Certifications Overview
Certification in CapnoLearning®
Carbon dioxide self-regulation: Science, Technology, Applications
A prerecorded 10-module certification program with practicum and live Q & A webinar sessions
Optimal respiration requires aligning breathing mechanics and respiratory requirements. If not, the resulting compromise is primarily the result of hypocapnia, carbon dioxide (CO2) deficit, brought about by dysfunctional breathing habits. CapnoLearning brings together respiratory physiology, capnography technology, and behavioral science for learning breathing behavior and habits that optimize respiration.
The Professional School of Behavioral Health Sciences offers the credential, Certified CapnoLearning® Breathing Practitioner for six academic credit (units) and 150 Professional CE hours. It certifies qualified healthcare practitioners, human service professionals, health educators, and performance enhancement consultants to use capnography instrumentation for identifying breathing habits that compromise respiration, helping clients disengage and manage dysfunctional breathing habits, and assisting clients in learning new habits that optimize respiration and its associated acid-base physiology, i.e., restoring and maintaining eucapnia.
The CapnoLearning® certification program offers four study options, all of which include the same basics but three of which are audience specific. The basics of the options are the same but the applications different. Applicants must meet strict background requirements for registering in specialty tracks including high performance, pregnancy, and pain management; application exceptions will not be considered. Think of a cake with different kinds of frosting on top.
Certified CapnoLearning® Breathing Practitioner®
(for all practitioners)
Certified CapnoLearning® High Performance Specialist
(for credentialed first responders only)
Certified CapnoLearning® Pregnancy Specialist
(for credentialed practitioners in birthing professions only)
Certified CapnoLearning® Neuromuscular Specialist
(for physiotherapists and like only)
This one-trimester program includes one live 2.5-hour orientation session, coursework consisting of ten prerecorded 3 to 4.5-hour Learning Modules (lectures and demonstrations), five live 2.5-hour Q&A sessions, practicum work consisting of assignments for both personal and volunteer-client breathing habit exploration, and a 2-hour 1:1 practicum review with School faculty.
Coursework
Following completion of each Learning Module, candidates must successfully complete a short multiple-choice quiz before moving to the subsequent Module. Candidates meet requirements at their own convenience as they move through the trimester.
Practicum
Candidates are required to buy, own, or rent a CapnoTrainer to complete certification requirements with their own volunteer subjects. Candidates document their work by uploading data, session notes, and forms to the Professional School CapnoLearning database for evaluation by faculty. Candidates present two cases their work during their interview at the end of the trimester.
Scheduling
Candidates should plan to complete the Learning Modules on the Professional School e-campus website in a timely fashion, that is, to have successfully completed a specific set of two Modules before attending their associated Q&A session. Candidates take a Module quiz upon completion of each Module and if successful, then sequence to the next Module. If unsuccessful, the Module must be repeated for yet another attempt at the quiz. Modules move sequentially from one to the next, each one becoming available only after successful completion of the preceding one.
Certification Requirements
Certified CapnoLearning Breathing Practitioner
Formal education - one of the following, or both:
â–¸ Academic education: AA degree in a relevant field, e.g., nursing
â–¸ Professional education: official credentials in relevant fields, e.g., personal training
Professional experience (during past three years):
â–¸ One-year full-time or two years of half-time experience in relevant profession, including education (e.g., school counseling), healthcare (e.g., physiotherapy), mental health (e.g., psychology), human services (e.g., corporate wellness), and human performance (e.g., aviation, gaming, public speaking, sports, fitness).
Certified CapnoLearning High Performance Specialist
Cosponsored with Rendersafe, LPP
Formal education - one of the following, or both:
â–¸ Academic education: AA degree in a relevant field, e.g., police science
â–¸ Professional education: official credentials in relevant fields, e.g., tactical law enforcement
Professional experience (during past five years):
â–¸ Two years full-time professional experience in high-performance or high-stakes operational environments, such as tactical law enforcement, special forces operations, explosive ordinance disposal operations, fire service rescue, remote or austere environmental-medic operations, and other first responder operations.
Certified CapnoLearning Pregnancy Specialist
Cosponsored with Conspire Health
Formal education - one of the following, or both
â–¸ Academic education: AA degree in a relevant field, e.g., midwifery.
â–¸ Professional education: official credentials in relevant fields, e.g., certified childbirth educator.
Professional experience (during past five years):
â–¸ Two years full-time professional experience as a birthing professional, e.g., childbirth educator, community health worker (maternity focus), doula, labor & delivery nurse, midwife, lactation counselor, midwifery nurse, monitrice, perinatal specialist, obstetrician-gynecologist, and attending physician.
Certified CapnoLearning Neuromuscular Specialist
Cosponsored with Southwest Sport & Spine Center, Inc.
Academic education: PT, MPT, DPT, DC, or the like
Professional education: license required
Professional experience (during past five years):
â–¸ Two years full-time professional experience as a licensed physiotherapy practitioner
Registration
Six Academic units, $400.00 per unit
150 Professional CE hours
Tuition: $2,400.00
