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Curricular Requirements
A minimum of 500 class hours of formal instruction in movement education and/or therapy, in either a classroom or tutorial format.
These class hours must be geared toward professional training. The minimum of 500 hours will give an individual the ability to demonstrate facility with skills as described in the ISMETA Scope of Practice via a balanced combination of skilled touch, movement, and verbal guidance. This includes practice in hands-on facilitation and movement protocols for one-to-one sessions with fully clothed clients.
A. Curriculum must include general movement education including but not limited to: movement observation and analysis; neuromuscular or skeletal awareness; movement efficiency, perceptual and motor development, and development of individual movement protocols. This course work must be geared toward the training of a movement practitioner so that the individual is skilled in working with movement patterns in others, and not geared simply for purposes of personal development. The courses of study may include experiential anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and movement classes. These courses must include active experiencing of the subject through kinesthetic or embodied movement applications, rather than only through academic or cognitive analysis.
B. The curriculum must also include hands-on re-patterning which can be related to anatomy, kinesiology, and physiology, including the benefits and cautions of these touch techniques. Hands-on re-patterning is defined as employing guidance with one’s hands to teach the client/student active movement patterns that he or she will be able to continue to utilize independently. Thus, the client /student will, at times, be actively involved in the movement, not merely passively receiving the movement instruction of the therapist or educator. It is required that assessment skills and interventions use knowledge from efficient alignment, ease of movement, neuromuscular awareness and/or perceptual-motor development. In addition, the curriculum should include biomechanical attention to the educator, therapist, or practitioner’s own movement patterns and usage during hands-on work.
C. The Curriculum must also include course work aimed to strengthen professionalism in areas such as counseling, business skills, case studies, ethics, and development of a private practice.
D. The majority of the student’s course work must have been graded and / or assessed by the attending faculty and/or program director.
A minimum of 500 class hours of formal instruction in movement education and/or therapy, in either a classroom or tutorial format.
These class hours must be geared toward professional training. The minimum of 500 hours will give an individual the ability to demonstrate facility with skills as described in the ISMETA Scope of Practice via a balanced combination of skilled touch, movement, and verbal guidance. This includes practice in hands-on facilitation and movement protocols for one-to-one sessions with fully clothed clients.
A. Curriculum must include general movement education including but not limited to: movement observation and analysis; neuromuscular or skeletal awareness; movement efficiency, perceptual and motor development, and development of individual movement protocols. This course work must be geared toward the training of a movement practitioner so that the individual is skilled in working with movement patterns in others, and not geared simply for purposes of personal development. The courses of study may include experiential anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and movement classes. These courses must include active experiencing of the subject through kinesthetic or embodied movement applications, rather than only through academic or cognitive analysis.
B. The curriculum must also include hands-on re-patterning which can be related to anatomy, kinesiology, and physiology, including the benefits and cautions of these touch techniques. Hands-on re-patterning is defined as employing guidance with one’s hands to teach the client/student active movement patterns that he or she will be able to continue to utilize independently. Thus, the client /student will, at times, be actively involved in the movement, not merely passively receiving the movement instruction of the therapist or educator. It is required that assessment skills and interventions use knowledge from efficient alignment, ease of movement, neuromuscular awareness and/or perceptual-motor development. In addition, the curriculum should include biomechanical attention to the educator, therapist, or practitioner’s own movement patterns and usage during hands-on work.
C. The Curriculum must also include course work aimed to strengthen professionalism in areas such as counseling, business skills, case studies, ethics, and development of a private practice.
D. The majority of the student’s course work must have been graded and / or assessed by the attending faculty and/or program director.