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Core Process Oriented Skills 2: Working With Body Symptoms And Dreams
Unit Description
This unit introduces students to skills-based Process Oriented approaches for working with body symptoms and dreams.
This 3-credit point unit introduces students to skills-based Process Oriented approaches for working with body symptoms and dreams. Body symptoms and dreams are viewed as symbolic doors to uncover the secondary process in holistic counselling and psychotherapy.
Students will learn and practice skills for working safely with unfolding sensory grounded information present in body symptoms and dreams. These are essential skills for working with trauma and somatic presentations.
Students will learn about Arnold Mindell’s concept of the dreambody and its evolution in application to body symptom and dream work, and will develop skills to unfold signals in the channels of awareness within body symptoms and dreams with clients.
Students will learn to differentiate between primary and secondary information in body symptom work and dreams to enhance client awareness. This learning through experiential exercises is embedded in timetabled and untimetabled study.
UNIT CODE
105S
UNIT TYPE
Core Unit
STUDY PERIOD
Year 1, Semester 2
CREDIT POINTS
3.0
UNIT COORDINATOR
Martin Hemsley
CONSULTATION TIMES
30 minutes before and after workshop intensives and by appointment during semester
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit, students will be able to:
a) Competently apply body symptom work in holistic counselling practice and recognise contraindications for use.
b) Unpack information about clients’ body symptoms and identify polarities such as the symptom maker/symptom receiver and discover a symptom’s unique message.
c) Differentiate between primary and secondary processes and identify and work with edges in body symptom work and dreamwork.
d) Critically analyse the roots of dreamwork in Jungian theory and use symbolic thinking to unfold dreams.
e) Articulate and apply the concepts of consensus reality, dreamland, and essence in practice sessions.
f) Recognise and utilise appropriate dream doors to enter the dreaming process.
g) Assist clients to ground new information gained from body symptom work and dreamwork in their daily lives.
Student Workload
The total unit workload is equivalent to 7.34 hours per week over the semester, 117.5 hours in total.
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12 hours on-campus workshop intensive
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1.5 hour Zoom classes
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8 hours study buddy work
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96 personal study hours
Delivery Mode
On-campus teaching comprises 12 hours in total - 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Online delivery
1.5 hour Zoom discussion
Workshop intensive on-campus
Study Buddy activities
Eight hours over the semester
Graduate Attributes
Attributes | Statement |
|---|---|
Ethical practice and integrity | Our graduates will demonstrate high ethical standards in their work and follow professional Codes of Ethics to do good (beneficence) and avoid harm (maleficence) |
Professionalism | Our graduates will have a highly developed understanding of their work roles and responsibilities and uphold a high level of professional conduct in their work and manage conflict skilfully |
Holistic awareness | Our graduates will have an in-depth understanding of how the physical body, the psyche and mind/ spirit/self are in constant interaction and relationship with each other and with the environment |
Communication | Our graduates will have well-developed written and oral communication skills, including listening deeply and receiving, interpreting and transmitting complex information, on many levels of awareness with colleagues, clients and the community |
Lifelong learning | Our graduates will have the skills necessary to successfully manage their careers and continue their personal and professional development in rapidly changing environments across their career spans |
Critical thinking | Our graduates will have critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate and analyse information and make informed professional judgements |
