The course can be attended on two different levels:

1. The Certificate qualification comprises of theory, experiential practice of energy modalities in pairs and trios, small and large group discussion and monthly supervision groups

1. • Two weekends of group learning (26 hours)
   • Eight Saturdays of group learning (52 hours)
   • Ten online supervision groups (15 hours)

1. The Diploma qualification will include the above as well as:

1. • Four one to one online tutorials
   • A dissertation of 5000 words (40 hours)

The origins of energy in healing – combining the old and the new

Central to the ethos of our approach is the convergence of many different streams of ideas and practical applications for working with energy. This course aims to present underlying principles creating a solid foundation for practising energy psychotherapy. The healing traditions of working with subtle energies – meridians and chakras (energy centres) – such as in China, India and other ancient cultures are at least 5000 years old. From these beginnings we see the flowering of numerous energy disciplines in our contemporary world, including Acupuncture, Qi-Gong, Reiki, Thought Field Therapy, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Tapas Acupressure Technique, Advanced Integrative Therapy, Ask and Receive, Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy, and many others.

Integrating the body and energy fields into psychotherapy

This course aims to teach clinicians to effectively and safely integrate energy psychology into their therapy practice. By including the body and energy field it is possible to work more easily with deep rooted issues, including developmental and preverbal trauma that “talking therapies” alone struggle to reach. These methods are applicable in most aspects of therapeutic work facilitating significant breakthroughs in therapeutic impasse and blocks to development. They also provide valuable self-help resources for clients, enabling them to stabilise and regulate affect. Working in this way can be gentle and transformative.

Growing evidence base

Over 200 review articles, research studies and meta-analyses have been published in professional, peer-reviewed journals. This includes: • 65 randomized controlled trials • 50 clinical outcome studies (All except one of the above 115 studies document EP effectiveness) • 5 meta-analyses • 4 systematic reviews of EP modalities • 9 comparative reviews (EP & other therapies). All reviews document EP effectiveness

Making Energy Psychotherapy methods more widely accessible

The designers and facilitators of this course share a desire to make energy psychotherapy more widely accessible by providing a solid generic overview and foundation in the essential theories, principles, and clinical skills. There is wide recognition of the need to include the body when working with trauma and energy psychology methods facilitate this, making the course highly relevant, bringing this work into the mainstream. This one-year taught course plus an additional 6 months for the Diploma, provides a supportive learning environment so practitioners can incrementally learn the tools of Energy Psychology and deepen their confidence in integrating these into their existing psychotherapeutic practice, assisted by clinical supervision in small groups throughout the course.

Energy psychotherapy – a depth approach

This course draws on the rich traditions of different psychotherapies including Jungian, Psychoanalytic, Attachment based, Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Person Centred, Gestalt, Transpersonal and other perspectives. In addition, energy psychotherapy works with people on many different levels including physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual, and with conscious and unconscious aspects following the ‘free association’ of the bodymind and clearing the deepest roots of trauma. It also engages different parts of the self, including the continuum of dissociative experiences, ‘parts’, ‘alters’ and ‘archetypes’ that are often associated with complex trauma, PTSD, and attachment trauma. The course combines an energy perspective with depth psychology to work with these complexities. It also brings the possibility of clearing all kinds of trauma – in-utero, birth, developmental and attachment trauma – as well as trans-generational, cultural and historical trauma and energies and blockages held in a person’s energy field from a variety of sources.

Course Values – heart-centred, combining open-mindedness, curiosity, and playfulness with sound assessment skills and solid grounding.

Central to the course is a heart-centred approach which values the qualities of openness, curiosity, and playfulness. Participants can experience the freedom, wonder and surprises which energy therapy can bring. The course combines this with a depth approach, where assessment of appropriate levels of therapeutic intervention and pacing of the work balances and provides solid grounding and safety.

Experiential skills-based learning

Practising Energy Psychotherapy is a skills-based training, where clinical discussion supervision, and self-directed study are all incorporated into the experiential learning. The series of one day training events cumulatively builds on and consolidates learning which facilitates a thorough grounding in energy psychotherapy. Participants will work with their own personal issues and triggers during training days in a confidential environment, so that the learning of clinical skills is fully embodied.

