Requirements for Becoming a Calatonia Facilitator and Trainer

Approved (by CID Commission) requirements to become a trainer/facilitator

       Calatonia® and Subtle Touch™ Training*

Calatonia is a registered mark and Subtle Touch is a trademark

*Minimum quality standards defined by Registered Mark rights

 

1) About the CID and the Training and Research Commission

2) Requirements to become a Teacher, Trainer and Supervisor

3) Basic content for lectures, courses and workshops

 

  • About the CID – Centro de Integração e Desenvolvimento

(Center for Integration and Development)

The CID was created by Pethö Sándor and later formalized as a professional association by a group of clinicians and researchers who studied directly by Pethö Sándor (and/or from his students) on the theory and practice of Subtle Touch™ and Calatonia®.

The Training and Research Commision

The CID commission for training and research is carried out by several CID members who are invested in maintaining the high standards and criteria set by Sándor for teaching, training and supervising of Calatonia in clinical practice. This commission established the guidelines and curriculum for training, courses, workshops and lectures of Calatonia and Subtle Touch method based on material organized and taught by Sándor.

  • Requirements for teaching Calatonia method

* The teaching and training require ample theoretical knowledge and prior experience with the Calatonia method as both, patient and clinician.

* The professional qualifications mentioned below for teachers and trainers are indispensable, regardless of the specific needs and characteristics of the audience or the level of information to be given about Calatonia.

*To be an approved CID trainer/teacher of Calatonia and/or Subtle Touch method, thus authorized to use the Logo in training certificates, the following five requirements must be satisfied:

  1. Demonstrate at least one of the following conditions:
  2. To have attended a course or study group with Sándor, at his clinic, at PUC São Paulo and/or at the Sedes Sapientiae Institute in São Paulo, for a minimum of two years.
  3. To have attended, completed and received a certificate or diploma from one of the two courses offered at the Instituto Sedes Sapientiae of São Paulo, “Jung e Corpo” or “Cinesiologia Psicológica”.
  4. Evidence of at least 600 hours within a minimum period of two-year training/study with a clinician whose professional qualifications comply with item ‘a’ above.
  5. Evidence of at least two years of personal psychotherapy within the Calatonia (Subtle Touch) method.
  6. Evidence of supervised clinical experience using Calatonia, for at least two years.
  7. Evidence of other related and relevant professional development activities, such as: courses or study groups in analytical psychology, somatic and body therapies, clinical supervision, psychotherapeutic methods and techniques, counselling and teaching.
  8. To be (or become) a member of the CID, thus collaborating and supporting this association and its mission through active membership.

Observation Item ‘a’: Professionals who fit this category (grandfathering provision) must have initiated their activities before 1990 when Sándor was still teaching.

  • Required basic content for lectures, courses and workshops

Basic recommendations:

  • Correct spelling of Pethö Sándor’s name.
  • Calatonia is written with capital ‘C’ (the same for Subtle Touch), they are names.
  • In addition, the symbol ® must be used at least once accompanying the name Calatonia to indicate its registered mark, and ™ used for Subtle Touch, in brochures, handouts, and advertisement materials, both in printed and electronic versions.
  • All courses, training and workshops of Calatonia and Subtle Touch must be delivered in traditional face-to-face format.
  • The course name is given by the teacher/facilitator, however, to represent the core of this method, the following terms are suggested for use in the name of courses, workshops, lectures, etc.: Calatonia®; Subtle Touch™; Somatic Approach; Jungian Psychology; Relaxation, Pethö Sándor’s (Calatonia®) Method; Body Psychotherapy; Organismic psychology (Psychotherapy or Therapy); Psycho-physical Integration, Jung and the Body.

  1. Lectures

 

Objective: To present the basics of the technique, including or not its demonstration (hands-on or images), in a suitable manner to the specific audience and timeframe.

Basic content:

  1. a) Sándor’s brief biography.
  2. b) Brief history of the technique and method.
  3. c) Emphasis on the ethical principles with regard to touching the patient, and the significance of the Third Point.
  4. d) Description of the Calatonia sequence (hands-on or images) in accordance to the exact form given by Sándor in his article in ‘Técnicas de Relaxamento’, Ed. Vetor, 1972.
  5. e) Description of adequate environment for Calatonia sessions, and explanation of Calatonia’s clinical applications.
  6. f) Reference (even if briefly) to the physical/neurophysiological basis of the method.
  7. g) Information of Calatonia’s contraindications (restrictions in pregnancy, patient under the influence of drugs, infectious processes and acute psychosis).
  8. h) If lecturers are presenting a combination of their own personal work and Sándor’s, it is important to make a clear distinction between the lecturers’ own piece and that of Sándor’s.
  9. i) Present a basic bibliography along with information about the website of Calatonia (calatonia.net, calatonia.org).

