Intermediate Course in Contemporary Psychotherapy incorporating NLP Master Practitioner

Course Structure

This is a full 20 day, training. That means you get 20 days to learn, 20 days of support, 20 days to ask your questions, 20 days to practise and 20 days of feedback...and we are here in between training days too!
The training is spread over one year so that you have the chance to explore new concepts and skills in the real and important context of your life in between modules. And because we know that people have other weekday and holiday commitments, our course takes place on Saturdays.
The Intermediate Contemporary Psychotherapy training is a module of 20 days of experiential training and consolidating home study, arranged over 10 months, from September to June. It is the next stage in training for those with our Foundation Certificate or equivalent or for those who have been accepted onto the Foundation/ Intermediate Fast-Track.

We also have many participants on this training module who have trained to Master Practitioner level with other organisations and are converting to a Psychotherapy dedicated training track with UKCP Registration in mind.

What You Will Learn

While this training tracks the National Occupational Standards in Mental Health and the Skills for Health framework for Psychotherapy, it is also a unique and extraordinary adventure in personal growth, available only through BeeLeaf. As well as providing new skills it will help you consolidate what you already know, whilst opening untapped wells of creativity, energy, flexibility, confidence, learning ability and communication excellence.

At BeeLeaf we offer the environment, syllabus and individual attention that can best support this next stage in your personal learning path. With several
decades of combined experience in the creation and delivery of personal and professional development, our team of trainers and tutors offer a multi-level learning experience that truly integrates the student's cognitive
and somatic skills, discovery and understanding.
Whether you are a seasoned professional or relatively new to these fields, the uniquely designed learning strategies of the Intermediate training will open inspiring new doors for you, your clients and those important
others with whom you relate.

The BeeLeaf Intermediate Certificate in Contemporary Psychotherapy incorporating Master NLP Practitioner Certification, brings you the very best in challenging material and life-changing experience through inspiring
and supportive training.

People who value their own authenticity and ecology, find that greater experience, practice and exploration of variation and complexity are requisite for taking information and skills into their very neurology.

The Intermediate course may be the most important module of training that you attend and has been described by past participants as the deepest and
broadest life-changing learning experience they have ever had, at both personal and professional levels. This is your opportunity to integrate your past experience and study into an in-the-muscle, on-the-tongue,
state-of-the-heart comprehension and application in your work and in your life.

• Recognise and utilise the distinct cognitive and emotional processes that make up the structure of both your Client's problems and their problem solving abilities.
• Work with your Client to develop their relationship to their past, to transform pain and harvest wisdom.
• Engage your Client in learning the specific life-skills that empower them to strategically address thecurrent issues they face, whether these come from within or from environmental influences.
• Embrace the human self-balancing system of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual forces that combine towards recovery as a natural process.
• Facilitate organically - by responding to your Client's beliefs, values, resources and experiences that make their recovery path unique to them.
• Master dynamic linguistic skills that help to unlock the matrices of a problem and create new possibilities for change.
• Acknowledge and enhance the multi-level communication that occurs ‘consciously' and unconsciously', within an individual and within all relationships, including the sensitive rapport that is the therapeutic alliance.
• Enable your Client to make use of their natural and cyclical states of changing awareness that supports different kinds of thinking, understanding and healing.
• Apply these processes to your own life and development, in a warm, active and creative environment, supporting the unique facilitator and human being that you are.
• Gain a recognised qualification.

Intermediate Syllabus

Contemporary Psychotherapy offers the practitioner one of the best available bases in generic Psychotherapy, as its philosophy and practice is to embrace and utilise "what works" in all therapeutic models.
Ericksonian Hypno-Psychotherapy, a core element of Contemporary Psychotherapy, develops the most humanitarian and respectful relating skills that enable the practitioner to honour and stimulate the client's
own problem-solving resources and self-balancing system.
Our high challenge syllabus offers the absorption of knowledge within a framework of the key movements that have contributed to and informed the
development of NLP and psychotherapeutic methodology. In addition to the enriching practical work in hands-on intervention, BeeLeaf participants enjoy a multiple perspective appreciation of the origins and developments of Contemporary Psychotherapy in application, including reappraisals of the original inspirations for NLP - Milton Erickson, Gregory Bateson, Virginia
Satir and Fritz Perls.

Paradigms from Cognitive Psychology, Neuro-Science, Cultural Studies, Psycho-Linguistics, Brief Strategic Intervention and Arts Therapies, that have all contributed to the basic and advanced NLP patterns, are introduced
alongside cutting edge developments and models.
Central to this training is the methodology, impact and presuppositions of modelling the Client’s self-balancing system. A powerful Learning-to-Model project overarches the journey to certification and will take you to a deeper understanding of the complex, yet natural, system of facilitation and, through your own boundaries, into new rewarding territory on your individual life
path.

All this and what many of our participants have described as the most influential journey in personal and spiritual development that they have yet encountered.

Intermediate Syllabus
Methods of Mastery

The components and qualities of learning that distinguish mastery in any field, such as wisdom, passion, values, balance between conscious and
unconscious knowledge and - exploration at the edge of knowledge. We believe that to work with others we must first work with ourselves and acquire the informed humility that comes from being at peace with ourselves and the position of "not knowing". Involved in this goal
are personally acquired abilities in centering, somatic/ cognitive communication and self/other criteria and assessment. The fruits of this exploration include further confidence in meeting external standards, such as academic study or professional requirements while retaining greater knowledge and respect of one's own standards of personal excellence and integrity.

