Peak States™ School / Trainings
Revision 1.4, October 16, 2011


The Institute for the Study of Peak States offers introductory talks and workshops for laypeople and professionals, with a primary focus on professional therapist training. We teach in a number of countries around the world; our professional classes are usually held near an Institute clinic.

Read or See Testimonials from students who took various classes in the past.

Introductory Classes or Workshops focused on introducing peak state and trauma material to laypeople or professionals who are interested in sampling our work and meeting staff members;

Professional Therapist Training, for therapists or laypeople (with permission). This training is broken into different areas:
            • Whole-Hearted Healing for therapists or other health practitioners;
            • Basic Professional Training for therapists or other health practitioners;
            • Specialized Trainings for basic certified therapists in major disease treatments;
            • Advanced Professional Training for therapists certified and licensed in our basic therapist techniques;
            • Research Training for therapists who graduated from our advanced therapist training.

Support teleclasses and seminars are ongoing for students and graduates of our professional training.
            
Review our safety and liability agreements for various classes before you enroll.

Review the 'scope of practice' that different training courses give you.

View our calendar of classes.

Current countries and contacts for our English-language courses
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Understanding Our Professional Therapist Training

Our professional training is broken into four sequential stages, each with various modules: Whole-Hearted Healing; then basic Peak States; advanced Peak States, and research peak states.


Whole-Hearted Healing™ Training
This training emphasizes mastering and understanding trauma and various trauma healing techniques; in particular the Whole-Hearted Healing regression technique. We also focus on client symptoms that are only indirectly related to trauma. The course uses an understanding of sub-cellular biology to illustrate the cause and treatment of different psychological issues. Although designed for trained therapists, laypeople can attend with instructor approval.

Most people can master this material with training and practice. These techniques don't require some sort of peak state or ability. Essentially, this is similar to learning EFT, EMDR, TIR, or a host of other excellent techniques now available to therapists via other organizations or schools. It differs in that you are also learning the biological basis of how these other therapies work, and the tradeoffs and advantages of the different approaches.

This training courses is modularized. The student learns the triune brains and triune brain therapy (course #100), the Whole-Hearted Healing technique (course #110), and the diagnosis material (course #121) without the restrictions that the full basic peak states therapy training entails.

Safety Agreements
Becoming trained in how to use our Institute's techniques for psychological issues, serious disorders and peak states involves much more than just taking a series of lecture classes. The training is designed for professional trauma therapists; the therapist will be practicing these techniques on themselves and on clients while under supervision in class. Because all trauma healing techniques are potentially dangerous, everyone who take our training is required to sign a legal liability agreement saying that they will take full responsibility for what happens to them and to others they use these techniques on. This agreement is the same that many countries now require for therapy clients to understand and agree to before they start treatment.


The 'Basic' Level of Peak States™ Training
Once trauma healing and regression techniques are mastered via the Whole-Hearted Healing training, the therapist can continue to the Peak States training. In this sequence of courses, the therapist learns more trauma therapy material, our processes and approaches for acquiring peak states, and how to treat some major disease conditions. This training covers much far more material on being a therapist than the Whole-Hearted Healing course does. However, there are a number of restrictions to what the therapist is allowed to use after the training, as described below.

Certification/Licensing by the Institute
Because of safety issues, some of the techniques taught in our full Peak States training are not available to the public. Thus, training participants are required to sign an agreement not to use these particular techniques with clients or share them with anyone else unless they have been certified and licensed by the Institute to do so. Certification ensures that the therapist has, at a minimum, gotten training in suicide, mental illness, spiritual emergency; and has liability insurance. They also have to demonstrate competence in the techniques at the end of their training.

Because the certified therapist is tied into our ongoing support system - we don't just teach then abandon the therapist - certification means there is a constant connection to staff, access to the latest discoveries and process improvements, and a community of other therapists using our and other's techniques. The intent is to heal the clients, and we encourage anything that works (given appropriate safety considerations). In addition, If the therapist has problems healing a client, or encounters some sort of crisis situation during therapy, the therapist can immediately phone an advanced therapist for help.

As part of certification, the therapist also agrees to use a 'charge for results' billing system with all their clients (even ones that they don't use Institute techniques with). This means that they only charge clients if they get the results that the client and the therapist have agreed to at the beginning of therapy, along with a predetermined fee. This system has several major benefits - therapists have a strong financial incentive to really master their craft; clients can decide if they can afford treatment ahead of time; and is morally and ethically satisfying for both the client and the therapist.

After certification, the therapist is ready to start to see clients - and also gets a year with a mentor. This mentorship gives the opportunity for the therapist to get feedback on problems they've had with particular clients, and to enhance their skills in a team setting with other newly trained therapists.


Specialized Training
Once certified, the basic therapist can then choose to get trained in our 'specialization' techniques for healing specific disease processes; such as our techniques to heal addictive cravings and withdrawal. There are also other opportunities that come up on an occasional basis.


