The Psychology of Spirituality
Becoming an Integrally Informed Therapist
September 2-7th 2017
With facilitators
Nic Morrey, Claire Dunn & Ketut Arsana
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Spirituality is increasingly accepted as integral to human psychology, vital for physical and mental health. This training sets out what spirituality is as a line of intelligence, the values it represents and how it contributes to mental health and well-being.
A psycho-spiritual approach to therapy provides a deeper understanding of people’s problems, aiding recovery and gaining resilience. The training will cover latest research on ‘trajectories’ of spiritual development through several distinct stages, with practical techniques and exercises for reducing anxiety, depression and addiction. |
The commitment to self care is particularly crucial for those in the helping profession. We will not only talk about self care and explore themes such as ‘blind compassion’ but also actively experience self nurturing.
This training will support you on many levels including renewing your professional practice. Lush Tropical Ubud offers a sanctuary, a place where culture connects intimately with its land and spirituality. There is so much for Western culture to learn about mental health from this alone. The training includes immersing ourselves within Balinese Hindu culture, including Kecak dance, Jegog music, Ubud art, food markets, visiting temples, eating great organic food, having regular massage, resting and recuperating & meeting like-minded therapists whilst gaining 25 PD points at a very reasonable cost.
This training will support you on many levels including renewing your professional practice. Lush Tropical Ubud offers a sanctuary, a place where culture connects intimately with its land and spirituality. There is so much for Western culture to learn about mental health from this alone. The training includes immersing ourselves within Balinese Hindu culture, including Kecak dance, Jegog music, Ubud art, food markets, visiting temples, eating great organic food, having regular massage, resting and recuperating & meeting like-minded therapists whilst gaining 25 PD points at a very reasonable cost.
Investment: $1399. Past delegates, APS/TPIG/BPIG member price $1299.
Cost includes breakfast, 5 nights accommodation (2nd-6th), pool, WiFi, workshop manual/inventory, transport within retreat times, massage & dinner on the second night.
Airfares not included.
50% deposit required on booking. (Fully refundable before 1st July 2017)
Full payment due by 19th July 2017. Book early to avoid disappointment.
It is recommended you wind in and out of the retreat/training. If you would like to organise further accommodation at Melati Cottages, the following dates are possible: 1st, 7th & 8th September. Just email me (Nic) asap so I can organise a discounted retreat cost for you. [email protected]
Cost includes breakfast, 5 nights accommodation (2nd-6th), pool, WiFi, workshop manual/inventory, transport within retreat times, massage & dinner on the second night.
Airfares not included.
50% deposit required on booking. (Fully refundable before 1st July 2017)
Full payment due by 19th July 2017. Book early to avoid disappointment.
It is recommended you wind in and out of the retreat/training. If you would like to organise further accommodation at Melati Cottages, the following dates are possible: 1st, 7th & 8th September. Just email me (Nic) asap so I can organise a discounted retreat cost for you. [email protected]
Venue:
Melati Cottages, Penestanan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Timetable:
Saturday 2nd September 2017
Professional Development:
This training offers 25 PD points for professionals who have Spirituality central to their learning objective.
The training will be compelling for therapists, GPs, psychiatrists, social workers, chaplains, palliative carers and students who are wanting to better understand the role of spirituality and psychology and their applications toward better health. Participants are not required to have experience in yoga, meditation or psychotherapy, as the foundations of each discipline will be explored.
This Integral training will equip you in answering the following questions:
Melati Cottages, Penestanan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Timetable:
Saturday 2nd September 2017
- 1.00pm - 8.00pm Welcome session & dinner
- 7am start time with yoga for beginners!
- finish by 1:30pm......see timetable below...
- The program is designed so you feel as though you're on holiday....
Professional Development:
This training offers 25 PD points for professionals who have Spirituality central to their learning objective.
The training will be compelling for therapists, GPs, psychiatrists, social workers, chaplains, palliative carers and students who are wanting to better understand the role of spirituality and psychology and their applications toward better health. Participants are not required to have experience in yoga, meditation or psychotherapy, as the foundations of each discipline will be explored.
This Integral training will equip you in answering the following questions:
- What is Spirituality? and how do we best assist spiritual development?
