Susan Aposhyan

BodyMind Psychotherapy – Embodied Spirituality

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Curricular Checklist

BMP Certification/Embodiment Coach Certification:
Personal Checklist and Curricular Review

This curricular checklist can guide your reading, study, and questions throughout your BMP training. Please review periodically as you proceed with accumulating your training hours. Document your training hours as you go along. Making notes regarding each topic can help you formulate questions and track your learning over time.

After completing 35 hours of BMP training with an authorized trainer (live, recorded, online or in person), complete a curricular checklist document and submit it to info@nullbodymindpsychotherapy.com. You will receive feedback, suggestions, and once this process is complete, you have completed your level 1 training! Yay! Later levels are achieved by continuing your training, as noted here on the Find a Practitioner page.

This document should include:

  1. Your name and contact information
  2. History of BMP training dates, hours, titles, locations, and trainer
  3. Responses to each of the questions posed regarding the areas of study below.
  4. Your profession and licensures (if applicable). Licensed mental Health professionals will receive certification as Body-Mind Psychotherapists. Others will receive certificate of completion of training in Body-Mind Psychotherapy and/or Embodiment Coach certification.

Levels of certification:

  • Level One completion of the basic curriculum (35 hours, curricular checklist, and trainer approval)
  • Full Certification (BMP Practitioner and/or Embodiment Coach): 100 hours
  • Senior BMP Practitioner: 150 hours plus
  • Senior BMP Practitioner and Embodiment Trainer
  • BMP Trainer and Embodiment Trainer

Areas of Study

Embodiment

  • Read and integrate the material in Natural Intelligence and Body-Mind Psychotherapy regarding embodiment.

  • Integrate embodiment practice into daily life.

  • Develop ability to help clients discover their next step in becoming more embodied, whether through embodiment practice or some small aspect of this.

  • Write a couple of paragraphs discussing your personal embodiment practice, including its history, development and current edges.

  • Write a couple of paragraphs discussing your ability to support clients in their embodiment practice, including tailoring the practice to their personal situation and articulating results.

Energetic Development

  • Read and integrate the material in Natural Intelligence and Body-Mind Psychotherapy regarding energetic development.

  • Understand the role of each of the fundamental and basic neurological actions in one’s own daily life. Write a paragraph about this.

  • Develop ability to observe the actions in others. Write a paragraph about this.

  • Develop ability to correlate habitual actions, sequencing, and truncation with psychological issues and character structures. Write a couple of paragraphs about this.

Body Systems

  • Read and integrate the material in Natural Intelligence and Body-Mind Psychotherapy regarding the body systems.

  • Understand the role of each of the body systems in one’s own daily life. Write a paragraph about this.

  • Develop ability to observe the systems in others. Write a paragraph about this.

  • Develop ability to correlate habitual use of systems with psychological resources and issues and character structures. Write a couple of paragraph about this.

Energetic Development and the Body Systems

  • Understand the interaction between the actions and the systems.

  • Understand the hypothetical nature of observations, and how to share in an open, hypothesis-testing manner.

Heart and Cells

  • Read and integrate the material in Natural Intelligence and Body-Mind Psychotherapy regarding the heart and cells.

  • Recognize moments in which the heart and the cells may be significant to a particular developmental edge.

Interaction Cycle

  • Read and integrate the material in Natural Intelligence and Body-Mind Psychotherapy regarding the interaction cycle.

  • Develop ability to use Interaction Cycle fluidly in a variety of situations.

  • Write up two examples of the Interaction Cycles that you have done. For the first example, do one that was easy, in which the participant understood and felt each step relatively quickly. For the second example, discuss attempting to do the Interaction Cycle with a more difficult person/situation. How did you work with the challenges.

Birth, Sex, Trauma, and Death

  • Read and integrate the material in the last chapter of Body-Mind Psychotherapy regarding these topics.

Professional Application

  • Complete overview of learning in the classroom, from the readings, and in practice.

  • From this overview, develop questions and personal sense of developmental edges.

  • Dialogue with self, trainers, and other trainees about this edge, in person and in writing before last segment of training.

  • Reach a stage of satisfaction with these edges.

  • Complete this form and email with written dialogue above to BMP office.