Counselling the Spiritual but Not Religious (SBNR) Client

An increasing number of people in the modern West consider themselves “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR). In this 3-hour webinar, clinical psychologist and TEDx speaker Jorge N. Ferrer, PhD, introduces the SBNR movement and offers practical orientations to appropriately counsel the SBNR client.

What You’ll Learn:

·       How to support your clients’ spiritual individuation while avoiding religious indoctrination

·       How to distinguish between spiritual emergencies and psychotic processes

·       The difference between psychological and spiritual narcissism–and how to help clients to overcome them

·       How to identify key pitfalls of the spiritual path such as spiritual bypassing and inflation

·       Trans-traditional criteria for assessing your clients’ spiritual growth.

Meet the Presenter: 

Jorge N. Ferrer, PhD., is a clinical psychologist, TEDx speaker, and educator. He is a Research Faculty at the California Institute for Human Science (CIHS), San Diego, and was a professor of psychology for more than 20 years at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, where he also served as chair of the Department of East-West Psychology. He also teaches at several psychotherapy training programs.

A 20% Early Bird Discount is offered before Jan 18th.