Beyond Procedure

Learn the traditional and cutting edge Advanced NLP models and interventions, and those from other cutting edge applications of psychotherapy, at a deep structure level so that you can differentiate between creative process and empty procedure, working in a
reflexive and spontaneous alliance with your client.

Learning Levels

Gregory Bateson offered the world new ways to understand the dynamics that make up a person’s unique inner world and the complex systems of communication. His “Logical Levels of Learning” release the practitioner
and client to co-create processes of maximum change by stimulating the individual’s or culture’s natural ecology and expand their possibilities for
growth. Find out what this “meta” thing is really about, from metaprogrammes to metalinguistics.

Systemic Change

Understand and embrace a different kind of thinking about the nature of communication, facilitation and change. Drawing on the work of Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir and Paul Watzlawick, learn creative and flexible interventions that empower the client to re-think and generate new insights, possibilities and choices.

Hypno-Psychotherapy

Learn the main developments within the Ericksonian Hypno Psychotherapeutic field, to utilise naturally occurring altered states to stimulate strategic changes and development. Experience the sensation of “doing nothing” while your client is held and released into the most extraordinary changes. As well as presenting Milton Erickson’s work from a position of deep study, long practice and wide experience (rare qualities in
many “Ericksonian” trainings) we will share and explore developments in the field from such diverse practitioners as Michael Yapko and Ernie Rossi. Be prepared to let go of some assumptions that you may have made
about “Ericksonian Language Patterns” and the intention of the therapist in relation to the client’s process of change.

Self Relations

The work of Stephen Gilligan, one of the most respected students of Milton Erickson, offering a highly accessible method to heal the rapport between the cognitive and somatic selves. This relationship was at the heart of Milton's work and the principles and practices of Self-Relations offers the environment for therapeutic change that was the basis of his psychotherapy.

This work is particularly helpful in transforming uncomfortable emotions and healing the past. Self-Relations is taught at BeeLeaf through hugely
enjoyable exercises and explorations distilled from fields as diverse as martial arts, sports and the performing arts, making accessible and fun these previously mysterious wisdoms and skills.

Language and Reality Construction

Grasp language at its most powerful and magical level and go beyond the forms contained by words. Experience how therapeutic conversation can enable lasting change in apparently irreconcilable situations. Learn to
touch another deeply with your voice and language and discover how to speak less and communicate more.

Metaphor, Story and Sacred Creation
Learn from the therapeutic patterns offered by our own spiritual traditions and of non-Western epistemologies, such as Celtic, Native American and Buddhist. Engage with the inner symbolic landscape of individuals and
communities to impact generational healing, a shamanic process that is echoed in many modern, systemic and family therapies.

Wider Mind

Experience from the originators BeeLeaf's unifying model of Contemporary Psychotherapy that is gaining more and more recognition and respect in the worlds of psychotherapy, positive psychology, sport psychology,
art and creativity, leadership and business. This new model of conscious/unconscious integration and individual/social interface will offer you an opportunity for "all the pieces to come together, all the past training
to fall into place" as our graduates have put it.

Travel through the different orientations of time and context of other Psychotherapeutic Models. Become fascinated with Psychopathology and Psychobiology maps in a way that explains the effectiveness of
Psychotherapy and offers new directions for exploration.
Find the unifying core principles of other psychotherapeutic models, such as Freudian, Kleinian and Jungian Psychoanalysis, Family Therapy, Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy, Gestalt and Systemic Therapy. Be proud to be part of an inclusive discipline of contemporary (literally ‘with the times') psychotherapy that has within its structure the capacity to grow into new
knowledge, for new generations and cultures.

Models of Modelling

The skills and concepts that are vital to the effectiveness of all therapy. "Modelling" is the term for gathering information and discovering with your client their helpful and less helpful patterns at levels of behaviour,
beliefs, values, inner processing, identity and narrative.
These are respected and utilised to facilitate organic change and stimulate the ecological rebalancing of the client's unique life system. Learn to model family and organisation cultures as well as individuals and conduct a Modelling Project that will carry you further along your own life path.

National Standards

As with all BeeLeaf training in Contemporary Psychotherapy, we endeavour to stay true to our own philosophy by interfacing deeply personal exploration
with practical consideration of your wider professional context. The Intermediate Contemporary Psychotherapy Training will take you through required skills and knowledge mapped to National Occupational
Standards in Mental Health and the government sponsored Skills for Health framework for Psychotherapy.
For maximum realisation of your professional integration of your learning, and practical progression of your career, the Intermediate training is best
combined with other BeeLeaf Diploma modules in Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Please note that there may be slight adjustments to the syllabus to accommodate changes in Accreditation requirements, Contemporary contexts for the practices of mental health and for specific Trainee needs.

Assessment on the Intermediate Course

The assessment procedures are designed to provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge, understanding and skills, recognise areas of strength and achievement and receive feedback in
areas where you can achieve improvement. The assessment is ongoing and includes the presentation of a ‘Learning to Model' project on the final Module, a practical assessment and submission of a book report
(2-3000 words) and a written piece of critical analysis.

Your Trainer may also suggest helpful tasks for you individually, to support you in fully capitalising on your talents and goals.

To be eligible for Assessment and Certification attendance is essential for a minimum of 18 of the 20 days and attendance of the final weekend is compulsory. If you miss more than 2 days due to ill health or unforeseen
circumstances arrangements can be made for you to attend the following year.

What’s Included on the Intermediate Course

• Regular personal written feedback
• Student Membership of Community for Contemporary Psychotherapy.
• Members only Website
• Online & face-to-face Networking