Level 2 - Educational Kinesiology Consultant Training Programme
What does the training qualify me to do?
f you would like to work one-to-one with individual clients and deliver talks and short seminars on Brain Gym®, then becoming an Educational Kinesiology Consultant is a natural next step. With the Brain Gym Movement Facilitator training under your belt, further modules of the programme bring a deeper understanding of the Edu-K approach beyond Brain Gym and greatly extend the techniques at your disposal.
This progression in training opens the door to the professional use of the unique and potent Edu-K goal achievement process, which is at the heart of the optimal effectiveness of the Brain Gym and Edu-K physical activities. Whether working with small groups, large teams or helping individuals towards in-depth self-development, the power of the simple, structured goal achievement process can be profound. As an Educational Kinesiology Consultant you will learn many Edu-K activities and strategies beyond the Brain Gym programme. These will give you a flexible and multi-dimensional professional – and personal – resource to foster individual growth. You will also be able to deliver short Brain Gym trainings in settings of your choice, confident that these are backed up by an extensive experience and knowledge of the Edu-K approach and programme.
From becoming a Consultant, it is only a short step to being qualified to teach the Brain Gym 101 course, upon completion of the Brain Gym 101 Graduate Mentoring programme.
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Optimal Brain Organisation
What will I learn on the course?
The course curriculum builds on the activities and procedures of the Brain Gym 101 course. Optimal Brain Organisation takes you on a journey into sensory preferences, information processing styles and how these affect your everyday life, skills, choices and challenges. Find out how your preferred eye, ear, hand, foot and information processing style shape how you express yourself, your natural gifts and those activities which may cause you stress. The simple and profound techniques learnt on this course are a life-changing opportunity to making the best use of what you have to offer in every area of daily existence. Above all, this course brings understanding and increased awareness of a fascinating aspect of what makes you – and others – “tick”, so that each individual’s unique potential can be understood and developed.
The activities
- An additional 9 movement activities to complement those learnt on the Brain Gym foundation course
- Further understanding of the Edu-K activities related to inner and outer organisation skills
- How these activities relate to the core objectives of the course
- The effects of the individual activities on performance, posture, attitude and movement
- How the activities help to approach challenges from a resourceful, integrated state
- Developing confidence and creativity in using the activities with a wide range of abilities
The concepts
- The positive effect on all aspects of daily life of smooth synchronisation between our eyes, ears, hands, ability to move and processing of sensory information
- Noticing when we have an integrated sensory profile – or not – in different situations is a key to accessing more resourceful states
- The beneficial effect of releasing stress on accessing our inner resources and capacity to make good choices
- Awareness and respect for our sensory preferences can increase understanding of our own and other’s behaviour
- The model of the 3 dimensions of learning – the synthesis of sensing, feeling and thinking – can provide links and insight into our sensory profiles
- Understanding the significance of our own sensory preferences can make us more successful in dealing with other people’s behaviour, encouraging their skills and appreciating their attitudes
The techniques
- The goal setting technique and achievement process (‘balance’) learnt in Brain Gym 101 is further enhanced by incorporating our sensory profiles for chosen activities and situations
- How to experience your own sensory profile and draw out personal meaning and insight from it
- Understanding the effect of stress on your natural gifts and challenges, based on your sensory profile
- Practice in helping others to explore, understand and benefit from their sensory gifts and challenges
- How to use the Edu-K techniques and activities to engage with daily life experiences with the best possible integration of our senses
- How to shape your work, relationships and communication with others to take account of different personal sensory preferences and encourage response rather than reaction
After the course
You will receive a Letter of Attendance from your Brain Gym Instructor on completion of the full class hours. If you are training to a professional level qualification (such as Brain Gym Movement Facilitator), case studies must be completed as part of your training track. Your Brain Gym Instructor will support you in this process and evaluate your case study experience as part of the learning process. Completion of the case studies entitles you to a Certificate of Completion which states that you have satisfactorily completed all the course requirements. This Certificate is valid for four years, should you wish to continue training in the future.
Who teaches the course
The course is taught by qualified Optimal Brain Organisation Instructors. They are independent trainers who have met the required training standard of being qualified Brain Gym 101 Instructors prior to completing an Advanced Instructor Training in Optimal Brain Organisation. Optimal Brain Organisation Instructors are required to be current and updated professional members of the Educational Kinesiology Trust.
