COURSE OVERVIEW

The Wholeness in Healing Series – Program Overview

The Wholeness in Healing Series draws upon psychological cognition, God’s past works of inner healing in people's lives, spiritual renewal, and biblical teaching. It integrates elements of spiritual formation, psychology, and Christian faith, with a strong emphasis on practice and application. From these elements, a comprehensive and systematic framework of inner healing concepts has been developed. The purpose of this framework is to help individuals reorganize their past experiences and examine their present selves, leading to a holistic integration that enables deeper self-understanding, a fuller knowledge of God, and the ability to live out an abundant life in Christ.

The Wholeness in Healing Series is divided into seven stages, with each stage using different works by Dr. Katherine Kot as the basis for the curriculum including: Emotions Quartet – Surpass Potential, Journey Through the Wilderness – Emotional Renewal in Life, Life Transformational Healing – Walking with Jesus Through Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Pain, and Life After Retirement.

Level 1 – The Emotions Quartet

After many years of clinical experience and integrative development, the Rapha Foundation has launched a newly redesigned Level 1 curriculum. This level incorporates new elements and covers five major themes: Healing, Focusing, Expression, Conflict, and Trauma.

The Focusing course helps participants experience emotions more deeply and become aware of how emotions influence cognitive processes, behavioural patterns, and physiological responses, all of which are closely interconnected. Through focusing and somatic experiencing exercises, participants learn to recognize hidden inner emotions and unmet needs, and to practice acceptance and expression.

The Healing course provides detailed explanations of the origins, categories, and regulation of emotions, as well as how to experience inner emotional states, differentiate core emotions (adaptive primary emotions), access one’s inner world through emotion, process painful emotional experiences, and face suffering together with Jesus.

Stage One – Level 1 Courses

101 – Focusing Course
(Revised to require completion of Course 111 as a prerequisite, as students may find Focusing techniques are more challenging to master through online courses)

This course enables participants to experience emotions more deeply and understand how they can affect thoughts, behaviours, and physical responses. Through guided focusing and somatic experiencing exercises, participants are led to discover hidden emotions and inner needs, learning to embrace them with acceptance and express them in healthy ways.

111 – Healing Course

This course helps participants understand how their emotions function, and how to accept, express, transform, and regulate emotions appropriately. It includes lectures and small group sharing, and requires participants to dissect their inner emotional fluctuations and past experiences.

102 – Somatic Experience/Exercises Course

This course aims to help participants develop bodily sensory awareness, enhance emotional sensitivity, allowing the body to have a more authentic communication and interaction with the world. These techniques enable us to live a liberated and fuller life in Christ, giving us the courage to face our inner self and life’s trauma.

103 – Connection Course
(Prerequisite: 101)

Do you find yourself experiencing thoughts, behaviours, or beliefs that feel puzzling, difficult to understand, or seemingly out of sync with other aspects of yourself, yet you are unsure why they exist? These may be fragments of unresolved trauma in your life. When viewed on a surface level, such fragments can be confusing and even hard to accept. This course aims to help participants move beyond the impediments caused by these fragments and to rediscover the stories behind them. Through thoughtful analysis and new insights, participants will learn to regain control over their narratives, allowing them to experience love and life in a new light. The course includes lectures and small-group sharing. Participants will be invited to share their own emotional turmoil and past experiences.

112 – Expression Course
(Prerequisites: 101, 111)

Participants will learn to express emotions authentically and recognize how defensive responses may cause misunderstanding in relationships. The course will also help participants recognize their own behavioral patterns and how they may unconsciously perpetuate past familial trauma in their day-to-day interactions, and how this can also affect their relationship with God.

113 – Jealousy Course
(Prerequisites: 101, 111)

Jealousy is a common human experience and may be regarded as part of human nature, particularly the tendency to compare oneself with others. This course helps participants explore how jealousy influences their lives, enabling them to discover their true selves amid unresolved conflicts and entanglements arising from jealousy. Through examining the underlying causes in jealous relationships, participants are able to gain new insights and engage in self-reflection.

