PRAC for Life Program, Duane O’Kane and Satu Springer

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Duane O’Kane – Founder and President of Clearmind International Institute Inc.

Duane O’Kane is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, workshop facilitator, teacher and a dynamic and entertaining public speaker. He has a lengthy background in mental health and social services, with 18 years in the field before forming Clearmind in 1990.

Duane discovered A Course in Miraclesin 1990 while mired in a deep depression triggered by a personal crisis in relationship, which nothing in his professional repertoire could adequately address. It opened him to a revolutionary way of thinking and being that allows him to tap into the joy available in the present rather than reproduce pain from the past. Duane transformed his pain into an inspired pathway to love; a path where he now leads thousands worldwide. It is Duane’s passion and creativity that started Clearmind and carried it through to its current evolution with Catherine.

Email: duane@clearmind.com

Satu Springer is a Registered Professional Counsellor with her own counselling practice called Satu unlimited. She is also a teacher with Clearmind International. Satu has a Counselling Diploma through Clearmind’s Prac for Life Program and ten years experience learning and teaching Shamanic healing modalities and traditions.
After many years in corporate administration, Satu was feeling stagnant and unfulfilled, but with no strong vision of what else she would want to do with her life. She was good at her job and it paid well, making it a hard decision to move to something else. Then in the spring of 2003, she found herself in the hospital emergency room in extreme pain – it was the wake up call she needed. She decided it was time to move toward what she
really wanted to do. left a fifteen year career in corporate administration to come to Clearmind to follow her dreams of becoming a counsellor.In the process, she found herself.

Satu’s now specializes in Grief and Loss Counselling, Life Transition Counselling and Life Purpose and Personal Growth Counselling. She has personally worked in all these areas for herself and brings that personal experience and understanding to her clients. She has learned to combine her many business talents with heart, soul, and spirit; all the while learning and teaching how to move through life with balance, integrity, faith and magnitude. Satu brings all her gifts to her work at Clearmind, her shamanic healing workshops, and to her counselling practice. She mixes her dynamic skills as a counsellor with a natural intuition and compassion to nurture and facilitate people through their challenges to find the peace, happiness and fulfillment they require to live their own unlimited life!

This Transpersonal Counsellor Training program is suitable for, but not limited to, an individual and/or group counselling career. Students choosing to take the full program, for the purpose of beginning their counselling career, qualify to apply for registration with the CPCA as ‘Registered Professional Counsellors’ and will receive a Diploma in ‘Transpersonal Counselling Psychology’. Professionals already working in the field may benefit from our program’s ‘physician heal thyself’ approach, and from learning a cohesive, powerful transpersonal model.

Practicum hours are accumulated in-house, making Clearmind’s PRAC for Life program the best value for money in the counselling training industry. We have a sustained track record of 85% of our graduates becoming Registered Professional Counsellors and working in the helping professions.

PRAC for Life can also be taken as a personal development course for anyone interested in experiencing a greater sense of self awareness, purpose, as well as building communication and leadership skills. Students in this stream of the program do not write exams, and receive certificates of completion at the end of each year they choose to take. The qualities and skills that make effective, responsible counsellors are the same qualities that make effective, responsible human beings.

Established in 1992, the intention of the PRAC for Life Program was to create a counsellor training program that would accomplish the following goals:

1) To have the students experience the emotional territory that they would have their future clients experience in the course of therapy.

2) To include, as well as move beyond, mainstream psychology. To add spiritual and metaphysical perspectives to fully understand the dimensions of the human condition.

Clearmind International is founded on the principle that the Universe is a friendly place and that behind, beyond or beneath all behavior lies positive intention. Therefore, whether the student is embarking on a genealogical study of their family of origin, exploring relationship dynamics, or coming to grips with their own inner world, the purpose is the same: to discover the friendliness that exists outside of a disbelieving core belief system.

Propelled by the principles of A Course in Miracles and incorporating the methodology of experiential therapies as well as the latest body/mind perspectives, the student not only develops a thorough understanding of the complexity and intrigue of human dynamics, but comes face to face with his/her own. PRAC for Life thus has become not only an academic adventure but an adventure of Mind, Body and Soul as well.

Initially the student begins the program following the curriculum of the course. The program adjusts itself as students become aware of their own personal curriculum that emerges within the course. The instructors then reposition themselves supporting the student in taking responsibility for the student’s own unique personal curriculum as well as leading them in the collective curriculum. This may be the most unique feature of this training.

This counsellor training program offers not only a comprehensive theoretical study of the understanding and mapping of the landscape of human dynamics, but also a rich, exciting, intense, yet playful, journey into the discovery of the tapestry of the authentic self.

PRAC for Life is designed to build on the foundation of the previous year, moving from a focus on self in year 1, to relationship in year 2, to leadership in year 3. The skills and theory taught are psychological and spiritual in nature, and can assist the student to function better personally and professionally (through improved interpersonal relationship and leadership skills). Our unique Transpersonal Systems Theory emphasizes embracing your personal mythology and finding a sense of your unique place in the universe. Students are free to choose to take only 1 year, 2 years, or the complete 3 year program (3 years is required for CPCA applicants). Students may also choose to take a break between years. A signficant aim of the program is to assist the student to meet their own personal and professional goals.

More details – http://clearmind.com/counsellor-training.php