Certificate Programs
The Townsend Institute at Concordia University Irvine invites you to study directly with Dr. John Townsend and Townsend Institute Fellows who have decades of experience, and know how to bring healing, hope, and restoration through intentional and engaging coursework. The Townsend Institute has earned a reputation for its relational approach to begin with character growth as a building block for positive change. The Institute offers a Coaching Certificate, an Organizational Leadership Certificate, and a Competence and Character Growth Model Certificate.
Through the Organizational Leadership Certificate program you will:
- Grow your leadership toolbox.
- Extend your effectiveness in your Competence - increasing your skills, strengths and expertise
- Improve your effectiveness through your Character - those internal abilities that drive your level of competence.
- Gain highly marketable skills that businesses are seeking in employees.
Through the Competence and Character Growth Model Certificate program you will:
- Understand how treatment goes beyond symptom removal to reshaping the individual, couple, or family, in profound and lasting ways that are transformative.
- Access the transforming power of relationship, emotions and cognitions by creating experiences that build new character structure.
- Discover the therapeutic skills that “crack the code” for growth and healing in clients.
- Gain diagnostic skills to determine which therapeutic approach will be most effective based on a person’s internal character structure.
- Apply the latest neurological research on the healing process through a biblical lens.
- Master treatment modalities such as depth psychology, family systems, cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment therapy, psychopharmacology, and positive psychology.
Policies can be found here.
Professional Coaching Certificate
Professional Organizational Leadership Certificate
Advanced Organizational Leadership Certificate
Competence and Character Growth Model - Basic Certificate
Competence and Character Growth Model - Advanced Certificate
Professional Coaching Certificate
Not available to students who have completed the Master of Arts in Executive Coaching and Consulting.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| EXCC 600 | Personal Development Skills Process Group | 3 |
| EXCC 612 | Executive Coaching and Character Development | 3 |
| EXCC 613 | Developing the Executive Coaching Relationship | 3 |
| EXCC 614 | Advanced Executive Coaching | 3 |
| EXCC 621 | Coaching Mentorship | 3 |
| Total Units | 15 | |
Professional Organizational Leadership Certificate
Not available to students who have completed the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership. Students who have completed the MA in Executive Coaching and Consulting must take six (6) unique units for the certificate.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ORGL 600 | Personal Development Skills Process Group | 3 |
| ORGL 601 | Leadership Theory and Character Development | 3 |
| Choose 2 of the following courses: | 6 | |
| Building Healthy Organizational Culture | 3 | |
| Mindful Leadership: Neuroscience and Emotional Intelligence | 3 | |
| Leading Change and Motivation | 3 | |
| Team Building and Conflict Management | 3 | |
| Ethical Decision Making and Cultural Foundations | 3 | |
| Effective Strategy and Execution | 3 | |
| Servant Leadership | 3 | |
| Essential Communication Strategies | 3 | |
| Total Units | 12 | |
Advanced Organizational Leadership Certificate
Not available to students who have completed the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership. Students who have completed the MA in Executive Coaching and Consulting must take nine (9) unique units for the certificate.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ORGL 600 | Personal Development Skills Process Group | 3 |
| ORGL 601 | Leadership Theory and Character Development | 3 |
| Choose 4 of the following courses: | 12 | |
| Building Healthy Organizational Culture | 3 | |
| Mindful Leadership: Neuroscience and Emotional Intelligence | 3 | |
| Leading Change and Motivation | 3 | |
| Team Building and Conflict Management | 3 | |
| Ethical Decision Making and Cultural Foundations | 3 | |
| Effective Strategy and Execution | 3 | |
| Servant Leadership | 3 | |
| Essential Communication Strategies | 3 | |
| Total Units | 18 | |
Competence and Character Growth Model - Basic Certificate*
Not available to students who have completed the Master of Arts in Counseling.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| COUN 600 | Personal Development Skills Process Group | 3 |
| COUN 601 | Human Growth and Development | 3 |
| COUN 602 | Theories of Counseling | 3 |
| Choose 1 of the following courses: | 3 | |
| Theory and Practice of Groups | 3 | |
| Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues | 3 | |
| Foundations and Contextual Dimensions of Mental Health Counseling | 3 | |
| Social and Cultural Foundations | 3 | |
| Models and Application of Integration | 3 | |
| Foundations of Crisis and Trauma Counseling | 3 | |
| Career and Lifestyle Development | 3 | |
| Foundations of Addiction Counseling | 3 | |
| Methods and Practice of Research and Evaluation | 3 | |
| Counseling Skills and Techniques | 3 | |
| Psychopharmacology | 3 | |
| Christian Spirituality and Theology in Counseling | 3 | |
| Foundations of Marriage and Family Therapy | 3 | |
| Level I Clinical Training: Gottman Method Couples Therapy | 3 | |
| Level II Clinical Training: Gottman Method Couples Therapy | 3 | |
| Foundations of Play Therapy | 3 | |
| Human Sexuality | 3 | |
| Total Units | 12 | |
Competence and Character Growth Model - Advanced Certificate*
Not available to students who have completed the Master of Arts in Counseling.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| COUN 600 | Personal Development Skills Process Group | 3 |
| COUN 601 | Human Growth and Development | 3 |
| COUN 602 | Theories of Counseling | 3 |
| COUN 610 | Townsend Model Theory and Application | 3 |
| Choose 2 of the following courses: | 6 | |
| Theory and Practice of Groups | 3 | |
| Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues | 3 | |
| Foundations and Contextual Dimensions of Mental Health Counseling | 3 | |
| Social and Cultural Foundations | 3 | |
| Models and Application of Integration | 3 | |
| Foundations of Crisis and Trauma Counseling | 3 | |
| Career and Lifestyle Development | 3 | |
| Foundations of Addiction Counseling | 3 | |
| Methods and Practice of Research and Evaluation | 3 | |
| Psychopharmacology | 3 | |
| Christian Spirituality and Theology in Counseling | 3 | |
| Foundations of Marriage and Family Therapy | 3 | |
| Level I Clinical Training: Gottman Method Couples Therapy | 3 | |
| Level II Clinical Training: Gottman Method Couples Therapy | 3 | |
| Foundations of Play Therapy | 3 | |
| Human Sexuality | 3 | |
| Counseling Skills and Techniques | 3 | |
| Total Units | 18 | |
| * | A grade of B or better in all coursework is required for the certificate. |