General Overview
Empower Your Patients…Transform Your Practice
Stress and anxiety have a major impact on the health and well-being of your patients. What if you could teach them simple techniques that could help them connect with their heart to manage stress and learn to regulate their emotions?
Science demonstrates that we can train our autonomic nervous system to support our well-being. Evidence-based techniques and technology provide objective and measurable ways to see improvements in physiological and behavioural functioning.
Shift from stress, dysregulation and incoherence to self-regulation, coherence and resilience
Heart Rate Variability Coherence – A New Frontier
Incoherence
Stressful Emotions
Cortical Inhibition
Coherence
Regenerative Emotions
Cortical Facilitation
The New Science of Stress Management (3min video/audio)
Stress management starts in the heart
HeartMath Institute research has found that heartfelt emotions generate an optimal psychophysiological state called coherence which is associated with improvements in health, well-being and performance. To learn more about HeartMath Science, click here.
Coherence can be seen and measured in the heart’s rhythmic activity, also called heart rate variability (HRV).
Seeing is believing
HeartMath technology provides real-time, visible evidence that your clients can control their thoughts and emotions.
With HeartMath techniques and technology, you can see your own heart rate variability pattern and learn to shift into coherence in real time.
The techniques are simple, easy and uplifting to practice…anyone can learn in a few minutes.
Become a HeartMath® Certified Practitioner!
Self-paced, online programs can include:
- Self-paced learning
- Extensive client handouts, practice plans, and worksheets
- HeartMath science on Heart Rate Variability and heart/brain communication
- HeartMath core techniques and education for emotional management and self-regulation
- Working with individuals and groups
- Special discounts on HeartMath technology
These programs work well for practitioners who see clients both virtually and in-person.
Health Professional Resources for Practitioners and Patients
How Stress Affects the Body Handout / Take Charge of Your Emotional Wellbeing
HeartMath’s Add Heart Facilitator Program
The Add Heart Facilitator program is a great first step in formally engaging with HeartMath ‘s ecosystem of training programs joining with others around the world to co-create a more heart-connected humanity.
- Understand the basic principles and science behind HeartMath ‘s 26 years of research.
- Know how to practice and share HeartMath ‘s most widely used techniques for improving health, productivity and quality of life.
- Have a thorough understanding of award-winning inner balance technology.
- Be approved to use the content to help lift others.
- Course Certification as an approved Add Heart Facilitator and access to HeartMath connected community.
Who Qualifies for this Program?
Anyone who has a desire to help others. It doesn ‘t matter if you are a stay-at-home parent or a physician, teacher or workplace leader, this program is just as much about creating a connection with yourself and the others.
How People are Using this Program
Health Professionals – Doctors, Nurses, Therapists, etc
Getting your patients and clients in a heart-based receptive state helps them get the most out of their time with you.
Workplace Leaders – Executives, Managers, Administrators, etc
Connect and align your team at the start of meetings, during projects and throughout the day to improve cooperation, communication and performance.
Group Facilitators – Yoga Instructors, Mindfulness or Mediation Teachers, personal growth lecturers, etc
Yoga, mindfulness or meditation, personal growth, lecturers, etc, help your audience get into a hearted connected state that opens the door for receptivity and transformation.
Educators
Help your students gain confidence, focus and be more receptive to learning. Build a more caring empathetic classroom.
Communities
Build a more heart-based community by helping your friends and neighbors connect with emotional and intuitive qualities of their hearts.
Families
Add heart to your families, Increase caring communications and a sense of heart-bonding and build a more loving and nurturing environment.
HeartMath’s Add Heart Facilitator Program
(low cost video program for teaching 1 HeartMath tool)
Create a heart-based culture and ignite the intuitive intelligence of your workforce
Our programs have been delivered in hundreds of organizations to thousands of leaders and employees. HeartMath’s science-based approach has transformed organizational cultures, achieving significant improvements in:
- Intuitive decision-making
- Focus and engagement
- Communication and heart connection
- Productivity and innovation
The Add Heart Facilitator Course provides effective tools and insights for improving personal and professional outcomes. You can help others experience greater health, more harmonious relationships and be happier and more effective at home or in the workplace. The insights and technology also help improve fitness and performance by aligning heart and mind in goal setting.
The Add Heart Facilitator program is a great first step in formally engaging with HeartMath ‘s ecosystem of training programs joining with others around the world to co-create a more heart-connected humanity.
- Understand the basic principles and science behind HeartMath ‘s 26 years of research.
