Transpersonal Counselling Course

Introduction to Transpersonal Psychology

Before we begin its important to realize that we do not recommend you to begin practising transpersonal counselling from this online course alone, because the risks involved in moving beyond the relatively safe barriers of the ego and in to the unknown, the transcendent, are far greater than more traditional therapies.

At the same time, if the client is open for it, the transpersonal approach is absolutely an added bonus. When you include transpersonal approaches in your work, you basically stand up for the fact that as humans we are much more than a kind of intelligent, post-ape species we are essentially cosmic, or quantum physical beings. In practice it means that you can have a much more multifaceted approach to the complexity of the client and the problems you are working with.

In essence, when you work in the transpersonal dimensions, you are opening up for hidden dynamics in the psyche which can be more powerful than you or your client expect. That may be exciting and beneficial, just remember that you are also the one to bring your client safely back again to a normal, grounded state of mind, so - just as an example - your client when the session is over are able to navigate safely through the traffic on the way home, and can continue to have a well-functioning life.

Sometimes people who are attracted to the transpersonal are searching for something extraordinary as antidote to what they may feel are the of-putting banalities of everyday life and not, if you look deeper, necessarily to transform themselves.

Remember, that the measurement for the real value of transpersonal counselling is not how magnificent the inner journeys or experiences are that you facilitate in the sessions, but rather - down to earth how your clients life in reality is improving as a consequence.

And this is how we differ from many other providers of training out there, because our view is cemented in what works and the results you get rather than experiences that you can have during our sessions.

My favourite analogy here is that of the car mechanic, because when you take your car in to have it serviced, or to fix a specific problem whats important to you in most cases is how quickly (and affordably) your car is fixed. Unless you are really interested in how cars work you dont particularly want to know which bolts where changed, or what specific settings the mechanic changed in your vehicles computer chip& Instead you want to know more general information so you can judge whether you got a good deal or not, and most importantly, you want to really see, and FEEL the difference.

Now its pretty easy to see how this applies to your counselling practice or just the way you think about transpersonal counselling because your clients want results, they want to be able to look at themselves in the mirror and notice that they have changed for the better, they want to hear their friends tell them how impressed they are over their improvements and most importantly they want to FEEL BETTER.

Now they may be curious to know all the little details of how you assisted this change, but for many people they just want to know they dont have that phobia anymore, they feel good in social situations or the myriad of other issues you will naturally help clients through in your practice. ~ Erik Sandersen, Teacher, Counsellor & Co Author of this Online Correspondence Transpersonal Counselling Course

Now it may appear strange that we seem to be discouraging you from learning more about transpersonal counselling; a major passion of ours for the past 30 years. And we want to make it absolutely clear that nothing could be further from the truth, its because of the power that lies in going beyond the ego and into the transpersonal that we warn you to step into the shallow end of the pool instead of diving straight into the deep end for your first swimming lesson.

If you have already had some experience with transpersonal counselling, then we apologize for this rant, and hope that you can appreciate its necessity because it is through following these guidelines that you will be able to help your clients to transform and expand, just in the way you intended it to be.

Who will benefit from studying Transpersonal Psychology? And how does it link into religion and spirituality?

Humans. Humour aside anyone can benefit from learning more about the transpersonal aspects of our psyche because we all have auras, we all have had past lives and we are all so much more than some pseudo intelligent post ape species thats merely a product of its past.

In other words learning more about who we really are benefits anyone thats willing to devote the time to learning this knowledge, and that said we have noticed that certain people tend to get more heavily involved in this field than others.

As a generalization when people tell us that they feel empty, that theyre trying to find themselves or where they belong its most commonly because they have a spiritual longing that they havent yet been able to put to words.

It is also very common for people who are confused about the difference between spirituality and religion to seek the transpersonal aspects because ultimately spirituality is the search of truth and learning about the transpersonal is a way of learning your truth through uncovering past lives, various meditative exercises and the plethora of tools that are available to you through transpersonal counselling.

In other words you can see transpersonal psychology as the way in which you learn to find your own truth, follow the path that is right for you irrespective of what, if any religion you feel most affiliated with and whether or not you want to be a transpersonal counsellor our courses are designed to help you discover this for yourself while giving you the tools you need to help those that seek your help such as clients, friends and family to discover and change as well.

So what specifically is Transpersonal Psychology? And how does Transpersonal Counselling compare to more traditional therapeutic methods?

