Location: Mala Center, Athens
Hours: 70
Study Load/Credits: 8.39
Instructors: Vedanta Aspioti
Course Goal:
The aim of the course is to teach the students to give sessions on inner child healing and deconditioning
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 second half of the sessions of the inner child protocol.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course the students will be able to:
1. Conduct the next 12 sessions of the Inner Child protocol
2. Determine when and how it is appropriate to work with catharsis
3. Explore specific phases of childhood to resolve developmental trauma
4. Apply interventions for specific issues from the different developmental phases of childhood
5. Provide basic holding to the client, with safe touch and titration
6. Integrate the client’s therapy process between childhood and the present
Education Method: Lecture/Theory, Exercise, Meditation, Group therapy process, Practice
Required Literature:
Mahler, Margaret S., Fred Pine, Anni Bergman, The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant, Basic Books, 1975
336 pages, 4 pages per hour pace, 84 hours
Optional Literature:
Bradshaw, John, Healing the Shame that Binds You, Health Communications Inc., 2005
Bradshaw, John, Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth, Bantam, 1994
Taylor, Cathryn, The Inner Child Workbook: What to do with your past when it just won't go away, TarcherPerigee, 1991
Miller, Alice, The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting, W. W. Norton & Company, 2006
Miller, Alice, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
Miller, Alice, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries, Anchor, 1991
Testing:
Inner Child Session (Summative): Giving a live Inner Child session from the Inner Child protocol which will be evaluated by the instructors.
Exam Duration: 1 hour