Low-Residency Spiritual Guidance M.A.
The Spiritual Guidance M.A. at ITP is designed for students who have a passionate interest in spirituality and a deep desire to serve as professional spiritual guides or spiritual directors. This program is also meant for professionals and practitioners in counseling, psychotherapy and other related fields who desire formal training in working with clients' spiritual issues.
The innovative curriculum focuses on specialized training that develops spiritual discernment and awareness of psychological issues, cross-cultural sensitivities, and knowledge about transpersonal and spiritual development. ITP’s program is unique in that it focuses on the professional practice of spiritual guidance drawing from a variety of spiritual traditions with an interfaith perspective, while similar programs focus on a specific religious or philosophical perspective. Another advantage of this program is the fact that it has been designed by a school of psychology with over 35 years experience training counselors and clinicians. The result is a well-rounded and stimulating curriculum with a strong grounding in Transpersonal Psychology and Transpersonal Counseling.
This two-year, low-residency master’s program allows students to pursue an advanced degree within a small learning community taught by leading practitioners in Spiritual Guidance. The Institute’s faculty includes authors, scholars, artists and ritualists dedicated to intellectual and creative expression within a challenging academic framework. Many of the ITP Spiritual Guidance faculty are both licensed clinicians as well as spiritual guides.
The curriculum for the MA in Spiritual Guidance can be found here.
Spiritual Guidance Online Open House
The Spiritual Guidance MA is designed for students with a passionate interest in spirituality and a deep desire to serve as professional spiritual guides or spiritual directors.
At our last Online Open House, we heard from Program Director Dr. Robert Frager; Davy Davidson, a Spiritual Guidance student, and Admissions Counselor Annette Wagner. They spoke at length about our unique program and answered many of your questions in real time online. Keep an eye out for future Online Open Houses.
You can watch our most recent Online Open House in the video above.
Now accepting applications for Summer/Fall 2012
for all Residential and Low-Residency Programs The curriculum for this program includes a weeklong intensive each Fall and quarterly weekend seminars. Most of the instruction is online, enabling students to work from home.