- Know how to practice and share HeartMath ‘s most widely used techniques for improving health, productivity and quality of life.
- Have a thorough understanding of award-winning inner balance technology.
- Be approved to use the content to help lift others.
- Course Certification as an approved Add Heart Facilitator and access to HeartMath connected community.
If you already have an Inner Balance Unit, the Add Heart Facilitator Program is also available without the Inner Balance, for $100 less.
Who Qualifies for this Program?
Anyone who has a desire to help others. It doesn ‘t matter if you are a stay-at-home parent or a physician, teacher or workplace leader, this program is just as much about creating a connection with yourself and the others.
How People are Using this Program
Health Professionals – Doctors, Nurses, Therapists, etc
Getting your patients and clients in a heart-based receptive state helps them get the most out of their time with you.
Workplace Leaders – Executives, Managers, Administrators, etc
Connect and align your team at the start of meetings, during projects and throughout the day to improve cooperation, communication and performance.
Group Facilitators – Yoga Instructors, Mindfulness or Mediation Teachers, personal growth lecturers, etc
Yoga, mindfulness or meditation, personal growth, lecturers, etc, help your audience get into a hearted connected state that opens the door for receptivity and transformation.
Educators
Help your students gain confidence, focus and be more receptive to learning. Build a more caring empathetic classroom.
Communities
Build a more heart-based community by helping your friends and neighbors connect with emotional and intuitive qualities of their hearts.
Families
Add heart to your families, Increase caring communications and a sense of heart-bonding and build a more loving and nurturing environment.
Course Outline
Module 1: What is Heart?
Explores heart, physically and emotionally and spiritually highlights the value of adding heart qualities to your life, those you care about and the world. Also learn the first step of the Heart Lock-In Technique.
Module 2: The Science of Coherence
Discover the unseen, energetic communication between people and the optimal physiological state called ‘heart coherence ‘. Also learn the second step of the Heart Lock-In Technique.
Module 3: The Inner Balance Trainer
Experience the award-winning Inner Balance Trainer Technology as it provides you with a real-time window into your emotional state. Also learn how to share this with others.
Module 4: Heart-based Emotions
The transformative power of regenerative heart-based emotions and learn Step 3 of the heart Lock-In Technique.
Module 5: Adding Heart to the Lives of Others
Sharing your knowledge. Tips and techniques for adding heart in personal and professional settings.
Module 6: Course Review
Course Review and Inspiration for adding the qualities and science of the heart to all aspects of life.
Whats Included?
- Access for 60 days to the online course with six self-paced 20 to 30 minutes video modules presented by HeartMath Leaders
- The Add Heart Facilitator Guidebook to enhance your audio learning
- Science of the Heart: Volume 2 ebook
- Certificate of Completion
- Inner Balance Bluetooth Sensor and App
HeartMath Clinical Certification for Stress, Anxiety and Emotional Regulation
(for Clinical and Medical Practitioners)
Get Certified in HeartMath
Stress and anxiety have a major impact on the health and well-being of your patients. What if you could teach them simple techniques that could help them connect with their heart to manage stress and learn to regulate their emotions?
Science demonstrates that we can train our autonomic nervous system to support our well-being. Evidence-based techniques provide objective and measurable ways to see improvements in physiological and behavioral functioning.
Over six online sessions, you’ll learn:
- Brief interventions for emotional regulation to help patients take charge of their health and well-being
- The science of self-regulation to motivate your patients to engage in effective self-care
- Methods to show your clients changes in their physiology and emotional states
Course Overview
- Six one-hour recorded classes
- A course manual that includes scripts, case study examples, clinical forms, and patient handouts
After completing this course, you will receive:
- Certification as a HeartMath Certified Practitioner upon completion of an exam. Certification is limited to health professionals who are licensed or certified and working with clients and patients primarily on physical or mental health-related issues. Students in a formal health professional training program, and those who work under supervision are also eligible for certification.
Upon certification, you may apply to be listed in the HeartMath Provider Directory. Listing is at the sole discretion of HeartMath LLC.
Course Topics
- Six HeartMath techniques for self-regulation and emotional management
- Importance of coherence and its role in mental, emotional and physical health
- Individual and group protocols with practical ways to increase patient engagement
- Heart Rate Variability – clinical applications such as anxiety, pain, PTSD, sleep disorders, ADHD and more
Get to Know the Course In-depth
Agenda and Course Components
The course is divided into six one-hour online units.