- Are there therapeutic benefits of integrating Western psychology's stage focus with an Eastern contemplative state focus approach approach?
- What is spiritual bypassing, (when spirituality gets in the way of what really matters) and how to work with it?
- How to differentiate between mysticism and madness?
- How to differentiate between times for ascending spiritual practices and the need for descent into soul - the dark centre of our individual selves and into the fruitful mysteries of nature?
- What can nature-based rites-of-passage such as Vision Quest and ceremony offer for the contemporary spiritual life?
- What are the practices of deep nature connection - and how ca they lead to attributes of wholeness, empathy, deep listening and a quiet mind?
- What is the link between trauma and spirituality?
- What are the benefits of art, music, dance and eco therapy, and how do these practices develop a spiritual life?
- How much meditation and breath work should we be directing within our treatment plans and which clients respond best to mindfulness techniques?
- What are the differences between cognitive, emotional, social, sexual and the physical line of intelligence? and how do they connect to form a definition of spiritual intelligence SQ?
- Is spirituality connected to an ability to take on multiple perspectives? How does this perspective help within the therapeutic relationship?
- Is there a connection between sexuality, dreams and spirituality?
- What are the core values of the contemplative traditions such as Sufism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christian and Jewish mysticism? and how to incorporate these values into your therapeutic practice?
- How can we best support clients interested in working with their dreams?
Registration and Payment:
Regisration and enrolment via email
[email protected]
Cheque: Payable to Nicholas Morrey
Post to: Autumn Retreat
129 Miller Street Thornbury 3071 Victoria Australia
or
Electronic Transfer
N.Morrey & J.Liddy
BSB: 638 120 Account: 8010072
Please include your surname &
code BR in the reference field
or
By credit card with a 2.1% surcharge
https://www.trybooking.com/QDWJ
For further enquires contact
Nic Morrey Ph: 0432 066 880
Inventories...
Before arrival, please complete the SAVE Relationships Inventory & the Tree of Life Relationships Inventory by clicking on the boxes below and bring your print out of results. This temperament sorter and set of action plans will help you with the weeks exercises.....Thanks
Nic Morrey
Psychologist, (BSS Hons; MPsych Child & Family; M.A.P.S) Musician, Yoga & Zen practitioner, has over 15 years experience in the Community Health sector & for the last 6 years working privately in Melbourne helping couples heal. Nic has been travelling to Bali for a number of years running professional development programs ‘The Psychology of Spirituality’ and ‘The Sacred Art of Relating'. His teaching style is influenced by his experiences in Hakomi, Insight Meditation, Mondo Zen, The Diamond Approach, Integral Psychotherapy, Imago & PACT (psycho-neurobiological approach to couples therapy).
Nic is the author of ‘The 4 Faces of Love’ which will be available on retreat and be used to gain insight into the relationship between connection (building relationship) and spirituality. He’s a trained facilitator with groupwork institute and Men’s Wellbeing Common Ground program, spent several years running a men’s shed, he's a married man of 21 years with 2 kids, and a survivor of a major life changing car accident which nearly took his life 2 years ago. Nic is also the Victorian Convener for the Australian Psychological Society’s Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group. http://www.integralpsychology.org/
Nic is the author of ‘The 4 Faces of Love’ which will be available on retreat and be used to gain insight into the relationship between connection (building relationship) and spirituality. He’s a trained facilitator with groupwork institute and Men’s Wellbeing Common Ground program, spent several years running a men’s shed, he's a married man of 21 years with 2 kids, and a survivor of a major life changing car accident which nearly took his life 2 years ago. Nic is also the Victorian Convener for the Australian Psychological Society’s Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group. http://www.integralpsychology.org/
Claire Dunn
Claire Dunn is a writer, educator, journalist and barefoot explorer. Claire worked for many years as an environmental campaigner, before turning her attention to the human-nature connection, studying Deep Ecology with Joanna Macy, eco-psychology, and wilderness survival skills. In 2010, Claire embarked on a year of bush retreat. Her recent book My Year Without Matches: Escaping the the City in Search of the Wild is the bestselling memoir of that journey. Claire is currently working on another memoir, this time exploring wildness in the urban landscape. Claire is a trained Dancing Freedom facilitator, offering regular classes in Melbourne. Claire is a passionate advocate for ‘rewilding’ our inner and outer landscapes, and facilitates nature-based reconnection retreats, contemporary wilderness rites of passage and individual mentoring. www.naturesapprentice.com.au
Ketut Arsana
was born in the village of Padang Tegal, Ubud, and grew up in a family of traditional
Balinese shaman healers (Balian). The healing tradition was passed on from his
grandfather and previous ancestors. Ketut developed a more broader and more
universal practice of healing and spiritual knowledge and is the spiritual teacher
of Asram Munivara, a Mahatma Therapist, Master Usada Practitioner, Yoga Instructor
and founder of Ubud Bodyworks Centre, Ubud Aura Retreat Centre, Ashram Munivara
and Santam Bhuana Foundation.
