Q: Can I receive credit for your classes?
A: The classes are considered continuing education classes and massage practitioners can receive 24-32 hours, depending on the class, through the National Massage Board. Milne Institute is strictly avocational.

Q: I see that you schedule classes back to back, can I take all of them or is it better to take one at a time?
A: We are a minimum two year training. We only allow students to take three cranial classes back to back. For most students two classes back to back are just fine depending on their schedule.

Q: What do I need to do in order to register for the C1 class?
A: Minimum of a 150-hour massage training or other professional degree in touch and a license to touch where this is required by the State. If you have questions about this please contact the organizer for the class you are interested in.

• Need to read the following chapters in The Heart of Listening by Hugh Milne.
• Required: 1, 2, 4, 6, 16 and 17
• Recommended: 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31 and 34
• Register with the Class Organizer.

Q: What do I need in order to register for the Anatomy class?
A: Read the following chapters in “The Heart of Listening”

• Required: Abbreviations and Nomenclature pages xvi, xvii and xviii, chapters 1 and 2.
• Recommended reading: HOL chapters 11, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 20
• Chapters 22-34 (first few pages of each chapter until the beginning of the section titled “Detailed Anatomy”)
• Recommended Anatomy book: Atlas of Human Anatomy by Frank Netter.
• Register.
• Have a desire to learn the Work.
• To be physically able to sit still, turn up on time, not to be in need of treatment or special physical care.

Q: How many classes can I take in a row (back-to-back)?
A: A maximum of three.

Q: What is the ideal flow of taking the MI classes?
A: The ideal class flow remains 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.

Q: When should I take a Advanced Content Class (ACC)?
A: Whenever one is offered, and as early in your training as possible. The ACC’s are a required part of our training if you are on the Certification Track.

Q: Are there any other ways to get credit for the Advanced Content Class (ACC)?
A: You can repeat a class *50% off class price.

*In order to be an Assistant Teacher in a class you must be on the Certification Track, having completed a minimum of 10 Client Records and 10 Sign Off’s with your Supervisor* and have already taken the class.

Q: What do I need to register for a Cranial 2 (C2) class?
A: Successful completion of C1.

• Read the required chapters in “Heart of Listening”
• Required: 14, 18, 36, 39 and 44
• Register with the Class Organizer.

Q: What do I need to register for a Cranial 3 (C3) class?
A: Successful completion of C1 and C2.

• Read the required chapters in “Heart of Listening”
• Required: 10, 11, 14, 17, 22, 23, 25 and 45
• Register with the Class Organizer.

Q: Can a student take a C3 before they have taken a C2?
A: No. C1 and C2 are the foundation classes and it is so important to take both C1 and C2 before C3 and C4.

Q: What do I need to register for a Cranial 4 (C4)
A: Successful completion of C1 and C2, and ideally C3

• Read the required chapters in “Heart of Listening”
• Required: 10, 20, 37, 38 and 41
• Register with the Class Organizer.

Q: Can I take a C4 before I have taken a C3?
A: Yes, but the ideal flow of the classes is C1-C2-C3-C4-C5-C6.

A: Yes, but the ideal class flow remains 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.

• All the ‘before the class’ requirements, as delineated in the previous answer related to the C5 class, have to be fulfilled for C6 if it is taken before C5.

Q: What do I need to register for a Cranial 6 (C6)?
A: You must be on the Certification Track and successfully completed our C1-C4. If you are not on Certification Track having completed our C1-C4, and ideally C5,  you may not participate in the C6 class.

You must also have completed a minimum of 30 Client Records and 30 Client Sign Off’s reviewed by your chosen MI Supervisor. (In other words, you need to give at least 60 ninety-minute VCSW® sessions, half of which must be documented on a Client Record, half of which are signed off by your clients on the MI ‘Sign Off Sheet.’) You can find the complete list of Supervisors on this website, under the heading ‘Supervisors.’ You can find these forms on this website, under the heading “Forms.”

It must be 10 at a time. You cannot bring CRs that were written before the set that your Supervisor read through with you in a previous supervision meeting, to a later meeting with your supervisor.

You can find the complete list of Supervisors on this website, under the heading ‘Supervisors.’

Being on the Certification Track, having completed our C1-C4, (preferably C1-C5) and want to register for the C6 class:

• You need 30 corrected Client records and 30 session sign offs
  
• Successful completion of C1 thru C4 (and preferably C5)
  
• Successful completion of the Advanced Content Classes for C1 thru C5
  
• Minimum 8 student exchanges
  
• Minimum of  8 Professional Sessions
  
• Read the required and recommended chapters in “The Heart of Listening”
  
• Register with the class Organizer.

Q: What do I need to register for a Cranial 7 (C7)?
A: You must be on the Certification Track and successfully completed our C1-C6.  If you are not on Certification Track and completed our C1-C6 you may not participate in the C7 class.

You must also have completed a minimum of four supervision sessions, i.e. had 40 Client Records supervised, and hand in 4 ‘Sign Off’ sheets, in four separate supervision sessions. It is not permitted to bring 40 CRs to a Supervisor at one time. It must be 10 at a time. You cannot bring CRs that were written before the set that your Supervisor read through with you in a previous supervision meeting, to a later meeting with your supervisor.

• Successful completion of C1 thru C6 classes
• Successful completion of the Advanced Content Classes for C1 thru C6 (C1 ACC – C6 ACC)
  
• You need a minimum of 40 corrected session Client records, and 40 session sign offs
  
• Minimum of 10 Professional Sessions
  
• Read the required and recommended chapters in “The Heart of Listening”
  
• Register with the Class Organizer.

Q: What do I need to graduate from the MI CT Program, to be on the Practitioner List, and to get a Diploma?
A: Full and satisfactory completion of all the above requirements for all 7 classes, all 7 Advanced Content Classes, a minimum of 70 completed CRs, 140 sessions given in total, 10 Professional Sessions, the written exam, the oral exam, a successful completion of the hands-on Technical and Intuitive test session on a Milne Institute Teacher, one female and one male.

Q: What credit do I get for repeating a class?
A: The Advanced Content Class (formerly known as Review Day) for that class level and invaluable experience from 32 hours of extra class time, hearing and seeing things that somehow passed you by the first time you took the class. If it has been 4 years or more since you last took this class, you get 32 CEU contact hours from NCBTMB. If it has been less than 4 years, there is no CEU contact hours credit from NCBTMB. *When a class is not full you may be able to repeat a class for 50% less than the current list price.

Q: What credit do I get for being a Springer?
A: An invaluable experience from 32 hours of extra class time, hearing and seeing things that somehow passed you by the first time you took the class. A credit of 2 Student exchanges, with an upper limit of 7 crdits. If it has been 4 years or more since you last took this class, you get 32 CEU contact hours from NCBTMB. If it has been less than 4 years, there is no CEU contact hours credit from NCBTMB

• Springing is free of charge
• None of your expenses are reimbursed

* Q: What credit do I get for being an Assistant Teacher?
A:  An invaluable experience of extra class time. Two student exchanges and One Professional Session with an upper limit of 7 for each. If it has been 4 years or more since you last took this class, you get 32 CEU contact hours from NCBTMB. If it has been less than 4 years, there is no CEU contact hours credit from NCBTMB. You also get invaluable experience in working more intimately with the class teacher.

• Assisting is free of charge, none of your expenses are reimburse.

*When a class is not full you may be able to repeat a class for 50% less than the current list price. Please contact the Class Organizer for inquiries.