The course includes:
- Intro and Overview
- Stress and intelligent energy management
- Autonomic nervous system and emotional regulation
- Resilience building
- Coherence Model and Heart-Brain Communication
- Coherence and its impact on the human system
- Heart’s own complex nervous system: the “heart brain”
- Technique: Quick Coherence®
- Relational Energetics and Self-Care
- Our emotions and attitudes affect the heart’s magnetic field
- Provider/practitioner self-care impact quality of care
- Technique: Heart Lock-In®
- Heart Rate Variability
- Deepening the understanding of heart-rate variability
- Clinical applications
- Technology options for heart-rate variability and coherence measurements
- Technique: Attitude Breathing™
- Brief Intervention Protocol
- Clinical case studies
- Sample brief protocol
- Technique: Freeze Frame®
- Multi-Session Protocol and Special Populations
- Complexity and the mind-body Populations
- Clinical applications, complex patients (ie: PTSD, depression, anxiety, children)
- Multi-session protocol
Learning Objectives
Class 1: Scientific Foundation of Self-Care Interventions (280 minutes)
- Discuss domains of resilience and the importance of intelligent energy management for self-regulation of stress, emotions and creating resilience
- Describe how to use the self-regulation techniques personally and with patients to improve health and well-being
Class 2: Coherence Model and Heart-Brain Communication (222 minutes)
- Discuss the impact of increased coherence on heart rate variability, brain function and emotional well-being
- Analyze the functions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system and its relationship to coherence
- Apply emotional refocusing techniques to support a coherent state in moments where stress management and emotional regulation skills are needed
Class 3: Relational Energetics, Communication and Self-Care. (210 minutes)
- Identify and interpret the concepts of relational and emotional energetics and its impact on patient care
- Summarize the importance of effective communication in healthcare interactions
- Describe how to apply an active practice of self-care and communication techniques to improve health outcomes
Class 4: Heart Rate Variability (221 minutes)
At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Review and discuss the importance of HRV analysis as related to clinical outcomes
- Discuss and practice emotional restructuring techniques to replace incoherent HRV states with states that support healthy change
Class 5: Brief Intervention Protocol (210 minutes)
- Discuss the defining factors which determine a client’s appropriateness for a Brief Intervention protocol
- Identify specific treatment goals and objectives for a given patient profile
Class 6: Multi-Session Protocols and Special Populations
- Compare and contrast the key differences between multi-session, brief intervention, group and crisis/acute care approaches using heart-rate variability tools and techniques
- Summarize clinical symptoms/disorders related to “under-arousal” and “over-arousal” and the connection between the two condition
Course References:
Williams, et al. Difficulties in emotion regulation. Front Psychol, 2015. 6: p. 261
Culbert, Timothy. Perspectives on Technology-Assisted Relaxation Approaches to Support Mind-Body Skills Practice in Children and Teens: Clinical Experience and Commentary. Children: 2017. Vol 4(20).
Dijkstra, M; Soer, R; Bieleman, A; McCraty, R; Oosterveld, F; Gross, D; Reneman, M. Exploring a 1-Minute Paced Deep Breathing Measurement of Heart Rate Variability as Part of a Workers’ Health Assessment. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (2019) 44:83-96.
Elbers, Jorina MD et al. Clinical Profile Associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Advent of Nervous System Dysregulation. Children 2017, 4, 98; doi:10.3390/children4110098.
Lucy H. Field, L., Stephen D. Edwards, David J. Edwards, and Sarah E. Dean. Influence of HeartMath Training Programme on Physiological and Psychological Variables. Global Journal of Health Science; Vol. 10, No. 2; 2018. ISSN 1916-9736 E-ISSN 1916-9744.
Mather and Thayer. How Heart Rate Variability Affects Emotional Regulation Networks. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 2018. Volume 19. pp 98-104.
McCraty, R. Heart‑Brain Neurodynamics: The Making of Emotions. In Issues of the Heart: The Neuropsychotherapist special issue, M. Dahlitz, & Hall, G., Editor 2015, Dahlitz Media: Brisbane. p. 76-110.
Faculty Bio
Timothy P. Culbert, MD, FAAP, IFMCP
Developmental Pediatrician / Pediatric Integrative Medicine
Medical Director of Integrative Medicine, PrairieCare, A University of Minnesota Medical School Affiliate
EDUCATION
- Medical Degree: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Residency: University of Vermont
- Fellowship: Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota
- Board Certifications: Pediatrics, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Biofeedback and Medical Hypnosis
- Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner
EXPERIENCE
- Dr. Culbert’s medical special interests include holistic mental health, chronic pain, self-care skills for kids, complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine, nutritional intervention and biofeedback.