114 – Trauma Course
(Prerequisites: 101, 111)

Human birth signifies entry into a sinful world, surrounded by all forms of brokenness: Overt trauma arises from injuries resulting from experiences within one’s family of origin. Covert trauma, by contrast, originates from the cumulative stress and struggle experienced by the mother during pregnancy, which may influence DNA markers “on”/”off”, resulting in the inheritance of maternal patterns of stress response and coping. Similarly, intergenerational and familial trauma, along with survival-based adaptive patterns from previous generations, may be transmitted to subsequent generations through DNA markers “on”/”off”. Each individual therefore inherits maternal and paternal survival and self-protective patterns, which become the foundational origins of personal life trauma.

This course will assist participants in examining explicit and implicit trauma from their life history, and learning to accept, identify, and embrace their core inner struggles and brokenness, so that life may undergo renewed integration.

115 – Conflict Course
(Prerequisites: 101, 111)

Life is filled with conflict. Human sinfulness places individuals within a survival-oriented environment, and as a result, trauma from the family of origin and inherited survival patterns from previous generations shape our perception of the world and of others as unsafe and potentially harmful. Consequently, interpersonal interaction patterns often become the source of conflict, leaving little space to carefully examine differences or to identify pathways toward mutual benefit. This course will assist participants in identifying their own conflict patterns, understanding the underlying origins of these patterns, and learning how to move toward a biblically grounded, mutually beneficial resolution.

***Important Note: 101 – Focusing and 111 – Healing are foundational courses. Upon completion, participants may choose to proceed to Level 1, 2, or 3.

Level 2 – Journey Through the Wilderness

(Prerequisites: 101, 111)

The Journey Through the Wilderness courses guides participants into deeper spiritual formation by helping them grow in their knowledge of God, strengthen their faith, and honestly engage with their doubts and struggles. Participants learn how to wait on God, discern His will, listen for His voice, offer themselves in surrender, commit their lives to Him, rely on the power of the Holy Spirit, and live out the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

This level includes the following thematic courses: Faith, Waiting, Doubt, Trust, Suffering, and Dedication.

Stage Two – Level 2 Courses

201 – Faith Course

This course explores the roots of weakened faith in God. It helps participants identify and address internal barriers to trust, face hidden fears within the heart, and learn how to take intentional steps of faith.

202 – Waiting Course
(Open to all participants; completion of the Level 1 Focusing and Healing courses are recommended for deeper impact)

This course focuses on the spiritual discipline of waiting upon God’s will. Participants learn how to discern God’s guidance during seasons of waiting and how to navigate anxiety, uncertainty, and confusion when their faith is tested. As waiting continues into deeper stages, intense inner struggles and distrust may surface, even affecting one’s faith and leading to doubts about whether God can truly be trusted. This course helps participants confront the hidden fears behind waiting, and to learn—through experience—a deeper dependence on God and a renewed trust in Him.

203 – Doubt Course

This course addresses the various doubts believers experience toward God that can weaken faith. Participants are guided to become more aware of why and how they doubt, enabling them to remain connected to God, practice waiting upon Him, and rediscover the joy of His presence.

204 – Obedience and Blessing Course

This course explores the challenges of trusting and obeying God. Past disappointments—often by authority figures—may lead to a conscious or unconscious fear of relying and trusting in God, with the fear of being disappointed again. By increasing awareness of these fears, participants learn to seek God’s will in all things, allow the Holy Spirit to lead them into deeper trust, and surrender fully to God’s love, no longer allowing past disappointments to hinder their experience of God’s blessing.

