A Program for Personal Transformation and
Training in the Healing Arts –
For Professional Healers and Those Who Aspire to This Work

The Healer’s Program trains people in the art and science of natural and complementary healing practices. It provides graduates with a high level of competency in the use of an integrated system that includes traditional Asian and intuitive diagnostic methods; diet and nutrition; Traditional Chinese medicine; and a set of powerful tools for emotional and psychological healing advanced by the program’s creator, Tom Monte.

The program is composed of four levels, with levels two through four building upon the knowledge presented in the previous program. At the same time, each level of the Healer’s Program is an independent entity that gives healers of all skill-levels new tools and abilities that can be employed immediately in their professional practices.

The Healer’s Program is more than a training for professional healers, however; it is also a personal transformational experience. The healing methods taught at the school are applied to – and applied by – the students themselves. We learn by working on ourselves and each other. And we do this in an atmosphere of confidentiality, compassion, and support. In the process, we experience profound insights into our own behavioral patterns. We see the beliefs that form the foundation of these behaviors and come to understand their origins, as we have never understood them before. And we utilize the healing methods taught at the program to free ourselves from the restraints and distress these patterns cause us. The consequence is that we become a more integrated, powerful, and effective healer and human being.

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• Healer’s Program Level 1

• Healer’s Program Level 2

• Healer’s Program Level 3

• Healer’s Program Level 4

Healer's Program Level 1

The Level 1 Healer's Program provides a foundation in traditional Asian Diagnosis and Energetic Diagnosis; Healing the Body with Food, Herbs, and other natural modalities; Healing the Heart and Relationships; and Counseling.

MODULE 1
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF READING THE BODY

This module will focus on two types of traditional diagnosis: the first is face and body reading; the second is energetic or intuitive diagnosis. Ancient healers, especially those in China and Japan, developed a system that enabled them to have insight into a person's physical health, character, talents and weaknesses by examining physical features on the face and body. The first part of this program will provide an in-depth understanding of the art and practice of traditional Asian diagnosis.

The second part will reveal the art of energetic or intuitive diagnosis, a practice Tom Monte has been developing for more than 25 years. Students will learn how to combine their understanding of Asian diagnosis with their own innate intuitive abilities to see strengths and imbalances in their client's physical health; the client’s emotional and psychological patterns; the emotions that dominate the client’s life; the state of important relationships of their client; as well as many of their client’s strengths and talents.

All six modules provide deepening understanding and insight into traditional and intuitive diagnosis. When the student completes the full program, he or she will be adept at utilizing these methods in his or her professional practice.

MODULE 2 and 3
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF HEALING THE BODY

Long before there were pharmaceutical drugs, healers used food, medicinal herbs, physical therapy, therapeutic massage, exercise, and emotional healing to restore health and harmony to the body. Modules 2 and 3 of the Healer’s Program concentrates primarily on the use of diet, medicinal foods, and herbs for prevention and healing of disease.

These approaches are especially effective in the prevention and treatment of inflammation and insulin resistance, the twin causes of most of the illnesses we face today, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, arthritis, asthma, cataracts, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The student will also learn how to use the foundations of Chinese medicine – specifically yin and yang and the Five Transformations – to heal many chronic and degenerative conditions.

MODULE 4 and 5
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF HEALING THE
HEART AND RELATIONSHIPS

Emotions and relationships are at the heart of all physical, emotional, and psychological crises. We must know how to address these issues effectively if we are to truly assist the person in restoring health and harmony to his or her life. To do that, we must have a clear set of tools. In this module of the program, Tom Monte provides an array of diagnostic and healing methods for seeing the sources of emotional and relationship conflicts, and how they can be resolved. Among the methods students will learn are:

• The Five Defenses Model created and developed by Wilhelm Reich and Alexander Lowen, creator of Bioenergetics. The Five Defenses teaches us how to analyze personality traits to know the person's core fears, their strategies for protecting themselves when facing those fears, and how those characteristics effect their emotions and relationships.

• The meaning and purpose of love; the purpose of relationships; why we enter into committed relationships, and how we can maintain the love, vitality, and joy of those relationships.

• Tom Monte's own diagnostic and healing model for restoring balance to emotions and essential relationships.

• How to use diet, lifestyle, and natural healing methods to heal emotional wounds and to free ourselves from the behaviors those wounds create.