Key information about this course
Key outcomes
- Go ‘behind the scenes’ and see for yourself how the Brain Gym activities and procedures you learnt in the foundation course affect sensory preferences, integrated learning and positive living
- Discover how your leading eye, ear, hand, foot and processing style connects to your outlook, learning, skills and challenges
- Explore your own sensory profile and relate it to your personal experience
- Learn how to help others make the most of their gifts through awareness of their profiles
- Gain life-changing insight into how to make the most of your natural gifts and manage challenges positively
- Expand your repertoire of movement activities to enhance self-organisation and easier everyday functioning, building on those learnt in the Brain Gym Foundation Course
Do you have any further questions?
Contact your nearest Instructor. Alternatively you can phone us on 0845 539 0312 or email us.
Touch for Health
What will I learn on the course?
The foundation for many different kinesiology modalities, Touch for Health provides the ‘nuts and bolts’ of kinesiology training, enabling you to explore how thoughts manifest in the body and affect daily life functioning. Experience how the programme has adapted techniques from older and holistic approaches to wellbeing to evolve into a fully contemporary self-development programme. You will learn to use muscle response monitoring with confidence so that you can move forward to greater physical, emotional and structural integration in your life.
The first module offers the basics of monitoring feedback from muscles and techniques for balancing the body. The second module expands the repertoire of muscles used and adds techniques for bringing greater integration and wellness into everyday life. Together they deepen your awareness of how thoughts and emotions affect the body and offer simple ways of defusing negative effects and unhelpful patterns.
The activities
- Gain expertise and confidence in the art of muscle response monitoring
- How to set goals and notice the effect on your body
- Choose the most beneficial physical techniques to create the optimal resources to achieve your goals
- Learn gentle physical ways of identifying and reducing stress responses to challenges in your life
- How to move out of your comfort zone supported by your thinking, energy and physical structure
- Explore the effects of physically contacting key pathways and points on the body to encourage a sense of balance and harmony
The concepts
- A balanced body and mind are the foundations of a happy, fulfilled life and an increased feeling of wellbeing
- The importance of directing your attention and intention to positive goals when you want to make changes of any kind
- The interrelationship of all systems within the body
- How the Chinese model of maintaining a flow and balance of energy within the body can illuminate contemporary issues and challenges
- Changes in beliefs, attitudes and intention bring observable changes in the body and vice versa, as the body and the mind are one interlinked feedback loop
- Touch for Health can empower individuals to take responsibility for their own condition, life and outlook
The techniques
- Discover and develop your natural ability to support change in others
- Broaden the goal setting techniques you learnt in your previous Edu-K training
- Increase your choice of techniques to alleviate emotional and physical discomfort through a related and yet distinct model
- Develop awareness of those environments – human or lifestyle – that support your well-being
- Expand, refine and fine tune your ability to use the body and muscle responses as useful feedback towards a positive daily life in harmony with your unique individuality
- Explore and experience a fascinating set of techniques in a learning environment where you will be the judge of their efficacy
After the course
On completion of the full class hours, an International Kinesiology College Certificate of Attendance will be given to you by your instructor. You will need to complete 12 case studies to complete this part of the Edu-K Professional Training.
Who teaches the course
Touch for Health is taught by Instructors registered with the International Kinesiology Collge, who will have completed the required training to teach TFH and issue certificates. Your Touch for Health Instructor can be an Edu-K Professional who is qualified to teach Touch for Health or an outside qualified TFH Instructor.
Optional further training in Touch for Health
Students attending TFH modules 1 & 2 have the further voluntary option of transforming this two module training into the completion of a Foundation Kinesiology qualification. You can do this by taking an assessment (4½ hours assessment, 2 hours multiple choice paper, 2 hours observed balance, ½ hour interview). You then have the choice of building on this by attending 3 more Touch for Health courses (modules 3-5, plus case studies) and taking another Touch for Health assessment. On completion of this, you would become Touch for Health Proficient. For further information, contact a qualified Touch for Health Instructor.
Key information about this course
Key outcomes
- Learn core skills that underpin techniques used in the Educational Kinesiology In Depth: Seven Dimensions course
- Further refine your expertise on noticing feedback from the body by using specific muscles as biofeedback mechanisms
- Acquire hands on techniques that reduce stress within the body and can be used for yourself
- Increase your knowledge of the physiological monitoring techniques that were adapted for the Edu-K programme
- Gain insight into the essential concepts from the Applied Kinesiology model that underlie the interrelationship of thinking, feeling, physical wellbeing and structural integration in the body
- Make an easy transition into the Seven Dimensions Course with enhanced background knowledge and core phsyical skills securely in place
Do you have any further questions?
