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Facilitating Spiritual Growth

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Topic Facilitating Spiritual Growth
Date 18th and 19th October 2025
Time Saturday and Sunday 10am - 5pm
Cost £250 (Partial bursaries available upon written request in advance).
Lecturer Dr. Nigel Hamilton, Ph.D., B.Sc., M.A. (Couns. Psych.)
Who can attend Therapists, educators and lay-people alike.
How to book Please book in advance by sending us a £100
non-refundable deposit and emailing a completed or 2025 booking form

Helping people to change and grow is the greatest art and science there is. In principle it is similar to sowing the seed, nurturing it, and, as it awakens, guiding it to grow into a beautiful plant or tree.
However, with human beings it is more challenging and in some ways more difficult, but infinitely more rewarding.
In psychotherapy we start by facing the inner challenges that life is presenting to us.

Within each challenge we begin to discover our ideals, talents, purpose and ultimately our spiritual birthright. Achieving our ideals, however, is another matter. Careful guidance and support as well as patience, perseverance and initiative are needed as we proceed.

This seminar will focus on the most important factors and attitudes involved, and on practising simple techniques used in this process of spiritual unfoldment. These will be:Facilitating Spiritual Growth

  • Reviewing our life outlook and the problems it leads to
  • Working with impulse, desire and inspiration
  • Discovering purpose: Ideals, interests, talents and qualities
  • Working through blocks to unfoldment.

You will begin each day with a lecture of 1.5 hours duration introducing the themes of the weekend.  For this you will join the main body of students training with CCPE. After a break you will join a small group for the rest of the day.  This group will compose of others on the CPD programme and will be facilitated by a staff member of CCPE.

These groups will provide a mix of teaching, exploration and experiential work that are intended to provide a holistic experience of the subject.  All facilitators will be qualified psychotherapists and case material can also be brought and explored through the lens of the transpersonal.

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