The following policies, guidelines and the Continuing Education reporting form are available in the Candidate's Handbook pdf file.
Continuing Education and Recertification Requirements
You can maintain your certification in either of two ways. You may verify your certification by participating in and sending reports every four years on completed continuing education. Or, you can re-certify by re-taking the exam every four years.
The Verification and Re-Certification Committee of The Certification Board for Structural Integration is the body responsible for keeping track of the ongoing requirements for continuing education.
Continuing Education Requirement
To maintain Certification status you must file a report of your completed participation in Continuing Education every four years. There is a form for making this report in Candidate Handbook on page Appendix 1.4. Your first report of continuing education will be due by December 31st of the year that is four years after your examination year and every four years after that. If you took your test anytime in 2007, your first report will be due by December 31st of 2011 then again in 2015, 2018, and so on.
Failure to Report
If you do not send in the four year report of continuing education when required, you will be notified that you will need to re-take the Certification Exam. The deadline for re-taking will be no less than four years from the last exam taken and no more than five years from the last accepted report of continuing education.
For Members of The International Association of Structural Integration (IASI)
Certificants who are members in good standing of the IASI can, except as listed below under “Exceptions to IASI Policy”, maintain their Exam Certification by maintaining the Continuing Education requirements of the IASI and making scheduled reports of these to the IASI. If the reporting years for the Certification Board and the IASI do not coincide, which ever requirement comes first will commence the cycle for Exam Certification Verification.
Members of the IASI “in good standing” are those who are current in their dues and previously existing obligations for continuing education, and who have not been removed from membership by the IASI for ethical violations or other causes as determined by the IASI.
Exceptions to IASI Policy
Persons who have been practicing Structural Integration for 25 years are required to continue to participate in continuing education and will be required to send bi-annual reports of such to the Verification Re-Certification Committee using the form on Candidate Handbook Appendix pages 1.4 and 1.5.
Other Certificants
Certificants who are not members of the IASI must also participate in continuing education as outlined in the above stated policy. You will need to send reports documenting your continuing education to the Verification and Re-Certification Committee using the Continuing Education and Recertification Form on Candidate Handbook Appendix pagess 1.4 and 1.5.
Continuing Education Requirements for Verification of Certification
To maintain Exam Certification status, you must complete 72 hours of continuing education instruction every four years. At least 50% or as much as 100% of these hours can be in Type I Courses. 25% to 50% can be in Type II Courses and 25% can be in Type III Courses.
Type I Courses are taught by Structural Integrators who have been in practice a minimum of seven years. The course content covers perspectives of technique, theory, movement work and/or anatomy that define, explore or evolve the work of Structural Integration. All of the participants in Type One Courses may only be persons who are members of the IASI or are graduates of trainings approved by the IASI.
Type I hours can also be earned from the following activities;
- Teaching Structural Integration workshops: Credit hours for the instructor are the same as those for the student;
- Authoring published articles about Structural Integration: 18 credits;
- Writing Structural Integration related books: credits to be evaluated individually;
- Mentoring Structural Integration practitioners: credits to be evaluated individually;
- Published Structural Integration research: credits to be evaluated individually;
- Attending Structural Integration symposiums: 18 credits
Type II Courses are courses in Structural Integration or directly relevant to Structural Integration as determined by the Continuing Education Committee of the IASI. Type II courses may be taught by practitioners with less than seven years SI practice. The content of the workshop may come from any field the practitioner feels complements their SI practice. Visceral and craniosacral workshops are included in this category.
Type III Courses are other courses that the practitioner deems relevant and important to their education and development as a practitioner of Structural Integration. These courses will need to be fully described and their relevance to your work explained on the reporting form. Each course will be considered on a case by case basis by the Verification and Re-Certification Committee. The Committee will determine if the course is applicable. Certificants will be given one opportunity to appeal a denial of applicability. This appeal will be reviewed by the Certification Board. The decision of the Certification Board will be final.
Review and Validation of Continuing Education Reports
The Verification and Re-Certification Committee of the Certification Board will make regular, random reviews of the continuing education information submitted by Certificants. This will be in the form of contacting reported continuing education providers to verify completed attendance.
If the information submitted is not verified, the Certificant will be contacted and asked to send an explanation of the situation in writing to the Verification and Re-Certification Committee. The Committee will review the Certificant’s explanation and make a ruling on the Verification Status. The Certificant may appeal this ruling the Certification Board. The decision of the Certification Board will be final.
If it is found that the Certificant did not meet the requirements for continuing education, the Committee ask them to complete further continuing education or to re-certify by retaking the Certification Exam.
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