Clinical Mentorship Program (CMP)
At NeuroSystemics, we offer clinical trainings for individual and group-centered somatic and positive psychology practice, informed by complex systems, neuroscience and evolutionary psychology frameworks. The aim of the CMP is to certify clinical competence in the NeuroSystemics approach – this means that you will receive a certification atesting of your level of clinical competence.
A Certifying Program
This CMP provides an opportunity to refine skills in the NeuroSystemics approach, with certification credentials. There are 3 levels of certification:
- Level 1: Self-Care. On this level, you will be assessed on your relationship with yourself. You will receive a list of competencies, and go through 6 x 1:1 sessions with a NeuroSystemics faculty member. The faculty member will identify which skills are present (e.g. self-compassion, self-inquiry, capacity to feel pleasure in the body), and to what extent they have been developed. At the end of the 6x 1:1 sessions, the faculty member will offer an assessment (“Proficient”, “Expert” or “More sessions needed”).
- Level 2: 1:1 facilitation. Once you have passed level 1, you can start level 2 where you build your competence as you work with clients in 1:1 sessions. You will be assessed on your capacity to hold space with a client, and support them in building resiliency and meaning. You will receive a list of competencies, and record 4x 1:1 sessions with clients, analyze your recorded sessions and receive coaching from a NeuroSystemics faculty member. The faculty member will identify which skills are present (e.g. creating a safe space, attuning to your client, building your client’s resiliencyand their capacity to feel please and joy in the body), and to what extent they have been developed. At the end of the 4x coaching sessions, the faculty member will offer an assessment (“Proficient”, “Expert” or “More sessions needed”).
- Level 3: Group facilitation. Once you have passed level 2, you can start level 3 where you build your competence as you work with a group. You will be assessed on your capacity to hold space for the group, inquire into relational dynamics and support relational maturity in individual clients and the group-as-a-whole. You will receive a list of competencies, and record 4x group sessions, analyze your recorded sessions and receive coaching from a NeuroSystemics faculty member. The faculty member will identify which skills are present (e.g. creating a safe space, responding to the groups needs, capturing opportunities for joy and pleasure), and to what extent they have been developed. At the end of the 4x coaching sessions, the faculty member will offer an assessment (“Proficient”, “Expert” or “More sessions needed”).
Faculty (Boaz Feldman & Heath Wilson) discuss with participants the current level of competence, in a transparent and generative way to support participants’ growth, using the NeuroSystemics Clinical Competence Criteria (CliCC).
Program Pragmatics
The NeuroSystemics faculty works with CMP participants in a generative competency-building and validation process. This is a 3-step process, where participants start with level 1, and once this is validated at “Proficient level,” they can move onward toward level 2, and level 3.
Completion of this program does not guarantee competency. It may be that participants need to extend their CMP practice in order to complete the requirements for ‘Proficient’ or ‘Expert’ levels of competence. It is possible to use a translator for 1:1 sessions with faculty, and to transcribe the recorded session and analysis contents.
These skills focus on:
- Developing skills of compassion, benign neglect, equanimity, joy, assertiveness, gratitude and grief
- Embodying a therapeutic posture to help clients co-regulate through our presence us and learn what it means to feel safe at a nervous system level
- Positively reinforcing what is right with our clients, a positive psychology approach, and building on strengths
- Identifying clients’ key nervous system phases to attune exactly where they are at in the moment, and where they can go through our interventions – for example assessing if it is too early to engage in a trauma to prevent re-traumatization
- Supporting clients’ multi-dimensional self-regulation skills through somatics, imagery and meaning-making
Eligibility
The CMP is a structured program from NeuroSystemics faculty to offer mentorship to NeuroSystemics Practitioners (NSP’s – CARE Training graduates) and other practitioners with equivalent 400-hour training which includes a somatic component.
Payment
Please see below for options. If you chose to pay via instalments, please note that you need to have paid 50% of the fee (minimum 2 of 4 instalments) in order to begin the CMP with faculty.
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