Standards for
Mental and Emotional Release®

1. CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER of Mental and Emotional Release® (MER)

A. Successfully complete a Mental and Emotional Release® Practitioner training taught by a Certified Trainer of MER at the Practitioner Level or a Certified Trainer of MER at the Master Practitioner Level.

B. Must be at least at the Practitioner of NLP level or higher, OR…
have credentials in one of the following qualifying fields

– Psychology Ph.D. or Psy.D.

– Medical Doctor M.D.

– Chiropractic Doctor D.C.

– Osteopathic Doctor D.O.

– Dentist D.D.S.

– Naturopathic Doctor N.D.

– Homeopathic Doctor M.D.

– Registered Nurse R.N.

– Masters in Social Work M.S.W. or M.S.S.W.

C. Duration of Time – Must have at least 120 hours of training.

D. Must have successfully demonstrated the guiding of another person to release negative emotions using MER.

E. Training must include the following:

1. Trademark and copyright notice

2. Major premise

3. Review of Prime Directive of the Unconscious Mind

4. Elicitation of personal and others time lines

a. Time Line #1

b. Time Line #2

5. Specific Mental and Emotional Release® Techniques

a. Negative Emotion #1

b. Negative Emotion #2

c. Limiting Decisions and Beliefs

d. Anxieties

e. Fast Phobia Model

6. Each technique needs to have the following:

a. Agreement with the unconscious mind for the release.

b. Appropriate steps to identify and return to the root cause/the first event.

c. Release of the negative emotion or limiting belief/decision at the root cause/first event.

d. Preservation of positive learnings.

e. Evaluation of and release of negative emotions or limiting beliefs/decisions on subsequent events on gestalt.

f. Test and Future Pace.

7. Putting things in the future time line for self and others.

8. Problem solving for MER (reframes, what to check for at Position C).

9. Scope of Practice for Practitioner of MER.

F. Other information that may be shared:

1. History of time lines.

2. Where and how to use MER – Business, Therapy, and Education.

3. NLP Model of Communication.

3. CERTIFIED TRAINER of Mental and Emotional Release® AT THE PRACTITIONER LEVEL

A. Duration of Training: Minimum of 16 hours

B. Training must be taught by a Certified Master Trainer of NLP who is also a Certified Trainer of MER at the Master Practitioner Level, or a Certified Trainer of NLP with a Certification as a Trainer of MER at the Master Practitioner Level and is under supervision from a Certified Master Trainer of NLP who is also a Certified Trainer of MER at the Master Practitioner Level.

C. Must be at the Master Practitioner of MER Level.

D. Must be a Trainer of NLP.

E. Skills Requirement:

1. To have knowledge of the following and successful behavioral demonstrations for self and others:

    a. General Information

    b. Perception is Projection

    c. Cause and Effect

    d. Responsibility for Change

    e. SMART Goals

    f. Gestalts

    g. Periods of Personality Development (imprinting, modeling, socialization)

    h. In and Through Time

2. NLP principles

    a. Sensory Acuity and Calibration

    b. Rapport

    c. Submodalities – what are these

    d. Association vs. Dissociation

    e. Anchoring – what is it

    f. Reframes

    g. Parts Integration

3. All MER information from Practitioner level.

F. Training must include the following:

1. Any updates to the MER Practitioner material.

2. Key points of training the MER Practitioner material.

3. Key points of successful demonstrations for the MER Practitioner material.

G. Must return for re-training every three (3) years.