All our courses are self-administered.  You start when you want and go through the studies online. Each participant, however, has a direct connection with the course administrator through private messaging and audiovisual meetings you can initiate whenever you wish. Our quizzes are structured within the same format – designed to evoke dialogue, not measure competence, allowing you to disagree with something proposed.  We will acknowledge your objection as long as you have strong arguments to support it. The discourses are offered as personalized, private interactions with us until you finish the course and even after.

To date, no matter what technique is used to influence clients in their recovery, the responsibility for engaging the client is often left to the discretion of the counsellor. Without an established logical framework that allows us to engage mentally with the client, we often take on the responsibility of striving to look where we can’t see, identify what we can’t measure, and heal what we can’t touch – the core of the person , the mind – letting our efforts become a burden on our shoulders or to fizzle into failure of the client to maintain sobriety.

 

Yet, there is a way for us to be able to heal what we can’t see, measure, or touch. This requires us to engage the assistance of he/she who can – the client him/herself – respecting the potential but acknowledging the void in existential maturation. We have to know how to guide them to identify the void, understand why it must be filled, and purposefully learn to fill it with self-actualized wisdom, understanding, and judgment.

Just as a mother does not really toilet-train a child but gives him the guidance to toilet-train himself, so too must we, as counsellors, learn that we do not heal the client. We give them the guidance to heal themselves, but we must know what we are trying to heal. Let us add that ability to your own repository of tools and techniques with this course and extend your reach Beyond Recovery… REGISTER HERE

 

“Ah, but a man’s reach must exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?” Robert Browning

There are three considerations that must be entertained if a realistic understanding of core issues is desired.

 

The first is to take a history of the person, not just of the needs, wants or responses they are presently displaying or are seeking help to manage.  We are healing the person, not just the behaviour, or we will achieve what one counsellor recently worried about that a person may not feel successful while others (counsellor, family) are happy with their apparent success.

 

The second is to show an interest in knowing the person. We have to stop being the healer and be the counsellor, being genuinely interested in actually knowing the person and believing in the reality of the soul, the core of who we are and what we should respect of ourselves… and we must be able to teach them that ability to accept themselves and believe in themselves – as thinking minds with a mandate to grow, not fragile bodies with a need to survive.

 

The third is to know what we are searching for when we are relating at the core level – we are looking for the holes in the development of the core, not faults or failures to be corrected,  but insufficiency in stimulation, disciplined activity, and encouragement that are needed to both recognize and build the core.

 

This course will guide you to examine and diagnose that core insufficiency so you become the motivator to self-empowerment, beyond being the healer or manager of the client.  This course will become available in spring 2020 and requires the first course – Beyond Recovery in order to register.

Cinema is a fascinating tool that offers a polished version of ‘role play’ that a counsellor can use to involve any client to better see themselves from the outside.  This allows early break-through in self-realization that can allow a faster progress in effective therapy.  One of the things we all recognize is that the greatest obstacle in getting clients started on the road to recovery is the inability to focus on building themselves as they so easily focus on the impositions from outside.  The denial and self-preservation can block the arrival of that “aha” monment.  Cinema, by its ability to portray real-life behaviours, weaknesses, and insecurities can provide a great canvas for making a sensitive issue into a technical condition that can be discussed objectively.

 

There are many very powerful films that are usually seen for their entertainment value that can be analyzed and used as powerful teaching tools.  The educational value must be discovered and brought to the forefront.  We will. not only use some examples that will show you how to use these films for specific conditions, but we will also show you how to look for such wonderful content in shows that will come up for you to consider in your own practice.

 

This can be a time consuming course as you will have to view about 12 films and discuss them in a forum with us, but it promises to delight, entertain, and stimulate you.  We are presently proffering it to our organizations for approval and expect to have it started by early spring.

Core intervention can be a complex study but to those clients who have done it, they have realized that it is both useful and uncomplicated.  Viewing and reading the lessons will open the eyes of even the most defensive or timid person and can be easily digested when guided by someone who has done to course.  We have discovered that many clients will find it a great asset and accompaniment to counsel offered by their personal therapist.

 

You may have been referred here by your counsellor who wants you to have some concrete insights to augment his/her guidance, or you may simply wish to have some insights to better manage life challenges – at work, with family members, or personal growth.  Regardless, the gentle guidance offered here will give you insights that will reinforce your own personal strengths, not take you on a different or rigid path.

Prometheum Institute is an on-line educational facility that focuses on providing guidance on counseling others as rational beings with the capacity to think, grow, and mature into self-propelled adults.  Our technique is based on the simple assertion that the mind does not mature naturally as a product of biological growth and aging. A person cannot “know” simply because the body has reached a certain age or that he/she has inherited the genes of a successful forebear. He/she must be stimulated with ingredients of information, discipline and encouragement, ingredients that must be considered in three distinct areas of life – the physical world, its impositions and mercurial challenges, the social world and its demands, manipulations, and unpredictable interactions, and the existential world or who we are and why we seem distinct from the other elements.

 

We see that the stimulation for this understanding is neither organically derived nor financially acquired; it must be imparted through guided exploration from those ahead to those behind who then become those ahead.  We see that, when the strengths these convey are lacking, defensive or instinctual behaviors come into play and reveal an erratic or inappropriate response that seems to define impropriety in the person. But they are only stand-ins, substitutes that back up the flailing or insufficiently energized psycho/social/spiritual values and understanding.

 

We are born with a powerful and sophisticated limbic system. We are required to identify and develop the even more powerful cognitive system. The less this is developed, the more will we depend on the limbic system, led by its reactive responses and straining it by overuse so its responses become distorted and our representation of ourselves corrupt. The more this is developed, however, the less we depend on the limbic system and the more intelligent will our responses be. Our mandate is to inspire and ignite or reignite this aspect of human existence.

We invite you to

Inspire and Ignite

the fire of dignity, courage and passion your clients can own and keep.

(the gift of Prometheus)