A. Conditions for Enrolment in Training:

The program in Energetic Integration is for individuals interested in becoming professional wholistic bodyworkers. The training is intensive and demands sufficient maturity and preparation for working with discipline, care and respect for others. Applicants are expected to have fulfilled the following:

1) Self-Experience
Deep Psychocorporal Work: The applicant should have completed a complete cycle of Energetic Integration work which includes preparation,confrontation, resolution and integration. Postural Integration, Reichian and neo-Reichian styles of session, Rebalancing, Heller Work, Rolfing, are examples of acceptable work. The applicant also needs to be prepared to continue to work with his/her process independently during the training.

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 participant'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 two phases are to be a minimum of 500 hours, usually over two years. At the end of each phase of the training the student is to submit to the trainer a report which reviews the work done, before admission to the next training phase.

Phase I: During this phase the student learns the basic tools for releasing bodymind. 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 fellow students.

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, Emotional Release and Integration, Hand-techniques for Segments, 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 training-clients under supervision.

This work is powerfull and takes time to master. The future 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 training-clients, without supervision. Also the students are not to give demonstrations or workshops of this work.

Phase III - Internship: After completion of the classroom work for Phase II, the student will work with training-clients 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 training-clients for a complete Energetic Integration process
b) the supportive supervision of this work
c) the preparation for working with clients with Energetic Integration after Certification.

Supportive 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.


C. Certification:

After completion of phase III the canditate 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 ‘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 training-clients in Phase III and includes that with the application
d) The certificate is sent by The Centre for Release and Integration (ICRI) to the trainer for signature and awarded by the trainer to the graduate.

Sharing, support and supervision are important even after graduation.

Alternative Curriculum for Special Students
ICEIT recognizes the prerogative of Trainers to offer an alternative curriculum for students who are qualified in other areas. Some individuals who have had previous training in all or some of the major elements of EI 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 EI must be taken by the student as part of the designated currriculum.
3. Although the EI training is not necessarily a group process, the student is expected to have adequate experience in group processes. The training sessions may take the form of individual learning hours with a Trainer and his staff. (This is I not the same as working with what is called EI 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 EI 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 Practitioner 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.

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