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Exuberant Animal: requirements for certification
Prospective Exuberant Animal trainers are individuals with proven background in movement and training disciplines. Typical applicants will include physical therapists, personal trainers, PE teachers, dance teachers, yoga teachers and martial artists. (Individuals without prior training or teaching experience in the physical arts will be required to engage in sustained, long-term training in an authentic movement discipline or with an Exuberant Animal certified trainer.)
Requirements for full certification include:
- Hands-on Exuberant Animal experience: participation in workshop or seminar events.
- Successful completion of a practical teaching exam. This is an actual real-world group class event– observered, supported and critiqued by the Exuberant Animal community and senior trainers. Use material derived from The Exuberant Animal Play Book. For performance objectives, see Demonstration of Proficiency
- Ten titles from the reading list or similar.
- A well-crafted, polished essay on the state of the body, health, biology, culture, the human predicament or health activism. (Becomes part of the Exuberant Animal content library.)
- A "TED" style public-speaking presentation before a live audience, on a health-related theme of your choosing. (Video becomes part of the Exuberant Animal content library.) Speaking guidelines.
- Contract and waiver of liability.
To maintain status as an active Exuberant Animal trainer, individuals are required to attend the annual trainers conference.
