3-year Certificate ProgramYou may be a professional psychologist, a minister, a social worker, a life coach or a trusted friend to whom others turn for guidance. Whatever your helping role in life, you have surely felt the need for a more soul-and-spirit filled perspective than mainstream modalities can offer. Anthroposophic psychology works from a deep understanding of the nature and potential of each human being. ANTHROPOS : POSSIBLE HUMAN BEING | SOPHIA : DIVINE WISDOMA diverse community of professional colleagues is attracted to this work, each bringing unique knowledge and wisdom to share with one another during their three-year journey. Deep relationality can develop between cohort members in their mutual quest for greater understanding of what it means to be fully human. The program is highly experiential so students may have body/soul/spirit first-hand experience of concepts that are offered, developing skills gained through this approach. Our students develop new interpersonal and professional skills to bring to clients, to loved ones, and to the world at large. Many also discover increased self-knowledge and self-compassion.
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COHORT 3Sauk Centre, Minnesota
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COHORT 4Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
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With the exception of Seminars 7 and 8, each of the in-person seminar begins at 2:30 PM on a Wednesday, and finishes at 1:00 PM on a Sunday, unless otherwise instructed. If there is a conflict for some with the IPMT training, you can attend the other location for that seminar content.
Costs
UPDATE: Although a tuition fee that makes the Program sustainable was set for Cohorts 5 and 6 beginning 2021 and 2022, respectively, COVID19 will have economic consequences that will need to be taken into account. Tuition fees are still to be determined.
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If you are a current participant in the 3-Year Programs for Cohorts 3 and 4, you can access your Cohort's Portal to gain access to information such as meals, lodging, schedules and homework. Click on the appropriate Cohort portal that pertains to you:
PLEASE NOTE: There are limited accommodations onsite at the Pennsylvania venue and NO onsite accommodations at the Minnesota venue.
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Each of the nine carefully designed seminars includes a balance of experiential exercises, lectures, artistic response, movement, individual contemplation, and the richness of human relationship. Within each seminar, sufficient time is created to ponder, digest, wrestle with, and integrate the rich content and experiences. Between seminars, live online conferences and “Between Queries” allow deeper understanding to ripen. Alterations to the curriculum can occur but this shows the general flow of concepts and experiences.
Placing anthroposophy within the historical development of psychotherapeutic perspectives; from Freud to the DSM and beyond; challenges to soul and spirit in the context of contemporary culture and psychology, and how to respond; satisfying the demand for “evidence-based” research; soul-development dynamics; Pathos and Spiritus; seven adult learning processes as framework for the entire course; the Counselor’s Mandate; ontological security as key to the development of the “I”; the myth of Old Saturn and the Thrones: the soul at the threshold as the crisis of our times; who is Sophia?; who is Anthropos?
* This module may be taken as a stand-alone seminar.
The four-fold human being and the elements; birth to seven years (the first septennial); sacred wound; empathic failure and primal wound; the pre-personal self and the child of self; trauma, cumulative trauma, dissociation as response to trauma; attachment theory and attachment disorders re-visited; existential anxiety and its origins in the human story; transference and counter-transference in counseling and in all relationships; levels of consciousness; sensory experience in the young child; introducing primitive ego defenses; creating context for Oedipal dynamics.
Erik Erikson’s polarities as guide to developmental stages; 7 years to 14 years (second septennial); integrating psychosynthesis models: basic principles of conscious/unconscious; repression barriers as shadows and as guardians; exploring sub-personalities as instruments of the “I”; “the 9-year change” as gateway to earthly maturity; sense psychology in relation to volition; introjection and projection as developmental necessity; developmental predispositions to obsession, compulsion, fixity, eating disorders; doubles, shadow.
The years 14 to 21 (third septennial); understanding origins and manifestations of gender and sexuality; the emerging soul functions of thinking, feeling, willing—in their somatic contexts; core beliefs; idols, idylls, and ideals; depression and bipolar; self-harm and suicide; addiction.
The problems of spiritual bypassing, repression of the sublime, and induction; “Karma”—freedom or necessity; negative life processes; what are “beings”?; destruction, its necessity and its excess; the power of doubt, fear, and hate; case presentation.
Tolerating ambivalence; victimology: betrayal, violence, victim, perpetrator- a new approach to these knots; the power of forgiveness; crisis of identity and crisis of meaning; Non-being versus Being; the years 21 to 42 (the Sun phase); the heart and other organs as psychological processes; the experience of “I” between past and future; seven planetary types; depression and bipolar disorder.
Initiation or pathology: the two thresholds, the path inward and the path outward; transition from self-actualization to self-realization; destiny and the call to a vocation; confronting the moral imperative; the elements reconsidered; psychopathologies in relation to organology; celestial connections: astrosophy in relation to psychosophy; Theosophy: the wisdom of divinity; Mystery of Golgotha.
Seven-fold map to include levels of life processes, organ systems, evolution; negative life processes, elements, ethers, etc.; planetary seals as dynamic healing tools; translations from psychological mainstream to Anthroposophic psychology (e.g., NVC, CBT, anxiety, depression, dementia); case presentation.
Space as twelve-fold; all systems (2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, 7-fold) understood in the context of the twelve; ennobling personality; personality disorders introduced in relation to the three planes of space; more translations; capstone projects; “Re-membering Psychology through Relational Anthropos-Sophia.”
In between the seminars, we will host live internet conference calls (Zoom or something similar) wherein materials will be reviewed, questions of clarification can be asked, and some new materials presented. We prefer face-to-face real-time meetings with participants. However, the internet format can be very useful for concept-building, for putting questions to faculty from the last seminar, and for hearing from others about their areas of expertise. Each call is expected to include 20 minutes of presentation by a faculty member, then 20 minutes of discussion (and, of course, these parameters can vary). On-line learning can be helpful, and we will train you in how to work with the distortions and deceptions of this medium, in order to achieve maximum benefit.
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