overview

The training is for those wishing to explore their own journey in depth and considering becoming counsellors and/or psychotherapists in Integrative Psychosynthesis either as their first profession or as a career change.

The complete training programme is five years in duration. For the first three years the counselling and psychotherapy trainings run together, followed by a two year post-diploma psychotherapy training.

The part-time course format is designed to allow students in the first Stage of training to remain in their present work with a minimum of reorganisation, although some daytime commitments may be involved. By the second Stage of the Counselling Diploma, students are expected to be working part-time with clients. Each Stage is a discrete but linked unit which builds on the previous one.

Counselling and psychotherapy concern personal matters and intimate knowledge of other people's lives. The size of training groups are maintained at a modest level to reflect this need for close contact and personal attention that only a small organisation affords.

Courses are first and foremost experiential, with an emphasis on self-discovery. Building on inner experience is part of the ‘inside-out’ learning method.

"We came away with a strong sense of an organisation that is delivering a training characterised by its high ethical integrity and with high levels of commitment and dedication on the part of both trainees and staff."
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