205 – Suffering Course

“Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.” (Job 5:7)

This course examines the nature of suffering: Is suffering unavoidable, unjust, or partly self-inflicted? To whom do we bring our pain? Who bears responsibility for our suffering? Participants are guided to understand suffering from God’s perspective while integrating their own life experiences of pain. The course explores the meaning of suffering in the believer’s life, God’s presence amid suffering, personal responsibility, and how unresolved suffering from the past may continue to shape the present. Ultimately, participants learn how to rely on Christ to overcome suffering and allow it to be transformed into blessing.

206 – Sonship Course

“The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15)

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1)

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” (1 John 4:18)

Although Christ has set us free, many believers continue to live under fear and bondage. This course helps participants move out of a slave mentality and into the freedom and identity of being sons and daughters of the Heavenly Father, learning to live unbound by fear and rooted in God’s perfect love.

207 – Union with Christ Course
(Recommended after completing 205 and 206)

The goal of this course is to build spiritual assurance through knowing, enabling believers to confidently declare their identity as those united with Christ. Participants experience ongoing renewal of the mind “in Christ” (Romans 12:2) and learn to model their lives after Christ’s ways.

Union with Christ is also an identity affirmation—signifying mutual commitment and relational union between the believer and Christ. This course explores the true meaning of being united in the Lord’s love, how to live in that union, and how the believer’s whole being responds to God. As a result, Christ becomes tangibly present in the believer’s life, and His blessings flow into every aspect of their being.

Level 3 – Life Transformational Healing

(Prerequisites: 101, 111)

Stage Three Phase A – Level 301, 302, 303, 311, 312 (3A Courses)

This stage helps participants come to understand who they are, including their self-image, emotions, personality, body, identity, gender, love languages, heart, and dreams. Participants also learn to reorganize their present self, to review the trajectory of their spiritual life, and to examine their relationships with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This includes reflecting on one’s relationship with God, past engagement with the spiritual realm, one’s spiritual home, the Father and me, Jesus and me, and the Holy Spirit and me. Participants are guided to be cleansed by God’s truth, to experience the healing of Jesus, and to face the obstacles present in their relationship with God, so that they may forgive and release those who have caused them harm, affirm their identity as chosen and redeemed by God, give thanks for their God-created self, and entrust their lives to the Lord who created them.

Stage Three Phase B – Level 321, 322, 323, 331 (3B Courses)

This stage helps participants review the first half of their life, their family of origin, and their family genogram. Together with Jesus, participants revisit and experientially engage with the self in the prenatal stage, infancy, early childhood, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and early adulthood. Participants are required to face their own brokenness and past wounds so that healing may occur, allowing truth to bring illumination within complex and entangled relationships, to sever relational bonds that are not aligned with God’s will, which sets them apart from God. Participants are also guided to envision how their future self may live out the true self, experiencing fullness and freedom in Christ.

Level Three Course Descriptions

301 – Who Am I? My Self-Image, Emotions, and Personality (3A1)

In psychology, there are multiple perspectives on how the self is defined. This course series assists participants in understanding who they are through nine distinct dimensions. This course focuses exclusively on three aspects: self-image, emotions, and personality. The course helps participants engage with aspects of themselves that they have difficulty accepting, including their self-image, personality traits, and emotional experiences. Through the use of focusing techniques and expressive drawing, participants explore the emotional memories or wounding experiences underlying self-nonacceptance, which often lead to distortion and rejection of the authentic self. Participants are guided to experience Jesus’ forgiveness, acceptance, and compassion, enabling them to rediscover their true self and to more deeply experience God’s healing love.

302 – Who Am I? My Gender, Body, and Identity (3A1)

This course series assists participants in understanding who they are through nine distinct dimensions. This course focuses exclusively on three aspects: gender, body, and identity. Gender identity is understood as an internal, enduring, and consistent self-awareness of oneself as male or female, and as one’s definition of what it means to be a man or a woman. The body and the psyche are closely interconnected; therefore, the ways in which one’s body has been treated influence emotional experiences, self-beliefs, and self-image, and also shape perceptions of one’s own body and the bodies of others. Identity functions as an important relational symbol, representing one’s position, role, or status within a social context. This course helps participants examine how they perceive their gender, body, and identity, and explores the underlying reasons for these perceptions and the influence of past experiences, and recognizes how non-acceptance of one’s gender, body, or identity affects present self-image. Participants are guided to allow these areas of non-acceptance to experience Jesus’ healing and acceptance, thereby deepening their understanding of God.

