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The Inner Journey Centre

Personal Counselling and Counsellor Training

Training Programs Steve & Patricia How to get there? ATERC PACFA

 Steve & Patricia Nolan 

Directed by Patricia and Steve Nolan

Members of the Association of Transpersonal and Emotional Release Counsellors Inc. (ATERC)

(a constituent member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia. PACFA)

Members of the National Body of Trainers in ATERC


INNER JOURNEY CENTRE

86 Toms Creek Rd, Ellenborough, NSW Australia 2446
Phone & Fax: 02 6587 4356 Email: ijc@ceinternet.com.au


The Inner Journey

Many people are sensing and joining in a ground swell of energetic Ellenborough Sunsetmovement - toward more conscious, wholistic living.

This way of being in the world requires that an inner journey be made –back to our beginnings, into our depths of being and potential, into the more-than-personal of ourselves and then back into daily life.

It is a journey that develops its own rhythms of inner exploring and outer living, relating to self, to others, to the whole of creation.

It is a journey, a quest that includes many journeys, many questings.
This journey is to one’s unique being, to holding one’s life in one’s own hands, to making adult ethical choices, to standing in one’s own ground of being in the society, history and planetary moment we are in.

The journey moves beyond self-realisation to experiencing the connectedness of all life:
- inner connectedness of mind and heart, soul and body,
- outer connectedness with others, all–creatures and creative spirit,
- connectedness where ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ fall away in the oneness of the web of life.

Steve and Patricia support this invitation towards full conscious living.

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The Programs

Individual Sessions
At times it is most appropriate for persons to work on a one-to-one basis. These ‘sessions’ involve sharing with the facilitator one’s presenting life issue, deciding with the facilitator how best to be present to this issue, being present, and then afterwards taking time to integrate new states of consciousness or learning.

Group Work
When a person is able to work in a group, there are many advantages. Group energy can be very supportive, eg. a person who is reticent may feel the group energy gives them permission to be expressive,
There are important times of group sharing. As each person shares their experience and is responded to by the facilitator, each one can see from a wider perspective.

Specific Group Work
Groups can be age or gender specific, eg Men’s Group, Children’s Group.
Groups can be theme or method specific, eg loss & grief or sandplay.

TERC for Children

Patricia and Steve work with children, in individual facilitation or group work.
This includes acknowledgment and understanding of stages of growth plus an adaptation of the methodologies used in general TERC practice.

Parent/carer consent, understanding and support is integral to this unfolding life journey of the child.

Patricia co-authored with Mark Pearson two books, Emotional First-Aid for Children and Emotional Release for Children which are now being widely used by counsellors, teachers and parents.
(Patricia’s book Emotional Release for Children is available from Patricia or from the
Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd. (ACER) 19 Prospect Hill Rd, Camberwell Vic 3124)

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Training Courses
Patricia and Steve offer several training programs for counsellors.

• Practitioner Training in Transpersonal & Emotional Release Counselling.
This is a 1200 hour training spread over three years.
Successful completion of this training fulfills the training requirement for full membership in the Association of Transpersonal and Emotional Release Counsellors Inc.(a constituent member of PACFA)

• Certificate Courses.
Portions of the Practitioner Training course are offered as certificate courses for enrichment, refreshment, expansion of counsellors, parents, carers, therapists, and/or for incorporation into other counselling models.
Transpeersonal and Emotional Release Counselling for Children and Sandplay Certificate Course are among these.


Retreats

Individual and group retreats are offered, usually of six or eight days.
These are special times of focusing on one’s inner experiences, opening to the mystery of one’s life . receiving inner guidance and energetic resources
for one’s life in the world is equally relevant to retreat times.
The retreat can be a time of deep, silent contemplation OR a mix of contemplation plus breath and energy process work. Both forms incorporate an individual companioning time each day with Patricia or Steve.


Principles.
Principles incorporated in all Transpersonal and Emotional Release Counselling include:
- Each person has an inner guidance mechanism that supports healing and growth towards wholeness
- Each person has developed blocks to full health, wholeness, flow of energy.
- The exploration of blocks and the opening to inner guidance is helped especially by the four supports of:
- Breath. A generous flow of breath supports a build up and flow of energy at all levels of body, mind, heart and soul.
- Movement. Physical movement and expression support an embodiment of experiences, emotions and insights.
- Sounding. Sounding supports energetic connection with experiences and the release of held trauma, belief patterns and emotions.
- Witnessing. This function of the mind enables powerful identification with experiences and also to dis-identify from a particular experience.

Methodologies
Emotional Release Counselling uses several methods to support a client to be present to their experiences as fully as possible.
This variety of methods enables clients to work from their strengths, develop new ways of being present to their experiences and integrate.
Some methods have a strong focus on the physical body (eg bioenergetics), some a strong focus on symbol and image (eg sandplay), some a strong focus on accessing deep levels of consciousness (eg Transpersonal Breathwork)
The main methods used are:
Transpersonal Breathwork, Meditations, Sandplay, Dreamwork
Bioenergetics, dance movement, massage,
Voice Dialogue, Reaction and Projection Processing
Hurt Child / adult energy separation, Journalling and Mandala Drawing

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Facilitators
Patricia & StevePatricia and Steve offer a personal presence that includes:
- many years experience in personal companioning and group facilitation
- professional training in Transpersonal and Emotional Release Counselling
- the fruits of their own inner journeying that support them in being in the world and journeying with others.
- Other facilitators, trained in TERC join the Ellenborough team as appropriate.
                                                               
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