FAQ:

Who can apply?

We seek to build a diverse global community of coaches, psychosynthesis practitioners and trainers from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines and interests. 

We welcome applications from:

• Aspiring coaches, professionals from all fields and individuals with or without previous coaching or psychosynthesis background, training or experience.

• Individuals who have a coaching, counseling or healing practice and seek a core, foundational psychosynthesis training and experience to incorporate psychosynthesis in their work.

•  Licensed practitioners, counselors and psychotherapists, who want to learn about both psychosynthesis and coaching.

• People in business, technology, the arts, education, and community/social justice/ non-profit sectors, who are seeking to become more effective leaders through greater awareness and compassion for self and others, as well as more skillful and strengthened performance capacity.

• Any individual who seeks personal growth, deeper, fuller connection and expression of purpose. Even if you are not planning to become  a coach, the insights and skills you develop will enhance your relationships and experiences. You will have the option to receive a full program participation certificate if you will not be pursing credentialing.

•  A Completion Certificate from our training means you have fulfilled the 120-hour training requirements of Psychosynthesis Coaching: The Psychology of What Matters program.

• Upon completion of the full 120-hour program, participants will receive a Psychosynthesis Life Coach (PLC) credential issued from The Synthesis Center and Synthesis Center San Francisco.

•  This certification can be used to pursue application for the Board Certified Coach (BCC) through the Center for Credentialing & Education (CCE).

• While acceptance to our program and receipt of the PLC designation do not require a college or university degree, to apply to CCE for credentialing as a BCC you will need a minimum of a Bachelors Degree.

•  Advantages of the BCC credential solidifies your professional identity and demonstrates that you have:

√ Met educational & training requirements

√ Passed a psychometrically sound coach-specific examination

√ Obtained experience in the field of coaching

√ Professional peer references

√ Accountability to an enforceable ethics code

√ Commitment to continuing education

Our students are diverse in background, age, country of origin, profession, gender identity, cultural and social identity, learning style, education and personal belief systems.

What we share is a call to personal and professional growth, a desire to make a positive impact, and a willingness to commit to do our own self development in order to facilitate and guide this work with others. 

Our cohorts are, on average, comprised of groups of 10 - 18  students plus our teaching staff, with two lead teachers and 1 - 2 graduates who serve as program assistants.

Our current students and graduates have joined us from the countries and places around the globe:

United States, Canada, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, India, Europe (EU) and the UK.

While most of us have not met "in person" we have formed deep and ongoing relationships as a global community in sharing and learning along our personal, inter-personal and group psychosynthesis journeys.

Plans for in-person events in the US and Europe were put on hold during COVID.  It is our intention to offer opportunites for our current and past students and faculty to connect in-person for continuing education initiatives in 2024.

More about the program teaching staff.

Our core faculty have decades of extensive experience in psychosynthesis. Our senior faculty includes, Didi Firman, Susan Jewkes Allen, Executive Director, and Karen Randall, Director of Coaching Supervision and Internships.

Each have active private practices as coaches, as well as professional training and backgrounds as therapists. 

All three, are also educators, having served as adjunct faculty / lecturers / instructors  / practice supervisors at universities and training centers in the US, Canada, Europe and Africa.

We are also fortunate to have guest faculty join us in teaching around specific themes during our program as optional training opportunities, in addition to the program's 120-hour curriculum. 

Past guest teachers and teaching assistants have been experts in the fields of :

Somatic Experience, Systems, Social Identity/Social Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Business of Coaching, Esoteric Studies, including Astrology, Psychotherapy, Eco-psychology, Contemplation and Meditation/Mindfulness.

Every member of our team shares a deep connection to purpose and a passionate commitment to teaching and mentoring a new generation of psychosynthesis practitioners.