Respecting the uniqueness of each person’s own healing process and following the flow of energy

A characteristic aspect of working with energy is to “follow the flow” of each person’s unique healing process. Guided by free association of the mind and body and helped by “energy testing” (kinesiology), we respect that the client’s energy system knows best, both for what needs healing, and for the pacing of the work. The philosophy of the course includes being open to unknown or “higher” dimensions and sources of healing accessible in the energy realm beyond the conscious mind.

We intend that by the end of this year-long taught course, participants will have acquired competence in clinical work through:

• An understanding of the history, origins, and development of energy psychology techniques (including research) and their integration into psychotherapy.
• An understanding of and ability to integrate work with the subtle energy systems of meridians, chakras, and other components of the human energy system within the context of therapeutic relationship.
• Competence in carrying out energy psychotherapy sessions – using the skills of energy testing, correcting imbalances and energy blockages, and identifying the core issue for therapeutic work, and applying energy methods to that focus.
• Skills in working with the synergy of language, energy, and intention.
• The capacity to reflect on and integrate energy methods at deeper levels with an awareness of safety, ethics, formulations, understanding traumatic origins and planning the work. This will be illustrated by writing short clinical presentations of cases for discussion in supervision, and by writing dissertations for those at Diploma level.

The following modules will be covered over the course of the year in 12 training seminars. Each module incorporates both theory and experiential learning comprising a mixture of lectures, discussion groups, and experiential skills training in pairs and small groups. The teaching of course content will be adapted to suit the evolving learning needs of participants so modules may vary slightly. Revision, ‘trouble- shooting’, Q and A and case discussion will be integrated throughout the course.

NB It is recognised that some who undertake this course will already have some existing training in energy psychology methods whereas for others, this area will be completely new. The order of teaching the various components builds incrementally and experientially to provide everyone with a solid foundation. The learning deepens as the course goes along, and as the approach to working with trauma becomes more complex.

MODULE 1 – Online

Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 September 2023

An overview of ‘subtle energies’ including meridians and energy centres (chakras) learning basic acupoint tapping sequences.

The first weekend introduces the subtle energy systems. Practitioners will be taught how to balance the body’s energy system including correcting energetic disorganisation, which provide useful tools for emotional regulation. There will be an introduction to acupoint tapping and the meridian points as well as clearing energetic blockages (‘psycho-energetic reversals’). We will also explore establishing energetic boundaries, how to clear the energy field and working in a heart-centred state of ‘presence’ and intention. We also address self-care for practitioners.

MODULE 2 – In Person (London)

Saturday 14 October 2023

A comprehensive overview and history of energy psychotherapy.

The history includes a unique integration of Energy Psychology methods within psychotherapy, which is a feature specific to the development of this work in the UK. We will look at how we introduce and integrate energy work with clients, both online and in person. We will build on acupoint tapping teaching to include specific methods which help us address the roots and origins of trauma. We also teach a variety of methods of kinesiology/’energy testing’, which access the client’s unique energy system and helps guide the work safely.

MODULE 3 – Online

Saturday 25 November 2023

Bringing Mind and Body Together Part 1

Practising to integrate the methods we have learned so far, we further bring mind and body together by exploring the nature of Thoughtfields, PTSD, the nervous system and how to manage triggering using simple experiential methods. Clearing trauma helps to strengthen ego beneficially and create a healthy sense of self and stronger boundaries. We teach more on energy testing and entrainment, including learning how to check that someone’s energy system is correctly balanced. There is an introduction to the Chakras /Energy Centres and their synthesis with neurobiology and a focus on understanding psychological dysfunction through the lens of trauma.

MODULE 4 – Online

Saturday 13 January 2024

Research, History, Assessment, Phrase writing and exploring Deeper Traumatic Roots

Students will be introduced to the research of energy psychology, which shows a highly effective evidence base. We will unpack trauma, its layers and deepest roots, including transgenerational and transpersonal patterns, linking patterns between past and present. The importance of thorough assessment is explored, and the co-creation of phrase writing with the client for formulating clinical issues, using the Thought field. We also offer an introduction to Phil Mollon’s Blue Diamond Chakra clearing. We emphasise at all points, the client’s natural healing process following their own free association and ‘energetic charge’ as it arises.

