Psychosynthesis Coaching: 

The Psychology of What Matters

Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal psychology that offers theory and tools to facilitate  the awareness and realization of purpose, meaning, and values. Manifesting what really matters – the call of the self – through active engagement of the good, strong, skillful and transpersonal will.

Our Psychosynthesis Coach Training program offers 120 hours of hybrid, distance learning training, providing you with the Psychosynthesis Life Coach (PLC) credential, in fulfillment of the maximum training hours required to apply with the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE) to become a Board Certified Coach (BCC).

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The Synthesis Center (TSC) / Synthesis Center San Francisco (SCSF) has been qualified by the Center for Credentialing and Education, Inc. (CCE) as a Registered Credential Training Provider, RCTP1010-BCC, to provide training courses qualified for credit for eligibility for the CCE BCC CREDENTIAL. Courses that qualify for CCE credit are clearly identified. The Synthesis Center and Synthesis Center San Francisco is solely responsible for all aspects of the training courses. 

Thank you for visiting. Our next coach training program begins May 6 and 13 2024  – contact us for details:

info@psychosynthesiscoachtraining.com  

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“All coaches may welcome in themselves, if the inclination is there, an opening to the transpersonal both by their own personal inquiry into the dimensions of purpose, meaning, values and spirituality and by the simple exploration of these same themes with their clients.”

~ Dr. Dorothy (Didi) Firman, Director of Psychosynthesis Coaching: The Psychology of What Matters Training; Program Lead Instructor

About Us

The Synthesis Center

& Synthesis Center San Francisco

For more than 40+ years, The Synthesis Center, based in Amherst, Massachusetts, with Dr. Dorothy (Didi) Firman at the helm, has been a leader in psychosynthesis programming, resources and training.

The Synthesis Center in collaborative partnership with Synthesis Center San Francisco, are innovators in Psychosynthesis Life Coach training, offering our global community of students and coaches, a solid foundation, along with advanced studies, in both psychosynthesis and coaching.

The partnership between The Synthesis Center and Synthesis Center San Francisco has resulted in an experiential hybrid distance learning model that is robust, deep and engaging, incorporating live webinars, online, on-demand content modules, 1-1 coaching with a Psychosynthesis Life Coach, Co-Guiding/Coaching practice.  We also offer ongoing opportunities for continuing education and advanced training.

 

WE ARE A GROWING GLOBAL PSYCHOSYNTHESIS COMMUNITY 

 

We are a diverse, international community of students, coaches and teachers, with past and current participants from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland, Ireland, Central and South America, Chile, Peru, Kenya, the Netherlands, Jordan, UK, France and more! 

People from a variety of backgrounds have joined our programs, including coaches, therapists, healing, mental health and medical professionals, as well as participants that come from other occupations and careers, and are rich with life experience, some who are well versed in psychosynthesis and others who are discovering psychosynthesis for the first time.

Psychosynthesis Coach Training:

The Psychology of What Matters

Psychosynthesis is a comprehensive psychological and educational approach to the development of the whole person that draws from many traditions.

Psychosynthesis life coaching guides and supports the capacity and power in each of us to manifest our individual and collective potential.  And to create a life based upon what really matters.

Our psychosynthesis life coach training is a synthesis of  the rich framework and tradition of psychosynthesis and best practices in the field of life coaching. We also incorporate new research and allied approaches from psychology and neuroscience to enhance personal and professional growth.

Psychosynthesis offers methods for enhanced self-awareness, personal growth and heightened professional effectiveness. The theory and methods of psychosynthesis facilitate and support the capacity and power in each of us to manifest our individual and collective potential.

“Psychology can and must give an important contribution, but it must not be “psychology without a soul’, mere behavioristic psychology.

It must be a new spiritual psychology,  founded in the synthesis of western positive science and eastern esoteric wisdom.”    

~ Dr. Roberto Assagioli, Founder of Psychosynthesis

Psychosynthesis Coaching: The Psychology of What Matters

Training Program Overview

Part 1:

Personal Psychosynthesis

You will begin with the personal experience  of psychosynthesis.

