MASTER PRACTITIONER OF HOLISTIC EMPOWERMENT COACHING TRAINING PROGRAM

12 modules 

Please click on the link below for a breakdown of the modules in unit one.

Unit One Content:

Content:

• How will you be able to use the autonomic nervous system reprogramming 
• The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) 
• Language 
• The three brains  
• Neurochemicals 
• The endocrine system 
• The Amygdala 
• The Central Nervous System (CNS)
• What a nerve consists of 
• The evolution of human consciousness 
• Homeostasis 
• The heart brain 
• The Gut-Brain 
• Reprogramming the autonomic nervous system by changing our perceptions and beliefs.

Required Reading: 

Beyond the Relaxation Response: How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Personal Beliefs by Herbert Benson MD

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles by Bruce H. Lipton PHD  

Content

• Brain Body Medicine  
• The Physiology of Belief 
• Traumatic Beliefs 
• The Power to Heal 
• The Faith Factor and How to Provide it 
• Providing Evidence for Your Clients 
• Placebo – The Science Behind Brain Body Medicine 
• Diagnosis and Seeking the Cause of Illness 
• Psychophysiology Diagnostic Tools 
• How to Work with Damaging Belief Systems and Conditioning 
• Medical Meditation 
• Writing the Prescription
• Tools for the Psychophysiology Therapist 
• Marketing Your Brain Body Therapy Practice 
• Building Clientele 
• Referring and Networking   

Required Reading:
Mind Over Medicine: Heal Your Thoughts Cure Your Body by Lissa Rankin MD  
Meditation as Medicine: Activate the Power of Your Natural Healing Force by Dharma Singh Khalsa MD

Content

• Introduction to Advanced Holistic Counselling 
• Seeing Clients – Individual and Group Therapy 
• Humanistic Psychology 
• Emotions and Counselling 
• Relationship Counselling and Counselling for Couples 
• Counselling Young Adults 
• Trauma Counselling 
• Counselling Clients with Depression 
• Mediating 
• Running Group Counselling and Therapy Sessions  
• Fight or Flight and the Relaxation Response Review  
• Powerful Tools for Holistic Counselling 
• Creative Expression Therapy  

Required Reading:
The Games People Play by Eric Berne PhD  

Content:

• Introduction to telephone counselling  
• Using Zoom and other online platforms for counselling 
• Outline of the counselling call 
• The seven core principles of telephone counselling 
• Feelings are key 
• Active listening 
• Minimal encourages 
• Reflection of content 
• Exploration of feelings 
• Open and closed questions 
• Guidelines for summarising 
• Basic telephone counselling communication guidelines 
• Barriers to effective communication 
• Listening skills 
• Self-care
• Warnings and contras - When not to use telephone counselling 
• Domestic violence and suicidal clients 
• Role play exercises 

Required Reading: 

The telephone counsellor’s role play handbook by Kerry Doolan

Telephone Counselling - A Handbook for Practitioners by Maxine Rosenfield
 

Content:

• Introduction grief and loss counselling
• What is grief? 
• Healing the wounds of grief 
• Grief takes time 
• The journey through grief 
• The grief processes 
• The role of the holistic grief counsellor 
• The pitfalls to avoid 
• Influencing factors on grieving 
• Resources and referrals 
• Complicated grief 
• Depressive grief and clinical depression 
• Dealing with Acute Emergency Situations (AES) 
• The grief counsellor’s role in AES 
• Guidelines for grief counselling 
• Counselling the dying 
• Taking care of yourself 
• Debriefing 

Content

• Introduction to trauma and abuse counselling
• Trauma
• How healing happens
• Foundational Relationship Attachment Concepts 
• Abuse 
• Treatments and Solutions 
• The Role of Love in Healing from trauma and/or Abuse 
• Earned Secure Adult Attachment

Required Reading: 

Earned Secure Adult Attachment by Kerry Doolan
 

Content

• Introduction to holistic marriage and relationship counselling 
• Benefits of Holistic Marriage and Relationship Counselling
• Issues to consider
• Attachment Styles 
• Communication Styles 
• Issues for a couple to consider 
• Love Maps
• Strategies for success in making marriages work 
• Meditation as an effective modality in relationship mediation

Required Reading:

Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner’s Brain Can Help You Defuse Conflicts and Spark Intimacy by Stan Tatkin PsyD. MFT. 

Content:

• Introduction to Post Traumatic Stress disorder 
• Understanding PTSD 
• The vagus nerves 
• Foundational Relationship Attachment Concepts 
• The effects of abuse and neglect in early life
• The effects of depression, stress and anxiety 
• Treating depression 
• Understanding panic attacks 
• Working with grief and loss 
• Tools for managing PTSD 
• Using art therapy to treat PTSD 
• Designing meditations for PTSD 
• Talk therapy and PTSD 
• Designing programs and workshops for PTSD
• Self-care for PTSD counsellors 

Required Reading:

The body keeps the score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
 

Content

• Types of Childhood Trauma 
• Theta waves and the realm of imagination 
• The wounded child 
• Tools, exercises and activities for working with the Inner-Child 
• Designing Inner-Child healing programs and workshops 

Required Reading:

Heal Your Inner Child by Glenn Harrold FBSCH Dip C.H.