Location: Wajid Mediatatie Centrum, Den Haag
Hours: 20
Study Load/Credits: 0.79
Instructors: Vedanta Aspioti, Nikolaos Athanassakis
Course Description:
Our resourcing series is about reconnecting with our Essential resources that are beyond our conditioned mind and ego defenses. These are fundamental human virtues such as love, compassion, courage, wisdom, joy, presence, innocence and others. In this course we will reconnect with the essential qualities of joy and playfulness and how we can implement them in our own healing and in working with clients and specifically the healing of depression.
Course Goal:
The aim of the course is to teach the students how to come in touch with the Yellow Essence, how to recognize the psychological issues due to the lack of this quality or because of the way we got cut off from it and how to work with resourcing clients with this core quality.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course the students will be able to:
1. Explore the Yellow Essence through inquiry, mirroring and feedback
2. Implement appropriate and authentic humor, joy and playfulness in therapy
3. Discuss the importance of joy and playfulness in childhood development and its relation to psychopathology
4. Utilize the healing power of laughter as resource to reconnect to child-like innocence
5. Discern between authentic healthy playfulness and superficiality, avoidance and compensation
6. Guide clients to reconnect with their magical inner child as a resource
Education Method: Lecture/Theory, Exercise, Meditation, Group therapy process, Practice, Inquiry
Testing (Formative): Reflective Assessment