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1. Vipassana Retreat |
(Jan 8 - 17) |
We experience life as characterised by constant change, pleasure and pain, fear and joy. We need to accept these aspects of life with increasing poise and equanimity. Observing these experiences from a place of stillness enables us to relate to life with less fear and clinging. Vipassana helps us to find that place of stillness within ourselves. Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is a simple and direct practice of moment to moment observation of the mind-body process through calm and focussed awareness. Deepening insight helps us see the totality of our being and experience life with greater clarity, wisdom and compassion. Participants generally find this retreat a purifying experience.
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| 2. Drawing from the Depths |
(March 3 - 8) |
This retreat seeks to help participants learn to work with all of their life experiences, both positive and negative, to develop a basis for important life decisions. For this, the retreat uses the non-analytical, non-diagnostic and integrative approach to life employed in the Intensive Journal. This psycho-spiritual process enables step-by-step work through carefully designed exercises that can help access feelings about different areas of life. The interplay of journal exercises and techniques creates a dynamic process that helps participants build an energy and momentum within themselves to take the next steps in life.
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| 3. Personal Growth Group |
(March 29-April 25) |
This relatively short course offers an opportunity for personal growth and inner healing through intensive group therapy. Participants will have opportunities to examine their dysfunctional attitudes and behaviour patterns and the emotional reactions that prevent them from moving forward in life and to tap their healing potential. The goal is to learn new ways of relating to experience with insight and understanding that create possibilities of transformation. A readiness for self-disclosure, desire for inner healing and compassionate self-regard enable participants to derive maximum benefit from the course.
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| 4. Neuro-Linguistic Programming Advanced: |
(April 2 – 12) |
NLP offers a detailed and pragmatic model of the processes involved in human behaviour and communications. Its principles can be used to understand, and make changes in, many areas of human activity. The objective is to provide you with the widest range of flexibility and greater choices and possibilities for your behaviour. Only those who have completed the Basic course in NLP may apply for this course.
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| 5. Formative Guidance – Module III |
(May 1 - June 14) |
This third module is meant only for those who have successfully completed the second module which was offered in the summer of 2007. The components of this module will be Family Systems Therapy and Developmental Psychology.
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| 6. Formative Psychology: Semester I & II |
(2 Sept 2008 to 30 June 2009) |
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The main objective of this two-year course is to train students to be professionally equipped to provide quality counselling and spiritual direction to individuals and groups. Students will be trained in some of the traditional as well as more recent psychotherapies. The course will provide students with an understanding of how psychology and spirituality can be integrated in an experiential and functional way for counselling and spiritual direction. It will seek to broaden students’ conceptual and experiential categories so that they can comfortably relate to both Eastern and Western worldviews, especially in the context of a pluralistic society like India. Students will be helped to articulate a cohesive understanding of their own philosophy of life and professional identity in keeping with their own unique personal gifts and professional goals. Participation in a Midi or Mini Sadhana or Personal Growth Group is a must for admission. Preference will be given to those in their forties. |
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| 7. Personal Growth Group |
(Sept 20 – Oct 9) |
Please see course description under # 3 above. |
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| 8. Counseling Skills |
(Sept 22 – Oct 24) |
Within the broad framework of the human psyche – conscious, unconscious and spiritual – students will be grounded in the theory and practice of basic skills required of a counselor. This course is a prerequisite for the courses on Human Development and Family Systems Counseling that will be offered later. |
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| 9. Midi Sadhana |
(Oct 17 – Dec 9)Age Limit: 35 - 55 |
This course is meant primarily for those in leadership and whose work involves caring for others - superiors, formation personnel, spiritual guides and counsellors. The objective of this experiential course is to help participants in self-awareness and personal integration so that they can be more effective, life giving and growth promoting in their interaction with others.
The course will begin with basic orientation and community building sessions followed by a Journal retreat that sets the tone of silence and awareness for what follows. The group therapy experience of about four weeks immediately after the journal retreat is truly intensive and invites participants to be honest, insightful and compassionate towards themselves and others. Additional components of this course could be Human Sexuality and Affectivity, Reflections on Living the Religious Life. , Mysticism, Social Commitment, or Sadhana of Jesus.
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| 10. Drawing from the Depths |
(Oct 20 - 25) |
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Please see course description under # 2 above.
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11. Gestalt Therapy
(Course Director – Dr. Dick McHugh). |
(Nov3 -14) |
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Gestalt therapy is an existential phenomenological approach emphasizing the personal process, unfolding moment to moment in the here and now. Emphasis is placed on awareness, actuality, and personal responsibility so that one learns to trust one’s own resources and become less dependent and manipulative in relating to others. The training will be conducted in a group setting with group practices and somatic-emotional exercises.
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Admissions |
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1. Application forms are sent out on request. They are also available at our website and may be completed online and submitted. Confidential recommendation of the applicant's Major Superior is an admission requirement for first time applicants. This is available at the website but has to be printed out and mailed to us directly.
2. Upon receiving your completed forms, you will receive a letter of acknowledgement and information about the status of your admission.
3. When admission is granted, a letter of acceptance will be sent to you offering you a seat and containing relevant information regarding fees, how to get to Sadhana Institute, and what to bring with you.
4. If, for some reason, you cancel your admission, your seat is not transferable. It is given to the next person on the waiting list.
Please note that our programs are personally demanding and challenging and yet greatly transforming. They are not meant for those who are seeking rest and relaxation. |
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Correspondence |
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address all admissions related correspondence to: |
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Admissions
Director
Sadhana Institute
Lonavla 410 401 India
Tel.: (02114) 273370
Fax: (02114) 273975
E-mail: sadhana@vsnl.net
Website: www.SadhanaInstitute.org
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