MODULE 5 – Online

Saturday 10 February 2024

Ethics – the heart and shadow of energy psychotherapy; and Core Beliefs and Intention

After an exploration of ethics, we focus on working with vibration, resonance, and the creative power of the mind. Mindfulness facilitates the power of conscious choice and how we choose to perceive our reality. Emotion is ‘energy in motion’ – a body- to -mind link – as is the use of language and the power of the word. The role of thought processes, schemas and transforming neural pathways through clearing conscious and unconscious limiting core beliefs will be explored as a vehicle for working with energy. By connecting to the heart and soul through the power of Intention we facilitate the deepest healing.

MODULE 6 – Online

Saturday 23 March 2024

Bringing Body and Mind Together Part 2 – Sympathetic, Parasympathetic and Polyvagal Theory, and various aspects of P.T.S.D and the nervous system

This module explores working with psyche and soma to integrate and work towards wholeness. The course explores the conceptualisation and treatment of somatisation and psycho-somatic conditions. We can work safely with fragmented states, parts and archetypal energies by co-creating Healing Circles as a means of integration, resourcing, grounding, and ego strengthening. We continue to work with gentle ways to help with triggering and deeper experiential work continues to explore the Blue Diamond chakra clearing.

MODULE 7 – Online

Saturday 20 April 2022

Working with early attachment and pre-verbal trauma

This module focuses on attachment theory and its usefulness in treating relational trauma, including very early pre-verbal and in utero trauma. The importance of this early developmental work is emphasised and the interpersonal therapeutic relationship with its capacity to regulate mood and affect. In addition, we identify how pre-verbal trauma and its related unconscious core beliefs creates life-defining ‘blueprints’ for life, and ways that we can clear such deep neural pathways to creative positive outcomes. Working with deeper roots enables us to clear layers of transgenerational and transpersonal patterns using a range of energy therapy methods.

MODULE 8 – Online

Saturday 18 May 2024

Complex trauma, PTSD, dissociation, and “deeper reversals” 

This day prioritises how to work safely with complex trauma and PTSD, using energy psychotherapy methods. There is an emphasis on stabilisation, grounding and embodiment, and work with ‘parts’ and ‘fragments’ to facilitate ego strengthening and integration. This module explores aspects of disconnection, dissociation, ‘alters’ and working with frozen states. We look more deeply at reversals, ‘massive reversals’ and how to work non- judgmentally with ‘shadow’ energies using Healing Circles to facilitate integration of the psyche and its contents and working with imagery when there are no words.

MODULE 9 – Online

Saturday 15 June 2024

Review and Consolidation

This day provides an opportunity to consolidate your learning to integrate what has been learned so far and deepen the experiential practice and learning. We will go through an overview of the course methods and highlight common dilemmas and ‘trouble shooting’, using case illustrations. There will be space to revise and ask questions, and plenty of time to spend practising energy psychotherapy in pairs and trios.

MODULE 10 – In Person (London)

Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 July 2024

An Introduction to Phil Mollon’s Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy (PEP) 

On the final weekend we explore Phil Mollon’s depth approach for identifying optimum sequences for finding the energetic encoding for states of distress using acupoint tapping. We will also deepen our understanding about the roots and origins of ‘Reversals’ and how we can use this as a central focus in the work. There will be discussions about next steps and how people wish to take the work forward.

Participants will have access to 10 hours of on-line video talks and demonstrations which will include content from international presenters in the field of energy psychotherapy

COURSE ATTENDANCE:
NB:  Attendance of complete days – morning and afternoon – is an essential requirement of this course

At Certificate Level

Minimum of 80 per cent attendance of twelve one-day seminars.
Minimum of 80 per cent attendance of ten 1.5-hour online group supervisions via Zoom.
Ten hours of online home-study via our pre-recorded talks and completion of an online test.
Award: A Certificate in Practising Energy Psychotherapy

At Diploma Level

Minimum of 80 per cent attendance of twelve one-day seminars.
Minimum of 80 per cent attendance of ten 1.5-hour online group supervisions via Zoom.
Ten hours of online home-study via our pre-recorded talks and completion of an online test.
Completion of a 5000-word dissertation to comprise:
Two case studies with reflections on your learning process to demonstrate knowledge of energy psychology methods and integration of them into your therapeutic practice

DISSERTATION 
Submission of 5000-word dissertation to comprise two case studies with reflections on the learning process. This is to demonstrate knowledge of energy psychology methods and how they have integrated them into therapeutic practice with clients (to be submitted no later than six months after the end of the course).

