Location: Pearl Center, Thymena, Greece
Hours: 70
Study Load/Credits: 8.04
Instructors: Vedanta Aspioti, Nikolaos Athanassakis
Course Description:
In module 2 of the 2nd year we continue practicing individual sessions and all the elements involved. We focus on working with abuse, what abuse does to a person’s psyche and body and the healing interventions that can help the person on the road to recovery and healing. We deepen into working with freezing, flooding, nervous system responses to trauma that are affecting the person’s life energy and quality and how to free the trapped life energy in the body. We also work on some of the basic elements of assisting in the foundation training.
Course Goal:
The aim of the course is to equip the student with the foundation for working with people individually as an Essential psychotherapist.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course the students will be able to:
1. Describe the process of object and self - constancy and the splitting mechanism
2. Outline the basic steps of working with victims of abuse
3. Apply interventions to free the orgasmic reflex in the body and restore self-regulation
4. Recognize the countertransference, energetic and essential dynamics when assisting and working in a group
5. Demonstrate ability to lead meditations for groups
6. Create identity of their own professional praxis
Education Method: Lecture/Theory, Exercise, Meditation, Group therapy process, Practice
Required Literature:
Aspioti, Vedanta, The Structure of the Self, Unpublished, 2017
88 pages, 4 pages per hour pace, 22 hours
Aspioti, Vedanta, POL Assistant Manual, Unpublished, 2019
303 pages, 6 pages per hour pace, 51 hours
Optional:
Conger, John P., The Body in Recovery: Somatic Psychotherapy and the Self, Frog Books, 1994
Reich, Wilhelm, The Function of the Orgasm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973
Testing:
Channeling Session: Giving a live channeling session which will be evaluated by the instructors
Exam Duration: 1 hour