Curriculum

Module 1 - Foundations of Transpersonal Psych, History & Consciousness

This module establishes the intellectual and philosophical ground of the entire training. Students are introduced to Transpersonal Psychology as a living field, one that takes seriously the spiritual dimensions of human experience while engaging critically with its own history and limits.

Module 2 - Consciousness, Self & the Transpersonal Lens

Before students can work with others in expanded or non-ordinary states, they need a clear and honest map of consciousness itself. This module explores what we actually mean by awareness, selfhood, and the unconscious

Module 3 - Non-Ordinary States & Holotropic Breathwork (Foundations)

This module introduces the landscape of non-ordinary states — what they are, how they arise, and why they matter therapeutically. The Holotropic framework is presented as a rich phenomenological map for navigating inner experience, not as a literal account of reality. Students also receive their first honest overview of psychedelics as part of the broader NOS spectrum.

Module 4 - Spiritual Development, Crisis & Integration

Models of spiritual development across cultures. Spiritual emergence vs. psychological crisis. Phenomenology of mystical experiences and dark night processes. Foundations of integration: grounding, meaning-making, embodiment, and psychological containment.

Module 5 - Clinical Foundations: Theories of Psychotherapy & Transpersonal Integration

Transpersonal practitioners need fluency in the established landscape of psychotherapy — not to choose a single school, but to think clearly across models and locate their work within the broader field. This module builds that literacy, with critical engagement rather than passive survey.

Module 6 - Counselling Skills, Therapeutic Relationship & Presence

Core counselling skills: empathic listening, attunement, reflective responding, emotion-focused work, establishing therapeutic alliance, boundaries, and basic assessment. Working with relational dynamics and ethical presence in one-to-one and group contexts.

Module 7 - Facilitation of Non-Ordinary States & Group Process

Moving from personal experience to professional facilitation requires a new set of skills — clinical, relational, and technical. This module prepares students to hold non-ordinary state experiences safely and ethically for others, both individually and in groups.

Module 8 - Professional Ethics, Boundaries & Continuing Development

Professional ethics in transpersonal work is not a set of rules to memorise — it is an ongoing, reflective practice. This module deepens students' capacity to work with integrity in contexts where boundaries, power, and vulnerability are constantly in play, including across cultural differences.

Module 9 - Somatic Awareness, Trauma-Informed Practice & Integration

Transpersonal work regularly touches trauma — whether or not it is named as such. This module builds the somatic literacy and trauma-informed foundation every transpersonal practitioner needs in order to work safely and effectively with clients whose nervous systems carry the history of difficult experience.

Module 10 - Advanced Psychotherapeutic Skills & Clinical Process

With clinical experience now building, this module develops the more nuanced and demanding skills of the advanced practitioner — the capacity to track subtle processes, hold complexity, and remain present when the therapeutic relationship becomes difficult.

Module 11 - Transpersonal Interventions & Tools in Psychotherapy

Clinical use of transpersonal tools: imaginal work, symbolic dialogue, archetypal processes, ritual elements, therapeutic use of spiritual frameworks, dreamwork, and meaning-oriented interventions. Indications, contraindications, and ethical application in psychotherapy.

Module 12 - Trauma-Informed Transpersonal Psychotherapy

Advanced work with developmental trauma, attachment injury, dissociation, and shame-based organization. Integrating somatic regulation, parts-based models, and consciousness-oriented interventions within phase-oriented trauma treatment.

Module 13 - Clinical Assessment, Differential Diagnosis & Treatment Planning

Advanced assessment integrating diagnosis-manual-informed diagnosis with transpersonal perspectives. Differential diagnosis between spiritual emergence, trauma responses, dissociation, and psychiatric pathology. Phase-oriented treatment planning, risk management, and collaboration with mental health professionals.

Module 14 - Consciousness-Based Psychotherapy & Holotropic Breathwork (Advanced Integration)

Clinical integration of Holotropic Breathwork and non-ordinary state work within longer-term psychotherapy. Indications, contraindications, clinical timing, integration planning, working with grief, existential crisis, identity transformation, and sustaining therapeutic outcomes beyond peak experiences.

Module 15 - Placement in a Mental Health Setting (External Internship)