Transpersonal Arts in Therapy Training

The courses are called “Transpersonal” because the transpersonal emphasises the paradoxical and mysterious, the creative and the spiritual dimension in the universal scheme of things. Our programmes develop the artist’s awareness and understanding that natural, organic processes are imbued with spiritual wisdom, i.e. the archetypes. The programme focus is in deepening the student’s proficiency in engaging with such processes through art and the human encounter for healing, personal growth, and social change. Counselling is developed as an art, the spiritual art of transformative meeting.

This programme reflects the deep relationship between creativity, community, health and spirit, and explores the ways in which the personal and the transpersonal work together through perception. Thoughts may be transformed into imagination, as inward experiences renewing the soul’s life of feeling and perception.

Our graduates have embarked on careers in art therapy, community arts education, and educational consulting. They have been remarkably successful working as facilitators of personal growth in schools, colleges, hospitals, clinics, prisons, other institutions and private practice.

We are a member of the European Academy for Anthroposophical Art Therapy whose primary aim is to monitor quality assurance and standards of training, research and development. The Medical Section of the Goetheanum/Free University of Spiritual Science (Dornach, Switzerland) recognises the European Academy as an instrument of regulation and quality assurance for Anthroposophic Art Therapy Trainings.

Completion of the course may lead to individual accreditation with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Training Format:

The training has a Full-Time and a Part Time / Modular route:

3 Year Full-time Training (Beginning September each year):

Year 1: Sept – Jul - attendance Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 09:30-17:00. (This is also our Transpersonal Arts for Health and Well Being Year)

Year 2: Sept - Jul - attendance Monday &Tuesday, 9:30-17:00 and Placement Day.

Year 3: Sept – Jul - Supervised clinical placement, dissertation writing and case studies. Mentoring, tutorials and supervision are conducted. Assessment and Graduation period.

4 Year Modular Training: (Next course commences April 2014.)

2 and 3-week residential modules in every year. This training is ideally suited to students residing outside of the UK but is also suited to students who have work commitments and are happy to commute from within the UK. There are seven intensive modules over a four year period. At these modules thoughts are transformed into imagination, as inward experiences which renew the soul’s life of feeling and perception.