In traditional psychoanalysis, you will trace the individuals history back to the time of babyhood, which is seen as the earliest we can remember because according to psychoanalysis, the brain is not sufficiently developed before that.

So in traditional psychotherapy the deepest emotional problems are based in the breastfeeding period. Freud talked about the good breast and the bad breast as conditioning for our further rate of happiness in life. Human consciousness begins at the breastfeeding stage, and ends with physical death. There is nothing more to it in the Freudian world.

In Transpersonal Psychology you will learn that the individual's life thread does not start at the good or bad breast, because human consciousness goes further back, to the trauma of birth, and even further back, to the time in the womb!

Many people can be brought to re-experience their time in mothers womb, and remember their own birth, even if the physical brain is not fully developed at the time of birth.

Stanislav Grof`s research shows how problems during one of the four different birth matrices or stages of birth as defined by medicine, form a meaningful way of categorizing of deep issues following us for the rest of our life.

Grof`s famous work is an excellent example of transpersonal psychology. Included in psychology beyond the ego is also the commonly accepted idea of reincarnation, karma and past lives.

Transpersonal Psychology spans many topics, such as Jung and archetypes, the collective unconsciousness, initiation, red light symptoms, Patanjali`s famous sutras and kundalini which we define as light unhindered, ascending in the spine whenever a person is balanced, transparent and strong enough to contain it.

It is completely beyond the ego to start or to control kundalini, and it is a double-edged sword: it can lead you to bliss and omnipotence, or in the worst case scenario - to illness and total disaster. We go through important points for you to know in case you find yourself with somebody who displays characteristics of an awakened kundalini, and we suggest ways that make you reasonably able to distinguish between phenomena of prana energy and the real thing.

Finally theres the topic of Initiation and to what degree it relates to kundalini because much is speculated yet much less is actually known.

Its easy to find information about rituals, candlelights, and the various highly decorated garments you are supposed to wear at such ceremonies, yet it can be hard to find a well grounded source as a real life-initiation process seems to be more arduous and less romantic.

In this correspondence online transpersonal counselling course we present an overview of the first five initiations with their challenges and privileges, and refer to one of the true classics on the subject: Elizabeth Haich`s book of the same name; Initiation.

I have been passionately pursuing to further my knowledge, skills and understanding in the field of Transpersonal Psychology over the past 30 years and during this time I have run many different self development workshops and one of the main tools Ive used has been music. I have over 500 tapes and CDs from a wide range of different areas and music disciplines so that I can tune into the group chakra during my workshops and pick the perfect piece for the participants to meditate to.

Getting the right bit of music for the right moment has facilitated profound experiences and positive changes in many of our workshop attendees. In this online transpersonal counselling course we have an entire chapter devoted to how I intuitively use music in our workshops, in fact in this particular area of the transpersonal interests you we have an entire intuitive use of music course dedicated to this topic alone ~ Erik Sandersen, Teacher, Counsellor & Co Author of this Online Correspondence Transpersonal Counselling Course

Weve already covered a lot of what makes up transpersonal psychology so instead of trying to go through all the topics in extensive detail here we invite you to learn more and sign up to our FREE correspondence email course in transpersonal counselling if you want to learn more.

Wait a second&you say youre giving me a distance learning transpersonal counselling course? Is this true, and what is the catch?

This is absolutely true. We are giving you an introductory correspondence course in transpersonal psychology because we just want to get you started in your journey through this exciting field. It may be your role in this life time to become a transpersonal counselor or you may have some other path in life, whichever is true we would like to help you realize this without you having to commit yourself to something that might not be right for you.

It is for this reason that we offer you the knowledge it has taken us many years to learn and if you choose to continue your path with us we will be delighted.

As for the catch; there is no catch, you dont owe us a cent, we wont give out your contact details to anyone and you can remove yourself completely from our database with a single mouse click.

That said, we admit we do have invested interests. We want to provide you the best possible distance learning transpersonal psychology course we can in the hope that you tell your friends about us, and that you find our material of such value that you continue to use us for your further studies within this ever growing, challenging, yet highly rewarding field.

And we also expect a few things from you. Since were giving you a large part of what weve spent many years perfecting completely free of charge we ask you to show us the same respect and tell us exactly what you think.

Weve spent years improving and changing this material each and every year we ran our diploma course and were not about to stop. So if you want to know anything, if anything wasnt completely clear cut we ask you to let us know so we can make this even better still.