The certification process is a collaborative evaluation of your capacity, capability, and competency as a healing presence. Capacity is the ability to stay out of a client’s work by being consciously aware of yourself. Capability is the ability to create a healing presence of energy while sensing the subtle differences that are occurring within you, the client, and/or the field. Competency is the mastering of yourself to support the client with presence to empower them to heal their selves.
Certification has its internal and external rewards. Internally, certification is a collaborative validation of your desire for self-development, unwavering in your own reflections, totally committed to looking deep into yourself through intensely revealing required exercises, engrossed in the intimacy of conscious awareness and controlled vulnerability (healing presence), and feeling more integrated in day to day life.
Externally, you will become a member of a unique group of spiritual healers that embrace the teachings of healing presence and being the healing container. You may for your own purpose announce it publicly and post your Healing Den (HD) Practitioner Certification at your discretion.
As a facilitator, certification will enable you to teach in the HD program intensives and workshops. Initially, it will be with Herb and then on your own with other facilitators. You will be a healing container for others learning to be a healing presence.
Certification requires proficiency in three areas: self-awareness, theory, and application. Due the intensive time factor to review and respond to the certification exercises, there is a $1500 fee for each certification.
A critical aspect of presence is self-awareness. In many modalities, being present is not a core aspect of teaching the practice or for that matter for performing the healing techniques. The healing work and/or container is created through the techniques of the practice without conscious or more importantly self-awareness. Healing presence requires opening the mind and your self-awareness to itself as an ongoing discovery of universal world of energy.
Much of the self-awareness around energy will come from the intensive workshops, advanced workshops, practice sessions, and your incorporating all the learning into your daily awareness. It's like once the lights are turned on, it becomes difficult to turn off the daily insights and learning through sensing and seeing the reflections you are creating.
Specific assignments and more detailed requirements become available to existing Healing Den members after an approved application.
As part of your self-awareness development, the self-awareness packet of exercises for certification includes the completion of written exercises that will be reviewed with Herb and other facilitators.
These exercises open the mind to alternative and expanded aspects of oneself. We begin to see that self-created reality is a series of well-founded beliefs that have served us in our growth to this point, and as we grow we see that many beliefs or perceptions prevent our growth. We begin to deeply understand the famous quote that “we can only see what we believe”. In other words, much of the real world is shaded in our belief system, shared in family, institutional, and cultural systems. As our beliefs dissolve, we open to a wider and more in-depth understanding that the universe is conscious energy.
The theory of healing presence as taught in the healing den program is being created and captured through the training workshops, video meetings and classes, reflections, a collection of materials placed on the Healing Den website, and the knowledge database. It is imperative that all students utilize these resources to their fullest by frequently refreshing oneself. In addition, the reflection papers assist my understanding of how well you understand the theory and methods.
The application of the healing presence is intensively done at the workshops and is supported by scheduling and practicing with others on a frequent basis. The use of the reflection forms supports learning from the practice session by putting into writing, and often creating insights, from remembering the details.
It is expected that the healing den participants actively meditate at least three times per week. Use of the meditation stones and crystals will enhance your energetic sensitivities including experiencing them during healing sessions as well as meditation. The stones will increase the speed of relaxation as you meditate and will begin to increase your staying awake in higher and lower frequency energies.
There are two Healing Den Certifications. The first certification involves being certified as a Healing Den Practitioner. The second certification involves being certified as a Healing Den Facilitator.
Certification as a Healing Den Practitioner involves the completion of basic and advanced classes, the completion of assignments and going through an evaluation.
In order to apply for certification by completing the application and submitting it, you must complete the following prerequisites: (1) Minimum number of in person classes, (2) Minimum of six in class reflection papers that have indicated understanding and application of the class content. (This interprets to one per class attended where each intensive is one session). (3) Minimum of 7 practice session reflections that reflects learning and application of the HD processes with clients.
Note: The reflection papers reveal what you learned and can support your professional and personal growth. They are not school assignments for grades though they will be used to guide and support you. These prerequisites must be successfully completed before applying for entry into the certification process.
Once your application is approved, you will gain access to additional certification assignments and undergo an evaluation process that looks at skills as well as knowledge of Healing Den concepts. For details of the application and certification workflow, please go to the practitioner certification application.
Certified Practitioners may publicly include their designation in various professional and personal social and print media. Typically, they will be listed as Certified Healing Den Practitioners or similar phrasing. Certified Practitioners may participate in HD Intensive training as a practice leader that supervise and support those attending the two week intensive introductory programs.
Certification as a Healing Den Facilitator involves completing all of the above plus completing the Intensive two-week program a second time and then attending a third time to overstaff—observe and participate in demos and a fourth time as a support person that will be asked to teach or demonstrate the work with Herb. You will be asked to provide:
You will be evaluated on your ability to teach both via demonstration and didactically. Herb will evaluate your facilitation skills based on your presence, keeping the client present, recognizing when the session is over during demos, and clarity of teaching. This will be done at special workshops with other students seeking facilitator certification. Outside clients may be included in the practicum that may include past traumas.
Certified Facilitators have all of the privileges of the certified practitioners as well as may teach theory, technique and practice sessions in the Healing Den intensives and advanced workshops.
Certification workshops will be held as demand or requests come forth. They will be 2 full days of practicing, learning and expanding so that the individual will know within themselves that they are certifiably competent as a practitioner or facilitator. Herb will provide guidance and support for each person individually to find that internal competence. Certification is a learning process.
It is suggested that those seeking certification find each other and form a group that begin to communicate with each other, possibly practice with each other, and finally, to use inquiry to understand each other’s process and awareness during the healing sessions. This process of inquiry will transform from a rock to a pearl or diamond in the rough if each person immerses with intimacy to self and others.
If there is interest in either certification, you can apply at the links above. For questions, please contact Herb.
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