Contact your nearest Instructor or the Kinesiology Federation, the International Kinesiology College. Alternatively you can phone us on 0845 539 0312 or email us.
Educational Kinesiology In-Depth: 7 Dimensions of Intelligence
What will I learn on the course?
Explore and experience seven dimensions of innate intelligence – behaviour, motivation, physical reflexes, focus, posture, self-expression and self-management. Learn how they can become natural resources when integrated into our functioning being, supporting personal development. The extensive and profound techniques and activities learnt on the course are solidly grounded in movement and posture. Experience how they can become powerful triggers for positive change and managing challenges. This course prepares you to work one to one with others, greatly expands the techniques in your toolkit and hones and extends your skills in using the Edu-K goal setting process. The training is delivered by Faculty members, who are senior Edu-K Instructors.
The activities
- A substantial number of new movement activities covering a broad range of gentle, physical techniques
- Integrate the new activities with those you have already learnt to extend your repertoire seamlessly
- Discover four new groupings of these activities to improve your potential in the areas of:
- posture and movement
- behaviour and emotion
- personal ecology and self-management
- inner balance and calm
- Supervised evening practice sessions offer the opportunity to the day’s learning into practice, for an optimal hands on learning experience
- Learn the activities and techniques by working on your own goals to develop maximum understanding when facilitating others
- A fascinating and in depth insight into the advantages of grounding change and learning in your physiology and movement
The concepts
- The Seven Dimensions process offers a wholly individualised set of opportunities for change to each person rather than one specific set of solutions to any given challenge
- The highest priority is given to each individual’s development of their own system of self-structured learning
- Facilitator and client approach every shared session as being a teachable moment where anything is possible
- The facilitator’s role is to provide an environment in which new experience can take place rather than offering a methodology
- Each change process is based on the integration of physical and developmental skills with emotional needs and rational goals
- The activities and techniques of the In Depth programme can be adapted for any level of skill, wellbeing and function
The techniques
- How to draw out awareness of where the blocks to moving forward may be held in the body
- Encouraging self-education through making links between behaviour, function and physiology
- Teaching simple body feedback techniques as a guide to the priority areas in which progress is needed
- Encouraging self-reliance in choosing activities to release stress responses to challenges
- Using Edu-K processes and activities with creativity and spontaneity, in tandem with a structured system
- Guiding clients through a process of self-actualising change whilst respecting their innate intelligence to know what is needed, to self-direct, to make choices and to find meaning in their chosen goals
After the course
You will receive a Letter of Attendance from your Faculty Instructor on completion of the full class hours. The next step is to complete the designated post-course case studies. Your Faculty Instructor will support you in this process and evaluate your case study experience as part of the learning process. To complete the post-course curriculum, you also need to take a written test that can be completed in your own time and online. The aim is to help you to evaluate your understanding of the concepts and practice you explored in the Seven Dimensions course. Satisfactory completion of the case studies and the test entitles you to a Certificate of Completion, which states that you have fully completed the course requirements. This Certificate is valid for four years, should you wish to continue training in the future.
Who teaches the course
The course is taught by Faculty Instructors. These Instructors undergo substantial additional training to be accepted as Faculty members and deliver the Educational Kinesiology In Depth: Seven Dimensions course. They have to be approved at an international level as having met the required training standards, as well as mentoring and sponsorship criteria. They must be professional members in good standing of the Educational Kinesiology Trust in the UK and the International Educational Kinesiology Foundation.
Key information about this course
Key outcomes
- Expand the tools and techniques learnt in previous courses to support multi-dimensional personal development
- Explore the fascinating links between posture, movement, attitude and skills and learn a unique set of tools to benefit from these connections
- Deepen and broaden your understanding and experience of Edu-K’s core insight into the connection between physiology and function
- Acquire the skills to work one to one with others under the experienced tuition of a Faculty Instructor
- Attend extended supervised practice sessions during the course to embed the techniques in your experience
- An opportunity to progress your self-development by working in depth on your own goals and challenges in a safe and supportive environment
Do you have any further questions?
If you have any questions, contact one of the Faculty Members (Kay McCarroll or Niki Honoré) who will be happy to discuss them with you. Alternatively you can phone us on 0845 539 0312 or email us.
Educational Kinesiology Consultant Training Course
What will I learn on the programme?
