Education & Training
Learning is at the heart of BSAP.
Our educational programmes are designed to make Analytical Psychology accessible to those encountering it for the first time, while also supporting the continuing development of practitioners, educators, researchers, and those seeking greater depth in their engagement with Jungian thought.
Whether your interest is personal, academic, or professional, BSAP offers opportunities to learn within a community that values reflection, dialogue, and lifelong inquiry.
Our Approach to Learning
At BSAP, learning is an ongoing process of inquiry, reflection, and engagement with ideas, experience, and dialogue.
Our programmes encourage participants to explore Analytical Psychology through multiple lenses, including theory, clinical practice, mythology, literature, philosophy, religion, culture, the arts, and lived experience. We value thoughtful discussion, diverse perspectives, and the gradual deepening of understanding over time.
As an Indian Jungian society, BSAP also seeks to create meaningful conversations between Analytical Psychology and India's rich symbolic, philosophical, artistic, and contemplative traditions, while remaining grounded in the integrity of both.
What We Offer
Our courses provide structured opportunities to study Analytical Psychology at different stages of learning. Designed for both newcomers and experienced practitioners, they combine conceptual understanding with opportunities for reflection, discussion, and application. Courses may include introductory programmes, short certification courses, thematic explorations, advanced study, and specialised areas of Jungian thought.
Workshops offer focused explorations of specific themes, concepts, or areas of practice. They provide opportunities for experiential learning, dialogue, and engagement with contemporary questions in Analytical Psychology.
Reading Groups bring participants together to study foundational and contemporary texts in Analytical Psychology. Through shared reading and discussion, participants engage deeply with Jung's writings and the work of later Jungian thinkers, while exploring the relevance of these ideas to contemporary life and practice.
Study Circles create spaces for collaborative inquiry around particular themes, questions, or areas of interest. These gatherings encourage sustained exploration, shared reflection, and the exchange of ideas within a supportive learning community.
Dreams have always been central to Analytical Psychology. They offer a symbolic language through which the psyche expresses itself, inviting reflection, dialogue, and deeper understanding. BSAP creates opportunities to engage with dreams through Dream Circles, workshops, seminars, and other learning experiences. These spaces introduce participants to Jungian approaches to dreams while encouraging careful observation, symbolic exploration, and shared inquiry within a respectful and thoughtfully facilitated setting.
BSAP supports the professional development of therapists and practitioners through supervision opportunities that encourage reflective practice, ethical awareness, and continuing clinical growth. Supervision is offered in alignment with the Society's educational objectives and the broader standards of Analytical Psychology.
Our Training Philosophy
For those pursuing formal analytic training, BSAP understands training as a process of development that engages the whole person. Drawing on our Foundational Framework and the Handbook for Jungian Training, our approach reflects the philosophy of individuation: developing an increasing capacity for interiority and relationship, while holding personal and professional development as part of one continuing process.
The Four Pillars
Ongoing, weekly engagement with one's own unconscious life, sustained throughout training.
The study of Jung's thought and its contemporary development, delivered through seminars, colloquia, and intensives.
Individual and group reflection on live clinical work.
BSAP's own fourth pillar. A trainee who deepens alone has only half completed the journey.
Across these four pillars, training engages a broad field of study and self-inquiry, including clinical thinking, human development and trauma, the structure and dynamics of the psyche, dreams and symbols, myth and the arts, the socio-cultural context of practice, mind-body relationships, the ethics of the analytic relationship, and the psycho-spiritual dimensions of individuation.
Principles That Guide Us
Named skills exist to protect a trainee's individuation, never to replace it.
Worked-through personal experience is itself a source of clinical capacity.
Supervisory, collegial, and institutional perspectives keep the work honest, at every level.
Like the people it trains, BSAP revisits its own curriculum and governance over time, rather than only in crisis.
IAAP Training Pathway
BSAP supports individuals who wish to pursue formal training in Analytical Psychology through the IAAP Router Programme.
As an Affiliated Developing Group of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), Zürich, the Society provides information, guidance, educational opportunities, and a supportive learning community for those undertaking the journey towards becoming an IAAP Jungian Analyst.
The pathway unfolds over three years and six modules, punctuated by three intensive experiential workshops. The first year lays the foundations of Jung's life and thought and the architecture of the psyche. The second turns to psychic development, individuation, and the analytic relationship. The third addresses clinical practice, cultural dimensions, and experiential and creative methods such as dream work, active imagination, and sandplay.
Admission is based on a relevant clinical qualification, a period of personal analysis prior to the screening interview, and a shared commitment to the IAAP Code of Ethics.
Routers progress through defined stages, from Provisional Router to Router, Provisional Member, and ultimately Individual Membership of the IAAP, over a training period of up to six years.
Throughout this journey, formal study is held alongside personal analysis, supervision, clinical practice, and participation in the training community, reflecting BSAP's understanding of analytic training as a process of both professional formation and individuation.
Information on current eligibility requirements, application procedures, and training requirements is available through BSAP and the IAAP.