Practitioner Training

Overview

Training is structured across a program that takes several years. This allows students to fully integrate the insights and changes that they are experiencing through the work. The flexible structure is based around a linked series of training experiences. Students can choose whether or not they wish to continue at any stage, allowing the freedom for individuals to experience part of the training for interest or personal growth.

In Australia, full practitioner training takes the following form:

Six Intensives (Run for 8 days each and attended over a period of 2-3 years)
An Internship (Over 1-2 years) and
Prior to completing the Internship - formal study of Anatomy and Physiology

Each of these stages is detailed below. There are many students who have taken elements of these stages without desiring to complete all of them, nor become practitioners. Those wishing to further their experiences in this way are equally encouraged and supported as are those who seek training specifically in order to practise Rosen Method Bodywork.

In order to attend an intensive, a potential participant needs to either:

attend an Introductory Workshop OR
attend a Rosen Experiential Anatomy Workshop OR
experience several Rosen sessions from a practitioner or intern
and have an interview with Rosen staff where the nature of
Rosen work and the intensives can be discussed.

In all cases, it is important that a person's suitability can be considered, given the emotional intensity of the process.

Intensives

An intensive is available to a range of people - those wishing to experience the work more deeply, those desiring to open themselves to greater personal growth and freedom, and of course to those who desire to become Rosen practitioners.

The Intensives are based around an experiential learning approach that includes opportunities for giving and receiving sessions, observing teachers' "Demonstration Sessions", sharing experiences and insights. The Intensives are also the first opportunity many participants will have to participate in exercises.

The Intensives are conducted in a supportive, small-group atmosphere and each participant undertakes to honour the strict Rosen code of confidentiality.

A reference library of books relating to bodywork is available for the use of students.

Feedback on progress is provided after the third and sixth Intensives to students wishing to undertake the training to Practitioner level.

Between the third and sixth Intensive students are also:

required to give eight supervised sessions (some of which can be conducted in a group setting)
required to receive eight private sessions from a practitioner
encouraged to do some practice

In addition, in order to be allowed to enter the Intern program, students must achieve an appropriate level upon completion of their sixth intensive. In some cases a student may be asked to undertake some further training (additional intensive(s), supervision sessions or personal sessions) before proceeding to the internship.

Internship

The internship is the second formal stage of the training to become a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner. It covers a period of 1 - 3 years duration (although there is some flexibility with this, contingent upon an intern's personal circumstances).

During the Internship, the minimum requirement for an intern is to:

give 350 Rosen sessions to clients
give 25 Rosen sessions under direct supervision (or an equivalent combination of private and group supervision sessions)
receive 25 private sessions from a qualified practitioner.

Interns are also required to hold or obtain formal Anatomy & Physiology qualifications before they are able to be certified as practitioners. (Options can be negotiated.)

Having completed the minimum requirements for certification as a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner, the intern is assessed by a primary supervisor/senior teacher for readiness for certification. In some cases an intern may be asked to undertake some further training (an intensive, supervision sessions or personal sessions) before being certified. All certification worldwide is through the Rosen Institute.

For details of the cost of any of the elements of the practitioner training, please contact us. Also check What's New for notice of upcoming Intensives.

Teachers

Teachers involved in the program in Australia include:

Gloria Hessellund M.A. (USA)
Gloria holds a masters degree in dance and dance therapy. Prior to concentrating her career on Rosen Method Bodywork, she worked in dance and dance therapy, Breyer subtle-energy work and meditation in clinical settings. In 1977, Gloria began her association with Marion Rosen as her client, and subsequently as her student, co-teacher and colleague. Gloria is a Senior Rosen Method Bodywork Teacher and the Director of Training for the Rosen Centers in Berkeley California, Sweden and Norway. She teaches Rosen Method in North America, Europe, and Scandinavia. Gloria teaches an intensive each year in Australia, where she is the Director of Teaching of the Australian program.

Bill Samsel (USA)
Bill studied with Marion Rosen in her first training program, becoming a practitioner in 1982 and a teacher in 1988. He has a private practice in Santa Cruz, and is the only male teacher of this work in the United States. He teaches in the Monterey Bay area, at the Rosen Center in Berkeley and in Australia. Bill is Director of Teaching in Canada and a former President of the Rosen Institute.

Lisen Wijkman (Sweden)
Lisen is a registered physiotherapist and a Senior Teacher of Rosen Method Bodywork, having taught in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Australia and Russia. She has over 20 years experience as a Rosen practitioner. Lisen has also taught Rosen anatomy workshops in the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Russia and throughout Scandinavia.

Theresa Garcia (USA)
Theresa is a member of the faculty at Rosen Method: The Berkeley Center, Berkeley, California where she is a Senior Movement Training Teacher, an Introductory Workshop teacher, and in training as a Bodywork teacher. Theresa studied and teaches with various senior Rosen Method teachers, including founder Marion Rosen. She has taught Rosen Method Movement in Canada, Europe, and Mexico, and teaches weekly movement classes in the San Francisco Bay Area.