BBSH 2024-25 Advanced Studies Catalog - Flipbook - Page 15
Course Title:
Advanced Psych-Spiritual Development II:
Group Process Work
Semester Credit Hours: 4 Credits
Course No: PD 612
Prerequisite: PD 512
This course continues the study of various psychological and spiritual methodologies and teachings that enable students to
deepen their own personal process development in a group setting, as well as apply these methodologies to the
processing of others’ experiences in a group format. Students once again participate in small, medium and large group
experiences. Students practice leading or co-leading group process work with peers. Under the supervision of
faculty, students learn how to “energetically hold” the whole group, while also attending various individual processes
simultaneously. Students learn to utilize their own presence in order to enter into group dilemmas and issues, and to then
bring a “transformational presence” to a group experience. Learning is reinforced through lecture and discussion formats,
large-class demonstrations, and written reflective analysis.
Classes include:
• DLM Supervision in a Group Setting
• Process Integration with Large Groups
• Group Dynamics—Theory and Concepts
• Student Lead Group—Practice Sessions
Course Title:
Advanced Professional Practice II:
Individual and Group Practicum Sessions
Semester Credit Hours: 4 Credits
Course No: PP 621
Prerequisite: PP 521
This course requires Advanced Studies Year 2 students to demonstrate their awareness of issues surrounding professionalism
and ethics. It will support the student practitioner’s growing ability to develop, apply, and sustain the facilitation skills
cultivated in Advanced Studies Year 2 in a professional and responsible manner. Students are expected to show proficiency
in the facilitation of individual process sessions in this year. Students will be expected to demonstrate basic awareness of
group process, and demonstrate a fundamental ability to hold a group that is in process. Essential practice time is provided
to achieve competency with individual and group facilitation skills.
Classes include:
• Student Presentations
• Ongoing Work with Transference & Countertransference
• Individual and Group Process Supervision
• Professional Practice Issues
Course Title:
Advanced Creative Arts II:
Movement and Embodiment
Semester Credit Hours: 1 Credit
Course No: CA 631
Prerequisite: CA 531
This course explores the concept of the student’s own body being an instrument for facilitation work. Students participate
in guided experiential forms of movement in order to deepen the felt sense of embodiment. Breathing and grounding
techniques, movement, and visualization experiences are all utilized to increase awareness of bodily sensation, feeling, and
the students’ learning of embodiment.
Classe material includes:
• Embodiment—Body/Mind Principles
• Self-Awareness Through Movement
• Integration Practices—Meditation, Contemplation, Journaling, Drawing
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