Our mission is to provide comprehensive and transformative education that prepares students to explore the full spectrum of human potential through Transpersonal Psychology. By integrating scientific psychology with spiritual traditions, we aim to cultivate leaders and practitioners who can contribute meaningfully to personal transformation and spiritual development in the fields of: mental health, education, leadership and end-of-life management.
Training Programmes:
Path 1: Level 6 Diploma in Transpersonal Psychology
For experienced professionals seeking accredited depth and rigour
This path is for you if you:
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Are a practising psychotherapist, counsellor, psychologist, coach, or allied professional
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OR have been working with people in a helping, care, facilitation, or leadership role for 5+ years
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Want a formally recognised Level 6 qualification in Transpersonal Psychology
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Are looking to integrate spirituality, meaning, and expanded states of consciousness into your existing professional framework - ethically and responsibly
About the qualification
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This is an Ofqual-verified Level 6 Diploma
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Level 6 study is equivalent in academic level to a Bachelor’s Degree
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It is designed to complement existing professional training
What this pathway offers
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A rigorous Transpersonal Psychology curriculum grounded in research, theory, and ethics
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In-depth exploration of spirituality, development, neuroscience, and non-ordinary states of consciousness
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Language and conceptual frameworks that allow you to speak credibly across clinical, academic, and spiritual contexts
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A recognised qualification that supports professional credibility and progression
Typical outcomes
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Enhanced depth, confidence, and coherence in your current professional role
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A formal transpersonal specialism you can ethically integrate into your work
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A strong academic and reflective foundation for further practitioner or research pathways if desired
Best for:
Practising psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, coaches, supervisors, educators, hospice and end-of-life professionals, and experienced facilitators.
Click here to read the Level 6 PROSPECTUS
Ofqual Qualification Number (QRN): 610/4937/2
COST: £4,300
This one-year programme begins in September 2026
Path 2: Transpersonal Practitioner Pathway
Training to work with people safely, ethically, and skilfully in transpersonal contexts
This path is for you if you:
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Want to work directly with people using transpersonal approaches
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Are moving into practice from another field or developing a new professional identity
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Want applied skills, clear scope, and strong ethical containment
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Are committed to supervision, reflective practice, and ongoing development
What this pathway offers
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Practical methods and session structures (not just theory)
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Training in working with spiritual experience, symbolism, nervous system states, grief, and meaning
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Clear guidance around scope, consent, risk, and referral
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Supervision and developmental support as you grow into practitioner competence
Typical outcomes
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Confidence and clarity in working with transpersonal material
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An ethical practitioner identity rooted in humility, responsibility, and depth
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A pathway that integrates science, spirituality, and real-world practice
Best for:
Aspiring practitioners, coaches, facilitators, end-of-life companions, wellbeing professionals, and those preparing to work with people.
Click here to read the Practitioner Prospectus
COST: £2,900
This one-year programme begins in September 2026
Which path is right for you?
Choose Level 6 if:
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You already work professionally with people
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You want a Bachelor’s-level (Level 6) accredited qualification in Transpersonal Psychology
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You value academic rigour, ethical clarity, and reflective depth
Choose the Practitioner Pathway if:
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You are preparing to work with people or expanding into a new role
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You want applied skills, supervision, and practice-based learning
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You are committed to developing safe, ethical practitioner competence
A note on ethics and responsibility
Transpersonal work can be powerful. These pathways are designed to match training to responsibility:
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Level 6 deepens understanding for experienced professionals
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Practitioner Training develops applied competence with supervision and clear boundaries
This distinction protects both the people you work with and the integrity of Transpersonal Psychology.
If you are not sure which option best fits your background, please indicate below, and we will arrange a call to discuss.
To register interest for the
April 2026 Programmes -
please fill in the form below
(please stipulate Level 6/Practitioner/Not Sure)
FRAMEWORKS
Six Pillars of Learning:
1. Neuroscience
Understanding the brain as the organ of perception, meaning, and relationship
This pillar explores how brain structure and function shape perception, identity, and experience. Drawing on contemporary neuroscience and hemispheric research, students examine how attention, narrative, emotion, and awareness are organised in the brain - and how different modes of consciousness arise. Emphasis is placed on integration rather than reduction, supporting a nuanced understanding of mind and meaning.
2. Neurobiology
The lived body as the foundation of experience and regulation
Neurobiology focuses on the embodied nervous system and its role in safety, threat, connection, and regulation. Students explore autonomic states, neuroception, and relational biology, learning how psychological and spiritual experiences are shaped by physiological processes. This pillar grounds transpersonal work in the body, supporting ethical, stabilising, and integrative practice.
3. Spirituality
The psychological study of meaning, values, and transcendence
This pillar examines spirituality as a universal human dimension rather than a belief system. Students explore spiritual development, spiritual competencies, and the role of meaning, purpose, and values in psychological wellbeing. The focus is on ethical engagement with spiritual experience across cultures and worldviews, without dogma or belief imposition.
