The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given full accreditation of Post Graduate Diploma in Psycho-Spiritual Trauma Healing, and the Master’s Degree in Psycho-Spiritual Therapy for the Nigerian campus of the Psycho-Spiritual Institute of Lux Terra Leadership Foundation.
The Executive Director, Lux Terra Leadership Foundation, Rev. Fr. George Ehusani, who disclosed this at a briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, said the institute will run in affiliation to Veritas University, Abuja.
He said: “I am also happy to announce that the first set of 13 candidates for the two-year master of arts degree in Psycho-Spiritual Therapy, have resumed their studies in this temporary campus, and are here present today; and that the first set of 30 candidates for the one-year postgraduate diploma in Psycho-Spiritual Trauma Healing, have resumed their studies too.”
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He said between 2016 and now, the institute has also been running a weeklong certificate course in Basic Psycho-Spiritual Trauma Healing Skills, for medical and para-medical workers, humanitarian workers, psychologists and counsellors, pastors and imams, teachers and social workers, emergency relief workers, functionaries of drug rehabilitation centres, and correctional centres, as well as sundry volunteers, who, by the nature of their work, interact daily with depressed, distressed and traumatised persons, and persons in other difficult situations of an emotional and psychological nature.
Fr. Ehusani said the Psycho-Spiritual Institute will use up-to-date psychotherapeutic tools, approaches and methodologies for the healing of troubled minds, draw from the best resources in religious, and spiritual traditions, and take into cognizance the peculiar African socio-historical and cultural context, to offer high-quality academic training and professional exposure, for those who will function as psycho-spiritual therapists in institutions such as hospitals, hospices or elderly care homes, drug rehabilitation centres among others in Africa.
He further said the postgraduate diploma is designed for persons from diverse professional backgrounds, but the mode of delivery of the course is hybrid, meaning that most of the courses will be online (or virtual), with no more than two or three weeks of residency per semester.
The master’s degree programme is a two-year (or four semesters) fully residential programme, involving not only academic and professional training, but also such elements aimed at intense personal psycho-spiritual transformation as one-on-one counselling, spiritual direction, and growth therapy groups.
“We believe that at the end of their programme of studies, our candidates would have been sufficiently equipped with knowledge, skills and tools to facilitate the healing and rehabilitation of troubled minds and spirits, using a fully integrated psycho-spiritual approach,” he said.
The Rev. Fr said the establishment of the training programmes, has become an urgent imperative, considering that the wave of secularism sweeping across the world today notwithstanding, most African people remain deeply religious, such that one cannot successfully address their psycho-emotional challenges without taking into cognizance their religious, spiritual and cultural realities.
In his remarks, the Vice Chancellor of Veritas University, Abuja, Rev Fr. Prof. Hyacinth Ichoku, expressed appreciation saying, perhaps this is the first time a private university is approved to be affiliated with an institution like this.
He said this particular institute is quite unique in the sense that it has its curriculum that does not exist in NUC programmes.
“It’s also courageous on the path of NUC to see that this is also recognised as part of the training programme in a Nigerian university.
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