The Critical Shapes Profile: Certification
WELCOME to the FIRST Shapes of Movement Profile Certification!
You read that right. This isn’t just a CEU course, this is a Mastery Level Certification course where you will not only be expected to have the foundational knowledge, but additionally you will have to demonstrate the skills.
Why not a weekend workshop like is typical? Because I want you to to show mastery, and to do that you will have to invest more time and energy than is available in a weekend workshop. This is about Mastery of a tool, not an introduction to an entry level skill that you get in a 2-day, on-site workshop.
The Critical Shapes Profile (CSP) is a tool for you to use in your clinical practice. Like any tool, it is only as good as the user’s skill with that tool. Observing movement is a learned and perishable skill – it is not an instinct (instincts cannot be taught, seeing movement can be). Very few have the inherent ability to take what is seen and translate that into understanding what the underlying/causative issues are…this course will help you on your journey of developing that skill.
The CSP is designed to help you with this; the CSP is a systematic approach to observing movement. It will allow you to consistently place your patients, athletes, and/or clients into clearly defined and repeatable alignments that will give you the opportunity to observe how their entire system accomplishes the given task.
By overlaying and applying the established criteria for each of the 6 set-ups and 6 shapes you will be able to create a movement profile for that individual while at the same time, observe them for repeating commonalities or tendencies.
You complete the CSP, “So, What now?”
It’s not just a rhetorical question. As the professional that is providing a patient experience, what is your next step? How are you going to use the information that the movement profile revealed to you to find what the underlying issues are within their system?
The universal answer – GET MORE FOCUSED INFORMATION.
If you ran them through the CSP but you had already predetermined what you would do after the CSP, why did you waste their time?
The CSP should change/influence/determine/guide/shape your next evaluation step; when used correctly it can help you become more efficient and more effective with your clinical decisions by guiding you to areas that you need to gather more information (all the fancy evaluation skills you have access to) on.
How?
Used correctly, it allows you the opportunity to see the movement commonalities that the individuals nervous system defaults too. Humans rarely rise to the occasion – someone that cannot squat is not all of a sudden going to be able to squat because you asked them to. Under stress or duress, humans default to their highest level of training. The CSP is the stressor, and how they orient their body in each shape reveals their highest level of training (or the highest ability of their system right now). By observing how their entire system reacts, you can gain insight into where their biggest, most obvious, or most consistent issues may be hiding (only because they were revealed during your systematic observation process).
There is a significant portion of hands on work required for this certification (it can be accomplished in person or via ZOOM). You will be assessed on your ability to employ this tool AND make situationally relevant observations.
Successful completion of both the didactic and hands-on portion of this course will ensure you have the ability to correctly, and efficiently administer the CSP.
Completion of this course will result in 5.5 category A CEU’s
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, each participant will:
- Be able to take any individual through the 6 set-ups and shapes of the CSP.
- Be able to provide correct and appropriate feedback to the individual to ensure they get into as close to the desired shape as possible (within their context/ability).
- Be able to accurately determine scoring for each set-up and shape.
- Be able to identify the commonalities that present themselves during the CSP.
Knowledge Gap:
Currently, there are minimal tools available to both coaches and clinicians that allow them to systemically observe movement within the same context. There are clinical tools and there are performance based tools. But, there is not a single tool that effectively crosses over between worlds that is able to navigate pain and performance at the same time… the CSP looks to fill that void.
Furthermore, up until this point, there has been no clearly established, movement oriented criteria for specific movements. All existing criteria came from the exercise and/or sport world and bring with them unique variations based on the rules/standards of that atmosphere. This course clearly defines movement oriented standards for those Shapes of Movement that are the most influential for humans to be able to function within the context of each individual.
This course allows the participant to blend together prior knowledge on the Shapes of Movement- from the individual Shapes courses- and systematically observe movement.