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Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is a non-profit educational retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Founded in 1977 by Elizabeth Lesser and Stephan Rechtschaffen, inspired by Sufi mystic, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and his ecumenical spirituality, today it offers classes to over 25,000 people a year, at the 190-acre (0.77 km 2 ) campus.
NBCC's flagship certification is the National Certified Counselor (NCC). The NCC is a generic certification for professional counselors and does not designate a particular specialty area. Holding an NCC indicates that a counselor is nationally board certified. [7] There are currently over 63,000 NCCs in the U.S. and many other countries.
Holistic education is a movement in education that seeks to engage all aspects of the learner, including mind, body, and spirit. [1] Its philosophy, which is also identified as holistic learning theory, [2] is based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to their local community, to the natural world, and to humanitarian values such as ...
Teaching from the Thinking Heart: The Practice of Holistic Education (2014) ISBN 978-1623967239; Love and Compassion: Exploring Their Role in Education (2018) ISBN 978-1487503314; A Holistic Educator's Journey (2021) ISBN 978-1648026416; Taoism, Teaching, and Learning: A Nature-Based Approach to Education (2022) ISBN 978-1487540951
Pastoral counseling is a branch of counseling in which psychologically trained ministers, rabbis, priests, imams, and other persons provide therapy services.Pastoral counselors often integrate modern psychological thought and method with traditional religious training in an effort to address psychospiritual issues in addition to the traditional spectrum of counseling services.
Child psychotherapy training programs necessarily include courses in human development. Since children often do not have the ability to articulate thoughts and feelings, psychotherapists will use a variety of media such as musical instruments, sand and toys, crayons, paint, clay, puppets, bibliocounseling (books), or board games.
Transpersonal psychology focuses on exploring spiritual experiences, mystical states, self-transcendence, and the holistic development of human potential. An interest group was later re-formed as the Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group (TPIG), which continued to promote transpersonal issues in collaboration with Division 32. [6]
The White Eagle Lodge was founded in 1936 by the medium Grace Cooke (1892–1979) and her husband Ivan Cooke. [2] [3] [4] Grace had previously worked as a medium for the Spiritualist Church of England and allegedly received a message in 1930 to educate men and women about the coming of the golden age through the light of Christ.