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Holistic
Education for Professionals |
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Increasing
numbers of those in the helping professions are learning to enhance their
self care as they develop their helping skills. This holistic approach to their profession is evidenced in both
what they choose to study and how they elect to engage in the study. It is less acceptable just to sign up for
a course of limited interest, take time off from work and incur the expenses
involved just to fulfill continuing education requirements. |
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Transformations
Holistic Education for professionals provides refreshing approaches to human
dynamics and the process of change that are personally and professionally
rewarding. By addressing body, mind,
emotions and spirit in the healing and growth process, caregivers increase
their avenues of intervention and engage more of their client’s healing
resources. As understanding of the
synchronicity of the healing process is incorporated, the practitioners’
well-being becomes an integral factor in the health of their clients. The helper’s sense of purposefulness is
enriched as self-knowledge and effectiveness in touching the hearts of those
they serve grows. |
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Our on site courses connect
caregivers who share a common interest in experiential education and whole
person learning. This enriching
environment enhances the quality of personal and professional growth.
Like spirited colleagues can become an ongoing resource for
transformation. |
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Home education increases the opportunity for deep
reflection and application of principles that the time and space limits of on
site workshops often do not. Professionals can set their own pace for
each segment of the course materials. Audiotapes or CDs and videotapes
or DVDs allow
unlimited review of the materials and refresher sessions as one begins to
apply techniques clinically. Many professionals
report this form of study as superior to what they learn and retain from the
traditional seminar or classroom setting. |
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Course
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Our
courses are designed to improve the personal self care of caregivers and to
teach techniques that can be adapted to therapeutic skills already
acquired. This has resulted in
therapists, counselors and other caregivers engaging more wholeheartedly in
treating, teaching and inspiring others rather than taking on their issues,
absorbing pain or mirroring struggle. |
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The
course materials are clear, integrated, in-depth and presented in a manner
that is experiential. The heart and
body are being engaged as well as the mind in this whole person approach. |
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The S.E.L.F.
Guided format allows professionals to progress at their own rate with all
the materials at their disposal. Recordings
of actual classes are listened to so that each student gets a feel of being
in a collaborative learning atmosphere.
The spontaneous reactions and questions of other students help spark
creativity. Videotapes or DVDs are
used when the physical demonstration of exercises is necessary to model their
usage. |
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Learners participate in class exercises much the same as students in the seminar room. They receive not only the benefit of the instructor’s knowledge, but also the means to tap into their own cellular wisdom. This is the basis of true education, reaffirming our connection to the wisdom of the source of universal knowledge within us.
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Our Educational Philosophy |
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Transformations Incorporated has pioneered in holistic education. Founded by Jim Morningstar, Ph.D. in 1980, TI and its professional staff have offered courses designed to balance body, mind, emotions and spirit. Caregivers have found this approach to revitalize their sense of purpose and teach experiential techniques that increase self care responsibility and vitality of themselves and those they serve. |
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A
major tenant of holistic education and treatment is experiencing and
practicing ourselves what we wish to impart to our clients/patients. The Transformations courses will put you
in a class (either on site, or audiotapes
or CDs and video tapes or DVDs) and invite you to respond as a
participant. The more you engage and
involve yourself, the more you will experience deeper levels of yourself and the
more you will have to share with others.
Thus personal and professional benefits are not mutually
exclusive. |
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Not
getting fixed on symptoms and missing the person is our challenge. Helping others find and live their sense
of purpose beyond their own fixations is an art form. These courses are designed to help us
develop our therapeutic science and our healing art skills. |
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Transformations
has been directing a State licensed psychotherapy clinic since 1983. A major conclusion from our work is: Therapists
need to be on purpose and nurtured as well as those they treat. We must continue to learn and grow and
have meaning in our lives in order to convey this to those we serve. |
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An
essential factor in this is a sense of purpose. This is not any particular dogma or formula from outside of
ourselves. Purpose is rather a
by-product of harmonizing the body, intellect, emotions and spirit (that
which animates or gives life to form).
Denial of any one of these leads to symptoms of dysfunction, anxiety,
depression, addictions and physical maladies. |
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Holistic
education is our entree into helping others re-establish balance. We cannot give this to others, but we can
help direct and inspire their healing and growth. To do this we need tools we ourselves use with facility and are
able to teach. These are tools of
self-regulation that impact a greater level of responsibility to one’s
life. We as care givers can no longer
use only one technique or even one philosophy. We must find and practice our own self-regulatory techniques
and foster our own sense of purpose that grows from a well tended
spirit. This is the goal of
Transformations Incorporated Continuing Education courses. |
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We invite you to engage wholeheartedly in the coursework and in turn pass on to your colleagues and us the creative applications that result in your practice as a health care professional. |
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