303 – Who Am I? My Love Language, Heart, and Dreams (3A1 & 3A2)

This course series assists participants in understanding who they are through nine distinct dimensions. This course focuses exclusively on three aspects: love languages, the heart, and dreams, together with an integrative summary of all nine dimensions in the series. In human development, each person needs to be loved in different areas; however, parents may not be able to fully meet these needs. As a result, unmet needs often become the areas of deepest longing within the individual, which are expressed through the five love languages. This course helps participants identify their primary love language needs and to recognize the wounds and deficits underlying these needs. The heart of each person may be understood as a garden that reflects the true self. Through contemplative reflection and guided meditation, participants enter this inner “garden” to become acquainted with their internal world. This inner space also serves as a context in which God may reveal and communicate truth, allowing participants to organize and attend to previously unrecognized or hidden aspects of the self. Dreams are concrete expressions of the unconscious, through which individuals may gain deeper self-understanding. God may also communicate through dreams. This course introduces one psychological approach to dream interpretation, which understands each character in a dream as representing a part of the self. By exploring these dream figures, participants gain deeper insight into the multiple dimensions of their heart.

311 – My Spiritual Life: Reviewing My Relationship with God, Spiritual Experiences, and Spiritual Home (3A2)

This course series examines spiritual life through six distinct dimensions. This course focuses on three areas: reviewing one’s relationship with God, engagement with the spiritual realm, and the spiritual home. Together with Jesus, participants review the trajectory of their spiritual life, including key turning points in their relationship with God, periods of emotional or spiritual distance from God, how the most difficult seasons of life were navigated, the present significance of God in one’s life, and the barriers that hinder one’s relationship with God. Within the Chinese cultural context, there is a strong historical influence of folk religion and popular beliefs, reflecting a worldview in which the spiritual realm is perceived as populated by many spiritual entities. Common superstitious practices within society may lead individuals, often unconsciously, into engagement with spiritual-realm activities. This course guides participants to examine and disengage from past forms of spiritual-realm involvement, and to seek cleansing through the redemptive work of Jesus. The church is understood as one’s spiritual home; therefore, the relationship between the individual and the church is of central importance. While the church is a place for spiritual growth, it is also a context in which relational wounds may occur. If such wounds are not addressed, they may affect participation in church life or even lead to withdrawal from the church. Participants are guided to experience the healing of Jesus, to face barriers in their relationship with God, and thereby to develop the capacity to forgive and release those who have caused them harm.

312 – My Spiritual Life: The Father and Me, Jesus and Me, the Holy Spirit and Me (3A2)

This course series examines spiritual life across six distinct dimensions. The course focuses on three areas only: the Father and me, Jesus and me, and the Holy Spirit and me, together with a summary integration of all six dimensions. God is the one true Triune God, three Persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—of one essence, equal in authority, and equal in glory. While sharing the same divine nature, the three Persons are distinct in role: the Father is above us, the Son was born for us, and the Holy Spirit dwells within us. This course explores the differences and obstacles in our relationships with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and seeks to identify the underlying causes and challenges shaping these relational dynamics. Participants are guided to be cleansed by God’s truth, to affirm their identity as chosen and redeemed, to give thanks for their God-created self, and to entrust their lives to the Lord who created them.

