Certificate in Spirituality 

Eligibility:
Qualification in Counselling, Psychotherapy or other helping professionals with therapeutic experience. . Students currently in training will be considered, on the understanding that the Certificate qualification cannot be used until they have qualified.Entry is by application form.

• Define pastoral counselling
• Critically outline models of pastoral counselling
• Critique the main ethical issues in pastoral counselling
• Develop a personal philosophy of pastoral work
• Analyse the limitations of this approach.
• Develop a critical understanding of self as a spiritual being

Skills

• Initiate a counselling service in a pastoral setting
• Create an integrative model of individual pastoral counselling
• Demonstrate the integration of spiritual and holistic work into their counselling practice
• Demonstrate a practical grasp of the right to
• self-determination while respecting alternative views in the focus of pastoral counselling

Assessment

Trainees are required to write an essay of 5,000 words appraising the practical application and usefulness of the pastoral counselling approach to the training and professional practice of the counsellor.

Trainees are required to participate as fully as possible in all sessions ; they are also required to reflect, through home study, other group-work sessions, and personal journal, the learning experience derived from this module, with a view to integrating this material into their ongoing personal and professional development. Learning from reflection and study should inform the essay.



 

Fees: €750 (€500 for PCI College Students and Graduates)

Fees are non-refundable in all personal circumstances. All courses run subject to demand and the formation of a viable class cohort. A full refund will be given to all applicants in the event that the class does not proceed.