Location: Osho Mevlana Center, Amsterdam
Hours: 51
Study Load/Credits: 9
Instructors: Vedanta Aspioti
Course Description:
This course teaches the student how to work with the inner child within the format of Vedanta’s approach. It is an integrative work, drawing inspiration from several different approaches, all with the aim to promote self-love and self-acceptance in the person. The sessions show the ways in which they have been wounded in their childhood and offer an in-depth understanding of their psychological issues and the way their life is impacted from them in the here and now. It is also a way to reconnect with qualities of the Self that the person lost touch with due to their childhood conditioning. The inner child work allows us to clear the object relations of our false structure, our ego that we created in order to defend ourselves when we were children. Through this work we can find out who we are beyond the conditioning that was imposed on us in our childhood. In the course the students learn and practice the first half of the sessions of the inner child protocol.
Course Goal:
The aim of the course is to teach the students to give sessions on inner child healing and deconditioning
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course the students will be able to:
1. Conduct the first seven sessions of the Inner Child protocol
2. Compare and contrast developmental psychology theories from the perspective of different psychoanalytic and body-oriented approaches
3. Assess the client’s basic wound and how to work with it in therapy
4. Identify the client’s basic emotions and mirror them back to them
5. Name the types of abuse and their effect on the connection to the Self
6. Analyze the familial, social, cultural and societal factors which might impact clients
Education Method: Lecture/Theory, Exercise, Meditation, Group therapy process, Practice
Required Literature:
Aspioti, Vedanta, Channeling the Inner Child, Unpublished, 2017
195 pages, 6 pages per hour pace, 33 hours
Bradshaw, John, Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, Bantam, 1992
304 pages, 6 pages per hour pace, 51 hours
Optional Literature:
Bradshaw, John, Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem, Health Communications Inc., 1990
Bradshaw, John, Family Secrets, Bantam, 1995
Miller, Alice, Free From Lies: Discovering Your True Needs, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010
Miller, Alice, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Basic Books, 1997
Testing:
Inner Child Written Exam: A written test with questions on the material of modules 1 of the Inner Child training
Exam Duration: 2 hours