4. Thanatology
Death, dying, grief, and existential meaning
Thanatology addresses the psychological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of death and loss. Students study grief processes, end-of-life ethics, death anxiety, and the concept of a “good death,” alongside sociological and historical perspectives. This pillar supports mature engagement with mortality as a central dimension of human meaning and transformation.
5. Post-Life Consciousness
Critical inquiry into consciousness beyond the individual lifespan
This pillar explores theories and research concerning the continuation of consciousness after death. Students engage critically with near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, cross-cultural afterlife beliefs, and philosophical debates surrounding the nature of consciousness. The emphasis is on open inquiry, epistemological humility, and psychological impact rather than metaphysical certainty.
6. Modalities
Ways of knowing, exploring, and integrating experience
The Modalities pillar introduces a range of transpersonal, symbolic, contemplative, and reflective approaches used to explore inner experience. These are studied theoretically and contextually, with attention to ethics, scope, and integration. The focus is not on technique mastery, but on understanding how different modalities support meaning-making, regulation, and psychological development.
Practical:
Creativity, Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy
Jungian Active Imagination and Archetypal/Symbolic Exploration
EMDR
Meditation
Somatic Sensing
Intuition and Flow Writing
Philosophical Exploration
Dream Work
Breathwork
Plant Medicine
Theoretical:
Mystical Experiences are the encountering of transcendence, unity, or connection with a higher power or the cosmos.
These experiences are spontaneous (such as a Near-Death Experience, or a Shared-Death Experience) or intentional such as breathwork, sensory deprivation, or the use of plant medicines.
In essence
Together, the Six Pillars form an integrated framework that brings together brain, body, meaning, mortality, consciousness, and method - supporting a grounded, ethical, and expansive approach to
Developmental Transpersonal Psychology.
The Transpersonal Principles
The Transpersonal Principles describe a 7-stage developmental movement from ordinary perception into expanded, relational, and ethical forms of consciousness. They are not beliefs or fixed steps, but capacities that unfold, deepen, and integrate over time.
Principle 1: Consciousness Integrated
Imagination
Transpersonal awakening begins by restoring our full spectrum of knowing. Through the imaginal realm - where image, intuition, and symbolic insight converge - we reawaken the symbolic, embodied, relational, and intuitive dimensions of consciousness.
Principle 2: Meaning As An Impulse
Curiosity
Curiosity initiates the seeker’s path - the longing for something beyond the egoic self. This is the beginning of inquiry, the first stirrings of Transpersonal Intelligence. We recognise that the desire for meaning, healing, purpose, and transcendence is evolutionary.
Principle 3: Inner Experience Expressed
Creativity
Creativity is the moment when curiosity realises itself - when the questions we carry begin to take form. What once stirred within now seeks expression without - through image, word, movement, or ritual - in the sacred act of making the invisible visible.
Principle 4: Consciousness Expansion
Expanded States of Consciousness
A person opens to altered and expanded states - through Transpersonal Inquiry, meditation, psychedelics, dreams, or spontaneous insight. These experiences reveal that reality is far vaster than consensus perception. Transpersonal Psychology provides containers for meaning-making, grounding, and integration.
Principle 5: Intelligence As Transpersonal
Wisdom
Wisdom is not merely accumulated knowledge - it is a developmental capacity to discern truth through ethical, spiritual, and intuitive awareness. This unfolding of deeper discernment and compassionate presence, is Transpersonal Intelligence (TQ) - the maturation of the conscious self.
Principle 6: The Sacred and Symbolic Life
Spirituality
Life is viewed as not random or mechanistic - it is interwoven with symbols, archetypes, and sacred meaning. The individual realises they are part of a greater whole. The soul speaks through dreams, synchronicities, and subtle recognitions.
Principle 7 : The Ground Of Our Shared Existence
Love
The culmination of transpersonal development reveals love not as sentimentality, nor as a fleeting feeling or emotion, but as a way of being. Love becomes an embodied presence-with - a lived, conscious connection to oneself, to others, to the Earth, and to life itself. From this place, love is not given or earned - it is recognised and remembered as undivided wholeness that underlies all existence.
A Framework for Transpersonal Capacity Cultivation
The Seven Transpersonal Stages describe how consciousness can expand and mature over time. AIME describes how that expansion becomes integrated.
While the stages map what unfolds, AIME attends to how it is absorbed, embodied, and lived. It ensures that imagination becomes creativity, experience becomes wisdom, and insight becomes ethical presence - rather than remaining unintegrated or overwhelming.
In this way, AIME functions as the integration process running through all seven stages, regulating pace, supporting meaning-making, and transforming experience into stable inner capacity.
The framework designed to support meaning-making, integration, and developmental capacity, rather than symptom reduction or experience-seeking.
It recognises that transformative experiences - spiritual, existential, or non-ordinary - are not inherently beneficial on their own. What matters is how experience is metabolised into stable inner capacities.
AIME provides a way of working that regulates pace, depth, and integration, helping experience become growth rather than overwhelm.
