Rudolf Steiner College Has Announced That It Is Offering a One-week Course on Anthroposophic Counseling Psychology for the 21st Century.

Online, June 10, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Rudolf Steiner College has announced that it is offering a one-week course on Anthroposophic Counseling Psychology for the 21st Century. The course will run from
July 29 - August 2, 2013. This new course is designed for the professional counselor, students of psychology, and individuals interested in the field of counseling psychology, who are embedded in a holistic paradigm. Twenty-four continuing education units (CEUs) are available for licensed professionals.

The course will be offered by a distinguished faculty with experience in both the field of clinical psychology and in the realm of anthroposophic approaches stemming from a practical application of spiritual science as developed by Rudolf Steiner. Dr. William Bento will be joined by colleagues and associates at Rudolf Steiner College, among them Dennis Klocek, author of books on the nature of self-development and director of Consciousness Studies at the College, and Dr. Roberta Nelson, a licensed clinician in North Dakota who provides training in psychosynthesis throughout the country. Dr. David Tresemer will bring his broad background as an artist, playwright, teacher, and counselor, as well as his years of dedicated research into cosmology and spiritual science to the course. Dr. Edmund Knighton, chair of the doctoral program in Somatic Psychology at the Chicago School of Psychology will also join the faculty. Topics that will be addressed include the broad spectrum of personality disorders, the depressed person, the addicted person, and the traumatized person.

William Bento, PhD, the organizer of the course, is the Associate Academic Dean at Rudolf Steiner College. He has been both an adult educator for spiritual scientific studies and a counselor for three decades. Dr. Bento graduated with a doctorate in transpersonal clinical psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and maintains a license as a clinical psychologist in the State of California. He was a co-director of the Psychosophy Seminars from 1996 - 2004 and is a founding member of the International Federation of Anthroposophic Psychotherapists Association. Dr. Bento has also published two groundbreaking books in the approach to anthroposophical psychology: Lifting the Veil of Mental Illness: An Approach to Anthroposophical Psychology (2004) and A Somatic Psycho-diagnostic Approach to Personality Disorders: An Understanding of Personality through Spatial Orientation (2009).

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