the focus of counselling second years study.
Learning Structure: Each live weekend will be structured into two distinct segments. On Saturdays we will be examining two key theoretical subject areas of learning, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. At the beginning and conclusion of each day, there will be experiential, personal integral practices (PiP), inquiry work and inner-work disciplines consisting of chakra meditations, yogic somatic practices & pranayama (breath-work). Practices are alone or in partnered formats. The Sunday structure will again include personal practice and some review of content; however, it will be largely made of coaching practice in triads; (student-client-observer), with group and independent supervision.
Learning Content: The specific topics studied will be the coaching & counselling approaches of Carl Rogers, the transcendent eastern model of the Tantric Chakras and their Elements and the Archetypal Individuation and actualisation theories of Carl Jung. Students will follow a transpersonal psychology process which acknowledges the first 3 layers of Western psychology (Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behaviour and Humanist) and goes further into lived, noetic experiences of the transcendent Self. The transpersonal (TP) layer will bridge and connect East & West philosophy & theory together: providing a container for effective and wholistic client- coaching approaches. Strong emphasis will be placed upon reflection & assimilation of personal integral practices (PiP), pioneered by transpersonal psychologist’s Sutich & Leonard, with attention to visceral experience, which becomes a foundation for Self mastery and a attunment, for a client-centric process.
In the counselling program, students will go deeper into personal shadow and gestalt & parts work, as pioneered by Fitz Pearls and Robert Schartz, which are related to their sub-personalities, focused towards parental archetypes with their family system of origin. To support this there will be content and technique of Transactional Analysis techniques for coaches & counsellors, as pioneered by Eric Berne, as well as the family systems theorises (IFS) pioneered by Murray Bowen. Additional content will include and family constellation themes work , pioneered by Bert Hellinger and Mark Wolynn.
As student unfold process the TP Counselling second year, will focus on integrating parts of the constellated Self, with particular attention to Self love, embodiment, sexuality/ expression, identity and power as part of Self and in our relationships. All Further in-depth experience, practice and intervention will be routinely discussed & shared in partnered and group settings, with guided qualified support and supervision.
- Codependence & Agency
- Family Systems Theory & Its Archetypes
- Family Archetypes & Parental Introjects
- Deepening Personal Shadow Work & Integration
- Gestalt & Parts Work: Discovery, Exploration, Intervention
- Integrating our Sub Personalities & The Self
- Jungian Archetypal Integration: Anima & Animus
- Deepening Internal Parts Development: Includes: Self-love, inner child, Inner Critic
- Deepening East Vs West Philosophy Implication & Intervention
Evaluation & Accreditation: Students will have two assignments following each 'live' weekend and shorter reflective assignments, usually two, which will consolidate the weekly online lectures. Journalling and personal integrating practice (PiP) monitoring will be an ongoing reflection requirement. To graduate and to become accredited with IACTM, Zurich, students will be attend 450 hours of lectures & content as well as 450 hours of practice TP coaching placement (real coaching sessions). Of that 450 hours TP coaching practice students will be required to complete 112.5 hours of guided supervision. For assignments students will be required to write two extended length essays and to complete 3 client case studies. More information can be found by pressing the 'Syllabus In Depth' button below.
