Options in Competency-Based Certification

Received by IFF Q&C Special Committee, Dec, 2000.

Competency certification can be conceptualized as options or phases in which each successive stage provides further clarification of the competence of a practitioner. By viewing this as a process of successive approximations, the Feldenkrais community can select, at any time in its evlolution, which level of Certification is aceptable to it.

Competency Project: from the Competency Project Team

Activities: This has been a big year for the Academy’s Competency project. In January 2005 we held the third of the research workshops in San Francisco. With the support of the 2005 Assembly we continued in 2005 and 2006 with the next steps that have involved:

Towards a Competency Profile for the Professional Field of the Practice of the FELDENKRAIS Method   A Research Paper for The International FELDENKRAIS Federation May, 2001  

Compiled for the IFF Special Committee for Quality and Competence
by
Rob Black & Markus Riesen

Report by Markus

Feldenkrais-specific approach or: How to develop competencies for practicing the Feldenkrais Method in a way compatible with its underlying principles – A paper by Barbara Pieper for the IFF Special Committee on Quality and Competency, April 2001

Developing a Competency Profile:

Methods commonly used.

A Companion Document to the Competency Profile Report for the IFF Quality and Competency Committee

From Cliff Smyth, Convenor IFF Q&C (research) Working Group. 28 Jan 2000
 

 
The main ongoing tasks for the Q&C Working Group could include the following.

A companion document to the Competency Profile Project for the IFF Quality and Competence Committee.
May, 2001
Rob Black

Competencies in Somatic Disciplines

First Steps: Mapping the Territory

Between September and December, 2000, the Quality and Competency committee discussed by telephone and e-mail the kinds of questions that might need to be considered as they approached the question of developing a Competency Profile.

by Susan Pinto

Group F wishes to report that we found the principles set forth in the Standards of Practice to be of value with regard to quality and competence. To this end, we suggest that IFF member organisations apply the Standards of Practice (included in the Assembly Representative's packet) to the following activities.