Master Practitioner of Holistic Counselling Training Course

• Duration: 1,100 hours

• Availability: Not Available in the USA due to differing regulations from state to state.

• Face-to-Face Requirement: A minimum of 120 hours must be completed in a face-to-face learning environment, which can be done via zoom (or other live conference call), in a classroom, or via residential retreat.

• Recognised certification: (1) Meditation (2) Holistic counselling skills for meditation teachers (3) Meditation therapist (4) Holistic Empowerment Coaching (5) Holistic Counselling

• Initials graduates can use: Mbe.HolCouns. (Mind Body Education Master Holistic Counselling)

Curriculum

Unit One: Master Practitioner of Holistic Empowerment Coaching Training Course

• Duration: 840 hours

Meditation Teaching & Holistic Human Development Certificate

Module One

• Foundation studies in meditation

• History and theory of meditation

• Meditation in the Western world

• Brainwaves in meditation

• Meditation techniques and styles

• Developing meditation routines

• Deepening and refining your practice

10 hours

Module Two

• Understanding the cause & effects of stress

• Understanding stress

• Psychological causes of stress

• The Fight-or-flight response

• Physiology of the stress response

• Human behavioural manifestations of fight-or-flight

• Negative effects of the stress response in humans

• Positive stress

• Stress management

• Meditation development and practice

• Chakra meditation

• Concentrative meditation

• Mindfulness meditation

10 hours

Module Three

• Foundations of human happiness

• The psychology of happiness

• Subconscious programming and reprogramming

• States of mind

• Fundamentals of self-image

• The pursuit of happiness

• Subconscious programming and reprogramming

• Guided meditation (creative visualisation)

10 hours

Module Four

• Tools for healing

• Tools for healing

• Positive thinking skills

• Foundations of mind-body medicine

• Meditation as a healing tool & hypnotic states

• Journaling and gratitude

• Understanding affirmations

• Tools for developing a positive self-image

• Meditation as a healing tool

• Movement meditation

10 hours

Module Five

• Meditation styles and techniques

• Poses and positions

• Breathwork

• Chakras and energy meditation

• Guided meditation & creative visualisation

• Mantras and affirmations in meditation

• Gentle seated movement meditation (formally chair yoga)

10 hours

Module Six

• Teaching skills

• Before you teach

• Talking to groups & group leadership skills

• Answering questions about meditation

• Leading guided meditations

• Overcoming obstacles to meditation practice

• Creating safe and effective teaching environments

• Group leadership skills

10 hours

Module Seven

• Working with specific groups

• Teaching various meditation styles

• Working with teenagers

• Working with people with physical disabilities

• Working with people with emotional disorders

• Working with health care professionals

• Business clients and corporate groups

• Dealing with difficult clients

10 hours

Module Eight

• Counselling & coaching skills for meditation teachers

• A client-centred approach

• Your role as a holistic counsellor

• Building the foundations of happiness

• Equipment

• Outcomes of holistic counselling

• The holistic counselling sessions

• Assessment and introspection

• Goal setting

• Support Part

• Listening skills

• Holistic counselling tools for meditation teachers

• Life charting

• Reflection time

• Needs assessment chart

• Gratitude journal

• Worry time

• Positive thinking skills

• Affirmations

• Meditation as a healing tool

10 hours

Module Nine

• Designing and facilitating classes and workshops

• Designing courses and workshops

• Integrity and intentions

• Setting the scene

• Creating strong foundations for your groups

• Understanding learning styles

• Choosing your teaching style

• Terrific teaching techniques and tips

• Student management

• Working with seniors

• Choosing venues

10 hours

Module Ten

• Virtual, corporate and community settings

• Corporate stress management workshops – Includes corporate teachers course manual