You will embark on a journey of self discovery and unfolding purpose, as you are guided and supported along the stages of the “Act of Will”

Purpose

✧ Deliberation

✧ Choice

✧ Affirmation

✧ Planning

✧ Manifestation

You will be introduced to the Board Certified   Coach (BCC) ethical and regulatory guidelines as outlined by the Center for Credentialing    and Education (CCE) and these will be  modeled and applied.  Along with live webinars, online resources, activities and discussion, you will    be assigned a coach-guide during this phase    of training to support your experience.

Part 2:

Experiencing Psychosynthesis

Exploration of psychosynthesis theory through Roberto Assagioli’s “seven core experiences” become the next focus of our for psychosynthesis training:

✧ DisIdentification

✧ The Personal Self

✧ The Will – Strong, Skillful, Good

✧ The Ideal Model

✧ Synthesis

✧ Superconscious

✧ The Transpersonal Self

You will begin the development of psychosynthesis life coaching skills as you are introduced to tools for facilitating connection and expanding inner resources. Practicing presence, you will work with a co-guide from your cohort, and begin to  experiment, assess, play and apply psychosynthess life coaching skills and tools to utilize as a coach.

Part 3:

Practicing Psychosynthesis

You will integrate and align psychosynthesis theory and coaching tools into applied practice of psychosynthesis life coaching.

As you develop skill through practice, you will expand your capacity to support others in becoming the best they can be, through their realization of purpose-filled goals.  You will continue co-guiding with partners from your cohort.  Observation sessions, practice dyads, and group experience, will support you in building upir confidence and finding your voice as a psychosynthesis life coach.

The program culminates in a self reflection assignment, which will provide you the opportunity to ground your learning. You will create a next step professional development plan, and each participant will share an “Act of Will” presentation with your cohort.

We will celebrate, with one another, our personal and inter-personal psychosynthesis journey, as we pass the baton to the next generation of psychosynthesis life coaches!

Meet Our Lead

Psychosynthesis Coach Training Teaching Team

Dr. Dorothy (Didi) Firman, Ed.D., LMHC, BCC

Dr. Dorothy (Didi) Firman, Ed.D., LMHC, BCC

Director of Curriculum and Lead Instructor

 Didi Firman has worked in the field of psychology, counseling and education for more than thirty years.   She has traveled and taught nationally and internationally. Didi’s specialties include: psychosynthesis, a spiritual psychology; coaching and counseling towards meaning and purpose in life. Her speaking, teaching & consulting is with a focus on personal and spiritual empowerment. Didi is a prolific, NYTimes best selling author and the editor of our program’s core text: Call of Self, Psychosynthesis Life Coaching.  Her work in coaching is primarily as a trainer, though she maintains a small coaching practice.  Didi also offers ongoing advanced training and continuing education in psychosynthesis. We are delighted to have Didi as the Director of Coach Training and as the Lead Instructor/Trainer in our coach training program.

Susan Jewkes Allen, MSW, GCDF, PLC

Susan Jewkes Allen, MSW, GCDF, PLC

Founder/Executive Director; Co-Lead Instructor

Susan is deeply committed to bringing psychosynthesis to a new generation as a teacher, coach and mentor. In her early career, as a clinician and psychotherapist, she formed an understanding about how work is a key determinant of health: physical, emotional, social, economic and spiritual well-being.  This led to a new phase as a consultant on work, business, health and entrepreneurship with governments, non-profits, education sectors, and businesses in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia.  She continues to maintain a small private practice, coaching leaders and emerging leaders in technology, business and the arts, who want to make a positive impact in life, work and the larger world. Susan is also the co-founder, with Marcela Andaluz, of the soon to launch: Psychosynthesis Institute for Self Development and Social Transformation.

Marcela guides, organizes and manages our SCSF initatives.  She grew up looking up at the sky and the stars, imagining trips to outer space and wondering the impact it had in our lives,.  Her first memories are of having the sense of wanting to help people with their problems. As an adult, she first found astrology and became a Certified Astrological Counselor.  This began to  answer many of the questions she had about the stars and people, but the main gift, she says, is that it gave her the discovery of Psychosynthesis. Marcela lives her call of self as a Psychosynthesis Life Coach, as a member of our Facilitator Training Circle, and providing invaluable support to our psychosynthesis students, training programs and intitiatives, fulfilling that childhood dream of helping people.

