Vision

Understanding physiology as a psychophysiological operating system reconfigures both our conceptual and practical perspectives of health and performance. It offers a vital piece, a missing link, a quantum leap that constitutes a revolution in how we view and relate to ourselves. The Professional School of Behavioral Health Sciences lives on this frontline.

Mission

The mission of the Professional School of Behavioral Health Sciences is to provide high-end professional training programs that integrate respiratory physiology with behavioral science for bringing practical and innovative applications of breathing science to practitioners and organizations involved in the healthcare, human service, and performance-focused professions.

Model

The Professional School of Behavioral Health Sciences subscribes to a colleague model of education where both students and faculty bring knowledge and experience to share. The model is active-horizontal with emphasis on partnership and learning rather than passive-vertical with emphasis on expertise and teaching. It parallels the client-centered learning paradigm that student-colleagues may ultimately bring to their own clients for overcoming dysfunctional habits through self-regulation learning. Education becomes a two-way enterprise, an essential ingredient to a truly multidisciplinary endeavor. The Professional School model embraces students as colleagues in exploration and innovation.

Objectives

The Professional School of Behavioral Health Sciences teaches breathing behavior analysis, an educational practice that provides for a comprehensive, detailed, and practical mapping of breathing behavior, habits, and patterns that compromise or optimize health and performance, including respiration and its associated acid-base physiology. It includes learning relevant physiology, behavioral science, and technology (e.g., capnography). The analysis is based on physiological learning (programming) principles that provide for identifying breathing behaviors and habits, helping clients disengage and manage dysfunctional breathing habits, and guiding clients in learning new habits aligned with optimizing physiology, psychology, and performance. It includes identifying habit components, such as:

Breathing habit analysis makes possible discovery of these kinds of behavioral specifics and offers reprogramming (learning) solutions for disengaging, editing, replacing, and learning breathing habits, e.g., alignment of breathing mechanics with respiratory chemistry requirements.