Study the Certificate in Holistic Counselling

This is an 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 certification 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 enabling practitioners to truly facilitate clients personal transformation from the depth of knowing and experiencing the divinity of oneself. For all health practitioners and therapists, caring professionals, or persons interested in enlightening their experience of life.

Course Details

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.

Accreditation

International Institute for Complementary Therapists www.iict.com.au

AHHCA www.ahhca.org

There is NO VET fee help for this course

Study Options

All units are held in class

This course is NOT available online

Course Dates

Brisbane course starts 13th March 2020

Melbourne course units start 21st February 2020

Study Groups x 4:

Questions and Answers

Learning Activities

More exercises and deepening of previous unit taught

Systemic Presentation at last Study group

Certificate in Holistic Counselling Course Logistics

Course Dates:

Melbourne course starts 21st February 2020 and Brisbane course starts 13th March 2020.
There are a number of units that students can complete prior to the course starting date.

Contact Us for calendar dates.

Cost:

$3595 GST incl., full course cost, $3395 Early Bird price if paid in full before 1st February 2020 (VIC) 1st March 2020 (QLD). A $350 nonrefundable secures your place. Please note payments are subject to The Awakening Group terms and conditions. This is not a VET fee funded course but we do provide payment plans for students.

Venue:

Melbourne: Australian Shiatsu College, 103 Evans St, Brunswick
Brisbane: Bardon Counselling Centre, 151 Boundary Rd, Bardon

Assessment:

Case studies, take home review questions, class presentation, pair work, autobiography & unit learning activities.

Accreditation:

• International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT)

• Australian Counselling Association approved for a number of Professional Development credits. The Work of Byron Katie, Family Constellations and Effectiveness Training units approved for professional development credits.

• The Certificate 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 180 hours training over 9 months.

Certificate in Holistic Counselling Course Content

The Certificate in Holistic Counselling includes 12 classes, 3 study groups, and a private consultation, course manual, online library & a certificate given on successful completion.

PART I: The Big Picture

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

Soul communication: Laying the foundations to learning to trust oneself

Who am I Really beyond the thoughts: Freedom from our neuroses
Mapping Emotional Addiction

Part II: Healing the Wounded Healer

Role of parents in psychological development

How the psyche recreates to resolve

Attachment Styles: Avoidant, Ambivalent-Anxious, Angry resistant, Disorganised, Secure etc
Internal archetypes: 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

Aligning personal issues to experience the peace and truth of self

Systemic Constellation principles

Part III: Beliefs: The Work of Byron Katie

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

Part IV: Effective Communication

The Therapeutic Relationship

Introduction & practice of counselling skills: Learning the helping Skills

Who Owns the Problem

Roadblocks to Communication

Active Listening: Lead Ins, Common Mistakes, Statements & responses,

Feelings Inventory

I Messages

Feelings Needs Inventory

Developing empathy using micro-skills

Identifying the Issue(s)

Part V: Family Constellation (Systemic Constellations)

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 VI: Creative Counselling

Creative visualization: a simple and powerful tool reconnecting sub-personalities ie: wise self, inner child, heart and head etc.

Structural Constellations inlcuding working with balancing the Head and Heart, Working with Illness, connecting with inner child to resource, making decisions etc
Linking Systemic Constellations with Creative Visualization with art therapy, props, figurines and other techniques for one to one sessions

Learn how to create a healing visualization to heal, manifest, gather resources and much more

Trust yourself as a counselor through:

Soul Communication Meditation

        Spiritual Cleansing Technique

Part VII: Love, Sex & Relationships

Initiation of the Senses: Awakening Ones Sensual Self

Enhancing Intimacy (In to Me See) in relationships

A Psychobiological approach to relationships

Systemic Principles governing relationships

Developing a couple bubble: How to keep connected & safe and enhance mutuality

Issues arising in relationships and what to be aware of

        Enlivening and learning about sexual energy in the body:   Transforming sexual energy into meditation

Part VIII: Physically Speaking

Your Disease is keeping you healthy: Speaking to illness and letting illness speak to you

A Holistic Approach to dis-ease with case studies

Working with trauma - understanding the soma cues and how to re-calibrate, titrate a client

Biology Becomes Biography: Energy Psychology

Case studies and working with illnesses

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

        Dissolution and Freedom Technique

Part IX: The Emerging Counsellor

The Eclectic Approach

Client Questionnaire and Interviewing process

Ethics, case management, case studies, reporting procedure, supervision

Who Am I Beyond the Story and Processes?

Defining Oneself and Intention as a Counsellor

Please note the order each unit is offered may change.