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Essentials of Psychosynthesis
This four-day intensive Essentials of Psychosynthesis course offers a unique and empowering opportunity for personal growth and transformation and is also a first step in training to become a counsellor or psychotherapist.
Designed as an introduction to the vision, models and methods of psychosynthesis, Essentials provides creative tools and transforming techniques that can be applied to both personal and professional life.
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Embark on a journey of transformation, deepening and integration.
The Essentials of Psychosynthesis is for people who want more from life. People who want movement and change, and who have the courage and curiosity to do something about it. This course is alive, relational and engaging, and an enriching process of becoming more of who you are.
Participants on the course explore in a safe, contained and well held group. They engage deeply with their own experience to support healing and self-knowledge.
Book your space →Open Evenings
Before applying for Essentials, we recommend that you join one of our informal open evenings to find out more about psychosynthesis and our training and development programmes. The Open Evenings are free and currently held online.
Who is it for?
Essentials is open to those to anyone interested in psychosynthesis and who want to embark on a transformative learning journey. There is no need to have previously trained in psychology to participate.
Please be aware that the course is experiential, which can be emotionally evocative bringing you into contact with your inner experience. Knowing what supports you is really useful, so if you have any questions please feel free to contact us.
The course is particularly suitable for:
People looking for personal development courses
You may be searching for meaning, purpose and a sense of place in an increasingly complex world. This course is about discovering your possibilities, gaining insight, energy and inspiration. It’s about putting what you want from life into practice, having better relationships and finding your own way.
People seeking a career change or wanting to explore new options professionally
Whether you would like to start a new career as a counsellor/psychotherapist or are interested in studying psychosynthesis as a transpersonal approach to your current profession, our Essentials course provides a powerful toolbox for your personal and professional life.
This course aims to help you connect with your inner resources and activate your will as well as the principles of wholeness and purpose.
Essentials is the first step and a prerequisite to become an accredited counsellor or therapist with the Psychosynthesis Trust (our professional training programme is accredited by the UKCP and BACP).
Counsellors and therapists who are looking for professional training in psychosynthesis
You may be interested in exploring transpersonal psychology as a mean to learn something more (perhaps something different) for your professional practice. Our Essentials course is designed to introduce you to psychosynthesis, a holistic and non-pathologising approach to help individuals overcome challenges, conflicts and dilemmas, to live their life in meaningful ways and to fulfil their truest potential.
The programme
Why embark on this journey?
- An introduction to the psychosynthesis model
- Insight into limiting patterns and blocks
- Access to creativity, intuition and inner wisdom
- Connection to purpose, meaning and direction
- The possibility for more open and authentic relationships
- Sense of well being
- Experiencing more choice in your life
- Realisation of your creative potential
- Movement and change
- Tools for inner leadership
What’s covered?
- Introduction to the maps of psychosynthesis
- Working with body, feelings and mind
- Balancing, understanding and integration of personality functions
- Alignment with meaning and purpose in the way you live your life (transpersonal work)
- Subpersonalities
- The ‘I’ and personal self
- Dis-identification and self- identification
- Cultivating Will and Choice (The Will)
- (The creative use of pain and crisis) – Exploring acceptance as a way of transforming pain and crisis
- The 2-dimensions of personal and transpersonal dimensions
- Reflective, receptive and creative meditation
- The principles of synthesis
Admissions Policy
The principal aim of our Admissions Policy is to offer admission to students irrespective of social, racial, religious and financial considerations. Selection criteria is holistic, using all the information available to us, which includes motivation, suitability for the course and commitment.
Next step in your training
Certificate in Psychosynthesis Foundations →
testimonials
“Authentic and compassionate”
My experience and reflections after taking the Essentials of Psychosynthesis training can be expressed by these words: authentic and compassionate, professional and humane, longer-term life changing impacts, reminding truths forgotten and introducing new perspectives, high quality delivery, comfortable and stimulating at the same time, embracing diversity, the art of aware and constructive living, feeling of connection. I warmly recommend it to anyone.
Essentials Course Attendee
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“Humbling experience”
Being able to do this course in person was a real highlight for me. The courage, honesty and bravery everyone showed in sharing their experiences & stories was humbling.
Essentials Course Attendee
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“It has certainly made a profound impact on me”
The virtual experience brought a different dimension to the experience that I wasn't expecting. I would highly recommend Essentials to anyone wanting to get a better feeling for Psychosynthesis and the highly experiential approach on offer as well as those who are looking to get something more out of life. It has certainly made a profound impact on me.
Essentials participant
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“Concepts that can change lives”
Concepts that can change lives, impressively organised and presented in a warm and holding space.
Essentials participant
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