GUIDELINES FOR THE TRAINING OF EI PRACTITIONERS

Practice in Physical Contact: Applicants need to have experience in hands-on bodywork, e.g. massage.

2) Statement of Background and Goals: The applicant is to complete and mail the application form to the trainer, giving background, experience, previous training, and reason for taking the training.

3) Agreement: All applicants should read, sign and mail the "Agreement for Students" received with the training catalog. This agreement clarifies the professional nature of the training, the preparation needed for the training, and the student's responsibility during the training.

B. The Training Program:

Energetic Integration involves working simultaneously with:

1) energetic work, including breath and movement work

2) deep tissue work

3) emotional work

4) integration of the self and into society

The EI training program consists of three phases, usually distributed over three years. The total minimum number of hours for the three phases is 700 hours.

The first three phases of the energetic process (preparation, confrontation, resolution) are observed and practiced as sessions with fellow students in class. In the training the focus is on a systematic unraveling of the psychocorporal blocks, defenses and attitudes.

There is supervised classroom work with models.

50 additional hours of chosen work, approved by the trainer, are required outside of class. These are courses to be chosen by the trainer and student in consultation. Possibilities are for example workshops in breathwork, bioenergetics, movement awareness, etc. A limited number of these hours may be fulfilled by work taken prior to a student beginning a training.

Core Curriculum for Phase I (in-class work):

Theory, Anatomy and Physiology, Movement Awareness, Breath Work, Connective Tissue Techniques, Emotional Release and Integration, Fine Energy Techniques, Bodyreading, Contact and Communication between Practitioner and Client.

Phase II (in-class work): Students re-experience work with the first three phases of the energetic process and also focus on the process of integrating the energy of the previously blocked segments. They also have further classroom study of fine energy and integration techniques.

During the period of in-class training, before the beginning of Phase III, students will work with each other, review didactic material, keep a personal journal of their experiences, and work with models under supervision.

This work is powerful and takes time to master. The student practitioner is still in the process of being trained and is not to work with members of the public, that is with clients or with trainingclients without supervision. Also the students are not to give demonstrations or workshops.

Phase III - Internship: After completion of the classroom work for Phase II, the student will work with trainingclients under supervision for a minimum of twelve months.

During the internship a student should do a minimum of two hundred hours . These hours include:

a. the time the student practitioner works with a minimum of 3 trainingclients for a complete Energetic Integration process
b. the supervision of this work
c. the preparation for working with clients with Energetic Integration after Certification.

Supervision can happen in many ways, and it is up to each trainer to find suitable and effective supervision programs. Some suggestions are: the student presenting a session in front of the training group, the student being directly supervised for some critical sessions, a professional in alternative work receiving or watching a session and giving feedback, an assistant trainer or a master practitioner supervising, small groups of EI interns or graduates meeting together to share problems and successes, show photographs, etc.

B. Certification:

After completion of phase III the student may make an application for certification as a Energetic Integration practitioner.

a. A complete dossier of the supervised work, including photos, completed in and out of class is required by the trainer before final certification.
b. The applicant completes the ‘Student application for certification form‘ and gets it signed by the trainer
c. The applicant writes a 10-page report on the experience of working with trainingclients in Phase III and includes that with the application
d. The certificate is sent by ICRI to the trainer for signature and awarded by the trainer to the student.

Sharing, support and supervision are important even after a student is fully certified.

Alternative Curriculum for Special Students

ICPIT recognizes the prerogative of Trainers to offer an alternative curriculum for qualified students. Some individuals who have had previous training in all or some of the major elements of E.I. work (e.g. Postural Integration training) may be given credit for work already done, and they may be offered a set of requirements for certification under the following guidelines.

1. Credit for previous training or work is clearly specified for certain areas. For example 200 hours of Gestalt, 200 hours of Reichian breathwork, 100 hours of body character study
2. A minimum of 500 hours of actual training in applied wholistic E.I. must be taken by the student as part of the designated currriculum.
3. Since E.I. is not nessarily a group process, training sessions may take the form of individual learning hours with a Trainer and his staff. (This is not the same as receiving what is called E.I. Learning Sessions or Learning Therapy). When such individual study is taken by the student in combination with participation in a training group which has separate learning requirements, then the next point is applicable.
4. The position of the special student in a E.I. group is clarified for students of the group.
5. In case a trainer's partner or friend seeks certification, the following guidelines may help:

a. All the above guidelines apply
b. The Trainer and partner or friend make an agreement about the opportunities and limits of what can be taught directly by the Trainer and what guidelines are needed when the two interact with each other. Also they may agree to use a third party for mediation.
c. If the partner or friend is in the training group, the two may share their agreement with the group, as well as clarify what special requirements the partner or friend may be following as a special student - such as being supervised by practitioners or trainers outside the group.

Master Practioner Training

After certification in Energetic Integration and one year minimum of practice and 100 sessions with clients as a EI practitioner, it is possible to continue professional development by going onto a Master Practitioner training.