GSPT Curriculum
Curriculum Overview
1452 Hours, 22 Months
Total Course Hours: 648 hours
Practicum outside of class: 507 hours
Homework: 297 hours
Body System Courses (358 hours: includes Competency Reviews and Independent Study)
BS1 42 hours Following Flow: Embodying the Fluids System
BS2 42 hours Knowing Bones: Embodying the Skeletal System
BS3 42 hours Organic Dance: Embodying the Organ System
BS4 33 hours Holding On: Embodying the Fascia/Ligamentous System
BS5 21 hours Glory in the Glands: Embodying the Endocrine System
BS6 63 hours Magnificent Muscles I and II: Embodying the Muscle System
BS7 40 class Renewing the Nervous System: Embodying the Nervous
BS8 60 hours Vibrational Aspects I,II, III: Embodying the Energy System
BS9 15 hours Sub-cellular Ceremony: Embodying the Cell
Body Processes Courses (75 hours)
BP1 21 hours Breathing Freely: Embodying the Breath
BP2 18 hours Singing Fully: Embodying the Voice
BP3 36 hours Moving Perceptions I, II, III: Embodying the Senses*
Developmental Movement Courses (78 hours)
DM1 33 hours Developmental Movement I: The RRR
DM2 18 hours Developmental Movement II: The Pre-Vertebrate Patterns
DM3 27 hours Developmental Movement III: The Vertebrate Patterns
Professional Competency Courses (148 hrs)
PC: I - 4 137 hours Professional Competency I - IV class/tutorial hours
PC: Practicum 443 hours
Required HW 300 hrs
Homework: Study and Practicum
804 hours of the Global Somatics™ Practitioner Training Modular Format are completed through study and practice (Practicum) beyond class time. Homework is turned in every month. Students are required to make copies of their homework for their files and shared resources. Students are allowed a one month grace period after each course ends to complete required homework. After that time, there is a $25 late fee charged charged per month per course. All homework must be completed for graduation. Students can turn in homework at the $25 late fee for 6 months past graduation date, after that the fee is $50 per course. No homework is accepted 1 year past the graduation date.
Homework Components
Private Sessions in Global Somatics™ and Body-Mind Centering® (12 sessions)
Students pay for 12 private sessions with Certified Global Somatics™ Practitioners, Body-Mind Centering® Practitioners or other approved somatic therapists. These regular sessions serve to to deepen embodiment, support personal integration and transformation, practice self care and maintenance needed by a professional movement educator or body worker and experience the styles of different practitioners. Two of these sessions must be with Suzanne River. Students keep journals on their private session work and have the practitioner sign and date a form.
Homework assignments (approximately 20 hours per course)
Students study appropriate anatomy and physiology, completing assigned pages in the Anatomy Coloring Book. Each course has additional somatic reading on which notes are taken, the article summarized or dialogues held. Some courses also require additional work. Students are required to write records of the Instructional and Integrative Private sessions they offer. (see below) Before the end of each course, the student completes an Evidence and Assessment documenting completion of assignments, a Self-Evaluation assessing her competency and a course evaluation. Students turn in their completed notebooks at the end of each course for grading.
Instructional Privates session work (48 sessions with records)
Students practice movement and touch protocols learned in class with other people (sample clients/students) and record their sessions. Students must have a minimum of ten people with whom they can practice.
Integrative Private Sessions work (16 sessions with records)
Students offer four integrative sessions per season in which they follow the desires of the person they are working with. These sessions are practice for actual private practice and allow the students to deepen intuition, develop a personal style with a variety of people, practice record keeping and eventually build into the ability to write a case study.
Practice teaching (10 hours)
Students teach personally meaningful Global Somatics™ material to a minimum of four people. Classes are recorded.
Research Project (150 hours)
Students design a personal Research Project consisting of a comprehensive study in a chosen field of application. Research resources may include additional reading, classes, mentoring, teaching or performing. The Project is presented during the final Professional Competency course.
Peer supervision (36 hours)
Students team in small groups to study, practice, process and witness growth approximately 8 hours per season.
Community service (45 hours)
Offerings to the community through performances, classes, private session work, parenting, etc.
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