  1. Workshops

 

Duration: A minimum of eight hours to be considered a workshop of Calatonia, no less than 14 hours for experiential workshops.

Objectives: To offer an introduction to the theory and practice (experiential) of Calatonia.

All items above mentioned in the basic content for lectures should be part of the workshop material. In addition to that information, the following items must be addressed in the workshop:

  1. a) If the workshop is experiential, the facilitator must:

a.1) Keep the group size to a manageable number of participants, recommended ratio is 5 to 6 pairs per facilitator, which will allow adequate supervision of details such as, position of hands, therapist’s posture, etc.

a.2) Provide comfortable and private space, with mats or massage tables, blankets and towels.

  1. b) Discuss proper “bedside manners” that clinicians must integrate when including Calatonia in their practice.

b.1) Clinicians carefully avoid the creation of unrealistic expectations in their future     patients by encouraging patients to stay open to noticing their spontaneous      reactions to the technique.

b.2) Clinicians must help patients recover their habitual state of awareness after a       session                of Calatonia before the end of the session.

b.3) Clinicians allow time for patient’s comments, impressions and observations about              their experience with Calatonia, before ending the session.

  1. c) It is important to mention, even if succinctly, that Sándor’s approach integrated Calatonia and analytical psychology, although Calatonia can be used alone as a bodywork or somatic technique or be integrated to any psychological approach.
  2. d) Participants should be informed of current developments of this method and status of research to date.
  3. e) Explain that although it is known as a ‘relaxation’ technique, Calatonia actually facilitates psychophysical reorganisation (restores self-regulation), which can activate or calm the autonomic nervous system. It does not promote an immediate well-being necessarily, although it may happen.
  4. g) Explain somatic transference and counter transference in Calatonia method.
  5. h) Emphasise the importance of the therapist’s own body awareness (particularly with regards to breath and postural tension), as there is a mutual somatic resonance (or somatic transference) between therapist and patient during Calatonia.
  6. i) Group activities in workshops must allow time for participants’ comments and observations on their hands-on work with each other. In group sharing, participants are asked to be receptive, cooperative, open and non-judgmental, and each participant is free to share or not, respecting one’s boundaries, without obligation to ‘mandatory reports’.
  7. j) Facilitators must be aware of their responsibility to refer participants to a psychological assessment if their clinical judgment finds it necessary, based on participants’ reactions and disclosures. This needs to be stated in the informed consent given prior to the workshop.
  8. k) In all workshops, independent of their level of expertise, facilitators must recommend that participants who intend to use Calatonia in clinical practice receive supervision from a qualified (Calatonia) professional.

  1. Short Courses:

Suggested duration: between 16 and 60 hours.

 

Objectives: Introduce the theoretical and practical basis of the method, including the training and experiencing in group activities supervised by the facilitator.

 

Must included:

  1. a) All items mentioned in numbers 1 and 2, and the following additional items:
  2. b) Address the psychological understanding of somatic processes and how it integrates with Calatonia. Discuss in greater depth Sándor’s integration of analytical psychology to his method, particularly in terms of its symbolic aspects in symptoms, illnesses and specific body parts.
  3. c) Discuss the use of Calatonia method in other areas of health, prevention and well-being, such as education, physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, neuro-psychology, medical rehabilitation, nurseries, kindergarten,
  4. d) Include notions of anatomy, physiology and neuro-physiology, with emphasis on structure of the skin and tactile responses.
  5. e) The course ideally offers at least four opportunities to experience the basic sequence of Calatonia, for each participant as recipient and therapist.
  6. f) Depending on the duration of the course, other later developments of subtle touch techniques, such as Fractional Decompression, Breathing through the Articulations, Touch on the Spine, etc., can be included in the programme.

  1. Evaluation

It is recommended that participants provide feedback about workshops and courses with regard to the following items:

  1. a) Course content and teaching based on level proposed (beginners, advanced).
  2. b) Clarity of instructor’s communication with regard to theory and practice.
  3. c) Degree of usefulness of the material to the participant’s clinical, personal (personal growth), and didactic domains.
  4. d) Request comments and suggestions.

  1. Bibliography

5.1 The following books are recommended as basic literature:

Delmanto, S. Subtle Touch and Calatonia, São Paulo: Summus, 2009.

Farah, RM. Integração psicofísica – o trabalho corporal e a psicologia de C. G. Jung. 2ª.             Ed. São Paulo: Companhia Ilimitada, 2008.

Sándor , P et al. Técnicas de Relaxamento. São Paulo: Vetor, 1974.

5.2 Present a list of other books, dissertations, theses, chapters and articles written    about Calatonia, in courses and workshops.

If you fulfill the above requirements and intend to facilitate workshops, courses, lectures and training, please, contact the CID commission at the email available at this web site.