The Karuna Institute is pleased to announce that the MA in Core Process Psychotherapeutic Practice is now accredited by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP. Students on this course will now be able accredit with BACP at the point of Graduation, as well as being able to progress to accreditation with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy - UKCP.
This exciting new development offers our students on this course both outstanding opportunities for qualification as well as a faster route into accreditation.
Core Process Psychotherapy
Buddhist psychology and Mindfulness-based psychotherapy
Core Process Psychotherapy, having been established in 1982, is one of the original mindfulness-based psychotherapy training programs. Buddhist psychology and mindfulness practice underpin this work. Teachings are drawn from different Buddhist sources and lineages to create a broad vehicle for the training of psychotherapists, which is integrated with western personality theory, psychodynamics and psychotherapy skills.
This training programme draws on thirty years of experience in offering psychotherapy trainings based on mindfulness practice. Course participants develop the ability to deepen into a state of presence and learn to bring this state of awareness into relationship. Presence-in-relationship then becomes the ground of enquiry into the client’s arising process.
In Core Process work both therapist and client are engaged in a joint healing process where an awareness of the body, its feelings and feeling tones, and the content and states of mind that arise, are used to explore the nature of selfhood and suffering. The therapist's essential role is that of reflector and facilitator of awareness. The heart of Core Process work is oriented to the belief that true healing is only possible to the extent that we can be fully present to the immediacy of our inner and outer experience.
Although the principles and fundamental practices underpinning our Training come from Buddhism we are not training people to become Buddhists. We welcome people from all spiritual traditions or none. Our staff team represent a variety of worldviews. What we do seek to imbue through our trainings is a capacity for contemplative enquiry, offering trainees opportunities for the cultivation of embodied awareness and empathetic enquiry in relationship.
Maura Sills is the founder of Core Process Psychotherapy and together with Franklyn Sills she has developed the Core Process Psychotherapy approach for application in various clinical contexts.
upcoming events
TRAVEL TO AND FROM KARUNA:
For travel to and from the Institute, please check your travel plans before leaving and if necessary allow extra time. Please check the Environmental Agency website for further information for updates.
For train travel please check latest information here
Applications now being received for:
Core Process Psychotherapy Introductory Workshops
Mindfulness-in-Relationship Diploma Courses - in Devon, London, Scotland and Ireland
Devon Tutor: Maura Sills, Founder of Karuna Institute
MA in Core Process Psychotherapeutic Practice
Post-Qualification MA in Mindfulness Based Psychotherapeutic Practice Autumn 2013 Devon Tutor: Maura Sills, Founder of Karuna Institute also offered in Scotland, Tutor: John MacFadyen
Mindfulness based Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling - 2 year training in Plymouth
Please contact Julie Jeffs (01752) 560002 or Alyss Thomas (01752) 519692
Held at the Waterloo Wellbeing Centre, Plymouth
Professional Training in Craniosacral Biodynamics
CPD/CE courses in Craniosacral Biodynamics for craniosacral practitioners
William Emerson Workshop - June/July 2013