Becoming an Educational Kinesiology Consultant qualifies you to work with clients on a one-to-one basis and to deliver talks and seminars on Brain Gym. You are entitled to use all the Brain Gym and Educational Kinesiology tools and techniques you will have learnt up to this part of the training in your private consultations.
Requirements prior to attending the course:
- Complete Optimal Brain Organisation
- Complete Touch for Health Levels 1 – 2
- Complete 7 Dimensions In-Depth
- Repeat Brain Gym 101
- Self-development sessions: 21 sessions received from peers or qualified Consultants) – 30 hours
- Practical applications: 4 case studies (either 2 x 1 hour sessions or 1 x 2 hour session on 4 separate people) – these may be completed after attending Brain Gym 101and Optimal Brain Organisation – 16 hours
- Sample marketing materials: Bring some ideas to the course for further discussion
- An Edu-K related project: no set hours, discuss with a Faculty member
- Home study: Students will need to have completed all previous home study requirements
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- Completion of qualification:
- Signature of a Sub-licence Agreement with the Educational Kinesiology Trust
- Enrolment as a Professional Member of the Educational Kinesiology Trust (includes continuing professional development requirements after 2 years)
- Certificate of Professional Insurance
- On completion of the above, you will be presented with a Certificate of Qualification
Next steps
If you would like to teach the Brain Gym 101 foundation course, you can do this by joining the Graduate Mentoring programme to become a Brain Gym 101 Instructor.
Who teaches the course
The course is taught by Faculty Instructors. These Instructors undergo substantial additional training to be accepted as Faculty members. They have to be approved at an international level as having met the required training standards, as well as mentoring and sponsorship criteria. They must be professional members in good standing of the Educational Kinesiology Trust in the UK and the International Educational Kinesiology Foundation.
Key information about this course
Key outcomes
- Go beyond the Brain Gym programme and experience many further perspectives of the Edu-K system through three new, profound and self-empowering courses
- Add many new activities to your Edu-K toolkit to enrich your ability to help others
- Learn enhanced Edu-K goal setting processes to expand the opportunities for optimising performance
- Learn how the different course activities and processes can be blended into one multi-faceted approach to personal growth
- Develop the skill to work in depth with individual issues using a potent, respectful and personally empowering system
- Become a competent, flexible and dynamic presenter of the key aspects of the Brain Gym programme, extending your audience through talks and short seminars in environments of your choice
Do you have any further questions?
If you have any questions, contact one of the Faculty Members (Kay McCarroll or Niki Honoré) who will be happy to discuss them with you. Alternatively you can phone us on 0845 539 0312 or email us.
Key outcomes
- Go beyond the Brain Gym programme and experience many further perspectives of the Edu-K system through three new, profound and self-empowering courses
- Add many new activities to your Edu-K toolkit to enrich your ability to help others
- Learn enhanced Edu-K goal setting processes to expand the opportunities for optimising performance
- Learn how the different course activities and processes can be blended into one multi-faceted approach to personal growth
- Develop the skill to work in depth with individual issues using a potent, respectful and personally empowering system
- Become a competent, flexible and dynamic presenter of the key aspects of the Brain Gym programme, extending your audience through talks and short seminars in environments of your choice
Do you have any further questions?
If you have any questions, contact one of the Faculty Members (Kay McCarroll or Niki Honoré) who will be happy to discuss them with you. Alternatively you can phone us on 0845 539 0312 or email us.
BG101Instructor Mentoring Programme
What will I learn on the programme?
Becoming an Educational Kinesiology Instructor qualifies you to teach the Brain Gym 101 course and to deliver talks and seminars on Brain Gym.
Requirements prior to attending the course:
- Complete all steps to become an Educational Kinesiology Consultant
Steps to becoming a licenced Brain Gym 101 Instructor
Next steps
If you would like to become a Faculty member you can apply for the Faculty Mentoring Programme by contacting our International Faculty members here.
Who teaches the course
The course is taught by Faculty Instructors. These Instructors undergo substantial additional training to be accepted as Faculty members. They have to be approved at an international level as having met the required training standards, as well as mentoring and sponsorship criteria. They must be professional members in good standing of the Educational Kinesiology Trust in the UK and the International Educational Kinesiology Foundation.
Key information about this course
Key outcomes
Do you have any further questions?
If you have any questions, contact one of the Faculty Members (Kay McCarroll or Niki Honoré) who will be happy to discuss them with you. Alternatively you can phone us on 0845 539 0312 or email us.