Practitioner Training in GRMT

Practitioner training is evidence-based, relatively brief and well structured, and provides trainees with the required level of basic knowledge, confidence, and competence. Training is currently available in Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, with other locations available on invitation.

GRMT Practitioner Training is designed for health professionals interested in providing clients with the transformational power of Breathwork in a clinically oriented and evidence-based approach. Training is safe and supportive and ideally suited to clinical mental health counselors and other mental health professionals with an interest in a holistic approach that reliably produces client healing and transformation.

The Guided Respiration Mindfulness Training Process

Guided Respiration Mindfulness Therapy is a clinical approach to breathwork. GRMT practice is guided by a very specific standardized and manualized process, and GRMT Training is also a standardized, manual based training. Basic GRMT practitioner training is evidence-based with published research examining training outcomes. Training for Practitioners is highly experiential and composed of 3 components (referred to as phases).

Please Note: As mentioned, this is an experiential training process and GRMT Practitioner Training has been demonstrated to offer a powerful life transforming process for trainees - with transformation on physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions. Therapists report participation was personally rewarding and offered a variety of personal insights and healing experiences. 

The 3 phases of GRMT Practitioner Training are comprised of:

  • Phase 1: Attending an innitial 4-Days of Intensive Training workshop. Usually conducted on one block.
  • Phase 2: Participation in a series of live trainee-to-trainee practice sessions with each session receiving supervision/feedback based on video recordings of practice. Supervision is guided by the GRMT Competence Scale which is aimed at helping GRMT practitioners achieve high levels of competence and confidence in delivering the manual-based intervention, and achieving excellent results for clients.
  • Phase 3: Initiation of independent practice by providing a series of sessions to volunteer clients, with each session video recorded and recordings used for supervision and feedback.

GRMT Training is clinically focused and designed to introduce mental health and related health professionals to the theory, supporting research, and practice of GRMT. Training provides hands-on experiential practice of the intervention from both therapist and client perspectives. A specific focus of the training is the use of GRMT in the treatment of depression and anxiety.

  • Receive assured learning in a manualised training with research demonstrated effectiveness
  • Learn the theoretical foundation of GRMT
  • Explore the processes of change active in GRMT that lead to client outcomes
  • Develop the competence in the knowledge and skills needed for the time efficient and effective clinical facilitation of GRMT
  • Experience confidence communicating what GRMT is and how it works to clients and other health professionals
  • Participate in hands-on experience of GRMT from both the therapist and client role while receiving personal supervision style support

Comments from students and others after attending an experiential GRMT workshop

"I really had no idea that unconscious material could be accessed and integrated so quickly. I mean, things that we are not even aware of as still having an impact in our current lives. I feel like this is my therapy."  Jenny - Master of Psychology (Clinical)

"As an intervention, I recon if people felt this good after a session they would not want to stop!"  Peter - Master of Psychology (Clinical)

"In the role of the client what is standing out for me is, today I can see progress in the whole way I involve myself in it, the hour just felt like 10 minutes, that surprised me, I have never lost an hour like that. Yeah, I am curious about this and where it is going to take me."  Rita - Psychologist

"As the client I had three experiences all related to the same issue that happened when I was younger. I had not grieved over it and it came out of no where, left field, totally left field. So that was really exciting, to acknowledge that and let that go."  June - Social Worker

"As a therapist, I feel more confident. I think the better breather I become the better therapist I will become. I think the better I know about how I breathe and notice what I do with my breathing, that will help a lot with my practice."  Michelle - Master of Psychology (Clinical)

 

Please contact Lloyd for more information about training.