Peak States™ Therapist Training
Course and Certification Sequence
Revision 1.3, November 11, 2011


Because the Institute is focused on taking our discoveries to the world, we emphasize the training of professional therapists - during enrollment, priority is given to professionals who intend to work at the Institute's clinics. Note that the approach the Institute has taken for acquiring peak states - trauma healing - means that our training is useful for healing personal or client issues, and for working with peak states.

Why would you want to take the training for yourself?

  • We all have areas that we have trouble healing. Part of the class is in understanding what causes this problem, along with some in-class time to heal them.
  • The fields of healing and spiritual growth just don't have any underlying models that explain the full range of people's experiences. This class gives you the fundamental, biological understanding of how they all fit together, and what all these techniques are trying to accomplish.
  • Get ongoing support via phone conferences and the camaraderie of peers who understand this new field.
  • Be a part of finding cures for previously 'incurable' diseases, new peak states, and peak state processes that have never yet been seen on the face of the planet.
  • Master the techniques well enough so you can add to your own personal collection of peak states on your own.
  • Meet some of the people in the forefront of this breakthrough work, and learn enough to be able to find other leaders in this world-wide change in approach.
  • This class is required for our more advanced 'state-dependent techniques for healing, which are much more powerful, faster, and can be used on clients directly, without any need to train them in technique.
  • Several of our licensed processes require that you have completed this class with its professional certification procedure.


Who should attend?
This training is designed for professionals working in the field of trauma and therapy. Laypeople who have an interest may attend if their background is adequate (if they have experience in trauma healing through breathwork/rebirthing or other strong transformational techniques). The course focuses on gaining personal experience with the techniques through theory and practice. However, if you are not willing to feel emotional or physical pain during regressions, this class is not for you. We also do not allow people with current psychological or medical issues to take this training - see our legal safety and liability form that you will be required to sign at the start of class.

If you are already part of the breathwork community, or work with prenatal trauma using other techniques, your background is ideal for peak states work. It is a natural progression to what you are already doing. You already understand prenatal trauma, and you've probably already seen your clients go occasionally into peak states. This training allows you to understand why this happened, how to target what you need to make it happen on purpose, and how to make the states permanent.

What are some of the drawbacks to this training?
  • These new techniques are only 'second generation', and so won't work for everyone.
  • Nor is the developmental work complete - we don't have everything for anyone. It is a lot like buying an Apple II in the early 1980s, useful but by no means as sophisticated as the computers that came a decade later.
  • The field is changing rapidly. Techniques and theory are evolving daily, and keeping up requires some effort. This probably won't change for another decade or so.
  • In the limited time in a workshop, we can't reliably give everyone all the targeted peak states. Expect this and plan on working on yourself for an average of 6 months after the training to complete everything and become proficient.
  • The class isn't just one simple technique, but several, very powerful techniques. If you expect to get the answers to everything in something that can be explained in a 'sound bite', you'll be disappointed. Like any worthwhile skill, it requires time and commitment to master.
  • Don't expect to generate more professional income by taking this training, since the entire field of peak states is virtually unknown to the public. Instead, consider taking this class for professional reasons - to improve your ability to help your clients.
  • Taking the class does not automatically mean that you will be able to become certified, as it depends on skill and other legal concerns (just as taking conventional therapy schooling does not mean that graduates will be able to become licensed).


Student's Financial Expectations of Professional Training
Our training is not for everyone. The skills you'll gain will make you a better healer, but may have no direct impact on your income. For example, the field of peak states of consciousness is virtually unknown to the general public - it is very unlikely that you would increase your client base by taking this training and offering such a service. Instead, we feel that significant financial return for students will eventually be in areas of our licensed specializations (the clinical projects) or from work in our clinics.

Prerequisites
  • This work involves state-of-the-art trauma healing. Thus, we assume that our students already have experience with current powerful trauma healing therapies. We've found empirically that students without this background do not benefit fully from our training - the need to address trauma is not clear to most laypeople.
  • Some of the material we teach is still experimental and potentially dangerous. Read the liability and safety agreement form before your training starts.
  • This training is only for people without significant personal issues or potentially threatening health problems. Read the liability and safety agreements for particulars.
  • Please read the textbooks before the class. We assume you have done so - in the short amount of class time, you will not have nearly as complete a learning experience without the thought and effort of reading ahead of time.
  • Significant pain and suffering can occur as we heal major life issues. If you are unwilling to go into these types of experiences, this training is not for you.
  • Because of safety, liability, and licensing concerns, you will be signing an agreement not to work with clients before you finish the certification process. Not everyone will be certified (just like with academic therapist training in psychology), so if this risk of your time and money isn't one you are willing to take, this training isn't for you. See the attached PDF file (80kB) for a summary of the student's scope of practice agreements.
  • If you're not personally known by the teacher, you will be asked to fill out an application that discuss your background to see if it is a good fit for this advanced, experiential therapist training. You will also be interviewed.
  • No current psychiatric or major problem issues (such as suicidal tendencies) - these classes are not for healing of major personal problems.
  • No potentially life threatening conditions such as a weak heart.
  • Potential students will have a scan done for structural problems before the training, and we strongly recommend three healing sessions before coming to the training (to give an understanding of what will be encountered in class).


