Basic Training
The basic training takes 2 years with 8 modules each. Some modules have a specific topic. Names of the teachers and dates are published under “dates of the year groups”. In accordance with the teachers’ estimations the content of the workshops can, within the curriculum, be adjusted to the needs of the participants.
The basic training includes theory, personal work within the plenum and training groups and supervised training.
It aims at teaching practical ant theoretical knowledge of basic aspects in family-therapeutic and psychotherapeutic work. This includes above all applying the new knowledge and practice to ones personal development.
- personal language
- insight into individual patterns of behaviour
- contact
- a personal style of management
- responsibility for ones actions
- conflict and solving conflicts
- reacting to others
- analysing and managing processes
Topics and Tasks
Accessing the therapeutic work with clients, couples and families covers the following topics and tasks:
A Family Perspective
- Which influence has the personal family system on the development of ones personality?
- How does it effect – openly or latently – ones partnership, family, or step family and their family system?
Personal Life Crises
- How do they affect life?
- How do we cope with them?
- How can we master them?
The Persons themselves in Psychotherapeutic Work
- How do we behave ourselves in close relationships?
- How do we develop our ability for empathic understanding?
- How do we use our own intuition?
Self-Awareness in Therapeutic Communication
- working with transference and counter-transference
General Communication Theories
- analysing communication
- practical application
Body and Voice
The teachers work on further topics with the whole year group according to their experiences and self-perceptions and use these for developing theoretical knowledge.
- early feelings of emotional loneliness
- grief, loss and trauma
- addictive behaviour and family
Theoretical Lectures
The basic training includes two theoretical lectures. The first and second year group attend these lectures together.
The four topics are:
- psychopathology
- history of psychotherapy
- scientific theory
Constituents and Aims
Emphasis lies on the personal work of the participants concerning the following areas:
- discussing the terms of developmental and personality psychology
- communication theories
- experiential theory as connected to and in distinction to other psychotherapeutic theories
- introduction to theory and practical work of the family perspective
- introduction to psychiatry (diagnostics and methods of treatment)
Additional focus is on
- the course of personal development as a process
- ability to reflect
- knowledge of oneself in interpersonal contexts
- personal qualification for professional relationships in working with clients
