ISTA'S Philosophy on training

ISTA accepts that many paths can lead to the same goal and therefore does not seek to define the paths, but simply seeks to define the milestones it expects students to pass on their way to becoming a proficient and competent S.C.E.N.A.R. practitioner. This permits a variety of individualised training approaches and avoids standardisation.  This is also one of the reasons why ISTA encourages practitioners to attend different trainers' courses and why we ask trainers to give ISTA members discounts and at-cost repeat opportunities.

The training goal is to provide those, who wish to use a S.C.E.N.A.R. device, with the confidence, arising from sound pratical and theoretical training, to achieve maximum effectiveness in the treatment of the health problem causing their patients' pain. 

Incidentally, instead of the term "patients" we to use the term “clients”, as it redefines the traditionally passive role  of the patient, to the cleint who actively participates with the therapist in his or her own healing process.  The training provided also seeks to reflect and accommodate the regulatory environment of the country in which the S.C.E.N.A.R. practitioner resides.

Importantly, and pragmatically, ISTA suggests that the background of anybody taking up training on a S.C.E.N.A.R. device, be taken into account. Consequently ISTA's training recommendations differentiate between 4 broad categories of student, and outline training programmes considered most suitable for each of these groups. It is regretted that for expediency such generalised groupings had to be created; the different time elements allocated to the programme recommendations are not intended to suggest that individuals in different groups could not proceed differently, and faster, and be as effective as somebody who takes a longer or shorter time to reach their goal. It simply reflects the need to be able to demonstrate to regulatory bodies that every attempt is being made to develop S.C.E.N.A.R. practitioners with similar skills after each corresponding training programme.

ISTA considers S.C.E.N.A.R. to offer a fundamental new approach to healing in the expanding field of non-medicine-based therapies. The enormous resources, genius and research that the Russian designer put into developing the fundamental principles underlying S.C.E.N.A.R., have proved so successful in application that research is still trying to catch up with the true reasons for these successes. It is however apparent that S.C.E.N.A.R. spans a number of newly emerging branches of healing - energy medicine, functional medicine, informational medicine - to mention but three.

There are 3 fundamental differences between those in the healing professions - (a) those who remain wedded to a sophisticated version of Newtonian physics (which sees the universe and all beings within it as fine machines, with or without guidance by an invisible hand); (b) the others see the entire manifest universe and all that exists in it as finely-tuned energy patterns of individuated consciousness (with only some aspects reduced to visibility, i.e. the human being consists both of visible and non-visible parts, which require to be balanced within themselves and with their environments in order to be in harmony or in homeostasis); and (c) another group will see all manifest life and the environment as random expressions of chance with little purpose beyond the propagation of life itself.

Depending on which view the client or the therapist brings to the healing process different dynamics will be released and the healing process will be facilitated according to that reality. In this sense only, the S.C.E.N.A.R. device is like the magic wand of fairy tales or the healing stick of Star Trek - it is influenced by the expectations of both the client and the practitioner.  You are invited to read the posthumously published essay on S.C.E.N.A.R., by one of the great original teachers of the subject, Dr Yuri Gorfinkel (SEE ALSO).

ISTA's starting point is that we all have healing powers, particularly self-healing powers, but that these generally need to be developed. Clearly somebody with prior medical training, whether in conventional or complementary / alternative medicine will have a good understanding of the healing processes of the human body (at least from their respective perspectives) and will therefore require a different level of training to somebody who might be starting their training from a completely non-healing background. This is reflected in the training programmes ISTA recommends, and Registered Trainers are guided by.  It is more important to understand the nature of SCENAR and the concept of disease and healing within which it works, rather than to be an expert in every protocol in existence.  This becomes particularly relevant where the latest generation SCENAR devices require considerably reduced intervention by the practitioner.

Like with most other professional disciplines, practice makes perfect and builds experience. It is for this reason that ISTA does not encourage short-cuts in its recommended training programmes and requires those undergoing training to accept that their level of overall training (not just in S.C.E.N.A.R.) may at any time in their training programme make it inappropriate to deal with certain types of presenting symptoms. While fully qualified medical doctors and certain other CAM practitioners are clearly equipped to deal with any presenting symptoms from the moment they commence S.C.E.N.A.R. training, novices in the healing field are not (but are presumed to be sufficiently mature to seek help and be capable of guidance by somebody with appropriate experience).

Historically, primarily in Anglo-Saxon countries, those who have undergone S.C.E.N.A.R. training at the introductory and basic levels have not bothered to come back for more training.  While they often achieve and claim great successes, this is more a testimonial of the power of the device, rather than their dedication to mastering the true power of S.C.E.N.A.R.   Alexander Karasev, the inventor of S.C.E.N.A.R., estimates in his ISTA Interview that of those who undergo no more than basic training, only 3% release the optimum healing potential of the device, whereas after advanced training upto 60% and more will become maximally proficient with the S.C.E.N.A.R. device of their choice.  When planning to become a professional S.C.E.N.A.R. practitioner, ask yourself how committed you are prepared to be.

If you are stuck at such a basic level and want to move on, contact us.  We will assist in structuring suitable progress training.