Ketut will lead Kundalini Yoga sessions and a session on Balinese Healing.
was born in the village of Padang Tegal, Ubud, and grew up in a family of traditional
Balinese shaman healers (Balian). The healing tradition was passed on from his
grandfather and previous ancestors. Ketut developed a more broader and more
universal practice of healing and spiritual knowledge and is the spiritual teacher
of Asram Munivara, a Mahatma Therapist, Master Usada Practitioner, Yoga Instructor
and founder of Ubud Bodyworks Centre, Ubud Aura Retreat Centre, Ashram Munivara
and Santam Bhuana Foundation.
Ketut will lead Kundalini Yoga sessions and a session on Balinese Healing.
What other participants said about past Bali training retreats (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)
I'm now less in my head and more in my body. Mindfulness has been a massive take away message, including pain in yoga- to allow it to come, to accept it, to not be afraid of the pain, to be patient and come home to myself and remember to love myself.
Nick
I'll take away so much more self awareness about my body and how it moves, and being exposed to all the different ways to be with myself e.g. via the mask work. I have had many aha moments. It's been great.
Olivia
The key thing I'll take away is to allow myself to get into a vulnerable state, and in combination with the integral practice I was taken out of my comfort zone which brought many insights about my need to control things.
Antionette
I just love relating to the people this retreat attracts. I am becoming better at saying yes and no and things that I do and dont want to do. It feels awkward sometimes to confront stuff like that; to drop being nice
Sallyann
I've discovered how to use my energizer more and also how to use my body more and help my clients become more grounded I will also take away the effects of the healing I received.
Sally
I have ploughed through a swamp and come out the other side to a fresh water lake
Vana
It was challenging in a good way
Clair
I'll be taking home a new found family. It's like discovering your tribe. Members of your tribe coming together and thats important to me. The save relationships inventory has given me great insight into how I relate to others. It's gven me a whole new modality to work with when counselling couples.
Paul
This retreat has opened me up to another big chapter in my life
Carla
"I loved the people, the setting and the openness. I'll be telling my friends and colleagues about this"
Anthony
"Others can see I've transformed. it was a great opportunity to leave Australia and my comfort zone"
Meryl
"I had a gorgeous time with all these wonderful people and I have to come back again...so get here...be here...and don't miss out"
Sally-ann
"I loved being taken out of my comfort zone, and the content and the context and how the retreat has opened all my chakras"
Meredith
"A great opportunity to learn with likeminded people in the beautiful environment which was open, sharing, relaxing and energizing all at the same time"
Margaret
"It's been wonderful, oh the dancing, every day has been extroadinary. What a great amount of energy put into this retreat. I'm looking forward to getting into the tree of life work and receive the facilitators passions. WOW are we lucky"
Jo
"It's been a wonderful experience to join likeminded professionals in amazing ways doing body work, intellectual work and emotional work"
Carol
"I loved the mix of people from the more spiritual approach in combination with the psychological approach and I loved the great discussions we had. The setting and the relaxed environment was really condusive to learning. I mostly enjoyed the mask workshop and visiting Anom the mask maker and the 5Rhythms"
Lisa
"I just loved meeting likeminded people and putting myself in a group dynamic and observing myself in other people who mirror me".
