Institute (ISPS) Course Descriptions
Revision 1.2
January 19, 2008


The Institute for the Study of Peak States offers many different kinds of training, focused either on laypeople or on professional therapists. This webpage covers:
Introductory Classes or Workshops focused on introducing peak state and trauma material to laypeople;
Professional Training for therapists or other health practitioners;
Telephone support classes are ongoing for graduates of our professional training.
            We'd like to see you join us in making this new paradigm expand, and for those of you with the interest, join us in researching and teaching this new, literally unbelievable frontier.


Introductory Classes or Workshops

Classes that introduce the basics of the peak states paradigm, the importance of trauma to life issues, ways to heal trauma, and the impact of the triune brains on our lives are occasionally offered by the Institute.

  • Acquiring Peak States of Consciousness Introductory Workshop
    This one day workshop introduces the peak states paradigm and the techniques developed for acquiring peak states. Some of the participants wrote testimonials after the workshop.
  • Identifying and Reconciling Triune Brain Agendas
    Taught by Monti Scribner in South Carolina, this series of half day classes is designed for laypeople interested in working with the subconscious.
  • Understanding Trauma
    This class addresses a major prerequisite for our professional classes - a gut level understanding of trauma and current trauma techniques. Most laypeople and many therapists do not have an adequate background in trauma work for our professional training. (This course is still under development.)

Prerequisites
None.



Therapists taking our 2007 Scotland training give their reaction to what they learned...




Professional training curriculum flowchart
Key: Refer to the Index of Peak States for descriptions of the peak states or peak abilities required for various classes.



Professional Training
Course and Certification Sequence


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. We have a sequence of classes that vary, depending on the student's goals. Note that the approach the Institute has taken for acquiring peak states - trauma healing - means that our training is useful for either healing personal or client issues, or working with peak states.

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 be in areas of our licensed specializations (the clinical projects).

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.

Basic Level Courses
There are several paths for students to take:
(1) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness to add another tool to the healing toolkit for clients. Student involvement ends at this point.
(2) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness and take a specialization training course. This allows therapists who meet our criteria to become licensed in our healing specializations (addictions, etc.).
(3) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness with Basic PeakStates training. Acquire peak states of consciousness for oneself, improve personal well-being, and increase one's understanding of the cause of a wider range of psychological problems. (For reasons of safety, you must agree to not use the peak state techniques on clients until after certification.)
(4) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness, take Basic PeakStates training, become certified, and use the restricted (and experimental) techniques with clients.
(5) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness, take Basic PeakStates training, become certified, and for therapists who meet our criteria, become licensed in our healing specializations (addictions, schizophrenia, autism, etc.), and use these proprietary (and experimental) techniques with clients.

  • 110: Basic Whole-Hearted Healing™: Trauma Techniques (4 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.

  • 120: PeakStates™ Therapist Level 1 Professional Training (5 days)
    The emphasis of this training is applying trauma healing techniques to acquiring peak states of consciousness. The primary emphasis is on using these states for healing oneself. Because we have such a range of people taking our classes, we have new students sign a statement that he or she does not have any psychological or dangerous health problems, and agrees     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. Many of our course participants wrote testimonials describing their experiences. (The training is for 5 days with a prerequisite of the Basic Whole-Hearted Healing training, or 9 days if they are combined.)

  • 180: Basic PeakStates™ Therapist Certification
    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.

  • 190, 191, 192: Basic Specialization Training and Licensing
    The specialization courses are still being developed. They will be listed on this webpage as they become available.
                We're especially focused on applying our trauma healing approaches to our many Institute projects: curing alcoholism; curing schizophrenia; curing autism; etc. Most are being developed so 'average consciousness' techniques can be used to heal the client. However, some clients will still require more advanced abilities (taught in the advanced training), as for example with severe schizophrenic or autistic clients.

Advanced Level Courses
The advanced therapist training is focused on using various peak states to heal or diagnose a variety of problems that average consciousness healing techniques cannot deal with or diagnose reliably. This training not only makes a person an extremely fast and effective healer, but the methods work on clients without their needing instruction or participation. This class requires that the student acquire key peak states before the class begins. In addition, for safety the student must have a Brain Light state of at least 60% before class starts.
            It typically takes up to a year to fully master the techniques, partially because they are limited by traumatic material in the therapist - the time required is primarily self-healing time. However, the techniques are still extremely powerful and effective right out of the training.
            The training is divided into classes: Advanced Whole-Hearted Healing is first, then Primary Cell Technique, and the course on using advanced skills for diagnosis.

There are several paths for students to take:
(6) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness, take Basic PeakStates training, and then our Advanced training (after Basic certification or approval by instructor) with its advanced, 'state-dependent' healing techniques. This drastically improves and speeds the therapist's ability to heal himself and others - far better, to our knowledge, than any other approach that now exists in the world. (Note that advanced classes require the student to acquire particular peak states before the training starts.) For reasons of safety, you must agree not to use these techniques on clients until after advanced certification.
(7) Learn our healing therapies (WHH, etc.) for therapists in average consciousness, take Basic PeakStates training, and then our Advanced training (after Basic certification or approval by instructor) with its advanced, 'state-dependent' healing techniques, become certified, and use these techniques with clients. The advanced techniques also greatly improve your success rates when doing ISPS specializations (addictions, schizophrenia, autism, etc.) Basic level certified therapists who were unable to heal particular clients with average consciousness techniques would refer these clients to you.

Research Level Courses
This training for ISPS researchers includes such skills as inducing and stabilizing peak states into clients; working with our students; curing genetic disorders; doing regenerative healing on severe injuries such as cut spinal cords; and investigating other severe illness processes such as cancer and neuromuscular disease. etc. Most of these projects are still in the investigative or developmental phase, and are not ready for students. When they are, we anticipate that they will only be taught only on a personal mentoring basis, and many will only be available to therapists who work for the Institute.

This training level is still under development, and is currently a mentored one-on-one training for ISPS staff:




Phone Support TeleClasses for Graduates

Telephone classes ("teleclasses") for graduates of our Basic Peak States Therapist training are now available. Because this field is changing so rapidly, these short classes are designed for students 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.

These classes 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 is currently $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 information, go to the TeleClass webpage. To find out about upcoming TeleClasses, look at our training schedule (as a text view, or as a more current calendar view which can be automatically updated in your own computer).



Revision History
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.