Curriculum

Certification Training Curriculum

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The Academy's Professional Certification Training Program offers 150 hours of in-depth training in Interactive Guided Imagery^sm that addresses most of the major issues confronted in contemporary clinical practice.

A unique combination of convenient home-study modules along with 52 hours of small group supervision assures a thorough training experience, with a high level of specific relevance to your practice.

The home-study portions of the program are presented in a self-paced environment using audio, video and reading materials. Practice exercises, self-exams, and demonstrations are an essential part of this learning process.

The on-site "live" Preceptorship portions of the program offer the unique opportunity to practice and enhance your imagery skills under the supportive guidance and experienced direction of our clinical faculty.

To become fully Certified in IGI^sm, applicants must complete three levels of training and a brief independent study paper. Satisfactory completion of Certification training makes you eligible for inclusion as a "Certified Imagery Guide^sm" in the Academy’s online Directory of Imagery Practitioners.

Level I: The Essentials of Interactive Guiding

Level I provides a comprehensive overview of Interactive Guided Imagery^sm with an emphasis on the role of the guide, and advanced work with the Inner Advisor. It consists of the FIGI, ATS/1A, and ATS/1B courses and the first 4-day Preceptorship. For Level I course information, click on the image of the courses below:

Satisfactory completion of Level I makes you eligible for inclusion as a "Level I Imagery Guide^sm" in the Academy’s online Directory of Imagery Practitioners.

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FIGI: - Fundamentals of Interactive Guided Imagery^sm
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD,LAc and Marty Rossman, MD
CE Credit: 13 hours
Pre-Requisite: None

This comprehensive survey course is presented on 14 CDs and/or 4DVDs along with an extensive workbook containing lecture notes, exercises, imagery scripts, and background reading materials. It focuses on the essential IGI^sm techniques that are most useful in medicine, nursing, health psychology, psychotherapy, counseling, coaching, and mind/body medicine. These include imagery-based diagnostic and prognostic assessment techniques, relaxation methods, insight, evocative, and grounding techniques, and training in the unique role of the Imagery Guide^sm, and working with the Inner Advisor. For more information, click here.

ATS/1A: - The Role of the Interactive Imagery Guide^sm
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD,LAc and Marty Rossman, MD
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: FIGI

After completing the FIGI program, each of the next advanced courses is presented in audio format on six CDs with an accompanying workbook containing lecture notes, exercises, scripts, and reading materials. ATS/1A focuses on the role of the guide as a facilitator of the imagery process. This program examines the qualities that encourage self-exploration, empowerment and the abilities to attend to one’s own process. It reviews the essential similarities and differences between being a "guide" and a "therapist", "counselor", or "coach." For more information, click here.

ATS/1B - Advanced Work with the Inner Advisor
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD,LAc and Marty Rossman, MD
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: ATS/1A

ATS/1B moves more deeply into working with the "Inner Advisor" or "Inner Guide" technique. The program begins by defining what the Inner Advisor is and isn’t, and then surveys the many uses of the Inner Advisor technique in clinical practice. Using case examples and guiding exercises, the program delves into the common problems that arise with this approach, such as "no Advisor," "multiple Advisors," fear of the technique and "negative" or "hostile Advisors." ATS/1B provides a road map for effectively working through these challenging situations. For more information, click here.

PRE I: Preceptorship I
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD,LAc, Daru Maer, MA; and Judy Westerfield, MFT
CE Credit: 26 hours
Pre-Requisite: ATS/1B

Preceptorships are live 4-day workshops, each offering 26 hours of intensive immersion in IGI^sm. Preceptorships have been called “The Heart of the Certification Training Program,” for you work closely with small groups of Certification candidates under the skilled tutelage of Academy faculty members. At Preceptorships, you will have the opportunity to see unique and individual guiding approaches, share personal experiences using IGI^sm, and gain a greater working understanding of IGI^sm principles. Techniques taught during Pre I include the Inner Advisor, Dialoguing With Symptoms, Evocative Imagery, and Grounding. For more information, click here.

Level II: Advanced IGI^sm Techniques

Level II introduces advanced IGI^sm techniques for working with resistance, parts, polarities, and conflicts. These are essential techniques to help anyone navigate through the process of change, especially when dealing with bereavement, family disputes, weight control, smoking cessation, addiction recovery, and other conflictual situations. Level II consists of the ATS/2A and ATS/2B courses and Preceptorship II. For Level II course information, click on the image of the courses below.

Satisfactory completion of Level II makes you eligible for inclusion as a "Level II Imagery Guide^sm" in the Academy’s online Directory of Imagery Practitioners.

SAVE $310! By enrolling in Level II training as a package, you will save $310 over the tuition costs of enrolling separately in each of the required courses.

ATS/2A - Resistance and Parts Work
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD,LAc and Marty Rossman, MD
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I Training

Whether you are working toward Professional Certification as an Interactive Imagery Guide^sm or taking this program simply for advanced study, you will discover that resistance and parts work are central to the process of Interactive Guided Imagery^sm. This program focuses on the nature and function of resistance, parts, sub-personalities and ego states. Specifically, we will show you how Interactive Guided Imagery^sm can be used effectively to understand and work with resistance and to help clients identify, understand, and reconcile inner conflicts, especially as they relate to treating addictions. For more information, click here.

