Faith in counselling course
Course date (online): 30 -31 May 2025 | Public fee: R1860 (Special community rates) | Register here.
Schedule
Friday
13:30 Check-in
14:00 – 17:00 Session 1
17:30 – 20:30 Session 2
Saturday
8:30 Check-in
9:00 – 12:00 Session 3
12:30 – 15:30 Session 4
If you know everything you want to know about the course then proceed to register here (or at the bottom of the page). Use the reference number provided and send proof of payment to the email address provided. Do subscribe to our email list in the meantime to receive up-to-date information about our courses. Our flagship programme in pastoral narrative therap (for 2026/27) accepts enrollment from September 2025. Full details below.
Join our learning platform
It is important for you to join the following group where we communicate, discuss, and provide the course material. You will have access to the group up to a month after the programme (longer for some audiences – see below). Recordings of the event will be embedded in the online group where participants can discuss the topic in forums up to a month after the course. As part of joining the group you will need to create a free profile on our learning website. Our lecturers are looking forward to engage you there.
It is important to join the learning group. All final communication regarding certification and the Coram Deo certificate itself will be made available via the ‘course tab’ of the learning group in the week after live presentation.
About Faith in counselling
Many societies today honour the role that faith plays in our lives. People are however not sure how to draw on faith experiences and our relationship with God to use it in a practical way when helping people. Furthermore, many practices that people assume to be helpful can have a quite detrimental effect.
Working with faith in helping relationships are influenced by so many ways people think and practice their faith. We need to find respectful unassuming ways to work with faith that honours peoples belief without putting them in boxes or expect of them to believe in the way that we do as practitioners (counsellors, leaders, or anyone who is a believer).
For who is the course
- Pastoral counsellors, narrative therapists, counsellors, psychologists, coaches, mentors, leaders, managers, teachers, pastors;
- Anyone with an interest in exploring the role of faith in our human helping relationships, mainly in counselling but not exclusively.
- Those in the Coram Deo community registered for doing the annual CPD series or combined practitioner programme.
Topics
Topics might change slightly each year depending on the specific lecturer but usually covers:
- In conversation with religion, faith and spirituality
- What do I believe and why do I believe that (Faith Creed)
- Interacting with religion, faith and spirituality
- A Participating Narrative Pastoral Theology and Praxis – in Construction
- Rituals, Symbols, Ceremonies & Spiritual Practices
- The Spirituality of the Therapist in the Counselling Room
- Sacred Conversations
- Destructive Spirituality
Presenters
Drs Jo Viljoen and Anne-Lize Koen
Fee
Note that the fees mentioned exclude the non-compulsory university certification fee which is an additional approximate fee of R200-400 that should be made available upon request.
Payment
Bank details:
Name: Coram Deo NPC
ABSA Cheque account number: 406 725 8321
Branch Code: 335 545 (Hatfield)
Payment reference: FIC25+Surname+Initial e.g.: FIC25 VenterM and email proof of payment to registrations-fic@coramdeo.co.za
Accessing the course
A secure link to live video participation will be sent to registered persons. Here you will find tips to make the best of your online learning experience.
Accreditation
All courses are recognised by the University of Pretoria (through the Enterprises division and the Centre for Faith and Community of the Faculty of Theology and Religion). courses are also fully acknowledged by Signo Professional Association for CPD points. Coram Deo students who wish to have these points allocated to their portfolio can register with SignoPro. https://forms.gle/B7f4mBtDbxFit3FN7
Note that participants may choose to do this programme as a Successfully completed course or an Attendance course. The successfully completed certificate issued by UP requires an additional reflective assignment. Your lecturer might substitute the assignment with an in-class assignment. The reflective assignment carries 3 additional CPD points with SignoPro.
Attendance certificates are awarded by the University of Pretoria Enterprises division and requires an additional fee of R400-R800 that is paid separately when required. This fee is waived for students enrolled for all the CPD modules (COP or CPD). For those enrolled for the full CPD series or the Combined Practitioner Supervision programme the certificate fees are included but a reflective assignment must be completed. Unfortunately it takes quite some time for UP to issue certificates but on our end your Coram Deo certificate confirms that you have completed the course.