Bringing Spirituality into Mental Healthcare
Spiritual emergence is a process of positive change involving spiritually-transformative experiences. A gradual deepening of insight and understanding happens over time with little or no disruption to everyday life and increasing peace and joy.
A spiritual emergency is a crisis within spiritual emergence in which someone becomes distressed and disoriented as a result of spiritually-transformative experiences.
Both involve valuable new perceptions of reality.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPIRITUAL EMERGENCE VS. SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY
Spiritual emergence is a process of positive change involving spiritually-transformative experiences. A gradual deepening of insight and understanding happens over time with little or no disruption to everyday life and increasing peace and joy.
A spiritual emergency is a crisis within spiritual emergence in which someone becomes distressed and disoriented as a result of spiritually-transformative experiences.
Both involve valuable new perceptions of reality.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPIRITUAL EMERGENCE VS. SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY
The most important thing for a person going through a spiritual emergency is to feel safe and supported. During this time, speaking with a trained coach who can provide necessary guidance may help them cope with their circumstances and harvest the positive potentials in the experience: greater peace and joy.
Once mental health professionals have the necessary training they can also provide this guidance and understanding.
Integrative mental health is a relatively new approach that brings together a variety of effective therapeutic modalities to achieve the best possible results for individuals seeking wellbeing.
Integrative mental health may combine conventional psychological approaches with holistic approaches and practices — such as yoga and meditation — as well as new approaches like family systems therapy or psychedelic-assisted therapy, as it becomes legalized.
IMHU contributes to improving mental healthcare through online and live educational presentations and certifications for wellness seekers and healthcare providers.
We believe spirituality has a profound impact on individual mental health, and that truly integrative care needs to include body, mind, spirit, and community. We emphasize building more knowledge and skills regarding the spiritual aspects of mental healthcare.
We are committed to providing the resources and support to individuals and healthcare professionals to support better mental health and well-being.
"The straightforward approach to delivering challenging concepts balanced by supporting an Optimal Wellness potential, the whole person paradigm, is so key to redefining the normal that has been standardized...people want to know where they're going and what that looks like."
"Of greatest value for me in the Brazil trip was the chance to see existing Spiritist models of healing in action in Brazil."
"I enthusiastically recommend attending Dr. Bragdon's workshop, “Effective Support for Someone in Spiritual Emergency”. Her many years as a psychotherapist, healer, scholar and presenter shine through as she presents her life’s work, creating many rewarding opportunities for expansive professional and personal enrichment."
"I highly recommend Emma Bragdon. She has solid professional credentials and many years of impressive work as a scholar. Emma has a great personality and she creates many rich opportunities which would be completely unavailable to those with less knowledgeable, experienced, and insightful guides.”
"Dr. Bragdon is on the leading edge of issues that must be addressed if we are going to realize a transformation in the ways in which health care is currently conceptualized and delivered."
"This workshop has been very valuable in providing the resources, information and language around Spiritual Emergency and Spiritually-Transformative Experiences. I feel every healthcare provider will find value in it. Five Stars!"
IMHU offers professional-level courses to provide practitioners with real knowledge and practical advice that can be incorporated into their current client or patient practice. IMHU courses use a hybrid online/in-person approach and qualify for CE credits.
Individuals and Professionals who want to gain expert-level mastery and become certified as a Spiritual Emergence Coach®. IMHU has trained and certified 100+ SECs® from 17 countries.
Once you become a Spiritual Emergence Coach® , join IMHU's unique directory to reach and support those challenged by spiritually-transormative experiences.
Are you a healthcare professional?
Are you comfortable knowing the difference between spiritual emergency and mental illness? Are you confident in knowing how to help a client manage spiritual emergence?
With IMHU professional training courses you can earn CE credits, learn how to better support your clients and patients, and gain more confidence to effectively address spiritual issues and concerns.
IMHU courses include online materials and content together with live sessions for maximum effectiveness.
Learn skills for effective management of spiritual crisis. IMHU offers comprehensive in-depth training in two parts to become a certified Spiritual Emergence Coach®.
5 online webinars with experts
LIVE online meetups every other week for discussion
10.5 CEs for healthcare professionals
Our LIVE 2-day workshop is the final part of training to become a certified Spiritual Emergence Coach®
14 CEs for healthcare professionals
Our LIVE 2-day workshop is the final part of training to become a certified Spiritual Emergence Coach®.
It is an experiential, skill-building weekend workshop that occurs every year in the US on each coast and in the UK. 14 CE credits available.
Explore Brazil's Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers and Experience Spiritist Healing Modalities First-Hand!
Our annual 7-Day Live Seminar in Goiania, Brazil for healthcae providers who want to learn about and experience Spiritist healing/treatments in Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers. 35 CEs or CMEs available.
Explore Brazil's Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers and Experience Spiritist Healing Modalities First-Hand!
Our annual 7-Day Live Seminar in Goiania, Brazil for healthcae providers who want to learn about and experience Spiritist healing/treatments in Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers. 35 CEs or CMEs available.
Take advantage of our FREE resources to learn more about spiritual emergence & integrative mental health.
Dr. Emma Bragdon is the Founder and Executive Director of Integrative Mental Health University and a pioneer in body-mind-spirit wellness for 50 years. She has written 7 books and co-produced two documentary films on topics related to mental health and healing.
At Integrative Mental Health University (IMHU), we believe that no one should have to face a spiritual crisis alone.
We are currently looking for volunteers to join us in our mission to improve mental health and wellbeing.
Learn more about integrative mental health topics, issues and available therapies through our bundled course collections for curious seekers.
IMHU's flagship course! More individuals are spontaneously awakening to expanded states and need support to make sense of it. 5 online webinars with expert + online LIVE meetups every other week for discussion. Helpful for yourself and supporting others. 10.5 CEs available.
Are you or your clients in an awakening process, expanding consciousness, aka spiritual emergence? This bundle describes what may be happening and give you some resources to cope with the disorientation that may occur. First step: understanding!
Psych Meds don't work for everyone. In this 4-course bundle learn about the risks with psych meds. Explore new effective therapies. Be inspired — there are highly effective alternatives to psych meds. Meet leaders in the field. Get resources and referrals.
A 5-course collection that introduces Integrative Mental Health and includes useful meditations for wellbeing and a survey of medication alternatives.
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy is proving to be extraordinarily effective vs depression, PTSD, and anxiety. This 5-course bundle covers several different types of therapy including Ketamine, Ibogaine and Ayahuasca.
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