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Personal Development

For individuals who are seeking personal development experiences:

discovering and overcoming the ways that we sabotage ourselves;
stress management and self-care skills;
fostering healthy relationships;
facilitating compassionate communication;
participating in artistic activities intended for the non-artist;
investigating spiritual realties;
integrating the fullness of who we are.

Most trainings in psychology, or self-help manuals, seldom come close to adequately recognizing and exploring the fundamental roles that soul and spirit perform in our processes of learning and changing. For example, these resources are usually unaware that the psyche, or soul, mediates between the body and spiritual realties. Ignorance of this psycho-spiritual principle is the cause of countless difficulties.

Relationship is the foundation for human development. AAP programs emphasize the importance of relationships with ourselves, with others, with nature, and with spiritual realities. Contemporary psychology also emphasizes relationships. From attachment theory we learn that the quality of relationship between the primary caregiver(s) and the infant is critical, affecting all subsequent bonds. Anthroposophic Psychology clarifies the relation between the initial caregiver-infant bond and development of body, soul, and spirit. Unique to Anthroposophic Psychology is that it places relationship within a time dimension extending before and beyond the current life. Relationality, both during and outside seminars, supports an exploration of the bonds between human, between spiritual beings and human beings.

Our Three-year Certificate Program covers many topics of mainstream psychology, approaching pathology from salutogenesis, that is, what is healthy in the human being, how we stray from it, and how a therapeutic relationship can assist others to find again their way. The curriculum covers many aspects of the human experience that one must know in order to meet another human being with increased insight and compassion.

International: Become a part of an international network. There are now trainings in this approach in several countries, and international conferences. You will have colleagues in this approach that can greet you in many places in the world.