• Approaching community groups and organisations

• Volunteer and community work

• Teaching online – Using Zoom

• Corporate stress management -

10 hours

Module Eleven

• Holistic small business management

• Ethics and Professionalism

• Your public profile

• Fundamentals of customer service

• Maintaining student/client records

• Charging for your services

• Running a small home office

• Joining organisations

• Insurance and legalities

10 hours

Module Twelve

• Marketing: The key to success

• Understanding the power of branding

• Targeted marketing and advertising

• Building your community

• How to find and use free advertising

• Public image

• Final review

• Your graduation

10 hours

Certificate in Autonomic Nervous System Realignment Therapy

• 4 modules

• Introduction

• How you will be able to use autonomic nervous system reprogramming

• The study of the ANS (autonomic nervous system)

• Dr. Bruce Lipton

• Language

• The three brains

• The autonomic nervous system

• Neurochemicals

• The endocrine system

• Module summary

• The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)

• The Amygdala

• The Central Nervous System (CNS)

• The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)

• What a nerve consists of

• The evolution of human consciousness

• Homeostasis

• The heart brain

• The Gut Brain

• Reprogramming the autonomic nervous system by changing our perceptions and beliefs

• Finding beliefs to change

• Belief changing technique

• Required Reading:

• Beyond the Relaxation Response: How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Personal Beliefs by Herbert Benson MD

• The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles by Bruce H. Lipton PHD

80 hours

Certificate in Brain-Body Medicine

• 4 modules

• Introduction to Brain Body Medicine (Psychophysiology)

• The Role of the Brain Body Therapist (Psychophysiology Therapist)

• Introduction to Brain Body Medicine

• The Physiology of Belief

• Traumatic Beliefs

• The Power to Heal

• The Faith Factor and How to Provide it

• Providing Evidence for Your Clients

• Placebo – The Science Behind Brain Body Medicine

• Diagnosis and Seeking the Cause of Illness

• Guiding Clients to Self-diagnose and Healing

• Psychophysiology Diagnostic Tools

• How to Work with Damaging Belief Systems and Conditioning

• Medical Meditation

• Writing the Prescription

• Tools for the Psychophysiology Therapist

• Marketing Your Brain Body Therapy Practice

• Building Clientele

• Referring and Networking

• Required Reading:

• Mind Over Medicine: Heal Your Thoughts Cure Your Body by Lissa Rankin MD

• Meditation as Medicine: Activate the Power of Your Natural Healing Force by Dharma Singh Khalsa MD

80 hours

Certificate in Advanced Holistic Counselling for Meditation Teachers

• 4 modules

• Introduction to Advanced Holistic Counselling

• Seeing Clients – Individual and Group Therapy

• Humanistic Psychology

• Emotions and Counselling

• Relationship Counselling and Counselling Couples

• Counselling Young Adults

• Trauma Counselling

• Counselling Clients with Depression

• Mediating

• Running Group Counselling and Therapy Sessions

• Fight or Flight and the Relaxation Response Review

• Powerful Tools for Holistic Counselling

• Creative Expression Therapy

• Required Reading:

• The Games People Play by Eric Berne PHD

80 hours

Certificate in Holistic Telephone Counselling

• 4 modules

• Introduction to telephone counselling.

• Use of Zoom and other online platforms for counselling.

• Outline of the counselling call.

• The seven core principles of telephone counselling.

• Importance of active listening.

• Understanding and exploring feelings.

• Effective communication through open and closed questions.

• Guidelines for summarising and reflecting content.

• Basic telephone counselling communication guidelines.

• Recognising barriers to effective communication.

• Developing listening skills.

• Self-care strategies for telephone counsellors.

• Warnings and contraindications for telephone counselling.

• Handling domestic violence and suicidal clients.

• Role play exercises for practical application.

• Required Reading:

• The telephone counsellor’s role play handbook by Kerry Doolan

• Telephone Counselling - A Handbook for Practitioners by Maxine Rosenfield

80 hours

Certificate in Holistic Grief and Loss Counselling

• 4 modules

• Introduction to grief and loss counselling.

• Understanding the nature of grief.

• Healing processes in grief.

• Acknowledging the time it takes to grieve.

• Navigating through the journey of grief.

• Processes involved in grieving.

• Role and responsibilities of a holistic grief counsellor.

• Pitfalls to avoid in grief counselling.

• Factors influencing the grieving process.

• Resources and referrals for supporting grieving individuals.