What AIME Stands For
A – Aspects: Shifting the mode of attention
Cultivating a quality of attention that is patient, grounded, and non-intrusive.
Rather than analysing or interpreting experience, attention is gently re-oriented so that experience can be met directly and meaning can emerge organically.
I – Into: Dropping into the felt, experiential field
Moving into the lived, embodied, and experiential dimension of awareness.
This includes symbolic and imaginal dimensions of experience, which are treated as legitimate modes of knowing — allowing inner material to be approached indirectly, safely, and creatively.
M – Metaphor: The symbolic configuration reveals itself
Supporting the person to encounter meaning as it arises through metaphor, image, or symbolic pattern.
Meaning is not imposed, explained, or interpreted by the practitioner, but allowed to form through reflection, resonance, and integration.
E – Emergence: Integration at a sustainable pace
Allowing insight, understanding, or integration to arise at the pace the system can sustain.
Emergence is respected as a developmental process — something that unfolds over time, rather than something to be forced, accelerated, or extracted.
The Core Principle of AIME
Development is not measured by the intensity of experience,
but by the maturity of the capacities it leaves behind.
AIME works on the understanding that:
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Spiritual emergence can become spiritual emergency when experience outruns the system’s capacity to integrate it.
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Insight that loops back into story, identity, or specialness without becoming embodied capacity leads to stagnation, spiritual fatigue, or inflation.
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Unintegrated spiritual experience can quietly reinforce ego structures, giving rise to forms of spiritual narcissism where identity expands, but maturity does not.
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Integration requires time, containment, humility, and relational safety, not intensity or acceleration.
AIME therefore functions as a regulator of pace, ensuring that experience unfolds in a way that can be embodied, lived, and expressed ethically - rather than accumulated, performed, or used to bolster identity.
How AIME Is Used
AIME may be used to:
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support reflection on spiritual or existential experiences
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work with symbolic or imaginal material
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slow down meaning-making when experience feels overwhelming
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cultivate discernment, grounding, and integration
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support ethical accompaniment rather than interpretation
It is not a technique, intervention, or method for inducing altered states.
In Practice
AIME supports practitioners to:
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listen beneath narrative
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work with metaphor rather than explanation
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prioritise capacity over content
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remain ethically neutral and non-directive
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avoid spiritual bypassing or premature interpretation
It refines the practitioner’s way of attending, not their toolbox.
In Essence
AIME is a framework for:
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slowing down transformation
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protecting integration
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cultivating depth without destabilisation
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allowing meaning to emerge rather than be imposed
It is especially relevant in contexts involving:
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spiritual emergence
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grief and loss
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existential questioning
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non-ordinary or transpersonal experience
The Transpersonal Practitioner
A Transpersonal Practitioner works alongside individuals or groups to explore psychological experience in its wider existential, spiritual, and relational context.
Rather than focusing solely on symptoms, transpersonal practice attends to:
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meaning and identity
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values and worldview
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spiritual or existential questions
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the person’s capacity for integration and growth
The practitioner’s role is not to interpret, direct, or induce experience, but to offer presence, ethical containment, and reflective support.
Working with Spiritual and Transpersonal Experience
Transpersonal practitioners may accompany people who are:
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making sense of spiritual or existential experiences
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navigating periods of spiritual emergence or disorientation
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exploring questions of meaning, purpose, or identity
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listening without imposing belief
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supporting integration rather than amplification
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recognising when containment or referral is required
End-of-Life & Existential Transitions
From a transpersonal perspective, the end of life is understood not only as a biological event, but as a profound psychological and existential transition.
Practitioners may support individuals and families by:
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holding space for meaning-making and reflection
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acknowledging spiritual or transpersonal experiences without interpretation
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supporting presence, dignity, and relational connection
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working alongside (not instead of) medical and clinical care
The focus is on accompaniment, not treatment.
Grief and Loss
Transpersonal practice recognises grief as a deeply personal and potentially transformative process.
In grief contexts, practitioners may:
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acknowledge spiritual or symbolic dimensions of loss
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support reflection on identity, meaning, and continuity
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honour dreams, imagery, or symbolic experience without literal interpretation
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encourage grounding, pacing, and integration
The aim is not to resolve grief, but to support the person’s relationship to it.
Trauma and Transpersonal Sensitivity
Transpersonal practitioners do not treat trauma unless they hold appropriate clinical qualifications.
However, transpersonal understanding can inform practice by:
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recognising the existential and spiritual impact of trauma
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avoiding spiritual bypassing or premature meaning-making
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supporting grounding, safety, and referral when needed
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acknowledging symbolic or archetypal material that may arise
Ethical practice prioritises:
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nervous system safety
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scope awareness
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collaboration with clinical professionals
In essence
A Transpersonal Practitioner:
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accompanies rather than directs
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supports integration rather than experience-seeking
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honours spirituality without imposing belief
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works within clear ethical and professional boundaries
This approach is particularly relevant in contexts of:
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grief and loss
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end-of-life transitions
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spiritual emergence
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meaning and identity change