CIT Global Training Online

The CIT Global Training is a self-paced, online training in Integral Psychotherapy intended for therapists, therapists-in-training, and coaches. It is grounded in Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and brings to participants Dr. Forman’s several-decades-long effort to apply Integral Theory directly in the clinical realm. It can be commenced at any time – space-permitting – as the format is entirely individualized. It can be completed in 6-to-12 months.

The CIT Global program is divided into four modules and includes ten individual consultations with Dr. Forman. Upon completion of the program, students will receive certification as Certified Integral Therapists (Level 1, Practitioner level) and have the option to proceed to the Advanced Training (Level 2, Advanced Practitioner Level).

The four modules of the course are as follows:

Module One is focused on quadrants and on integrative foundations of psychotherapy
Module Two is focused on levels/stage-assessments and interventions
Module Three is focused on states, specifically traumatic states and spiritual states
Module Four is focused on diversity, sexuality, and types

In addition to the four modules, the program is highlighted by the following:

Online learning
Self-paced format
10 one-hour consultation calls with Dr. Forman (via video conference)
Recorded lectures for all topics
An electronic copy of A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy
An electronic copy of Advancing in Integral Psychotherapy (unpublished manuscript)
Extensive reading material for all topics
Students who complete all of the elements – including a final case presentation – will receive certification as CIT Level 1 Practitioners and will be listed on our worldwide therapist directory
A program cost of $1500

Please see below for more information about the program! For more information on program finances, please visit our registration page.

Free Consultation with Dr. Forman

If you are interested in the CIT Global Training and would like to find out if it is right for you, Dr. Forman is currently offering free half-hour phone consultations to discuss. To request a consultation time, please send an email entitled “CIT consultation” to drmarkforman@outlook.com.

Personalization and Integration: Ongoing Throughout Year

This aspect of the CIT Global Training will serve to initiate participants into the program as well as help them deepen their learning throughout the year. Participants will begin with an individual consultation with Dr. Forman that will focus on their goals, strengths, and interests as therapists and/or coaches in preparation for the program followed by nine additional consultations. These consultations will cover individualized questions as well as case consultation material.

Towards the end of the course, participants will be asked to offer a formal case applying the material. The central focus of this aspect of the Global Training is to allow participants to integrate the material more deeply and and to learn to apply it in a way that works with their specialization(s) and population(s).

MODULE ONE: The Four Quadrants and the Structures of Individual Psychotherapy

The Four Quadrant model is the central element in all of Integral Theory. When we understand it, we are able to approach the whole of a client’s life experience with openness, compassion, and understanding. In this module, participants will learn how to assess clients using a Four Quadrant framework and how to apply Four Quadrant awareness in psychotherapy and in the therapeutic relationship.

This module will also introduce attendees to core principles developed within the psychotherapeutic integration movement. These principles will help us orientate towards commons elements or structures that show up in almost all schools of individual psychotherapy. We will learn ways to conceptualize the therapeutic relationship, individual sessions, and the process of change in a way that will allow participants to learn from and nondefensively integrate almost any form of psychotherapy they wish to.

MODULE TWO: Stages of Development: Fostering Complexity, Nurturing Maturity

Integral Theory recognizes the centrality of levels or stages of development, from the earliest childhood stages to most expansive stages of transpersonal development which may occur later in life. By understanding development, we are much more able to attune to the client and apply the right interventions at the right time in therapy.

In this module, we will learn and practice recognizing the cues and indicators of client development – developmental assessment – using a variety of specific pointers, conceptual tools, and learning analogies that have been created by Dr. Forman. We will focus on what we need as therapists to “support” and what we need to “challenge” with clients at each stage. We will also emphasize the complex relationship between mental health issues and identity development – all the ways in which growth in identity can intermix with issues of mental health, trauma, personality disorders, and addictive and compulsive behavior.

MODULE THREE: Spirituality and Trauma: The Heights and Depths of the Psyche

In the first part of this module we will explore a number of concepts relating to spirituality and spiritual state experience in practice: including ascending and descending spirituality, spiritual bypass, psychedelics, and the pre-trans fallacy. We will also talk about how to assess the intensity of spiritual states, and how to address the disruptive as well as growth-catalyzing impact that spiritual states have on clients.

In the second part of this module, we will explore the reality of traumatic experience and the ways that shapes and impacts the psyche – referencing our own experiences as well as pertinent case material. We will gain exposure to the various ways to recognize and treat trauma, focusing on the concepts of reworking trauma as well as practicing disidentification from traumatic bodily feelings and cognitions.

MODULE FOUR: Gender, Diversity, and Sexuality: Know the Other, Know the Self

In this module, we will focus on learning to expand our compassionate embrace and clinical abilities to include the enormous diversity present in our world. We will engage in exercises that highlight the diversity in our own lives, and begin to give ourselves touch points to the diversity outside of us. We will focus on the strengths of postmodern approaches to diversity, while also highlighting their weaknesses, pointing a way to a deeper embrace of both sameness and difference that we can bring to our work with clients. This module is focused primarily on understanding types – cultural/ethnic and psychosexual – that give such shape to our own and our client’s lives.