• The courses in our Association usually follow the structure of the academic calendar: October – June (exceptionally July).

• Their organization depends on the approval of The Association’s Board for the given academic year, which means that they are not organized on an annual basis.

• If it is decided to organize a course in October of the current year, you can expect to find the necessary information on the website in the section COURSES and on our social media pages during the summer time.

• In order to join our courses, it is necessary to be/become an Active Sympathiser of The Association.

• For more information, access the section: SYMPATHISER, What does it mean to be an Active Sympathiser of The Association?, What are the benefits for the Active Sympathiser of The Association?

• Before sending us a request, we recommend you to become familiar with the universe of our field and method by listening to the interviews in the section: BROADCAST

• Yes. Our courses and individual training sessions are also held online.

• No. The courses represent a method of self-work, a vision of life, a way of living in the world and interacting with others, aspects that require a longer time and a constant practice in order to achieve results.

• Yes. Our courses have been accessed by priests/monks/nuns from the beginning. However, it should be taken into account that these personal development courses entail exercises applied to oneself and which can be: individual, in pairs, in sub-groups or in the large group.

• Also, it should be taken into account that these courses are usually organized during a Saturday, once a month, in the timeframe 9 – 17, time which should be allocated only for this activity. The courses’ calendar is organized depending on the main religious holidays and is habitually announced one year in advance, so that you can plan your attendance in due time. At the moment, the courses are held exclusively online and this entails the presence of a computer with a good internet connection and audio-video functionality.

• In order to apply for the course, access: When will other courses be organized and how can I apply?

• Over time, we received countless requests in this respect, in the country and abroad, and we responded to some of them in the form of workshops.

• Experience showed us that our Association can address this kind of request based on an application in which the applicants describe their identified needs clearly. This allows us to create tailor-made activities and find efficient solutions in terms of intervention and time, according to the needs of the applicants.

• For more information, access: How can I collaborate with The Association?

• For more information, access the section:TRAIN THE TRAINER

• For four years (2014-2018) the Association provided Specialization and Counseling Courses for specialists (from the field of psychology, theology, medicine). Starting with the summer of 2018 these courses were suspended, and the new Association’s Board modified the accreditation procedure of trainers within our Association (for details access the section: COUNSELING - TRAIN THE TRAINER).

• The Association is committed towards the patristic principle according to which: ’You cannot become doctor to another unless you are doctor to yourself’, a guiding principle and an elimination criterion in training specialists in our field.

• The courses held between 2014-2018 have a pronounced applicative character and besides learning patristic psychology notions, they also aim at acquiring of inner skills and abilities, both for the personal development of the specialist and for the training in our field of activity.

•  Following these courses, in the absence of a personal praxis of the attendees, which entails to apply the newly acquired knowledge first of all in your own life, none of the persons who attended the courses qualified to receive accreditation from our Association in the period 2014-2018. 

• For details regarding the new accreditation procedure of trainers within our Association, access the section: COUNSELING - TRAIN THE TRAINER.

• Attending any of our courses does NOT automatically lead to obtaining a participation diploma or any other form of certification. Applying in your own life the knowledge shared by the President of our Association, Dr. Psih. Simona Ciobanu, represents the certification within vivid of the correct completion of our Specialization Courses.

• The training/certification of specialists within our Association follows the rute described in the section: COUNSELING - TRAIN THE TRAINER

• Regardless of the type of the academic background currently held, all persons that wish to benefit from The Association expertise should become Active Sympathiser (access section SYMPATHISER).

• The Praxis Volunteers are recruited from among the Active Sympathisers depending on the level of commitment towards their personal praxis (access How can I become a Praxis Volunteer?). In a further stage, they may become members of The Association based on request and an internal evaluation.

• In order to take part in the projects of The Association it is necessary to be/become an Active Sympathiser.

• For more information access the section: SYMPATHISER, What does it mean to be an Active Sympathiser of The Association?, What are the benefits for the Active Sympathiser of The Association?

• Collaboration invitations of any kind, for editorial purpose or for participation in conferences/ summer camps/ symposiums/ colloquium/ projects/ courses, etc. in the country and/or abroad, will be addressed in writing to The Association’s Board, at the email address: contact@patristicpsychology.com

• Any collaboration request must include the following information: 1. type of project (publications/ conferences / courses/ workshops, etc.); 2. identified needs; 3. beneficiaries; 4. duration; 5. frequency; 6. place of development; 7. costs involved.

• Please take into account that The Association works with an agenda organized at least one year in advance, and the possibility of responding to new invitations depends on:

1. The type of project that is proposed;
2. The required time for its preparation and implementation;
3. Coherence with The Association strategy for the current year;
4. The project’s costs which are covered by the applicant and those which are entailed by The Association;
5. Time availability of The Association.