The 'Advanced' Level of Peak States Training
The advanced techniques allow a therapist to far more quickly heal clients, and to heal clients that cannot be treated by basic therapists (for example, clients who are incapable of following instructions, injured or catatonic). The advanced level of training has another key difference - the techniques taught at this level are what is known as 'state-dependent' processes. This means that the techniques can only be used by people who have the corresponding unusual peak states or peak abilities. Acquiring the appropriate states is part of the training.

After basic certification and enough time and practice to have thoroughly mastered the basic material, the therapist is eligible for advanced training. However, a number of restrictions apply. First, this training is limited to therapists who are going to be employed by the Institute at our clinics, not to independent therapists. There are several reasons for this - we don't have the resources to teach students who are not going to help us bring major disease and peak states processes to humanity; the advanced therapist needs to be very tightly tied into our research program, because these techniques are constantly evolving as we improve and test these cutting edge techniques. In addition, this training is by invitation only - most people aren't able to face the very difficult internal changes required, or feel comfortable in often stressful environment of a research-driven company. Essentially, therapists at this level have to be able to become part of a closely-knit community of people who are exploring and implementing the Institute's cutting-edge discoveries.

Mastering this level of understanding and techniques is not a fast process, because they absolutely require that the therapist has to heal a lot of difficult-to-face material in themselves. It also takes a lot of experience with a variety of clients to become fully competent. This process will almost certainly take over a year, and probably several years.

Due to the difficulties involved in radical self-change, many therapists quit during or after the training. These people agree not to use what they've learned with clients, because of the risks to clients from no longer being tied into our safety net. Thus, the prospective therapist needs to really look at whether they want to continue with a training that they are not licensed to use independently of the Institute.

Advanced therapists also provide backup for therapists who are certified and licensed to use Institute techniques.


The 'Research' Level of Peak States Training
Once a therapist has completed the majority of their advanced training, they are eligible to participate in our research program. This benefits the therapist in several ways - they get a clear understanding of the research process and really begin to understand why the material they are learning constantly changes and evolves. Their skills drastically increase, because this process is really a one-on-one apprenticeship. This benefits the Institute, because we simply don't have the resources to teach people that aren't going to contribute to our research into new healing techniques, peak state processes and major diseases treatments.

However, there is a significant degree of risk in doing research. Historically, roughly half of the researchers have been injured, and in some cases killed, by this work. Therapists who are considering taking advanced training need to seriously consider if the benefits that we hope to bring mankind outweigh the possibility that they may be harmed in this pursuit.


Support TeleClasses and Seminars for Students and Graduates

Telephone classes ("teleclasses") and weekend seminar courses for graduates of our Basic Peak States Therapist training are also available. Because this field is changing so rapidly, these short classes are designed for students or graduates who want to keep up to date on new or updated peak states processes, acquire basic peak states during the teleclass sessions, or hear lectures useful for ISPS certification.

The teleclasses are about 2 hours long, once every week, with the average class taking two sessions. The ISPS has staff on hand and available during and after the calls for any emergencies. Cost ranges from free to $30.00US per session. Phone 250-413-3211 in Canada for more information or to enroll. Class size is limited on a first-come basis, but particular classes will be repeated so that students who missed one can take it later.

For detailed course information, go to the TeleClass and Seminars webpage. To find out dates for upcoming TeleClasses, look at our training schedule (as a text view; or as a calendar view which can be subscribed to and automatically updated in your own computer).


Countries we currently have trainings in:

australia-3-3 Australia. Brisbane: contact Nemi Nath at AustOffice or phone +61 (0) 2 66897455. Fremantle WA: contact Nick Johnson at Johnson or phone 0421 163562.
austria Austria. Vienna: contact Georg Parlow at Parlow or phone +43-1-8899344.
canada-2 Canada. British Columbia: contact Grant McFetridge at McFetridge or phone 250-413-3211.
denmark Denmark. Copenhagen: contact Hanne Heilesen at Heilesen or phone 70 278 288.
germany Germany, Finkenwereder Hof: contact Gudrun Tober at Tober or phone +49 (0) 160 9174 9445.
newzealand New Zealand. North Island: contact Bain Robinson at +64 (0) 407 9404.
poland-2 Poland. Szczecin: contact Kasia Prasalek at +48 601 58 22 94.
sweden Sweden. Sundsvall: contact Susanne Billander at Billander. South Sweden: contact Anders Radmark at Radmark

Revision History
1.4 October 16, 2011: First pass on re-doing the training organization description with our new modularized training.
1.3 July 7, 2009. Changed from a workshop format for therapists to a clinic format for therapists who wish to work for the Institute. Many new courses were added, along with substantial increases in teaching time.
1.2 January 19, 2008. Course #210 is now aWHH, while course #220 is now PCT. This change reflects the order we teach them in.