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The Diploma in Holistic Counselling

’Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, ’Who am I to be brillant?’ Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There¹s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just some of us; it is everyone. And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.’
Marianne Williamson

The Diploma in Holistic Counselling course began in 2008 due to demand from students wanting to deepen their learnings gained from the Certificate in Holistic Counselling course. The Diploma is designed to end suffering through embodying these dynamic counselling skills in students own lives and in their practices.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
For all health practitioners, therapists, counsellors, caring professionals, or persons whose hearts desire is to help others find peace as well as deepen their own personal practice through honesty, responsibility and compassion.

This is a unique opportunity to create in-dependence (self mastery). From this position true healing happens both personally and as a professional. Our holistic approach ensures transformation emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually thus manifesting your vision of life naturally.
The Diploma course is aimed at transforming practitioner’s personal patterns and experience of Self, enabling deeper insights, understanding and experience of the true nature of healing and Self. This enables practitioners to truly facilitate clients personal transformation from the depth of knowing and experiencing the divinity of themself.
For all health practitioners and therapists, caring professionals, or persons interested in enlightening their experience of life.

COURSE CONTENT
PART I: The Big Picture
Sunday 9am to 5pm Trainer: Brenda Sutherland

  • The Big Picture: How Reality is Created
  • Mapping one’s Lifestream: Identifying issues & their point of creation
  • Aligning self judgment
  • Moving beyond the past to the present. Being the future.
  • How You Manifest: Thought embraced by emotion
  • Creating Your Day
  • Soul communication: Laying the foundations to learning to trust oneself
  • Who am I Really beyond the thoughts: Freedom from our neuroses
  • Mapping Emotional Addiction
  • Direct Experience

Part II: Healing the Wounded Healer
3 Weekends Trainer: Brenda Sutherland

  • Role of parents in psychological development
  • How the psyche recreates to resolve
  • Acknowledging unresolved parental needs
  • Developing Empathy: Moving from past to future using art and movement therapies
  • Connecting with inner child, journeying to recreate a supportive inner reality
  • Addressing anger, hurt, fear, obligation, grief, guilt, abandonment, betrayal
  • Direct experience: aligning the emotional body- turning anguish into bliss
  • Unmasking and embracing the shadow self
  • Aligning personal issues to experience the peace and truth of self
  • Connecting with our lineage
  • Internal archetypes

Part III: Beliefs: The Work of Byron Katie
3 Weekends Saturday & Sunday 9am - 5pm Trainer: Rosie Stave

  • The Work of Byron Katie –The Great Undoing: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life.
  • Time magazine called it: Four Questions to Inner Peace
    “An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering” Byron Katie
  • Learning and Experiencing the Inquiry
  • The Worksheet
  • 4 questions and turnarounds
  • Literal Listening
  • The Gift of Criticism
  • Working with Difficult clients
  • Saying "No" or "Yes" who is it your have difficulties with saying how it it
  • Doing The Work on personal stories of self, the body
  • Stressful Events: Motives?

Part IV: Effectiveness Training: Personal Empowerment (*Nationally Accredited Training)
10 x 3hr sessions + 2 days 9am - 5pm Trainer: Judith Richardson (VIC) and Cate Crombie (QLD)

  • The Therapeutic Relationship
  • Introduction & practice of counselling skills: Learning the helping Skills
  • Problem ownership
  • 12 Roadblocks to Communication
  • Active Listening: Lead Ins, Common Mistakes
  • Assertiveness skills: I Messages: Declarative, Confrontative, Preventative, Positive
  • Win Win Conflict Resolution: Method III Problem Solving
  • Feelings and Needs Inventory
  • Developing empathy using micro-skills
  • Identifying the Issue(s) through Active listening
  • Learning to Identify and meet Personal Needs
  • Goal setting
  • The 10 week course is included in the Diploma

Part V: Family Constellation (Systemic Constellations)
3 Weekends Saturday & Sunday 9am - 5pm Trainer: Margarete Koenning or Maria Dolenc

  • Introduction to the Principles of Family Constellation, by Bert Hellinger
  • Key components of Family Constellation work: Family History, The Family Soul, Orders of Love, Function of
  • Conscience, Belonging, Balance of Giving & Taking, Fate
  • Movements of the Soul
  • Developing mindfulness
  • Family of Origin
  • Personal Constellations
  • Experience this phenomenological approach through being a representative
  • Address issues such as adoption, abuse, illness, belonging and much more


Part VII: Creative Counselling
Two days 9am - 5pm Trainer: Brenda Sutherland

  • Creative visualization: a simple and powerful tool reconnecting sub-personalities ie: wise self, sensual self, inner child, sexuality etc.
  • Linking Systemic Constellations with Creative Visualization with art therapy, props, figurines and other techniques for one to one sessions
  • Working with deep respect for the client and their fate
  • Helping in Harmony
  • Learn how to create a healing visualization
  • Trust yourself as a counselor through:
    • Connecting with Inner Guides
    • Soul Communication Meditation
    • Muscle Testing (Kinesiology) and
    • Spiritual Cleansing Technique
  • Working with Archetypes: Adult/child/ Soul/wise selves
  • Facilitating clients from Secondary movements to a Primary movement
  • Interrupted reaching out - symptoms, effect of, and working to resolve
  • Setting up Constellations: Hands on experience for individual sessions

