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WHO CAN BE CERTIFIED? 

 

The Certified Breathing Practitioner program is open to qualified educators, consultants, counselors, teachers, coaches, therapists, and practitioners.  A minimum of a B.A. or B.S. degree in an appropriate field, or equivalent, is required.

 

Each applicant is required to submit a resume, or to complete an Institute Application Form: (1) formal education, including degrees and certifications, (2) professional education, such as workshops and courses, (3) professional experience and background, and

(4) intended objectives for seeking certification.  THE APPLICATION may be downloaded here.

 

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

 

The requirements for Certification include 75 hours of training and experience as follows: (1) Coursework (30 hours), (2) Tutorial Training (5 hours), (3) Case Conference (10 hours), (4) Practicum experience (30 hours), and (5) Writing Exercise, open book, completed at home.   All of these requirements are usually fulfilled on the Internet.

 

1. COURSEWORK: CapnoLearning™ (30 hours)

 

WS-1:  RESPIRATORY FITNESS:  Physiology and Psychology.

Physiology and psychology of dysfunctional breathing habits

 

WS-2:  DYSFUNCTIONAL BREATHING:  A Behavioral Analysis.

Identification of dysfunctional breathing behaviors and the factors that trigger and sustain them

 

WS-3:  LEARNING ADAPTIVE BREATHING:  Behavior Modification.

Self-regulation methods and technology for helping clients to learn new breathing habits consistent with healthy respiratory biochemistry

 

WS-4:  BREATHING BUSINESS: Efficacy, Relevancy, Economics.

Business of providing breathing learning services

 

2. TUTORIAL TRAINING: 5 hours

 

Trainees are required to be recipients of the same services they will provide, including assessment and coaching.  Trainees learn to do Internet coaching through remote operation of instrumentation used by clients in the field.

 

3. CASE CONFERENCE: 10 hours

 

Trainees attend five 2-hour web-conferenced Case Conference sessions, during which time they present at least two cases of their own.

 

4.  PRACTICUM: 30 hours

 

Trainees are required to do 10 breathing behavioral analyses with 10 clients, and five breathing behavior modification sessions with four clients in their own professional settings, or over the Internet.  These sessions are documented on the PRACTICUM RECORD FORM, which can be downloaded here.

 

 5. ESSAY REPORT: 

 

Certification trainees are required to complete an exercise report based on both the Workshop Series and their practicum experience.  The objective is to assist trainees in articulating what they have learned about, rather than testing them about what they have not.

 

 

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