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Zero Balancing Bodywork training

Why choose this course?

‌Extend your professional skills through Zero Balancing Bodywork

• The programme provides a focus for any health care worker who wishes to develop and mature the skills of Zero Balancing to a professional standard. The Certification Programme is run by the Zero Balancing Association UK in conjunction with Dr. Fritz Smith
• You can join this programme leading to your recognition as a Certified Zero Balancer any time after you have finished your first Workshop
• Membership of the Zero Balancing Association UK is open to all those who have completed a Zero Balancing Workshop. This provides ongoing contact with a community of like-minded practitioners from different disciplines who share a common language of touch
• You can pace your progress to suit your individual needs and commitments within a period of three years. Further details of the Certification Programme are available on request from the Zero Balancing Association UK
• Skills developed in the process of training in Zero Balancing, extend themselves well to reflexive researcher positioning in action research, and advanced levels of student learning
• After learning Zero Balancing you could benefit a wide range of people in many ways. On one level, a session may improve body functioning, allowing relief of held tension and physical pains. On a broader level, it is particularly valuable in dealing with stress, and promotes and invites relaxation and the stilling of mind and body.

• Fact file

  • Start date: Course to be held over two weekends: 4-5 February and 18-19 February 2017, taught with Zero Balancing teacher Dr Jo Hale.

    Course length: Two weekends

    Campus: Woodlands Natural Health Centre, Derby

    College: College of Health and Social Care

• About this course

  • Running concurrently with the Masters in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, Dr Jo Hale and fellow Zero Balancing teachers offer you the opportunity to learn Zero Balancing at the University of Derby, and to develop the art and skill of balancing body energy with body structure through conscious touch.

    Jo’s collaboration with Dr Jill Bunce and students since 2012 has embraced a mutual appreciation of professional skills, and in particular provided opportunity for an exploration of ‘practitioner presence’, and the advanced skills of professional engagement in facilitative work with clients. 

    “The Zero Balancing practitioner is in the fortunate position of being able to make her work into a meditation and her meditation her work, of making balancing others a way to balance herself.” John Hamwee, Zero Balancing Practitioner and Teacher, Acupuncturist and Author.

    Who learns Zero Balancing? ‌

    ‌Zero Balancing is taught to Health Care professionals working in a broad range of disciplines. Acupuncturists, nurses, massage therapists, doctors, psychotherapists, homeopaths, osteopaths, counsellors and others have all successfully learnt Zero Balancing.

    They find it significantly enhances the skills and effectiveness of their main modality as well as being a valuable bodywork approach in its own right.

    For therapists using a physically based approach, it introduces tangible ways of working with the energetics of the body and of reading the resultant changes. For those already working with approaches that involve energy, it teaches ways of
    contacting the body’s structure, which can ground their work in a new and effective manner.

    “As a receiver, Zero balancing caught me after one session. It is the deepest and most transformative way of working with another person that I know.”

    As a practitioner, I find Zero Balancing really educates people about their bones and how their feelings are present in the body.” 

    • How did Zero Balancing originate?
    • What makes Zero Balancing a unique approach to bodywork?

    What is Zero Balancing?

    Zero Balancing is a gentle and powerful method of balancing body energy with body structure. It integrates Western scientific knowledge of body structure with Oriental understandings of energy and healing into an original, practical and coherent non-diagnostic bodywork skill. Zero Balancing is valuable for a wide range of situations: it has extensive applications in the maintenance of good health and well-being, and in personal process and development.

    Zero Balancing:

    • Teaches embodied consciousness, openly aware, attentive and grounded in the present moment, present to yourself and simultaneously present to your client
    • Offers a professional, practical, subtle and effective way of facilitating change and transformation in your clients
    • Is a professional post-graduate training in its own right, and is a unique and much appreciated bodywork modality.

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• What you will cover

  • Our training

    At the University of Derby, the Core Zero Balancing workshops with Dr. Jo Hale consists of:

    • Core I - you are introduced to the theory and skills of Zero Balancing. You will gain a practical understanding that will enable you to explore the use of Zero Balancing with family and friends. 
    • Core II - at this second workshop you learn to embody more fully the skills you have acquired, whilst at the same time refining the quality of your touch through deeper feedback. A deeper understanding of the work is developed which will allow you to use Zero Balancing informally and successfully in your normal practice.

    Zero Balancing is taught over two workshops, both are held over two extended weekends or over five consecutive days each. These are Core Zero Balancing Workshops Basic I, and Basic II.  The long-term experience of people learning Zero Balancing is that both Basic Workshops are essential in order to get Zero Balancing fully in your hands and to understand its potential. By design, both workshops share a common curriculum.

    Additional training

    In addition, to complete the full Zero Balancing training, you’ll need to apply to join the Zero Balancing Certification Programme. You can join this programme leading to your recognition as a Certified Zero Balancer any time after you have finished your first workshop. You'll work closely with a mentor and other teachers who help to guide you through your exploration of using Zero Balancing with clients. There is additional support from practitioners across the UK who have completed the programme and who are Certified Zero Balancers. They help you to develop your hands-on skills through exchanging Zero Balancing sessions.

