This short video describes who can benefit from the workshop.

Saturday, November 30, 2024

11am-2pm ET, 8-11am PT in USA

4-7pm in UK,

5-8pm in EU

Support for Spiritual Crisis-

3-Hour Workshop

Learn Evidence-based Methods to Assist Those Disoriented or Distressed by Spiritual Experiences in Their Awakening

Improve your abilities to recognize spiritual crisis and help an individual to:

Manage the unusual experiences—and
Come to peace with an understanding of the journey and how to manage it.

A 3-Hour LIVE Online Course with Emma Bragdon, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of Integrative Mental Health University and a pioneer in the treatment of Spiritual Emergency.

Link for Registration/More Info: https://www.aleftrust.org/professional-certificates/support-for-spiritual-crisis-3-hour-course/

A six-week certificate course goes into greater depth: March 3-April 13, 2025. If you take the 3 hr. course above in November you will have credit applied to the 6-week course fee. Link to Registration/More info: https://www.aleftrust.org/professional-certificates/how-to-effectively-support-people-in-spiritual-awakening-and-spiritual-crisis/

Imagine what your life would be like if you were flourishing. Imagine you have the confidence to manage the ups and downs of awakening (aka spiritual emergence). This course will help you develop that confidence.

Join us to cultivate more skills and gain confidence in helping others who are in distress as a result of meditation practices, psychedelic or plant medicine use, or experiences with altered states of consciousness.

Take some time to reflect: What has your process of awakening involved? Have you had a spiritual crisis? Do you know the steps to support yourself or someone else who is in spiritual crisis?

Participate in the learning community we create and develop more knowledge of the path of awakening, and where it can lead.

You will gain perspective on where conventional healthcare providers are still missing the boat—most not yet understanding how to recognize or appropriately support awakening.

We are the ones to step up, gain knowledge and skills, and support each other in awakening. Peers can be immensely helpful; you don’t need a PhD or MD or RN to be effective. You do need to be aware of your own experiences, your limitationsyou’re your gifts…and cultivate community resources.

Healthcare providers will gain practical skills they can use immediately in their work.

We can support the evolution of human beings by supporting individuals who are awakening.

This Course gives you simple to learn strategies to identify spiritual crisis in yourself or others…and be an effective source of support for an awakening that does not have to become a crisis.

The concepts and strategies we share come from research with a strong evidence-base. Still, we are sharing cutting-edge knowledge and skills.

In this 3-hour series, you’ll learn 4 keys to greater understanding of awakening and how to be of support to others.

Key #1: Learn to identify the signs: who is awakening?

Key #2: Improve your capacity to manage your own awakening,

Key #3: Discern what makes signs of spiritual crisis different from symptoms of mental illness,

Key#4: Get skills to support someone you care for who is troubled by experiences connected to awakening.

Workshop Outline:

Hour #1: Take a Confidential Survey to See if You are in the Process of Awakening (Emergence) Reflect on how you have experienced spiritual emergence and spiritual crisis (emergency) in your personal life. Learn to use a simple screening to assist others to discern the experiences they have had in their own lives and what support they needed. Have the opportunity to reflect on this subject in a confidential, safe environment with those engaged with the topic.

Hour #2: What Works in Managing a Spiritual Crisis

We discuss what it feels like to be in a Spiritual Crisis. There may be both disorientation from spiritual experiences identified in Session #1 as well as psychological upset from past trauma. We will review what works (evidence-based research), and how you can be of support to others in the process.

Hour #3: A Core Question: Discerning the Difference Between Spiritual Crisis and Mental Illness

We’ll dip into the current conventional understanding of spiritual crisis and understand how it has been side-lined in the “developed” countries. We will identify the societies that have appreciated spiritual crisis and channelled its positive potential. We will share a practical chart that can be used in a clinical setting or at home, explaining in easy terms how to approach discernment of spiritual crisis…and when to call on added support services.

Join me and people from all across the world to experience how you can increase your own understanding and skills in negotiating the highs and lows of awakening.

Outline in a Nutshell:

Hour 1:

Confidential Survey: Have You Had a Spiritual Crisis?
Learn How to Use the Survey with Others
Group Discussion

Hour 2:

What a Spiritual Crisis Feels Like
Evidence-Basis for What Works to Support Others
Resources to Call On

Hour 3:

How Society Currently Perceives and Treats Spiritual Crisis
The Cultures that Model Excellent Care
A Chart to Help with Discerning Spiritual Crisis vs Pathology

Emma Bragdon, PhD, (Transpersonal Psychology) is the Founder and Executive Director of Integrative Mental Health University, IMHU.org. IMHU’s mission is to bring spirituality into the powerful role it deserves in healthcare alongside body, mind and community. Emma is the author of seven books, numerous chapters and journal articles, and co-producer of two documentary films illustrating the connection between spirituality and health. She is highly respected as a pioneer in the definition and care of spiritual crises. She is also one of the few English-speaking people who has studied, written and taught about and created documentary films about Spiritist therapies used in Brazil to provide both physical healing as well as support for spiritual growth. In her role as primary teacher in training Spiritual Emergence Coaches· at IMHU, she has certified 110 coaches from 17 countries. She also teaches courses introducing themes pertaining to spiritual awakening and the skills needed by support people. In her private practice Emma specializes in working with people who are reaching out to overcome their distress caused by spiritually-transformative experiences.