The Aim of the Course

You will receive a introduction into how you can use the transpersonal perspective in your (regular or one-off) work with your clients/patients. The course material is based on an integration of the psychological and transpersonal theories of CG Jung with awareness of Eastern and Western mystery school spiritual, shamanic and esoteric knowledge. The aim is to enable you to feel surer about using and leaning back on your soul/spiritual/transpersonal awareness in your professional interactions.

 

The Contents of the Course

This is a teaching course rather than a group process (however at intervals an awareness of the group process may be acknowledged). The style of teaching will be anecdotal, (occasionally using maps and flip chart), and with the aim of also evoking the knowledge present in the participants. As far as possible the teaching will be linked where appropriate to the theoretical bases of the work. Along with the teaching aspect, we will be using discussion in pairs and in group, inner work (including some guided imagery), artwork and movement. The course will have a maximum of 7 participants.

 

Here follows the provisional syllabus:-

1st Session Introductions within the group. Course introduction, expectations, discussion of styles of presentation. Short meditation. An introduction to the Transpersonal Perspective and its lineage. Transpersonal models of the psyche.
2nd Session Transpersonal perspective on the therapeutic relationship - including projection and collusion and an introduction to transference. Appropriate inner work and imaging exercises will help integrate these areas.
3rd Session Transference, counter-transference and projective identification. Discussion time and anecdotal stories. Space and boundaries - inner and outer.
4th Session The 'dark night of the soul'. Loss, grief, depression and crossing the abyss. Cycles of initiation. Alchemy
5th Session Symptom as symbol. Symptoms and chakras. Psychiatric states and the awareness of how to recognise and handle the presentation of a psychotic episode.
6th Session Stress, exhaustion and arousal. Professional support - supervision, peer support and how to develop the internal supervisor. Centering, meditation and grounding exercises. Future courses and workshops on the transpersonal perspective in Oxford.

 

Course Cost

The full cost for the 6 Wednesdays is £330 (concessions possible). This may be paid in instalments in cases of financial difficulties, however signing up for the course involves a commitment to pay the full fee before the end of the course whether you drop out or not. To secure a place once your application has been accepted please pay £100 deposit cheque made out to Rob Waygood. If the course is cancelled any monies paid will be refunded.

 

About the Course Leader – Rob Waygood

UK Council for Psychotherapy registered.
Psychotherapist working from the Jungian/Transpersonal and Process Oriented traditions.
Certificate in Transpersonal Supervision.
M.Sc. Counselling and Group Psychologist.

I am married with two teenage children. I have been in full time professional practice as a transpersonal psychotherapist and supervisor since the mid 1980's. Prior to that I was a part time counsellor and also a potter and smallholder. In the 1960's and early 1970's I qualified both as a chartered accountant and as a psychologist.

In 1989 I first brought Transpersonal Psychology to Oxford in the form of three workshops as originally developed by Barbara Somers and Ian Gordon-Brown of London. Between 1989 and 1994, 175 people attended these Oxford workshops until I had to stop running them here as my time was taken up teaching, supervising and helping to run the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology (CTP) in London. In 2000 I resigned as the Director of Professional Preparation of CTP having helped take the Centre, beyond the death of one founder and the retirement of the other, into full participation in the UK Council for Psychotherapy.

It is the transpersonal/spiritual perspective in all life and all professional relationships that moves me (not just in the field of psychotherapy). I have studied and contemplated Indian Vedanta and Tibetan Buddhism philosophies, and also 24 years in a western mystery tradition. My family life is one of aiming to constantly remain aware of the deeper, transpersonal and soul levels in our daily round. It is this personal goal, coupled with the experience of the search of so many of my clients, supervisees and friends for this awareness, which most informs my life and what I teach. For me it is about bridging heart and head. I look forward to a future of this marriage of head and heart founded on more and more simplicity and humour.

 

Next Steps to Take:

1 Please first telephone Rob on 01865 247851 to register your interest
2 Please then write to me saying what you want from this course and maybe a little about yourself by way of application. (All communication will be treated in confidence).
3 I will then phone you so that we can arrange to meet together.
4 Once your application has been accepted please pay the deposit or full fee to ensure your place is secured.

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