Trainings

1. VBC Training to Become a Licensed VBC Counselor

If you are qualified in the social or therapeutic field and are interested in becoming a VBC Counselor, we warmly invite you to join our network and apply for training at our Academy.

With VBC and our MHPSS offerings, we provide:

A culturally sensitive, values-based method—Value-Based Counseling—that does not pathologize but instead builds an empathetic, symmetrical relationship with those seeking support.
Training that sharpens self-awareness and broadens horizons.
A career with purpose, offering many opportunities for self-expression and a large community space.

We continuously offer courses for training to become licensed VBC Counselors for psychologists, social workers, and educators who want to work in a humanitarian context.

Find more information here.

2. Training for Professionals Working with Refugees and People with Migration Backgrounds

Building Bridges in Exciting Times: Embracing Differences and Positive Development

This training focuses on the challenges of communication in an intercultural context: Is what we hear truly meant the way we understand it?

Additionally, it addresses social roles, cultural and social identity as a construct of values from different societies: Who am I today in this society?

And most importantly: How do we personally find a good balance between our social and professional commitments and our personal private lives with all their demands and needs?

Alongside our content-based work, we offer movement meditation in the morning, one-on-one conversations, massage, sauna, a Coolness Training, and refreshing walks in nature.

Group Size: Maximum of 10 participants

Start: Every Monday at 2:00 PM, Ends Friday at 12:00 PM

Building Bridges in Exciting Times
May 12, 2025 – May 16, 2025

Embracing differences and positive development. A training for professionals working with refugees and people with migration backgrounds.

Facilitators:

Inge Missmahl, Founder and Managing Director of IPSO gGmbH, Analytical Psychologist (C.G. Jung)
Barbara Roth, Educationalist with a diploma, has been working in youth welfare for young people with disabilities for 35 years (§ 35a KJHG, unaccompanied minors)
Florian Nägele, Streetworker, Coolness Trainer
Margit Mattes, Massage Therapist specializing in traditional Hawaiian Lomi Lomi healing treatment

Accommodation Optional at the Seminar House:

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Full board / Comfort single room with balcony and bathroom
Double room with bathroom

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