By Daniel Tyokua
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved two programmes for Lux Terra Leadership Foundation, an affiliate of Veritas University, Abuja.
Executive Director of the Foundation, George Ehusani disclosed this during a press briefing at the institute in Abuja.
He said it has secured the approval of the Commission for the accreditation of its two programmes, namely Post Graduate Diploma in Psycho-Spiritual Trauma Healing and the Master’s Degree in Psycho-Spiritual Therapy.
Ehusani, said the 21st century human society is burdened by multiple existential crises that exert heavy toll on the psycho-emotional and spiritual well-being of the generality of people.
He explained that Psycho-Spiritual Institute will use up-to-date psychotherapeutic tools, approaches and methodologies for the healing of troubled minds, and will offer high quality academic training and professional exposure, for those who will function as Psycho-Spiritual Therapists in institutions as hospitals, hospices or elderly care homes, drug rehabilitation centres, prisons or correctional centres, schools and colleges, counselling centres, religious congregations and religious formation houses.
He said: “In January 2023, we resolved to launch the Nigeria campus of the Institute. So, we started the process of affiliating the Institute with Veritas University, Abuja, and submitting the two postgraduate programmes of the Institute to the National Universities Commission for approval and accreditation, namely, the Post Graduate Diploma in Psycho-Spiritual Trauma Healing, and the Master’s Degree in Psycho-Spiritual Therapy.
“This press conference has been called to announce to the general public that the Nigeria Campus of the Institute has now been established, that the Institute has been affiliated to Veritas University, Abuja, and that the two postgraduate programmes of the Institute have (as at September 24, 2024), received full accreditation from the National Universities Commission.
“I am also happy to announce that the first set of 13 candidates for the two-year master of arts degree in Psycho-Spiritual Therapy, have resumed their studies in this temporary campus, and are here present today, and that the first set of 30 candidates for the one- year postgraduate diploma in Psycho-Spiritual Trauma Healing, have resumed their studies and are there present today.
“I must not forget to mention that between 2016 and now our Institute has also been running a weeklong certificate course in Basic Psycho- Spiritual Trauma Healing Skills, for medical and para-medical workers, humanitarian workers, psychologists and counsellors, pastors and imams, teachers and social workers, emergency relief workers, functionaries of drug rehabilitation centres, and correctional centres, as well as sundry volunteers, who, by the nature of their work, interact daily with depressed, distressed and traumatized persons, and persons in other difficult situations of an emotional and psychological nature.
“The postgraduate diploma is designed for the above categories of persons from diverse professional backgrounds, but the mode of delivery of the course is hybrid, meaning that most of the course will be online (or virtual), with no more than two or three weeks of residency per semester.
“The master’s degree programme on the other hand is a two year (or four semester) fully residential programme, involving not only academic and professional training, but also such elements aimed at intense personal psycho-spiritual transformation as one-on-one counselling, spiritual direction, and growth therapy groups. We believe that at the end of their programme of studies, our candidates would have been sufficiently equipped with knowledge, skills and tools to facilitate the healing and rehabilitation of troubled minds and spirits, using a fully integrated psycho-spiritual approach”
