ABOUT LOTUS TRAINING
At lotus training, we emphasise the development of mindfulness and open-hearted-ness. We regard these as an essential starting point for the processes of healing and growth.
We understand well-being to be a truly expansive state of presence, compassion, joy and peace which can manifest in any aspect of our human condition, including suffering.
Mindfulness practice is a regular feature of all our counselling courses. We use this as a resource to help support and nourish the helper, counsellor, and psychotherapeutic counsellor. It is an approach that you can apply in everyday life. We pay particular attention to aspects of mindfulness training such as awareness, equanimity, compassion and loving kindness. Developing these skills can help us to appreciate and access our ever-present inner awareness. Mindfulness is taught through meditation practice, which includes bringing attention to the breath and body in relation to self and other.
Mindfulness is about paying attention, about simply being present with what is happening in an accepting and spacious way. The contemporary approach to mindfulness is based on Buddhist psychology and practice which is over 2,000 years old and yet integrates well within a human perspective on the value and potential of the self and a deep respect for the process of individuation.
After running successful counselling courses since 2012 we have made the decision to only run the L5 and L6 courses. This is partly ensuring existing counsellors qualified at L4 are ready for SCoPEd (The practice and education or the counselling and psychotherapy professions. SCoPEd is a partnership which has developed a competence framework that maps the core competencies and practice standards for counsellors and psychotherapists working with adults.
We will also be running more bespoke course including working with couples, managing conflict in the room, understanding and working with spiritual emergence, death and dying and embodied psychotherapy.
Our courses lead to nationally regulated qualifications awarded by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB) – the only Ofqual-approved awarding body to specialise in the field of counsellling and supervision.
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Our courses are accredited by CPCAB. The only awarding body run by counsellors for counsellors.