Hello everyone!! I'm Fiona. :-)
Thank you for giving your time and energy today to look upon my page and show an interest in my fundraising project. I appreciate you very much.
I'm super excited to be offered a place on the 2025-2027 Mental Health Seminar course at Emerson college in the UK. The 12 modules (as described below) are covered over 3 years, 4 modules per year. Each module requires a Wednesday - Sunday residential stay.
Total course costs are as follows:
Course £5510, travel per module £140, accommodation per module £140, food costs per module £160. Total for 12 modules £5510 + £5280 = £10790.
Funds already raised as follows:
30% bursary received from Emerson college £1653. Grant received from Tintagel House Trust, Sheffield £1619. £7518 remaining.
Thanks to Tintagel House Trust, Sheffield the first year of course fees have been paid so the next instalment of £1119 isn't due until February 2026. Costs for food, travel and accommodation start when the course begins in March 2025.
Alongside this crowdfunding page I will be advertising my spare room on Airbnb to generate extra funds to cover any shortfall.
This course has been described as 'transformational' which is exactly what I'm intending so I have more to offer those I work with by deepening my spiritual and psychological experience and understanding.
Currently I work with groups of offenders in the prison and probation service to inspire positive change. Alongside this amazingly rewarding role I am working to set myself up as a freelance health and wellbeing coach specialising in interactive group sessions which explore how we can become free of the drama triangle roles whilst honing our inner feeling capacities.
Thank you once again for your interest. Course content is outlined below.
Peace and bliss xxx
Module 1 Core Psychological Themes:
Psychology and related psychotherapeutic perspectives including anthroposophy and mainstream: Introducing general cosmology, psychology and morphology of the human being as body, soul and spirit as an expression of self consciousness: Comparative morphology contrasting distinctive gestures of the animal & human skeleton.
Module 2 Childhood Development 0-7 years:
Physical embodiment, including neurological and immunological development; Laying the foundations for understanding sensory psychology and attachment theory in relation to lasting effects of trauma; related organ studies – organ observations – brain & spleen.
Module 3 Childhood Development 7-14 years:
Cultivating health and well-being in middle childhood, habits – rhythm vs ritual; related organ studies – heart, lung and rhythmic system; 9th year developmental “rubicon”; Introduction to the twelve senses and the seven life processes and their corresponding expression in terms of adult learning.
Module 4 Adolescence 14-21:
Challenges of soul development including crises of identity, idols & “ego-ideals” and the search for personal authenticity; related family and relationship dynamics; eating disorders (part I); acknowledging and expressing sexuality and gender; self harm; related organ observations – liver, kidney and adrenals; introducing different soul types.
Module 5 Anxiety & Trauma:
Phenomenology of anxiety, its expression, meaning and management; trauma and its relationship to the renal and adrenal system; exploring the interactions of sensory and metabolic processes via the seven life processes; psychospiritual manifestations of separation and loss; awakening the “I” in its higher function as a witness to soul.
Module 6 Depression & Bipolar Phenomena:
Exploring their somatic, psychological, spiritual and medical perspectives; grief and mourning; life processes and their correlates in the soul; working with depression and suicidal ideation; encountering psychotic phenomena in relation to inner and outer threshold experiences, sense organs and metabolic processes.
Module 7 Obsessive Disorders and Compulsive Behaviours:
Addictions and eating disorders (part 2); differentiating primitive and higher (rational) ego defenses; encountering mid-life crises of meaning and identity; spiritual emergence and spiritual emergency; Understanding how therapeutic care communities may support rehabilitation.
Module 8 Personality Structure 1:
Introducing the concept of personality structure and its relation to historic changes in human consciousness; exploring twelvefoldness of the zodiac, related zodiacal polarities and their expression through the three planes of space; experiencing planes of space through movement and drama and their corresponding personality structures including the use of mask; narcissism, avoidant, paranoid & histrionic personality types and their related therapeutic approaches.
Module 9 Personality Structure 2:
Content developing general themes as with 1, module 8, now addressing obsessive, antisocial, dissociative & borderline personality types and their related therapeutic approaches; Differentiating these personality disorder from psychotic precesses. Mentalisation as a therapeutic modality.
Module 10 Personality Structure 3:
Content developing general themes as with 1, module 8, now addressing schizoid, schizotypal, passive -aggressive and dependant personality types – Codependency and therapeutic approaches; differentiating schizoid, schizotypal and schizophrenic phenomena. Steiner’s twelve philosophical world views in relation to personality structure. The hero/heroine’s journey.
Module 11 Addressing the Question of Evil:
Recognising distortions in self and society – discernment exercise based on seven life processes; confronting the challenges of fear, hatred and doubt and their deeper origins; differentiating the Luciferic and Ahrimanic doubles.
Module 12 Conflict & Community Building:
Addressing forces underlying conflict within organisations and communities: mediation; biographic view exercise; exploring evolutionary changes as these relate to individual development and collective responsibility; working with loss and change; beginnings and endings within therapeutic practice and beyond.