Module 1 – Foundation studies in meditation

Module 2 – Understanding the cause & effects of stress

Module 3 – Foundations of human happiness

Module 4 – Tools for healing

Module 5 – Meditation styles and techniques

Module 6 – Teaching

Module 7 – Working with specific groups

Module 8 – Counselling & coaching skills for meditation teachers

Module 9 – Designing and facilitating classes and workshops

Module 10 – Virtual, corporate, and community settings

Module 11 – Holistic small business management

Module 12 – Marketing: The key to success

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• Introduction
• How you will be able to use the autonomic nervous system
  reprograming
• 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

• 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

• 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

• Introduction to telephone counselling
  
• Using Zoom and other online platforms for counselling
• Outline of the counselling call
• The seven core principles of telephone counselling
• Feelings are key
• Active listening
• Minimal encourages
• Reflection of content
• Exploration of feelings
• Open and closed questions
• Guidelines for summarising
• Basic telephone counselling communication guidelines
• Barriers to effective communication
• Listening skills
• Self-care
• Warnings and contras – When not to use telephone counselling
• Domestic violence and suicidal clients
• Role-play exercises

Required reading:
The telephone counselor’s role play handbook by Kerry Doolan
Telephone Counselling – A Handbook for Practitioners by Maxine Rosenfield

•  Introduction grief and loss counselling
• What is grief?
• Healing the wounds of grief
• Grief takes time
• The journey through grief
• The grief processes
• The role of the holistic grief counsellor
• The pitfalls to avoid
• Influencing factors on grieving
• Resources and referrals
• Complicated grief
• Depressive grief and clinical depression
• Dealing with Acute Emergency Situations (AES)
• The grief counsellor’s role in AES
• Guidelines for grief counselling
• Counselling the dying
• Taking care of yourself
• Debriefing

• Introduction to trauma and abuse counselling
• Trauma
• How healing happens
• Foundational Relationship Attachment Concepts
• Abuse
• Treatments and Solutions
• The Role of Love in Healing from trauma and/or Abuse
• Earned Secure Adult Attachment

Required Reading:
Earned Secure Adult Attachment by Kerry Doolan

• 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.

• 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 counselors

Required Reading:
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• 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.