• Dealing with complicated grief.

• Recognising and managing depressive grief and clinical depression.

• Handling Acute Emergency Situations (AES) in grief counselling.

• Guidelines for providing effective grief counselling.

• Counselling individuals facing the end of life.

• Self-care strategies for grief counsellors.

• Importance of debriefing after challenging sessions.

80 hours

Certificate in Holistic Trauma and Abuse Counselling

• 4 modules

• Introduction to trauma and abuse counselling.

• Understanding trauma and its impact.

• Facilitating healing processes for trauma survivors.

• Exploring foundational concepts of relationship attachment.

• Recognising different forms of abuse.

• Identifying treatments and solutions for trauma and abuse.

• Understanding the role of love in healing from trauma and abuse.

• Earned Secure Adult Attachment and its significance in healing.

• Required Reading:

• Earned Secure Adult Attachment by Kerry Doolan

80 hours

Certificate in Holistic Marriage and Relationship Counselling

• 4 modules

• Introduction to holistic marriage and relationship counselling

• Benefits of Holistic Marriage and Relationship Counselling

• Issues to consider

• Attachment Styles

• Communication Styles

• Issues for a couple to consider

• Love Maps

• Strategies for success in making marriages work

• Meditation as an effective modality in relationship mediation.

• Required Reading:

• Wired for Love:

• How Understanding Your Partner’s Brain Can Help You Defuse Conflicts and Spark Intimacy by Stan Tatkin PsyD. MFT.

80 hours

Certificate in Holistic Therapies for PTSD

• 4 modules

• Introduction to Post Traumatic Stress disorder

• Understanding PTSD

• The vagus nerves

• Foundational Relationship Attachment Concepts

• The effects of abuse and neglect in early life

• The effects of depression, stress and anxiety

• Treating depression

• Understanding panic attacks

• Working with grief and loss

• Tools for managing PTSD

• Using art therapy to treat PTSD

• Designing meditations for PTSD

• Talk therapy and PTSD

• Designing programs and workshops for PTSD

• Self-care for PTSD counsellors

• Required Reading:

• The body keeps the score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

80 hours

Certificate in Inner-Child Work

• 4 modules

• Types of Childhood Trauma

• Theta waves and the realm of imagination

• The wounded child

• Tools, exercises and activities for working with the Inner-Child

• Designing Inner-Child healing programs and workshops

• Required Reading:

• Heal Your Inner Child by Glenn Harrold FBSCH Dip C.H.

80 hours

Unit Two: Holistic Counselling Skills

• Duration: 40 hours

• Modules:

• Creating safe environments

• Client Centred Therapy

• Understanding Anger

• Anger Management

• The Polyvagal Theory

• Ethics for holistic counsellors

• Client Assessment

• Required Reading:

• "Holistic Counselling - A New Vision for Mental Health" by Dr Patricia Sherwood

• "The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation" by Deb A. Dana

Unit Three: Clinical Practice

• Duration: 50 hours

• Modules:

• Case Study Sessions

• Supervision and guidance via email

• Volunteer clients (five clients, hour-long sessions, 10 weeks)

• Volunteers provide feedback after each session

Unit Four: Case Studies Exam

• Duration: 10 hours

• Module:

• Write and submit an essay detailing experiences gained through case study sessions

Unit Five: Holistic Psychotherapy

• Duration: 80 hours

• Modules:

• Meditation as therapy

• Introduction to holistic psychotherapy

• Psychodynamic Therapy

• Family Therapy

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

• Interpersonal Therapy

• Thought Field Therapy

• Sand-play therapy

• Rebirthing-breathwork

• Neuro Linguist Programming

• Hypnotherapy

• Emotional Freedom Technique

• Expressive Therapy

• Drama and Role Play Therapy

• Art Therapy

• Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)

Unit Six: Master Practitioner of Holistic Counselling Thesis

• Duration: 80 hours

• Module:

• Research and write a Master Practitioner of Holistic Counselling Thesis

• Develop ideas based on acquired knowledge and accumulated experience

• Complete a major research project

• Create a substantial piece of writing to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of selected topics