BBSH NY 24-25 School Catalog - Flipbook - Page 28
Adjunctive
Requirements
PERSONAL PROCESS REQUIREMENTS
In order to enhance the student’s personal development and to safeguard their emotional health throughout their training,
it is a School policy that Brennan Healing Science Professional Studies diploma students and Bachelor of Science in
Brennan Healing Science degree students have Personal Process sessions two times per month (for a total of 18 sessions
evenly spaced between September and the day before the last class in May). Sessions such as couples therapy, massage,
acupuncture and meditation do not fulfill this requirement.
Brennan Integration Work (BIW) meets the personal process requirement. BIW enhances a student’s personal process
with bodywork, energy work, and psycho-dynamic work. The Brennan Integration Practitioner (BIP) works in conjunction
with the student’s needs during each year of study. Each BIP is a skilled professional who has successfully completed
several years of advanced training at BBSH. All those qualified to offer BIW are listed in the most current edition of the
Directory of Brennan Integration Practitioners on the school website.
Students can also fulfill their Personal Process requirements by working with a therapist, or by combining their personal
support with both a therapist and a BIP. Students are permitted to do long-distance work with their BIP, although we highly
recommend that not all work be done long distance.
For students who choose to work with a therapist, the therapist must be a psychiatrist or someone who has a professional
degree, such as an M.S.W. or Ph.D. in clinical psychology or counseling psychology, or who is a graduate of an institution
such as The Core Energetics Institute or The Bioenergetic Institute.
(See the list of acceptable credentials on the next page.) It is the
student’s responsibility to ask the therapist if he/she possesses any of
the credentials listed. Students are not permitted to do long-distance
therapy with their therapists.
Personal Process must be kept up during the year to remain in the
Program. The School reserves the right to dismiss any student who
does not adhere to the Personal Process requirement. A total of at
least 18 sessions must be completed each school year in order to
register for the following year.
These sessions must be kept up with Resident Training classes as
follows:
6 sessions by Class 2
+ 4 sessions by Class 3
+ 8 sessions by Class 5
18 sessions total
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