Transforming Lives Through Health

 Fellowship: 

A provider who is a licensed health care practitioner who has provided ALF Therapy services in their office for a minimum of 10 patients and has completed the ALF Foundations course including the hands-on portion provided by the course or completes  ALF Evolution and passes the Fellowship competency exam. To maintain fellowship status, the ALF Therapy Fellow must complete 10 hours of The Synergy Academy sponsored or approved continuing education modules every 2 years to ensure that the provider continues to be updated on the most recent innovations and evolutions of ALF Therapy. 

Mastership: 

A provider who is a licensed health care practitioner who has provided ALF Therapy services in their office for a minimum of 20 patients and has completed the ALF Foundations or Evolution course as well as at least one of the Advanced level courses as well as successful completion of the 40 hour basic cranial course through the W.G. Sutherland Temporomandibulo-Cranial Dental Group or the Osteopathic Cranial Academy. To maintain mastership status, the ALF Therapy Master must maintain their membership in The Synergy Academy and complete 10 hours of The Synergy Academy sponsored or approved coursework every 2 years.

Those that have completed at least one Advanced Course in The Synergy Academy curriculum (Genesis, Grow or Guide) will be immediately considered Mastership eligible and will be able to begin the credentialing process shortly after meeting their Fellowship requirements.

There is a one time $100 fee to take the virtually proctored fellowship exam.  Upon successful completion of the requirements, the newly certified provider will receive a professionally printed certificate suitable for framing describing their award and accomplishment.  In addition, they will be recognized on the ALF Therapy website listing for certified providers.

For more information, please contact Jamie:jamie@thesynergy.academy or 618.281.9739 Monday-Thursday 8-2pm CST

Building credibility through proper credentialing

“Certification by definition includes a review, assessment or audit of the body or product being certified.  In the case of the certification of a person, this review or assessment verifies that the person has the knowledge and skills for competent performance.  

Graduation from a training or educational program is not sufficient.  Years of experience in the field is not sufficient.  Both of these are qualifications that signal the person likely has competence but it is possible for a person to graduate from a training or educational program and to not have learned what he was supposed to have learned.  And it is possible for a person to have years of experience in a field, and for all of that experience still be incompetent in performance.  

So while qualifications (education/training and experience) tell us something about the person, they are not a guarantee that the person has the knowledge and skills for competent performance.  Only neutral, third party certification provides true, valid evidence.

Certifications are credentials awarded to persons who have demonstrated they have the qualifications AND the knowledge and skills for competent performance…  And this has been attested to through third-party verification.”

 Source:

http://www.proftesting.com/blog/2015/10/21/20151021what-is-certification/