Willow Training College

Module One- Foundation Studies in Meditation

• History and Theory of Meditation
• Developing Meditation routines
• Deepening and refining your own practice

Module Two – Stress: Understanding Cause & Effect

• Understanding stress
• Physiological responses to stress
• Psychological causes of stress

Module Three – Foundations of Human Happiness

• The psychology of happiness
• Subconscious programming and reprogramming
• States of mind & Fundamentals of self-image

Module Four – Tools for Healing

• Tools for healing
• Positive thinking skills
• Foundations of Mind-Body Medicine
• Meditation as a healing tool & Hypnotic states

Module Five – Meditation Styles and Techniques

• Poses and positions
• Breath work
• Chakras and energy Meditations
• Guided Meditations & visualization
• Mantras and affirmations in Meditation

Module Six – Teaching

• Talking to groups & Group leadership skills
• Answering questions about Meditation Leading guided Meditations
• Overcoming obstacles to Meditation practice
• Creating safe and effective teaching environments

Module Seven – Working with Specific Groups

• Teenagers
• People with disabilities
• Health care professionals & business clients
• Difficult clients

Module Eight – Counselling & Coaching Skills

• Client-centred approach
• Active listening skills
• Identifying obstacles
• Case studies

Module Nine – Running Classes and Workshops

• Basic Meditation
• The IMTTA Course (Meditation, Stress Management & Personal Development Combination)
• The IMTTA Teen Program (Meditation for Teenagers)
• Choosing Venues

Module Ten – Corporate and Community Settings

• Corporate stress management and relaxation workshops
• Approaching community groups and organizations
• Volunteer and community work

Module Eleven – Small Business Management

• Ethics and Professionalism
• Your public profile
• Fundamentals of customer service
• Maintaining student/client records
• Charging for your services
• Running a small home office

Module Twelve – Marketing; The key to success

• Understanding the power of branding, targeted marketing and advertising
• The Internet – How to use free advertising for your business
• Public image

This course explores why people can find themselves ‘trapped’ in old belief systems, negative thinking and habitual ideas that do not contribute to living happy or healthy lives. It provides a deeper understanding of the simple and practical tools we can use to help adopt a more positive and healthier thinking process. It includes in-depth exploration of how and why particular thinking patterns manifest into specific physical illness. Based on scientific research and humanistic psychology, this course takes the mystery out of ‘mind body medicine’ and brings a popular theory into a new light as concrete healing modality.

This course delves deeper into the practicalities of holistic counselling. You will study communication skills (verbal and non-verbal), building counsellor/client relationships, relationship counselling, the holistic counselling process, mental and emotional wellbeing, counselling parents, counselling teenagers and releasing past trauma. This course also looks at the important ethical aspects of holistic counselling and will guide you in developing a completely professional practice.

The Postgraduate Certificate Course in Holistic Telephone Counselling prepares students to offer telephone and online counselling for clients who are unable to attend in person for various reasons. These reasons may include family or work commitments, disability, location, lack of transport or isolation.

Grief counselling may be called upon when a person suffers anticipatory grief, for example an intrusive and frequent worry about a loved one whose death is not imminent. Anticipatory mourning also occurs when a loved one has a terminal illness. This can handicap that person’s ability to stay present whilst simultaneously holding onto, letting go of, and drawing closer to the dying person.

Trauma and Abuse Counselling works to assist people whose lives have been adversely effected through being abused or traumatized either physically and/or psychologically. This may include sexual abuse, violent physical attack, bullying at home and school or in the work place, domestic violence, witnessing or being involved in a traumatic incident or accident.

The Postgraduate Certificate Course in Holistic Marriage and Relationship Counselling provides students with the skill and information required to counsel married couples, unmarried couples, same sex couples, families, siblings and others involved in close relationships who are seeking assistance to overcome difficulties within the relationship.

Based on the ground-breaking work of psychiatrist, author and educator, Bessel van der Kolk, who has been at the forefront of research in the area of post-traumatic stress the 1970s. Dr van der Kolk has spent his career studying how children and adults adapt to traumatic experiences and have interpreted his findings into his book; The Body Keeps the Score.

So many, if not all, emotional issues and mental health problems can be traced back to childhood trauma. Inner child work is a way of effectively identifying and resolving childhood trauma. It is focused on the experiences, emotions and unconscious beliefs still being held onto by the adult as a result of childhood experiences. It helps to develop a sense of safety as well as connecting us to the joy, innocence, playfulness, openness and confidence of childhood.