Competency & Certification
This group is working to create ways to implement the current standards for beginning practitioner certification.Every helping profession sets competency standards and examinations to ensure a high level of practice. Competency standards and a reliable examination process have many benefits. Along with the Transformation of Training group, Competency and Certification is reviewing the standards for practitioner trainings.
“This great ability to form individual nervous paths and muscular patterns makes it possible for faulty functioning to be learned. The earlier the fault occurs, the more ingrained it appears, and is. Faulty behavior will appear in the executive motor mechanisms which will seem later, when the nervous system has grown fitted to the undesirable motility, to be inherent in the person and unalterable. It will remain largely so unless the nervous paths producing the undesirable pattern of motility are undone and reshuffled into a better configuration. We can now understand how “the life history of the individual is somehow written into the cortex, even in the excitable motor cortex, where functional patterns are relatively stable.” The motor cortex patterns are formed in man while the paths are formed and the cell processes grow and are subject to environmental influence to a degree unknown in the rest of the animal world.”
- Body and Mature Behavior Moshe Feldenkrais, reprint 1966 Pg 40