ATS/2B - Parts, Polarities & Conflict Resolution
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD,LAc, Daru Maer, MA; and Judy Westerfield, MFT

CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: ATS/2A

ATS/2B focuses on working with polarities as the simplest form of inner conflict between the "subpersonalities" or "ego states" which were discussed in detail in the companion program, ATS/2A. When an inner conflict is activated, at least two polar views are involved, each with different aims, perspectives, values and needs. This program explores how IGI^sm can be effectively utilized to understand and resolve such conflicts and to negotiate an improved inner relationship between the parts in conflict. For more information, click here.

PRE II: Preceptorship II
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD,LAc, Daru Maer, MA; and Judy Westerfield, MFT
CE Credit: 26 hours
Pre-Requisite: ATS/2B

Although Preceptorship II follows the same format as Preceptorship I, it provides detailed instruction and supervision in utilizing some of the most advanced and powerful IGI^sm tools. To be properly prepared, we recommend that you practice and thoroughly develop the basic skills you learned in Preceptorship I for a few months before enrolling in Preceptorship II, where they will be both needed and more closely evaluated. Techniques taught during Pre II include Regression With The Inner Advisor, Parts Work & Conflict Resolution, Inner Child & The Essential Self, and The Search For Purpose. For more information, click here.

Level III: Clinical Applications of IGI^sm

Level III Training addresses several of the most common clinical applications of IGI^sm when working with children, adult survivors of childhood abuse, people with physical, chronic, and life-threatening illness, and those confronting death, dying, loss, and transformation. For Level III course information, click on the image of the courses below.

Satisfactory completion of Level III makes you eligible for inclusion as a "Level III Imagery Guide^sm" in the Academy’s online Directory of Imagery Practitioners.

SAVE $70! By enrolling in Level III training as a package, you will save $70 over the tuition costs of enrolling separately in each of the required courses.

ATS/3A - Interactive Guided Imagery^sm with Children
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD, Ramela McKenna, PhD,MD, Richard Berrett, PhD, Charlotte Reznick, PHD
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level II Training

As children become exposed to the myriad of feelings and issues that accompany the sorrows surrounding the death of a pet or grandparent, the rage of family violence, the embarrassment of being caught in a lie or stealing, and the endless stream of assaults upon their self esteem, powerful images can become imprinted into the mind that continue to effect them throughout their adult life. Imagery can be an excellent interventional tool in working with kids coping with acute or chronic stress, pain, or medical illness, and it can play a critical role in helping children to deal with developmental crises, accelerate learning, expand creativity, and enhance self-esteem. For more information, click here.

ATS/3B - Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD,LAc, Marty Rossman, MD, Roxanne Whitelight, MA
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level II

Imagery can be useful in helping people to recover lost memories, to connect with and work through feeling states that have been split away, to find and strengthen inner resources, to grieve their losses, and to build new self-identities that grow beyond the limits of their wounds. At the same time, there are special precautions that one must be aware of when using imagery with people who have poor internal organization and vulnerable ego structures. This program discusses how IGI^sm can facilitate healing the "wounded child" and "present adult" as well as techniques for evoking the "inner healer." False memory syndrome and the issue of forgiveness are also addressed. For more information, click here.

ATS/4A - Physical, Chronic & Life-threatening Illness
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD, LAc, Marty Rossman, MD, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, O. Carl Simonton, MD, Jan Maxwell, RN, Terry Miller, RN
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level II

ATS/4A examines the many uses of guided imagery in working with people with physical illnesses, with an emphasis on issues accompanying chronic, catastrophic, and life-threatening illness. Many of the same approaches that are helpful in working on psychological issues are also helpful to people coping with physical illness, though special precautions and caveats apply. In addition, imagery can be helpful in relieving pain or other symptoms, helping people to tolerate difficult medical procedures, and in stimulating healing responses in the body. Special attention is also given to issues in chronic pain, cancer, and AIDS as models for some of the most demanding and enriching work one can do. For more information, click here.

ATS/4B - Death, Dying, Loss and Transformation
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD, LAc & Marty Rossman, MD, O.Carl Simonton, MD, Susan Ezra, RN
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level II

Imagery is an excellent interventional tool in helping people move through loss and transformation. This course includes discussions about the importance of belief systems in patients with catastrophic illness, and how imagery can be used to help people move through the predictable stages of grieving following lossad and how to adopt more positive beliefs and attitudes. The program also discusses hospice work with dying patients and their caregivers, emphasizing imagery techniques found to be effective in controlling pain, stress, and anticipatory nausea and vomiting, as well as techniques that caregivers can benefit from using. For more information, click here.

Independent Study

The Independent Study requirement is an opportunity for you to explore and bring together related ideas that help you integrate Interactive Guided Imagery^sm into your clinical practice. We acknowledge the value of your previous training in other related areas, such as hypnosis, Neurolinguistic Programming, self-actualization and ego state therapy, Psychosynthesis, Gestalt therapy, meditation, visualization, art therapy, and other clinical approaches that use techniques related to Interactive Guided Imagery^sm. Attendance for CE credit at any AGI Annual Conference or webcast or completion of any non-certification track Academy courses for credit qualifies as related training. You are required to document this training, and to submit copies of these documents with a 1-3 page typed paper discussing how and why this training has enriched your abilities as an Imagery Guide^sm.When your documents have been verified and your paper approved, you are then eligible to apply for Certification in Interactive Guided Imagery^sm.

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