Tobias is founded upon the principle that both individual healing and collective evolution begin with an individual’s willingness to engage in self development involving the ‘whole’ person, encompassing body, mind, spirit and environment.

Tobias seeks to become a model for how an educational institution can support the emergence of more ‘conscious’ individuals who aspire towards authenticity and who can build communities and be connected to their environment. Our goal is to foster a new generation of integrated practitioners and thereby bring psycho-spiritual work into the mainstream of therapeutic practice.

We place a high value on the sense of community generated within the student and graduate body.

For such a community to be viable, students take on an attitude of personal responsibility for their self development, so that they become models of exemplary practice for their clients. Tobias seeks to become a model for how an educational institution can support the emergence of more ‘conscious’ individuals who aspire towards authenticity and who can build communities and be connected to their environment. Our goal is to foster a new generation of integrated practitioners and thereby bring psycho-spiritual work into the mainstream of therapeutic practice.

Because most of our intake are mature students, we assume they have significant life experience. This experience is then informed by transpersonal knowledge, so that the counsellor / therapist develops his or her own unique style and emphasis.

Our students leave with a compassion for self and others and the desire to serve in their communities.

For more extensive reading see Vision and Values