BBSH CA 2025-26 School Catalog - Flipbook - Page 40
Adjunctive
Requirements
PERSONAL PROCESS REQUIREMENTS
In order to enhance students’ personal development and safeguard their emotional health throughout their training, it
is a School policy that Professional Studies students have a total of 18 Personal Process sessions evenly spaced between
September and the day before the last class in June. Sessions such as couples therapy, massage, acupuncture, and
meditation do not fulfill this requirement.
“Brennan Integration Work” (BIW)—which enhances a student’s personal process with energy and body work—meets
this requirement. BIW includes body work, energy work and psycho-dynamic work focused on a student’s personal
process during each year of study. Each Brennan Integration Practitioner (BIP) is a skilled professional who has
successfully completed several years of advanced teacher training. The majority of BIPs are also current faculty who are
present on campus for each class week. All those qualified to offer BIW are designated as BIPs on the BBSH website.
Students can also fulfill their Personal Process requirements by working with a therapist, or by combining their
personal support with both a therapist and a BIP. For students who choose to work with a therapist, the therapist must be a
psychiatrist or someone who has a professional degree, such as an M.S.W. or Ph.D. in clinical psychology or counseling
psychology, or who is a graduate of an institution such as The Core Energetics Institute or The Bioenergetic Institute.
(See the list of acceptable credentials on the following page.)
It is the student’s responsibility to ask the therapist if he/she
possesses any of the credentials listed. In other words, therapy is
required from a fully qualified person whose credentials are
recognized and approved by BBSH.
Personal Process must be kept up during the year to remain in
the Program. The School reserves the right to dismiss any student
who does not adhere to the Personal Process requirement. A total of at
least 18 sessions must be completed each school year in order to
register for the following year.
These sessions must be kept up with Resident Training classes as
follows:
6 sessions by Class 2
+ 4 sessions by Class 3
+ 8 sessions by Class 5
18 sessions total
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