Submission deadline: December 2024
Award: A Diploma in Practising Energy Psychotherapy

The starting point of the course requires that clinicians have competence in core therapeutic and relational skills. All participants must be fully qualified and professionally accredited as a counsellor, psychotherapist, clinical psychologist or psychiatrist. Having this pre-requisite level of training assumes that course participants have an understanding of the basic tenets of establishing safety and containment in therapy in order to provide a secure base for working with energy.

Participants must:

• Have undertaken a substantial period of personal therapy.
• Be qualified and registered /accredited by and practising according to the professional requirements and code of conduct of their regulatory body. This means:
  • a qualified accredited psychotherapist who is REGISTERED with the UKCP.
  • a qualified ACCREDITED BACP member (being registered with the BACP is not sufficient).
  • a qualified psychotherapist with current accreditation by BCP (British Psychoanalytic Council).
  • a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist registered with HCPC.
  • a qualified psychiatrist.
• Have professional indemnity insurance that would cover working with energy therapy methods.
• Sign and return the personal clinical contract for Confer’s Practising Energy Psychotherapy Diploma Course to ensure you are fully aware of the nature of the course and agree to abide by its guidelines.
• Having a personal experience of energy psychotherapy for a period of time before or during the course provides an invaluable enhancement to learning and is very strongly encouraged. (A list of energy psychotherapists is available on request when you sign up for the course).

ADDITIONAL POINTS

• This training is for therapeutic work with adults, and we do not provide specific training for working with children. However, it is possible for child therapists to undertake the course as long as they have adult clients to work in order to learn the skills and write their dissertation. This course does not offer supervision for work with children.
• People with other energy trainings who do not have a clinical therapy qualification recognised by one of these regulatory bodies – BACP, HCPC, UKCP, BCP or equivalent – do not meet the criteria for this course.

Staying in touch with you

You will be contacted by Confer:

• On receipt of your booking and deposit verification of your details and confirmation of your place you will be sent:
• In July 2023 with pre-course reading.
• In September 2023 with all relevant materials for the first weekend.

“I have just completed this course (Energy Psychotherapy Diploma, 2021/22) run by Confer. It is a pleasure to be able to share how valuable this learning has been both personally and professionally. Energy Psychotherapy is gentle, yet powerful and wholly transformative. I am grateful to have met some truly wonderful people whose generous spirit has held a deep and steep learning curve. You will be in safe hands.” – Emma Sice, past course attendee

“Highly recommend this course to all therapists wishing to deepen their practice to incorporate more of the energetic and psychospiritual dimension. The course offers an excellent balance of practice, theory and personal reflection and is facilitated by a team of highly skilled and inspiring trainers.” – Deborah Short, past course attendee

A huge thank you to Confer and the teaching team who have made this compact training in Energy Psychotherapy available to qualified practitioners. This is a gem of a course which has added depth and potency to my work with clients. I’m beginning to wonder how I managed without the emotional regulation skills I’ve learnt this past year, both as an individual and a therapist! The value of being able to work more explicitly with obstacles to healing has enriched my practice and the attention to both the body and our spiritual selves has never been more relevant. I’m not aware of any other course in the UK (or the world) that brings so many strands of Energy Psychotherapy together affordably in one place. I feel incredibly privileged to be taught by practitioners who are so committed to bringing these practices to the UK. Highly, highly recommended. – Carolyn Polunin, past course attendee

The energy psychotherapy course organised by Confer was wonderfully held by highly skilled therapists that helped facilitate my growth as a person and as a therapist. Their non-judgemental stance, their presence and their example cooperating among themselves were as important as all the useful and pioneering knowledge that they offered. As a result, I discovered new ways of being in myself and in my practice, incorporating new tools into my daily life and practice. It has been a very transformative year in many different ways. – Alda Gomez, past course attendee