This intensive professional training represents a profound journey of personal and professional metamorphosis. Through both in-person and virtual sessions, participants will engage in a deeply integrative learning experience that honors both intellectual understanding and soul-level transformation.
As a participant in the Grounding Basics course, you become part of a co-created ecosystem dedicated to inner healing, holistic growth, and professional excellence. Your Grounding Basics cohort becomes a living laboratory of transformation, where each participant’s journey contributes to collective wisdom.
Course Duration: Four two-day, in-person sessions at Bon Secours Retreat Center
Target Audience: This program is designed to create well-formed, self-aware helping professionals who integrate Gestalt principles in a way that fosters deeper presence, transformation, and holistic accompaniment.
Pre-requisites:
- Completion of the Introductory Course to Gestalt Soul Care, or demonstrated proficiency.
- Cultivate presence and active listening through awareness-based practices.
- Current certification or training in helping professions.
- Personal interview to assess readiness and alignment.
Learning Objectives/Outcomes:
- Understand and integrate Gestalt Soul Care fundamentals.
- Cultivate presence and active listening through awareness-based practices.
- Apply Gestalt principles to spiritual accompaniment and discernment.
- Use metaphor, imagery, and resistance as tools for spiritual insight.
- Practice ethical, trauma-informed spiritual direction with clear boundaries.
- Incorporate body-based and Gestalt techniques in spiritual direction.
- Demonstrate competency through supervised direction sessions.
- Develop a personal and integrated framework for Gestalt-informed direction.
Modules/Topics Covered:
Session 1: Opening Retreat
- Day 1: Spiritually Integrated Gestalt Approaches/Aesthetic Elements
- Day 2: Presence/Contemplative Grounding/Intro to 12 Steps/Coaching Basics
- Day 1: Resistance/Phenomena/Gestalt Experiments
- Day 2: Neuroscience corroboration with Gestalt modalities
Session 3:
- Day 1: Generational Healing/Role of GSC Practitioner
- Day 2: Spiritual Companioning/Discernment/4th step of 12 Step Paradigm
- Day 1: Bodywork/Energy/Awareness/Dreamwork
- Day 2: Trauma/Prayer/Laying on of Hands/Healing Touch
Wrap-up Evaluations and Presentation of Certificates
Program Schedule:
- Dates: April 9 & 10; May 22 & 23; October 2 & 3; November 6 & 7
- Duration: Four two-day, in-person sessions at Bon Secours Retreat Center
- Delivery Mode: In person retreats and additional Summer zoom sessions TBD.
- Time Commitment: 4 two-day retreats, plus 2 or 3 Two Hour Zoom Sessions
Cost & Registration:
- Tuition: $3,000 - includes food/lodging. (Limited financial aid available)
- Click here to pre-register.
Certification: Participants who complete all sessions will receive Certificate of Completion.
Community Commitment:
As a participant in the Grounding Basics course, you become part of a co-created ecosystem dedicated to inner healing, holistic growth, and professional excellence. Your Grounding Basics cohort becomes a living laboratory of transformation, where each participant’s journey contributes to collective wisdom.
Testimonials/Past Participant Quotes:
“A profound and transformative catalyst for empowering those who uplift others.” – S. M.