Part VIII: Love, Sex & Relationships
3 days 9am - 5pm Trainer: Brenda Sutherland

  • Initiation of the Senses: Awakening Ones Sensual Self
  • Enhancing Intimacy (In to Me See) in relationships
  • The Language of the Masculine & Feminine in Relationship & Balancing them within
  • Systemic Principles governing relationships
  • Meeting in Love: A Return to Innocence, a new way of connecting sexually without the goals
  • Issues arising in relationships and what to be aware of
  • Enlivening and learning about sexual energy in the body: Transforming sexual energy into meditation
  • Linking systemic work with internal sexual roles and archetypes
  • Working with Sexual/Sensual/Feminine/Masculine selves to bring about balance
  • Sexual abuse: systemic dynamics, working with to return to innocence
  • Relationships including topics such as Marriage, Separation and grief, children, adoption, abortion, miscarriages etc
  • Working with sexual energy from a Tantric Perspective

Part IX: Physically Speaking
2 days 9am - 5pm Trainers: Brenda Sutherland & Judith Richardson

  • Your Disease is keeping you healthy: Speaking to illness and letting illness speak to you
  • A Holistic Approach to dis-ease with case studies
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Stress, Depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): Learning the symptoms of, prevention & cure and bio-psychosocial factors
  • Biology Becomes Biography: Energy Psychology
  • Case studies and working with illnesses
  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
  • Dissolution and Freedom Technique

Part X: The Emerging Counsellor
2 days 9am - 5pm Facilitator: Brenda Sutherland

  • The Intuitive Approach
  • Client Questionnaire and Interviewing process
  • Ethics, case management, supervision
  • Who Am I Beyond the Story and Processes?
  • Defining Oneself and Intention as a Counsellor
  • Transference and Countertransference
  • Values and Morals influencing how a counsellor relates to the client
  • Boundaries, Dependency (Counsellor and Client), and Counsellor Congruence
  • Breaks and Endings
  • Ethical Decision Making process

Please note the order each unit is offered may change.

Study Groups x 6:
Saturday afternoon (VIC) Wed 4pm - 9pm (QLD)

  • Questions and Answers
  • More exercises and deepening of previous unit taught
  • Case Study discussions
  • Assignment presentations

Peer Group Supervision (Optional and highly recommended practice)

  • Provides ongoing peer supervision for case study discussions
  • New information and research shared amongst peers
  • Personal issues effecting being a counsellor.
  • In class as well as Skype sessions are available
  • Join facebook
  • Our Yahoo Support Group for more detailed discussions

Student Clinic

  • Provides supervision for students beginning to work with clients


TRAINERS
Trainers have been chosen from across Australia due to being leaders in their field.
Train with the best so you become the best.

Brenda Sutherland
Judith Richardson
Rosie Stave
Margarete Koenning
Cate Crombie
Maria Dolenc

COURSE LOGISTICS

Dates: Melbourne course starts as certificate course on 19th February 2012, Brisbane course starts April 2012. Limited enrolments as only one course per year.

Saturday/Sunday once a month for 18 months with another 6 months for placement thereafter.

Cost: A $350 GST incl. nonrefundable secures your place. $6495 or $6195 earlybird if paid before 1st February 2012 (VIC) or 1st April 2012 (QLD)

The cost includes: Includes classes, study groups, workbook, little Loving What is booklet, online library access, Effectiveness Training workbook, certificate, two individual sessions, mentoring etc. 7 other sessions are required with a number of the trainers at approx $85 - $130 & texts (see below). Please note payments are subject to The Awakening Group terms and conditions.

Text books: Cost is approximately $180- $200 for text books. Student may borrow texts from our student library.
Texts are:

Venue: Melbourne: Australian Shiatsu College, 3 Evans St, Brunswick
Brisbane: Perfect Liberty Centre, 76 Diary Swamp Rd, Belmont, Brisbane

Assessment: Case studies, take home questions, class presentation, autobiography, unit & literature review questions, recordings, supervision, journaling, placement or project,

ACA: Australian Counselling Association approved for 196 Professional Development credits. The Work of Byron Katie, Family Constellations and Effectiveness Training units approved for professional development credits.

Accreditation:

International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT) www

International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT)

The Effectiveness training unit is nationally accredited through ETIA Ltd QLD

The Diploma course is Australian Holistic Healers and Counsellors Association (AHHCA) accredited. For more details on benefits of AHHCA membership see www.ahha.org.au Insurance available as a counsellor. The course is over 570 hours training over 18 months - 2 years.

Click here to download prospectus.

Enrolments: The number of enrolments are limited per year. A deposit secures your place. On enrolment an individual session is made to ensure we create the course to suit your needs and career direction, whilst supporting your personal growth.

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