Courses

People of all cultures draw their own self-knowledge from their engagement with other people and the world. In the Aotearoa New Zealand context this means an honouring of the covenantal spirit of Te Tiriti o Waitangi…

Understanding ourselves as “persons-in-relationship” requires us to view others as constituted by the interrelationships to which they contribute and by which they are formed. This course explores the impact of persons from different genders, cultures, ethnic…

The aim of this course is to form professional counselling practices for working with children and young people in agency and school settings. The course is designed to complement Laidlaw’s broad counsellor education programme’s emphasis on…

Formation focuses on the personal, spiritual, and professional development of the youth worker. Students explore practices of self-awareness, spiritual formation, boundaries, and wellbeing, recognising the importance of sustainability in youth work. The course integrates theological reflection…

The conviction that people are best understood as “persons-in-relationship” has implications for the therapeutic approach adopted by the counsellor. This course is the first of six that form a core counselling practice development stream through the…

Key to a relational approach to counselling is the therapeutic relationship, or encounter, during which counsellor and client create a relational canvas upon which the change and growth can be sketched and explored. This third course…

What does it mean to be human, and how do we grow and develop throughout life? In this course, you will engage with contemporary understandings of human development alongside Christian perspectives on human nature and flourishing.…

This course draws together counselling theory and practice, theological anthropology and the person of the counsellor to develop an articulation of a meta-theory of counselling practice. Through exploration of different models of integration, with particular focus…

The hope of the therapeutic relationship is the restoration of people’s understanding of themselves as persons-in-relationship, and their freedom to love and trust in ways that are creative, adventurous, embracing, life-giving and expansive. The sixth course…

Introduces counselling as a therapeutic relational engagement grounded in theological anthropology drawn from the story of Christ, engaging a range of counselling theories and models of practice.