Marcela Andaluz, PLC

Program and Training Lead

Facilitator Training Circle

Our facilitator training circle is comprised of a diverse group of program graduates from the US, Canada, EU, and UK who are  training and supporting our participants in bringing psychosynthesis to a new generation.  Read the profiles and learn moare about our facilitators training circle members.

Program Coaching Group

Our psychosynthesis program coaches are graduates of our coach training who participate in ongoing professional development and support in peer supervision.  With diverse backgrounds, speciality and interest areas this coaching group works both in private practice and in our training program, providing coaching to students in our Part 1 Program: Personal Psychosynthesis.

Read more about our Program Coaches.

Guest Teachers

Guest teachers offer workshops during our formal training calendar that suppliment our core coach training program.  Our guest teachers include psychosynthesis oriented teachers and coaches from the realms of eco-psychology, somatic experiencing, social justice, systems theory, mindfulness practice, esoteric studies and more!

Continuing Education and Advanced Training

We offer our graduates and advanced students the opportunity to participate in Peer Supervision Groups and Creative Business Planning for Practice Programs, as well as advanced training and professional development.

Learn More

Personal Psychosynthesis

Unfolding Journey along the Act of Will

Purpose:

Connect to your call of self.  Explore purpose as evocative, transpersonal qualities and ways of being. Define purpose as the focal point of your life creation and your act of will.

Affirmation

Affirm your choice through the creation of powerful techniques to in word, image and sensation, to focus your attainment of purpose inspired fulfillment.

 

Deliberation

Listen to inner wisdom, explore internal and external options and resources. Give form to purpose, through exploration of your psychological functions: thinking, feeling/emotion, sensation, intuition, imagination, impulse/desire.

Planning

You will identify your planning style and create the structure and framework, and to map out the steps required to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Choice

At the crossroads – you will make a choice from your deliberative, purposful options.  Step onto your path with clarity and confidence, as you journey forward to fulfillment of purpose.

Manifestation

Experience greater focus, balance and persistence as you begin to manifest purpose filled goals in answer to your call of self.

Psychosynthesis Coach Training

What People Are Saying

“Since receiving my BCC certification, I have developed and integrated a new form of “transformation” coaching into my business practice that has had a powerfully positive impact on client success. This program prepared me with complex skills and thought processes and a unique connection to serving humanity.”

 

~ P. Breen, North Carolina

“This program is more than just a life coach program, it is about Self growth, connection, and learning how to inspire others’ evolution towards the whole.”

 

~ A. Whitehouse, Florida

“These past few months have really been special in helping me integrate my purpose… and not just to realize it more fully but to actually start to breathe and live it.

I can say that psychosynthesis training and the support I received had a great role in this.”

 

~ E. Filippi, Italy

The Synthesis Center (TSC) and Synthesis Center San Francisco (SCSF) has been qualified by the Center for Credentialing and Education, Inc. (CCE) as a Registered Credential Training Provider, RCTP1010-BCC, to provide training courses qualified for credit for eligibility for the CCE BCC CREDENTIAL. Courses that qualify for CCE credit are clearly identified. The Synthesis Center and Synthesis Center San Francisco is solely responsible for all aspects of the training courses. 

Ready to Learn More about Psychosynthesis Coaching and  Training?

Our next cohort will begin training with orientation and introduction on May 6 and 12, 2023.

Contact us to learn more and receive your program guide: Info@PsychosynthesisCoachTraining.com

 

  * The SynthesisCenter is a 501(c)(3) non[profit corporation and  Synthesis Center San Francisco is a dba of LifePlusWork, LLC . 

Together, The Synthesis Center (TSC) and Synthesis Center San Francisco (SCSF) work in a hybrid partnership to bring psychosynthesis into the world for professional and self development. 

Tuition for our programs are not tax dedeuctible. However donations to TSC are welcome and deductible for U.S. Income Tax purposes. Your donations go towards scholarships for our programs & general operating expenses.