***The following courses must be taken in sequence.

321 – My Past Self: The First Half of My Life, Family of Origin, and Family Genogram (3B1)

This course series is designed around nine distinct stages of human development. This course first integrates the first half of the participant’s life, inviting participants to review, together with Jesus, the significant events that have occurred across the life course in chronological sequence. Participants are guided to construct a life line representing the first half of their life and, based on this life line, to compose a personal life narrative that reflects lived experiences, including periods of ascent and decline, formative and emotionally salient memories, and the complex and non-linear pathways of life. Participants then work together with Jesus to construct a genogram of the family of origin, including different family members, and to examine family relational patterns and their influence on the participant’s psychological, relational, and spiritual development.

322 – My Past Self: Life in the Womb, Infancy, Early Childhood, and Childhood (3B1)
(Prerequisite: 321)

This course series is designed around ten distinct stages of human development. This course focuses exclusively on four stages: the prenatal stage, infancy, early childhood, and childhood. It examines the developmental tasks associated with these stages, specifically the attainment of trust, autonomy, and initiative. The course further explores the difficulties or obstacles encountered within these stages that may affect development in later stages. Participants are guided, together with Jesus, to revisit experiences of wounding, to clarify issues of responsibility, and to re-experience Jesus’ healing and affirmation, supporting developmental repair and integration.

323 – My Past Self: Adolescence, Youth, Adulthood, and Integration (3B2)
(Prerequisite: 322)

This course series is designed around ten distinct stages of human development. This course focuses exclusively on three stages: adolescence, young adulthood, and adulthood. It examines the developmental tasks associated with each stage, specifically the capacity to achieve affirmation of personal competence, affirmation of identity, and affirmation of the ability to establish intimate and cohesive relationships with others. The course further explores the difficulties or obstacles encountered within these stages that may affect development in subsequent stages. Participants are guided, together with Jesus, to face experiences of wounding, to accept mistaken choices made in their life course, to clarify issues of personal responsibility, and to re-experience Jesus’ forgiveness and acceptance, facilitating ongoing personal integration and maturation.

331 – My Future Self: Middle Age, Old Age, and My True Self (3B2)
(Prerequisite: 323)

This course series is designed around ten distinct stages of human development. The course focuses exclusively on three stages: midlife, later adulthood, and the integration of the true self. It examines the developmental tasks associated with these stages, specifically the capacity for creativity and generativity, holistic integration, and the ability to face oneself with authenticity. The course further explores the difficulties or obstacles encountered within these stages that may affect one’s sense of life meaning. Participants are guided, together with Jesus, to face past experiences of wounding and regret, to accept personal limitations and unresolved losses, and to re-consecrate their lives, allowing God to work through their brokenness and limitations.

Recommended Learning Path

For participants experiencing significant barriers in their relationship with God, it may be beneficial to complete Level 301, 302, 303, 311, and 312 first, followed by Level 2 – Journey Through the Wilderness, and then proceed to Level 321, 322, 323, and 331 for optimal integration and healing.

Level 5 – Love and Marriage Series

501 – Love Course

This course series is designed to assist students in developing an in-depth understanding of the nature of love. It examines commonly held cultural conceptions of love and contrasts them with Agape love as described in the Bible. In addition, the course analyzes prevalent myths about love, exploring why individuals fall in love and why they are drawn to particular partners.

The course also addresses why those who love us may at times cause us harm, and how individuals can respond appropriately to being hurt by those they love. Ultimately, the course aims to help participants establish a sound and integrated understanding of love, and to learn how to maintain a healthy balance between loving oneself and loving others.

Level 7 – Life After Retirement

701 – Living the Second Half of Life with Purpose (Theoretical Series)
(Six lectures)

The television program As Long As You Live reminds us that the second half of life can be rich and vibrant, or it can be dull and empty. Moses received God’s calling in his later years and lived a life that was abundant, meaningful, and purposeful. How we live our lives depends on how we prepare ourselves, on whether we are able to encounter God and live out a different and transformed second half of life.