    As part of this programme you will undertake the following:

    • Freely Moveable Joints: Beyond the Protocol workshop this will further deepen your appreciation of Zero Balancing practice and philosophy. Have a look at more information.  
    • Advanced masters workshop with Dr. Fritz Smith or senior Zero Balancing teachers. Have a look at more information.
    • Working with a mentor
    • Case studies
    • Two reflective essays. 

    A level of basic proficiency is only a beginning for many Zero Balancing practitioners. For those who have completed Core I and II Zero Balancing Workshops, additional workshops are available at which the participants can extend, refresh and confirm Zero Balancing skills. These workshops may include the revision of core material, the introduction of new material or the integration of Zero Balancing with another modality.

• Entry requirements

  • Core Zero Balancing Training Basic l and Basic ll are open to all. To join the ZBAUK Certification Programme leading to professional recognition and qualification as a Certified Zero Balancer, applicants must:

    • Have already completed Core ZB I.
    • Hold an existing qualification in a healthcare modality.

    Zero Balancing training may run concurrently with your present study programme.

• How to apply

  • To apply contact Dr Jo Hale by email at johale@sky.com or by telephone on +44 (0)1332 841939.

• Fees and finance

  • Zero Balancing Core I and II - each costing £420. 

    For information regarding the full professional training costs please see Zero Balancing Association UK or contact Jo Hale.

• How you will learn

  • In addition, to complete the full Zero Balancing training, you’ll need to apply to join the Zero Balancing Certification Programme. You can join this programme leading to your recognition as a Certified Zero Balancer any time after you have finished your first workshop. You'll work closely with a mentor and other teachers who help to guide you through your exploration of using Zero Balancing with clients. There is additional support from practitioners across the UK who have completed the programme and who are Certified Zero Balancers. They help you to develop your hands-on skills through exchanging Zero Balancing sessions.

    As part of this programme you will undertake the following:

    • Freely Moveable Joints: Beyond the Protocol workshop this will further deepen your appreciation of Zero Balancing practice and philosophy. More information
    • Advanced masters workshop with Dr. Fritz Smith or senior Zero Balancing teachers. More information
    • Working with a mentor
    • Case studies
    • Two reflective essays.

    A level of basic proficiency is only a beginning for many Zero Balancing practitioners. For those who have completed Core I and II Zero Balancing Workshops, additional workshops are available at which the participants can extend, refresh and confirm Zero Balancing skills. These workshops may include the revision of core material, the introduction of new material or the integration of Zero Balancing with another modality.

    There is close work with a personal mentor, case studies and write-ups, and two reflective essays. Certification also depends on acquiring and maintaining a demonstrable level of competence in the touch skills essential to Zero Balancing.

    You will work closely with your mentor and other teachers who help to guide you through your exploration of using Zero Balancing with clients. There is additional support from practitioners across the UK who have completed the programme and who are Certified Zero Balancers. They help you to develop your hands-on skills through exchanging Zero Balancing sessions.

    Teaching hours

    Like most universities, we operate extended teaching hours at the University of Derby, so contact time with your lecturers and tutors could be anytime between 9am and 9pm. Your timetable will be communicated after enrolment on your course.

• Careers and employability

  • The Core Zero Balancing training at the University of Derby is the beginning of your journey to becoming a fully certified Zero Balancer. 

    Zero Balancing has been taught to hundreds of health care professionals in the UK since 1983. Zero Balancing workshops typically provide a high ratio of teachers to students. This encourages the development of hands-on skills through supportive feedback and personal attention. Workshops are organized throughout the country.

    Fritz Smith’s interest in making learning a pleasurable experience means Zero Balancing Workshops provide enjoyable refreshment, personally and professionally. They attract health care professionals from conventional and complementary therapies, providing possibilities for building bridges of understanding and respect between practitioners of differing approaches.

    What is a Zero Balancing session like?

    

    “Zero Balancing continues to deeply enrich my practice and everything I do. Zero Balancing informs my senses, and helps me appreciate our common humanity.” Nigel Cowey, Acupuncturist, Zero Balancer, Belper, Derbyshire.

• What our students say

  • “Zero Balancing made me feel the most embodied I've ever felt, in the sense  that I could feel every bit of my body all at once, which is, I realized, an incredibly rare thing! Being aware of all your body parts makes you feel so whole and together and alive!” - Hannah Thomson, MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy, graduate. 

    "It was a fantastic experience. I can highly recommend it to anyone, whether they want to go on and take the full training or just develop for themselves and loved ones." Sally Sisson, Complementary Therapy Teacher and Practitioner, Derby.

    “Zero Balancing has provided me with an extra note of being grounded.”

    “Working with you and Zero Balancing has brought more personal presence to myself than anything I have done before.”   

    “Zero Balancing is like coming down from 5th gear to stop at the traffic lights, just sitting there. I absolutely needed that.”

    “I’m a lot more aware of my body.”

    “I’ve never felt my bones before. I’m all movement and flesh usually.”

    “There’s something fundamental about the touch.”

    “It’s ME that is touched.”

    “I felt attended to and listened to. I was surprised at how you were able to localize.”

    “I felt left to my own devices, and wonderfully supported.”

    “I felt met.”
    

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