- Expertise in clinical use of HeartMath and as a HeartMath faculty instructor
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota; adjunct professor at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.
- Dr. Culbert’s new book for kids, “Be Fit, Be Strong, Be You”, from FreeSpirit Publishing, won first place in the Midwest Booksellers Association Awards in the children’s nonfiction category; the book reviews healthy lifestyle choices for kids in a fun and activity-oriented manner.
ACADEMIC AFFILIATION
- Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Academy of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School
SPECIAL CLINICAL INTERESTS
- Holistic mental health
- Chronic pain
- Self-care skills for kids
- Complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine
- Nutritional intervention
- Biofeedback
Eligibility for Certificate of Completion
Course enrollment is open to all learners. A Certificate of Completion will be issued to learners who choose to take the multiple-choice question example and pass with >80% correct. Repeated attempts at the exam are accepted to obtain the passing mark.
Eligibility for HeartMath Certification
Additional Criteria to become a HeartMath™ Certified Practitioner:
- Professional Standards
- State, provincial or nationally licensed or certified professionals as listed below:
- Licensed Mental Health Professionals
- Licensed Medical Professionals
- Certified Health Professionals (training must include consultation, mentoring, in-person training, or internship)
- Students in a licensure-track medical or mental health educational program
- State, provincial or nationally licensed or certified professionals as listed below:
If you have questions about your professional eligibility for certification, please complete this Certification Eligibility Request form
- Educational Standards
- Applicants must achieve >80% on the course final exam.
- Required Documentation of Certification Eligibility
- Applicants will be required to upload a copy of their professional designation document(s) indicating proof of current licensure, certification, or student status.
Upon certification, licensed and certified health professionals in independent practice can apply to be listed in the HeartMath Directory of Certified Professionals. Listing is at the sole discretion of the HeartMath LLC.
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
Please check speaker/planner conflict of interest disclosures prior to registering.
The Institute for Better Health Inc. is responsible for the content, quality and scientific integrity of all CE/CME activities certified for credit. When an educational activity is offered for medical (CME), Nursing (ANCC) and/or Psychology (APA) continuing education credit, participants must be informed as to the source, amount, nature, and disposition of any funding used to support the activity, whether in the form of educational grants, cash contributions, or in-kind contributions.
Individuals in a position to influence course content must also disclose whether they have one or more relevant financial relationships with individuals and companies who have a financial interest in activity content. All those in a position to control the content of an education activity are asked to disclose any relevant financial relationships they have with any commercial interest.
There was no commercial support for this activity.
Tim Culbert, M.D., F.A.C.C. has disclosed a financial relationship with Natural Mental Health, which is s website that he owns. Tim agrees that his presentations and other contributions to program content will be completely fair and unbiased, and will mention other healing processes and products during our presentation when appropriate. If possible, he will refer to generics rather than to brand names when mentioning products, equipment, and services, and they will be selected/included on the basis of best available evidence.
The following planners are all employed by HeartMath and do not have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Heather Hoefs, MA, CHCP
Rollin McCraty, Ph.D
Tricia Hoffman
FAQs
What is the cost of the course?
AUD$290
What materials are provided or required for course participation?
The manual and handouts will be available in an electronic format in the Learning Center upon registration.
What is the course format?
The course will consist of six, 1 hour on-demand, online video modules in addition to weekly reading and assignments. Please see technical requirements for details on what is required for a successful completion of the course.
Will I be able to teach heart coherence techniques at the conclusion of the course?
Yes, this is a key component to the course objectives.
What language is the course available in?
English
What specific technical requirements do I need to access this course (hardware/software requirements)?
See technical specs listed below.
What kind of certificate or official documentation will I receive at course completion?
You will receive a certificate indicating that you have completed the 20 hours required for this course (video, reading and practicing as well as completing the exam and evaluation). You may need this document to submit the course for continuing education credits or self-study through your certification or licensing board.
What does the registration fee cover?
- 6 1-hour on-demand video modules
- 1 program manual: Information on the scientific underpinnings of the HeartMath System
- CE certificate
- Clinical compendium document
- Patient handout on resources for patient education
- HeartMath certified practitioner designation
How do I address any grievances I have about the course?
Please contact Macquarie Institute by email with any questions using the Contact Us Form.