Lecture Topics and Speakers:

Retirement—An End or a New Calling?
Speaker: Rev. Lam Wing Shu
(Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Education, Master of Divinity, Doctor of Ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Senior Pastor and Ministry Consultant for “Christian Communications Ltd.”)
Finances and Time Management
Speaker: Dr. Chau Ka Lok
(Adjunct Lecturer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Finance)
Physical and Emotional Well-being
Speaker: Ms. Hui Wai Hing
(Senior Registered Dietitian; Community Nutrition Advocate, Yan Chai Hospital Social Services)
Relationships and Familial Care
Speaker: Dr. Katherine Kot
(Clinical Psychologist; Founder and Volunteer Executive Director, Rapha Foundation)
Pursuing Dreams and Fulfilling Aspirations
Speaker: Dr. Katherine Kot
(Clinical Psychologist; Founder and Volunteer Executive Director, Rapha Foundation)
Calling, Ministry, and Spiritual Life
Speaker: Dr. Katherine Kot
(Clinical Psychologist; Founder and Volunteer Executive Director, Rapha Foundation)

Distinctives of the Rapha Wholeness in Healing Series

Beyond Conventional Emotional Support
While many organizations address emotional concerns, emotions are complex and cannot be fully resolved through cognitive or behavioral techniques alone. Common approaches often fall short in helping individuals truly understand, transform, and care for their own emotional world.
Clinically Informed and Faith-Integrated Approach
In response to widespread misconceptions about emotions, the Rapha Foundation has specifically developed the Wholeness in Healing Series, integrating clinical psychological research on emotions, clinical practice experience, and neuroscientific perspectives on emotional processing. This series aims to help individuals experiencing emotional distress develop an accurate understanding of emotions, address and transform injuries associated with past emotional memory, and move toward deep renewal and a more abundant life in Christ.
Systematic Emotional Theory and Skills Development
The curriculum provides a systematic framework for understanding emotional theory and teaches foundational skills for emotional processing. Through exploration at multiple levels, participants gain deeper self-understanding, address barriers in their relationship with God, and experience the healing power of accompaniment.
Comprehensive and Integrative Program Design
The complete series weaves together spiritual formation, psychological insight, and Christian faith, with a strong emphasis on practical application. It helps participants revisit and restore the past while discerning and integrating their present life.
Gradual Uncovering of Psychological Defense Mechanisms
Inner healing requires moving through multiple layers of psychological defense mechanisms. As each layer is identified and addressed, participants experience increased freedom and new insight. The process is often labyrinthine in nature; prior to reaching core issues, individuals may experience only partial or unclear understanding of the underlying sources of their difficulties.
Small-Group Healing Community
The series utilizes a small-group format. Through listening to others’ sharing, participants may rediscover forgotten memories of wounding, or be encouraged by others’ courage in facing painful experiences. Group members’ struggles often reflect one’s own projections; by observing one’s reactions to others, participants gain insight into their own unacknowledged issues. Because facing pain alone is difficult, mutual support within the group serves as a vital source of strength, and shared reflection fosters a community of accompaniment.
High Professional Standards
Professional standards are maintained throughout the Wholeness in Healing Series. All group facilitators have completed master’s-level training in counseling or social work, and ongoing supervision is provided following each group session.
Spiritually Integrated Emotional Healing
Within the series, participants learn how to face internal emotional fluctuations and past negative experiences. Under the guidance of well-trained group facilitators, participants are supported in experiencing God’s healing. The purpose is to help Christians develop deeper self-understanding, a more mature relationship with God, and a fuller expression of life in Christ.
Practical Application for Everyday Life and Ministry
The Wholeness in Healing Series equips believers with practical tools and skills to address emotional stress arising from the workplace, church life, parenting, personal challenges, and family relationships. It assists believers in resolving emotional barriers that hinder personal growth. Professional standards are consistently upheld, with all facilitators holding master’s-level qualifications in counseling or social work and receiving regular supervisory training.