Sakajawea
"A really transformational journey and I was able to connect back to myself and journey with other people who are in the same vibration as myself who are able to mirror me and it was empowering. I found a lot of strength and really looked at parts of myself I would like to work with and enhance and harness these qualities. I got a good look at an aspect of myself that maybe I wouldn't have seen before. I'm fully empowered"
James
"I really enjoyed the openness, the beautiful people, the sharing, the safety provided for us to go out of our comfort zones which has really developed trust"
Pippa
"Wow the people in this retreat have been great. What a beautiful place to hold a retreat. So much creative energy. "
Tanya
"The retreat has broadened my horizons and given me a whole lot of of ideas to implement back in my work setting, and beautiful surroundings in which to emerse myself in different ways of thinking and to work with really intelligent capable people"
Leanne
"I'm discovering things I wouldn't have expected"
Tania
What other participants said about past Bali training retreats (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)
I'm now less in my head and more in my body. Mindfulness has been a massive take away message, including pain in yoga- to allow it to come, to accept it, to not be afraid of the pain, to be patient and come home to myself and remember to love myself.
Nick
I'll take away so much more self awareness about my body and how it moves, and being exposed to all the different ways to be with myself e.g. via the mask work. I have had many aha moments. It's been great.
Olivia
The key thing I'll take away is to allow myself to get into a vulnerable state, and in combination with the integral practice I was taken out of my comfort zone which brought many insights about my need to control things.
Antionette
I just love relating to the people this retreat attracts. I am becoming better at saying yes and no and things that I do and dont want to do. It feels awkward sometimes to confront stuff like that; to drop being nice
Sallyann
I've discovered how to use my energizer more and also how to use my body more and help my clients become more grounded I will also take away the effects of the healing I received.
Sally
I have ploughed through a swamp and come out the other side to a fresh water lake
Vana
It was challenging in a good way
Clair
I'll be taking home a new found family. It's like discovering your tribe. Members of your tribe coming together and thats important to me. The save relationships inventory has given me great insight into how I relate to others. It's gven me a whole new modality to work with when counselling couples.
Paul
This retreat has opened me up to another big chapter in my life
Carla
"I loved the people, the setting and the openness. I'll be telling my friends and colleagues about this"
Anthony
"Others can see I've transformed. it was a great opportunity to leave Australia and my comfort zone"
Meryl
"I had a gorgeous time with all these wonderful people and I have to come back again...so get here...be here...and don't miss out"
Sally-ann
"I loved being taken out of my comfort zone, and the content and the context and how the retreat has opened all my chakras"
Meredith
"A great opportunity to learn with likeminded people in the beautiful environment which was open, sharing, relaxing and energizing all at the same time"
Margaret
"It's been wonderful, oh the dancing, every day has been extroadinary. What a great amount of energy put into this retreat. I'm looking forward to getting into the tree of life work and receive the facilitators passions. WOW are we lucky"
Jo
"It's been a wonderful experience to join likeminded professionals in amazing ways doing body work, intellectual work and emotional work"
Carol
"I loved the mix of people from the more spiritual approach in combination with the psychological approach and I loved the great discussions we had. The setting and the relaxed environment was really condusive to learning. I mostly enjoyed the mask workshop and visiting Anom the mask maker and the 5Rhythms"
Lisa
"I just loved meeting likeminded people and putting myself in a group dynamic and observing myself in other people who mirror me".
Sakajawea
"A really transformational journey and I was able to connect back to myself and journey with other people who are in the same vibration as myself who are able to mirror me and it was empowering. I found a lot of strength and really looked at parts of myself I would like to work with and enhance and harness these qualities. I got a good look at an aspect of myself that maybe I wouldn't have seen before. I'm fully empowered"
James
"I really enjoyed the openness, the beautiful people, the sharing, the safety provided for us to go out of our comfort zones which has really developed trust"
Pippa
"Wow the people in this retreat have been great. What a beautiful place to hold a retreat. So much creative energy. "
Tanya
"The retreat has broadened my horizons and given me a whole lot of of ideas to implement back in my work setting, and beautiful surroundings in which to emerse myself in different ways of thinking and to work with really intelligent capable people"
Leanne
"I'm discovering things I wouldn't have expected"
Tania