List of Technical Requirements
Client requirements
Browser support
The uses Moodle, which is compatible with any standards compliant web browser. We regularly test Moodle with the following browsers:
Desktop:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Safari
- Edge
- Internet Explorer
Mobile:
- Safari
- Google Chrome
Notes:
Legacy browsers with known compatibility issues with Moodle 3.6:
Safari 7 and below
Internet Explorer 10 and below
Building Personal Resilience™ Program
(for Coaches, Mentors, 1on1 Practitioners)
An online blended-learning 8-week program
The Building Personal Resilience™ Certification Program will teach you a science-based skill set, enabling you to guide others to access and apply the power and intelligence of the heart in their day-to-day lives. As your clients learn and practice, they are able to retrain their stress response and begin to live more from a place of empowerment, resilience and self-security. As you learn and share the program with others, you’ll also deepen your own personal practice. This certification is for mentors, coaches, facilitators, instructors, consultants and others who work in one-on-one or small group settings.
The Value – How this Training is Unique
- Immersion experience for personal growth: learn in-depth heart-based tools, techniques, strategies and technology to build more resilience into your own life and the lives of your clients
- Interactive program with blended online learning through videos, and 8 recorded modules plus 1 ½ hour phone session with Certified HeartMath coach and mentor
- System of skill sets are based on scientifically validated studies and case studies, practicum and practice partners
- Learn how to use HeartMath technology
- Multiple emotion self-regulation techniques to be used in the moment as the stress or challenge is occurring, including:
- intuitive decision-making using the head and heart together for clarity and insight
- communication from the heart
- Heart Mapping® project planning process
- creating an Action Plan for yourself and your clients
Certification:
Building Personal Resilience™ Certification program licenses you to become a HeartMath Mentor and learn to deliver HeartMath’s scientifically-validated tools to your associates and clients. Including:
- A license that allows for the commercial use of HeartMath’s intellectual property and to promote yourself as a HeartMath trained professional.
- Instruction in how to teach the research and science behind the HeartMath System.
- Instruction in how to teach six core HeartMath tools and techniques.
- Support in how to integrate the HeartMath System.
- Membership to HeartMath’s coach network for continuing education and on-going support.
Resources:
Support materials include downloadable guides and work sheets for you to develop your own understanding and practice; as well as resource samples suitable to use with individuals whom you mentor. You also will have access to an extensive e-library of instructional aides and handouts to build your business and work with clients.
Australian and New Zealand residents need to apply through our Australian website to do the Building Personal Resilience program.
Please ring (+612) 9412 2500 to discuss program in more detail.
Cost in Australian dollars including GST: $1490
Our program is available for you to start anytime from 1 February to 30 November each year. We use the recorded HeartMath USA training sessions and not live program from HeartMath USA so you can fit training into your schedule and have up to four months to complete. Each of the 8 Modules takes about 3 hours so most applicants finish in about 2-3 months.
More Information on the benefits of the course…
Benefits for Those You Mentor/Coach:
Increased:
- resilience, vitality and overall well-being
- mental clarity for decision-making, problem-solving and planning
- emotional awareness and sensitivity to relational issues
- ability to maintain or reestablish composure in challenging situations
- ability to communicate more effectively
- cooperation among co-workers and team members
Reduced:
- worry, overwhelm and feelings of anxiousness
- sleeplessness and fatigue
- generalized stress and physical symptoms of stress
- miscommunications
As a HeartMath Mentor you will be trained to support your clients by:
ensuring that they stick to their practice plans and are able to achieve sustainable results.
helping to expand their awareness and identifying primary sources of stress that cause energy drains.
introducing self-regulation techniques.
providing strategies that help them find their own solutions.
helping develop a plan to integrate the skills in their daily routines offering objective feedback.
What People Are Saying About The HeartMath Certification Program
Absolutedly Wonderful
I can’t say enough about how much it has benefited my life. The practice of the teachings has truly infused every aspect of my life for the better. I just seem to enjoy my life so much more and I know that I have become a better person to be around and I like that very much.
Keeps what it promises
A professionally structured online training with wonderful tools that make a difference in the life of others. Dedicated staff, great material, lots of resources available once certified. Highly recommended.
Indispensable skills!
Valuable training that should be a must for everyone willing to make a positive difference in this world. Techniques taught are simple yet incredibly powerful. Highly recommended.
Life Changing when in coherence with life.
Heartmath is a perfect tool for those that are suffering from anxiety, depression and just plain life. Coherency is a way of life that can be achieved through the tools given to our clients.
Macquarie Institute is the Licensee for HeartMath LLC
in Australia & New Zealand
Sydney office: 6 Help Street, Level 7, Chatswood NSW 2067
Phone : (+612) 9412 2500