Diploma in Energy Therapy
A one-year diploma of embodied exploration of subtle energies: how to perceive and activate energy for therapeutic use, and how to direct it for self-healing and for relational work with others in a talking-therapy setting. It ran in two cohorts.
- Dates
- September 2020 to June 2021 and March to December 2023
- Format
- Weekends in London and a three-day retreat in Kent
- Contact hours
- 150
Ways of Sensing Energy
- Sensing through touch, intuition, emotion, sight and hearing.
- Modes of using energy.
- Shu Ha Ri as the course’s way of learning.
Meeting the Inner Healer and the Other
- Blocks to the inner healer.
- Energy hygiene.
- The energy modes of pausing, pumping and pulling.
- Ethics.
Boundaries and Dynamic Responses
- The right use of touch.
- Personal tendencies to withdraw, to merge and to block.
Refining Pattern Recognition
- The neuroscience of interoception, embodied emotion and pattern recognition.
- A stand-alone weekend on neuroscience for energy therapists, recorded for the group.
Blending the Inner Healer into Professional Life
- Presentations by students on the healer archetype.
- An enlivened presence in talking therapy.
Practical Approaches
- Psychotherapy: anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, PTSD, borderline presentations and similar.
- Physical issues: auto-immune, endocrine, reproductive and sexual conditions.
Working with Allied Professions
- Hospitals, hospices and multidisciplinary teams.
- Holistic healers within health systems.
Creativity in Energy Therapy
- Student presentations on energy therapy systems.
The Retreat in Kent
- In the first cohort the retreat was called Inward and Outward: divination practices, a personal divination set, supervised healing exchanges and a graduation ceremony.
- In 2023 the retreat took creativity in energy therapy as its theme.
Cohorts That Ran
- 2020–21
- 2023