Training Paths
Currently, we are only offering training to therapists (or equivalent professionals). There are several paths for students to take:
            (1) Not everyone will complete the training once they start. If you end before you become certified, then you have simply added another tool to your healing toolkit for clients. However, you are not permitted to use on clients techniques that we have not yet released to the public. Student involvement with the Institute ends at this point.
            (2) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, PeakStates, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness and become certified (which involves agreements like only 'charging for results'). You can use our licensed techniques with clients, and get advanced backup for your clients as needed.
            (3) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, PeakStates, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness and become certified, and take specialization trainings like addictions, etc.
            (4) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, PeakStates, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness, become certified, work at our clinics, and take clinic specialization training courses in major diseases (autism, multiple schlerosis, etc.). You would only be using these skills as an employee of the Institute's clinics, and not in your private practice. This is a necessary prerequisite for more advanced training (note that this does not mean that you will be offered this training, however).

Peak States™ Therapist Courses
  • 100: Triune Brain Therapy™ (approx. 2.5 days)
    This course covers triune brains, triune brain therapy, and unusual situations that can occur during regressions.

  • 111: Basic Whole-Hearted Healing™ (approx. 7 days)
    This course teaches the Institute's basic regression healing process for trauma. This technique, with its emphasis on unusual phenomena and problems of the psyche, is the basis for both peak state techniques and our advanced techniques, and our licensed healing processes. Some of the participants wrote     testimonials after the workshops.

  • 121: Diagnosis (approx. 5 days)
    This gives you the process and practice for diagnosis of primary cell problems relating to psychological feelings and issues.

  • 130: More Healing Techniques (approx. 2 days)
    This course covers licensed techniques, including Rapid Whole Hearted Healing™, Waisel Base Emotions Technique, Peak Experience to Peak States Technique.

  • 140: Core Issues (approx. 4 days)
    This gives you practice in identifying and healing core issues.

  • 150: Peak States (approx. 7 days)
    The emphasis of this training is applying trauma healing techniques to acquiring peak states of consciousness. We teach and use our technique for turning a peak experience into a peak state, and our processes for the Inner Peace, Silent Mind, Life Path, and other states. Many of our course participants wrote     testimonials describing their experiences.
                Due to safety and liability issues, we have students sign an agreement not to use our techniques on clients unless they are certified by us to do so. This condition exists because all too many people don't even realize the safety and other problems that can be encountered with powerful therapies. Once certified, the therapist is automatically included in our safety net and get updates as they occur.

  • 160: Safety Training (approx. 7 days)
    This set of courses are to make sure that the students have some background in conventional therapy problems, like mental illness and suicide, as well as cutting edge material in spiritual emergency.

  • 170: Therapist/Client Relationships (approx. 1 day)
    This course gives you explicit training in working with private practice clients. We also cover how to do ‘charging for results’ and liability issues.

  • 181: PeakStates™ Therapist Certification (approx. 1 day)
    Certification tests for competence and verifies safety, required peak states, and other prerequisites such as legal licensed in their area, liability insurance, understands of the risks of powerful therapies, knows what to do when things go wrong, etc.

In between the modules, the students will divide into groups by geographical locations so they can meet easily. Each group will be headed by a teaching assistant that lives in the vicinity. The groups will meet in person every other week to integrate the material that was covered in the last module taught, and will meet on teleclass run by the teaching assistant in the interim weeks. Each module has to be mastered before moving to the next.

Note to students who are currently being certified:
You do not have to take any of the new classes if you were taught using the old format classes #110 (WHH) and #120 (PeakStates). Certification requirements described in course #180 are unchanged. Basic Certification course #180 can be viewed if you have questions.

Revision History
1.3, November 11, 2011: Changed the length of course #130 to 2 days. Moved the peak experience to peak states process to course #150.
1.2 June 24, 2011: Adjusted the length of some of the courses.
1.1 Nov 20, 2009: Moved the triune brain therapy course to before the WHH course, and renumbered courses.
1.0 July 10, 2009: Outline of new course sequence.