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Sadhana
offers a multi-tiered programme. Courses vary
in length from 10 days to two years. Some are
professionally oriented training courses while
others are meant only for personal growth and
renewal.
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Integration
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Professional Courses |
Renewal Courses |
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Sadhana
Professional Courses
A
few courses of a professional nature are offered
every year primarily for former ICP students.
Intended to complement their professional skills,
these are both practical in content and relatively
new in the discipline. Non-ICP participants
are accepted only when they are known to be
involved in professional counselling work and
can demonstrate that adequate personal counselling
work has been completed. These include :
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Dreamwork
and the Inner Life
Traditionally,
psychologists have seen dreams as the
"royal road to the unconscious". Dreams
are also a somatic reality, a direct expression
of the body's inner language. Dreams manifest
what is seeking to come alive into the
awake world of daily living, bringing
the night to the day, restoring self-awareness
and wholeness in life. The course will
begin with an overview of prominent approaches
to dreamwork but the focus will be on
dreams as bodily experience rather than
as symbol and interpretation. Admission
is limited to those engaged in counselling
and spiritual direction. Enrollment is
limited and former ICP students will be
given preference in admission to this
course. Knowledge of Focusing is a pre-requisite.
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Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP)
NLP
is an artful technique for studying the
subjective maps of inner experiences so
that effective communication can become
a matter of conscious choice. NLP is about
how the brain works, how people think,
feel, learn, motivate themselves, interact
with others, make choices and achieve
goals. It is an approach to communication
that generates the widest range of flexibility
and possibilities to produce the desired
results in life.
This training in NLP covers concepts,
skills and techniques and affords extensive
practice in detection, utilization and
alteration of the structure of subjective
experiences through the technologies of
NLP.
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Guided
Imagery and Healing
Guided
imagery is a potent tool for managing
stress, unleashing our creativity, changing
our attitudes, setting and reaching our
goals, tapping into our inner wisdom and
activating our healing powers. The course
is meant for counsellors interested in
probing specific issues in their own lives
and well as helping others through the
use of visualization.
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Psychological
Assessment
The
ability to make psychological evaluations
is essential in the training of a competent
psychotherapist. This course will introduce
students to the basic concepts of psychological
evaluation and train them in methods of
rapid assessment in order to facilitate
matched treatment effectiveness and differential
psychotherapy. Special attention is paid
to personality assessment using objective
as well as projective methods of testing.
Knowledge of psychopathology is a pre-requisite.
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Living
Our Dying
Death is not merely the challenge of that
inevitable end one must face with courage.
It can also in fact be welcomed as the
crown of life and the door to a fullness
of freedom and love beyond imagination.
One prepares oneself and others for death
precisely by living life as fully, deeply,
freely and lovingly as possible so that
death is brought into the lives we live.
In this course, appropriate caring and
counselling will be stressed as well as
bodily experiences associated with dying,
death grief and eternal life.
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Psychosynthesis
The
ability to make psychological evaluations
is essential in the training of a competent
psychotherapist. This course will introduce
students to the basic concepts of psychological
evaluation and train them in methods of
rapid assessment in order to facilitate
matched treatment effectiveness and differential
psychotherapy. Special attention is paid
to personality assessment using objective
as well as projective methods of testing.
Knowledge of psychopathology is a pre-requisite.
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Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
(EMDR)
EMDR
is a new form of psychotherapy which accelerates
the treatment of a wide range of pathologies
and self-esteem issues related to both
traumatic past events and present life
conditions. These life events may include
accidents, rape, molestation, catastrophic
loss, combat and natural disasters. The
method is effective in the rapid desensitization
of traumatic memories, including a cognitive
restructuring and significant reduction
of symptoms such as emotional distress,
intrusive thoughts, flashbacks and night
mares. The experiential training in EMDR
aims at familiarizing participants with
a wide spectrum of applications for comfortable
and efficient use of the method. Since
a clinical background is necessary for
the application of EMDR, the course is
limited to mental health professionals
who are actively involved in working in
therapeutic situations.
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Senses
Wide Open
The
Art and Practice of Living in Your Body
with Johanna Putnoi
We
rarely listen to the natural wisdom of
the body. Most often we are distracted
by what we can see and think about, ignoring
the body's innate ability to let us know
when we are in danger, to tell us when
we have met a kindred spirit, to make
it clear when we need nourishment, to
let us know when it is time to rest or
to experience the deepest pleasure.
The Somatic approach focuses on the connection
between physical phenomena, cognition,
and human capacity in general. It teaches
that high-quality body function is developed
and maintained by conscious awareness
and is central to the development of our
deep humanity.
This class combines both theory and practice.
An overview of somatic theory will be
presented and highlighted by engaging
exercises that teach how to understand
the body's language, soften body armour,
drop old defences, enjoy the world with
senses wide open, and unlock the gates
to rediscovering the clarity, empathy,
and joy of being human.
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Psychology
and the Art of Healing
People
who work in hospitals or care for the chronically
ill in their communities are daily in touch with the
pain of those they serve and look for ways to alleviate
it. Skills without compassion become mechanical and
care without skill is inadequate. This course will
be based on the conviction that disease need not be
disaster but a re-direction of life. Using the framework
of health psychology the course will introduce participants
to areas such as behavioural management of chronic
and terminally ill patients, psycho-spiritual approaches
to coping with cancer, and the prevention and rehabilitation
of heart disease. They will be introduced to the concept
of mind-body healing, the role of hope, belief, love
and spirituality in facilitating healing as well as
to some specific skills of healing such as hypnosis,
imagery, progressive relaxation and visualization.
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