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.:. Statement of Purpose
The Victorian Association of Holistic and Transpersonal Counsellors
is established to provide a forum and ongoing professional
development for counsellors who work within an holistic framework.
The Association defines holistic counselling as a theory and method
of counselling which addresses the needs of the client as a
potentially integrated individual, taking regard to the physical,
imaginative, cognitive, emotional , interpersonal and spiritual
dimensions of experience. Transpersonal Counselling is defined as a
theory and method of counselling which takes full account of the
spiritual dimension of life through an exploration of a variety of
spiritual traditions of healing.
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Principles
The aim of this Association is to provide a forum for counselling
professionals who:
- have a commitment to the primary importance of the
relationship between client and therapist in psychotherapy and
counselling
- hold as central to the therapeutic endeavour the client's
actualizing process and experience.
- embody in their work an understanding that counselling
involves the physical, imaginative, cognitive, emotional,
interpersonal and spiritual dimensions of the client’s experience.
- have a commitment to an understanding of both clients and
therapists as persons, who are at the same time individuals and in
relationship with others and their diverse environments and
cultures
- have an openness to the development and elaboration of
holistic and transpersonal theory in the light of current and
future practice and research.
.:. Goals
The Association has the following goals:
- to further cooperation between Associations, organisations,
institutions and individuals in the field of holistic and
transpersonal counselling practice.
- to promote holistic and transpersonal perspectives and to support
and encourage the improvement of practice in holistic and
transpersonal counselling.
- to exchange ideas with other psychotherapeutic orientations and to
stimulate cooperation in the field of psychotherapy and counselling.
- to convene regular conferences and workshops in order to
facilitate ongoing professional development for counsellors working
within an holistic or transpersonal framework
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