Independent Study Program
Psychosynthesis International is a worldwide study program providing professional and personal training to persons living in all parts of the world. Psychosynthesis International offers an ongoing three-year program (equivalent to a three-year in-residence training) tailored to meet individual needs. This program allows students to start at any time and progress at their own pace.
The three years are divided into:
Level 1: Psychosynthesis principles applied to one's personal life.
Level 2: Psychosynthesis principles applied to one's professional life or outer expression.
Level 3:Advanced Project: Psychosynthesis principles and methods are applied to a subject of special interest to the student; for example, a research or writing project, or documentation of direct application in the fields of education, business, religion, politics, medicine, psychotherapy, and the arts.
Curriculum
The curriculum consists of reading assignments in current Psychosynthesis books and materials, journal keeping, written assignments, and a third-year project. Each student is assigned their own Mentor who, with the added consultation of the Director of Student Training, evaluates and comments on the student's assignments. In addition to regularly completed assignments, students are required to participate in local workshops and/or regional conferences on a yearly basis (depending upon their locale).
"The real distinguishing factor between the little self and the Higher Self is that the little self is acutely aware of itself as a distinct separate individual, and a sense of solitude or of separation sometimes comes in the existential experience. In contrast, the experience of the spiritual Self is a sense of freedom, of expansion, of communication with other Selves and with reality, and there is the sense of Universality. It feels itself at the same time individual and universal."