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Spiritual Intelligence Certificate

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This certificate is for therapists who would like to explore spirituality in order to help their clients, as a general stand-alone course for anybody who is interested in spirituality and for those who are already facilitating psychedelic experiences and who would like to add Spiritual Intelligence as a core competency to their skill-set. It is also the introductory course for those who would like to continue onto The Transpersonal & Psychedelic Practitioner Certificate.

 

Cognitive intelligence and science play heavily in Western psychology. Measuring intelligence quotient (IQ) became the way to assign rational thinking intelligence. Just before the turn of the 21st century,  feeling or emotional intelligence was introduced by Daniel Goleman, which measured compassion and empathy. As the 21st century moves on, the age-old spiritual intelligence (SI) is now receiving attention due to the scientific proof of its effectiveness for mental health.

 

Specifically with regard to psychedelic experience, SI has been identified by many leaders in the psychedelic world as the competency which is most abstract, but it is also a competency which is vital in holding the psychedelic space. Reports show that a large percentage of people, maybe even up to 80%, have a spiritual or mystical experience during a psychedelic journey. This experience can cause a person to re-examine their core belief system, which impacts how they see themselves in the world, and how they want to move forward with their life. These profound experiences illustrates the need for a training programme which focuses on SI for psychedelic facilitators. 

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The course will be a practical and theoretical exploration of SI, which is not based on religion or the supernatural, but is rooted in connection. In Latin ‘spirit’ means ‘breath’, and our spiritual self begins with our connection to the world through the breath, and then extends to a unifying deeper connection - to other people, to our environment and to an awareness of belonging to something larger than ourselves, to something above and beyond us. 

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Course Details: 

When - The course begins on April 1st, 2023 and ends on September 30th, 2023.

Where - Online, you will receive weekly videos to watch at your own convenience and will engage with other participants in an online community. There will also be a live meeting on the last Saturday of every month at 9:30-11:30am (UK time) which will be recorded.

Cost - £1,200 (BTA members receive a 25% discount. Payment can be made in full or split into two payments, the first payment due upon registration and the second due by June 30th).

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Module 1, 2 and 3 

The first three modules will be a practical exploration of Spirituality:

• What is Spirituality?

• The Neuroscience of Spirituality. 

• Reviewing your own beliefs and attitudes towards Spirituality. 

• The importance of talking about Spirituality with clients.

• Assessing clients for Spiritual beliefs.

• Developing language to discuss Spirituality.

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Modules 4, 5 and 6

The next three modules are more theoretical in nature and will primarily draw upon the work of Dr. William Richards from his book, Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experience and will include: 

• Intuitive Knowledge

• Approaches to Unitive Consciousness 

• New Perspectives on Time and Space

• Reflections on Death

• Fears of Awakening

• Entering Into a New Paradigm

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Instructor: 

Diane Elliott

 

Diane has a Master of Arts degree from Buckingham University, London, in the Philosophy of Consciousness and Dual Brain Science. 

She holds Professional Certification with distinction from Alef Trust in Transpersonal Psychology and Psychedelics. 

She is also a licensed Neurolinguistic Programming Therapist (trained by NLP founder Richard Bandler). 

Diane is a director for the British Transpersonal Association and trains psychotherapists from the UK and Europe in the principles of Spiritual Intelligence, Dual Brain Science, Transpersonal Psychology and Psychedelic Facilitation. 

Diane is a researcher for The Shared Crossings Research Initiative, a U.S. based organisation which is collecting data from around the globe to classify shared death experiences (SDEs). She is also a trained End-of-Life Doula. 

She is currently studying The Science of Spirituality with the Spirituality, Mind Body Institute, Columbia University, New York.

 

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Curriculum Advisor & Guest Lecturer: 

Dr William Richards

 

Dr Richards is now Director of Therapy at Sunstone Therapies. He has been a psychologist in the Psychiatry Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bayview Medical Center, since 1999 when he and Roland Griffiths launched the rebirth of psilocybin research after a 22 year period of dormancy in the United States.  

He also is a consultant/trainer at sites of psychedelic research internationally and teaches in the Program of Psychedelic Therapy and Research at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

With formal degrees both in psychology and theology, Dr Richards is interested in the intersection between the two; the psychology of religion.

Early in his career, Dr Richards studied with Dr Abraham Maslow in the US, and Dr Hanscarl Leuner in Germany.

His publications began in 1966 with “Implications of LSD and Experimental Mysticism,” coauthored with Walter Pahnke. His book, Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences, was released in 2015 and has since been translated into multiple additional languages. 

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