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The Grinberg Method
Professional Training School

Introduction

Serious training with exciting prospects

The Grinberg Method Professional Studies are a 3-year course aimed at providing students with the tools to deliver the Method as an independent professional activity. A multitude of techniques are taught over the three years, giving the students a complete range of tools to work with their clients. Professional practice of the Method is already possible (and encouraged) after the first year of studies.

Requirements and access
Practicing the Grinberg Method requires a combination of skills such as sensitivity, thought, intuition and creativity and the studies contribute to bring out and develop these skills in each student. A multitude of techniques are learned through many practical exercises. The theoretical part is given through lectures and illustrated with more practical examples. Also, the whole course is backed up with complete study manuals. Access to the studies is based on the future student’s attitude and motivation, which are discussed during an initial meeting with a senior practitioner. It must be underlined that the Grinberg Method Professional Studies are intensive and demanding.

Motivators to study with the Grinberg Method
Working with people and helping make a significant difference in their lives are two of the reasons many practitioners highlight when talking of their passion for their profession. Communicating through touch is also a particularly strong motivator. In addition, the flexibility of an independent activity offers practitioners the opportunity to work in different environments. Finally, the rapid increase in demand for alternative approaches to wellbeing is a decisive element for many to choose a career in a growing market.

The Grinberg Method in relation to other methods
In the midst of techniques and courses now available in the field of well-being there are very uneven levels of professionalism, seriousness and results. The Grinberg Method is proud to offer a high level of competence both in the studies and in the programs offered to clients. Unique to the Grinberg Method is our aim at achieving long term results through teaching the clients to take care of themselves rather than offer short term healing.

Working as Grinberg Method practitioner
In the course of a learning process, clients will normally visit the practitioner once or twice a week. During the initial meetings, the practitioner uses analysis techniques to define the most efficient approach to working with the client and will apply and teach touch, movement, breathing, descriptive and awareness techniques.

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Summary of the 3-year professional studies

All three stages of study include lectures, exercises and training at home alone and with clients and the focus is on the stages of the process a client goes through.

Each stage deepens and broadens the student’s understanding of how patterns develop in people’s life, how they differ from one person to another and how to teach clients to identify these.

• Stage I - in this first year patterns which appear on the physical level are examined. It introduces the student to different ways of controlling muscle level, reducing tension, stress and to learning the basics of relaxation.

• Stage II - the second year goes into new areas, developing the process stages. It aims at teaching the client how to reproduce patterns he or she is experiencing, learn how to control them and finally stop them.

• Stage III - this final year focuses on the set of combined patterns clients undergo when repeating situations in their every day lives. The student is taught how to perceive the client as a whole and deal with side effects affecting feelings, behavior, thoughts and posture.

During the three years, the student’s level of attention, concentration and clarity develop as more techniques are acquired. These techniques allows individualization of the process to each and every client.

Course details

First year
Second year
Third year

Specialization courses

Footwork
Available to students who have completed their 1st year of studies, Footwork courses are offered in 20 hours instead of 48 for non-practitioners. Being a highly structured technique, Footwork is both simple to learn and simple to apply. For the client, in addition to being less deep and demanding than the regular sessions, Footwork presents impressive results, particularly in achieving relaxation, reducing stress and relieving pain. It can therefore be an easier way to approach new clients by offering them a lighter, simpler and results orientated introduction to the Grinberg Method.

Reducing Personal Stress “RPS”
This course teaches you how to focus an entire process on the subject of stress. After completing the course, you can offer clients a structured process of 8 sessions (which can be completed with 12 more sessions) based on a specific stressful situation in the client’s life and its related symptoms.

Our approach to stress is that while we cannot change the situation itself, we can make a difference in how the client handles it. The aim of the process is to identify the patterns occurring in the body during the situation which are manifested in posture, feelings, thoughts and behavior, and to gain control over them by being able to produce them and to drop them.

Practitioners who went through the course and gave RPS processes describe an impressive percentage of clients who were satisfied with the results, noting beneficial effects resulting from this focused, short term process.

Recovery Process Course
The recovery program will give you the opportunity to experience delivering the method at a further level in bringing pain relief and improved rehabilitation to those who have suffered physical damage after an illness, an accident or with a condition such as arthritis or the common constipation. Using techniques and touch, you will learn to develop a very detailed analysis of a physical condition before reducing its intensity. Accelerated recuperation and pain relief of 80% of clients in the short and long term has been noted. Where medicine stops and leaves the body to an often long and strenuous convalescence, the recovery process can speed up the process with simply amazing results.

Professional Trainer Program
For practitioners who wish to go beyond the one-on-one approach, the Grinberg Method offers this specialization course for those graduates who wish to work with groups in focused classes. On completion of the course, the new trainers are offered a license which enables them to teach groups of up to 8 people. This license can be renewed annually.

There are currently two classes which have been developed and that you will learn to present in the Trainer Program: “improving physical ability” and “relaxation” classes (link to public program offerings).