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If you are a holistic health professional interested in, or currently working with clients who are suffering from the effects of sexual abuse, or clients who are traumatized by medical procedures, Intentional TouchTM may be the right training for you. If you would like to help your clients heal themselves in a safe and effective way and customize your current skills to serve your clients highest spiritual growth, while helping them face serious health concerns, this training is a must.
In the Intentional TouchTM training you learn ways to initiate, strengthen, and reinforce your clients own ability to heal. You acquire communication and verbal processing skills as well as hands-on protocols that give your clients an experience of safety and security in their bodies and in the world. You master the ability to design your sessions in a way that prevents clients who are suffering from the effects of traumatic experiences from inadvertently becoming retraumatized. You become well versed in recognizing common landmines and signals of distress and ways that you can address them. Furthermore, you gain skills in cultivating growth, courage, and care for yourself in an ongoing way so that you can face the challenges of working with this client population. This level of self care gives you the strength and insight to perservere through the sometimes rigarous territory presented.
While originally designed for work with survivors of sexual abuse, Intentional TouchTM is in fact an encompasing integrated model of practice that guides a practitioner in how to enhance confidence, trust and safety in the interaction between a health care provider and a health care recipient, so that a client's own capacity for self healing can be realized. This in turn enhances the benefits of all healing modalities. There have been several studies that suggest that confidence, trust, and safety result in biological changes that create significant a influence on the healing process.
As an Intentional TouchTM practitioner, you develope a structure of practice that forms partnerships with practitioners from other medical disciplines. You are mentored in how to form alliances with mental health professionals, physicians, and professionals from other disciplines for the benefit of your client. This enables you to use your skills to help your client navigate conventional health care such as medical exams, surgery and dental care. You assist your client in cultivating a state of mind that supports them in receiving conventional health care with strength and confidence.
If you work with clients who suffer from:
- Sexual abuse
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Serious long
term illness
- Chronic mental, emotional, and/or physical pain
- Fear of medical procedures
Intentional Touch™ establishes a framework for you to tailor
your approach to accommodate the special needs of these populations.
Intentional Touch™ is an advanced modality that can significantly enhance your
practice.
Intentional Touch™ is relevant for Health
Professionals who touch people, such as but not limited to:
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Massage Therapists |
Physicians |
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Acupressure Therapists |
Chiropractors |
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Process Body-workers |
Acupuncturists |
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Zero Balancing Practitioners |
Nurses |
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Physical Therapists |
Feldenkrais® Practitioners |
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Cranial Sacral Therapists |
Licensed Marriage Family Therapists |
Intentional Touch™ is designed to:
- Hone confidence and capability in working with the
conditions listed above
- Offer new and proven skills and tools to add to your
practice
- Add a specialty to complement your existing practice
- Provide insight and methods that assist with the most
challenging and difficult cases
- Present a protocol for creating a partnership with
other alternative and conventional health professionals
- Understand and bridge the approaches of alternative
and conventional medicine, providing the client with the best of both models
- Advance the ability to design and implement
comprehensive treatment plans and strategies
Intentional Touch™ certification entails:
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Phase I |
34 Hours |
Fall |
| Phase II |
34 Hours |
Winter |
| Phase III |
34 Hours |
Spring |
| Project of Excellence |
34 Hours Minimum |
Spring |
| Outside Documented Hours |
50 hours |
Throughout Phases I, II and III |
| Written, oral, hands-on exams |
14 hours |
Upon completion of all requirements |
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Each component includes theory, practice and case studies.
Candidates must successfully complete the
50 outside documented hours, a project of excellence and all components of the exams to receive
certification. The full training takes two years to complete.
Phase I is beneficial in and of itself and will be useful to
the student who may be undecided about certification. After taking Phase I, a
student may take Phase II as a viable follow up class and still not pursue
certification. Phase III is reserved for certification candidates only.
With certification, you become a part of
a community of professionals dedicated to and focused on assisting this very
important segment of the population. If you would like to find out more about
us, please visit
www.thecerioinstitute.com.
Instructor
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Since 1979, Donna C. Cerio’s years as an Alternative Health Care Professional have included personal and organizational development, health care and stress management. She offers health care and education in private practice, academic and medical settings, and the public arena. Donna developed Intentional Touch™, a body of work that addresses the needs of people recovering from sexual abuse and other traumatic experiences, suffering from serious illness, and those who deal with chronic emotional, physical and or mental pain.
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Donna served as founding director of the Holistic Health Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, for 20 years. She trained and certified thousands of staff, students and instructors and was on staff at the University as a Master Instructor for 22 years.
She is a member of the Zero Balancing Association, American Massage Therapy Association, Process Acupressure Unlimited, and International Association of Health Care Practitioners. She has a degree in Social Work and certifications in Therapeutic Massage, Process Acupressure, Zero Balancing, Anatomy/Physiology, Holistic Health Education and Transpersonal Integration. A Zero Balancing Faculty member, Donna is in the dissertation phase of her doctorate, her subject being delivering health care to survivors of sexual abuse.
Currently Donna is the Director and Principal Provider at The Cerio Institute in Santa Cruz County. The Cerio Institute is an organization dedicated to providing a therapeutic and educational resource for the local and global community. Donna delivers educational seminars and on site services locally and across the nation.
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What
People Say About Intentional Touch™
"The work of The Cerio Institute is
vital and exciting. I feel like a scientist and a scholar, making discoveries
about my body, mind and spirit. I always feel like the possibilities are
endless... the more I look the more I find."
Andrea Roach
Artist & Media Educator
"Intentional Touch™
- Practical Hands-on for Arthritis
was well received by our medical staff.
Ms. Cerio is clearly knowledgeable about her subject and a highly skilled
communicator and teacher. The evaluations were universally enthusiastic and
many of our staff felt that they were given an important new tool for helping
patients with chronic arthritis."
Victoria Behrman, MD
Director, Physician Education Program
Laguna Honda Hospital
"[Intentional Touch™] Classes with Donna were informative,
positive and very useful experiences. As a result I have greatly improved
communication skills, an ability to take care of my own mental, physical, and
spiritual health, and, an increased ability to identify and address the needs
of my clients."
Tricia Soza
Holistic Health Practitioner
Acupuncturist in Training
"Thirteen years ago I was
experiencing chronic lower back pain, knee problems and other symptoms of
stress. Through these years working with Donna, we have addressed these issues
of physical health successfully. I find her body of work profoundly helpful
for developing personal creativity, releasing stress, and creating personal
comfort. I hold Donna's work responsible for my high level of health and
productivity."
Carole McPherson
Former Public School Teacher
Political activist/writer
To request
more information or an
application,
call the office at (831) 475-5472 or email at
health@thecerioinstitute.com. |