MODULE 6
THE ART AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELING

Effective counseling requires a practical set of guidelines to help draw out the client, to help him reveal himself, and to enable the counselor to see the sources of conflict so that progress and healing can be made. These guidelines must also establish a safe environment for both the client and the counselor. They must protect the integrity and dignity of the client and counselor, so that both can do their work effectively in an atmosphere of trust. Finally, the counselor must also have excellent diagnostic and healing skills. He must make an early assessment of the client's central issues and then know how to gently lead the client toward his or her solution.

Counseling is also an emotional, psychological, and intuitive art. Healers must understand that art and utilize it effectively. On one hand, the counselor must have an enormous capacity for compassion and non-judgment. At the same time, the counselor must be objective and maintain a safe distance from the client, even as he probes the most sensitive and sacred aspects of the client's life. The client must be able to trust in the counselor's judgment, healing skills, and strength of character. Tom Monte will provide precise instructions in all areas of counseling. Also everyone who takes this course will practice counseling in a variety of settings, and face a variety of client-issues. Student counselors will work one on one, and will also volunteer to counsel fellow students before the entire class. When the program is concluded, the students will have the skills and the confidence to be effective counselors.

This six-part program will provide professional healers with the basic tools to help clients overcome many different types of physical and emotional imbalances. It will give healers deep insights into their own lives and a new direction nd inspiration in their work.

Healer's Program Level 2

A six-part, advanced, residential program for healers that builds on Level 1 of the Healer’s Program.

MODULE 1
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF DIAGNOSIS

Level 2 Diagnosis offers a more advanced and intensive study of traditional Asian and Energetic diagnosis than was presented in Healer’s Level 1. The new program will reveal new and deeper meanings to common physical characteristics and regions of the face and body. We will also look more closely at intuitive diagnosis and see, with greater clarity, the source of our deeper patterns and the effects of key relationships – such as family members – no our lives. This program will provide practical tools for improving our intuition and our ability to perceive the energetic patterns and their meanings. We will see and understand the human story behind the features, a story that forms the basis for the person's beliefs and identity.

All six modules provide ever deepening instruction in the practice of traditional and energetic diagnosis.

MODULES 2 and 3
THE SCIENCE AND ART OF HEALING THE BODY

The program will combine an advanced understanding of the Traditional Asian medicine and scientifically-based tools for healing the most widespread degenerative and chronic illnesses of our time, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, the common cancers, and many chronic conditions, such as arthritis, and brain and mood disorders, such as ADHD, depression, and anxiety.

The program provides the scientific and medical foundation for the use of natural healing methods against serious disease.

MODULE 4 and 5
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF HEALING THE HEART AND RELATIONSHIPS

The advanced program for healing the heart, emotions, and relationships is based on Tom Monte’s unique approach that integrates and offers new insights into the Chakras, Five Transformations, Bioenergetics, and Reichian defenses. Out of this unified view of the body, heart, and emotions come both diagnostic and healing methods. With this approach, we can see the source of the emotional wounds, where they are held in the body, and how they can be healed.

MODULE 6
THE ART AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELING

This advanced approach to counseling is based on a unique set of diagnostic tools that helps guide the counselor in his or her approach to the client. Every client must be approached differently, based on a clear perception of his or her vulnerabilities, sensitivities, and personal needs. This advanced course in counseling provides the foundation for a successful counseling practice.

The sixth module will provide precise instructions in the art of counseling. Student counselors will work one on one, and will also volunteer to counsel fellow students in front of the entire class. When the program is concluded, the students will have the skills and the confidence to be effective counselors.

Healer's Program Level 3

Monroe, NY

Module 1 - October 11 – 14, 2007
Module 2 - December 6- 9, 2007
Module 3 - January 10 – 13, 2008
Module 4 - March 6 – 9, 2008
Module 5 - April 24 – 27, 2008
Module 6 - June 19-22, 2008

Level three provides an intensive training in two skills that are the foundation of every healer’s practice and success – the ability to use the Healing Method and the practitioner’s ability to Counsel. Level 3 concentrates entirely on these two skills in order to give students the basis for an effective and successful practice and career as healers. This program builds on Levels 1 and 2 and is only available to those who have completed these two earlier programs.

Healer's Program Level 4

Dates and Location to announced

Level 4 is an apprenticeship program that teaches people a unique form of healing, health and character analysis developed by Tom Monte, which he refers to as Phenotypes.

The Phenotypes model offers deep insights into a client’s constitutional and psychological nature. It reveals the psychological patterns that arise from specific constitutional types, and the choices each type is most likely to make when specific needs or stressful events arise. The Phenotypes model guides us on how to best communicate with people of different constitutional natures and family backgrounds so that we can promote healthy change and freedom from self-limiting behaviors.

This program is available only to those who have completed Levels 1, 2, and 3.