As a licensed therapist I take my career very seriously and adding Yoga to my tool belt has been a wonderful addition and improved my work as a facilitator of healing. Yoga is not licensed in this state as is nursing, massage or esthetics. Yoga is certified as is Reiki and Nutritional counseling. A license is received from a national board so in any training one is only certified until the national exam is passed. Is it ethical to withhold ones certification of training if the person paid for the training and completed the task as set in a syllabus?
The reason that it is being withheld is; the student taught a class just a few minutes short.
Any opinions, thoughts and ideas are encouraged here!
It depends, and you’ve not really provided much detail for a more specific reply.
Generally speaking, the better trainings do not go by syllabus alone. Those trainings have energetic components, transmission from the lineage, something beyond the written word. So if the question is “is it possible to complete all written expectations and still not warrant a certificate” then “yes” I believe that is possible and have seen it so occur, reasonably.
If the question is larger, the student has meet all requirements, in good faith, with intention, then there is a debate afoot.
A short class, to me, is not at all a valid rationale for a withholding. And it makes me wonder if there isn’t much more the story. But if it were ONLY a matter of the trainee teaching an 80 minute session in a scheduled 90 minute space, no that wouldn’t warrant withholding.
Finally, there’s another component. And that is that we choose what we choose for reasons. Sometimes those reasons are obvious, palpable and on the surface of our consciousness. Other times they are not. Just as students occasionally choose a practice which causes damage in their body so too do they occasionally choose a practice (or training) which lacks integrity. A training that lacks integrity as part of its very curricula, well it would be grossly unreasonable to expect such a training to miraculously have integrity along the way.
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I have not provided much detail since it does not involve me, I just know that my friend is having this issue and wanted opinions to share and enlighten us.
I know there was not a syllabus, just topics of study. One written test which was never given a grade when I went through the same training. A few observations and an actual class taught. No written expectations, just a hug at the end that was my experience. My friend was told that they expected more and would not be receiving a certificate.
I’m just confused that if one goes through and completes a training then a certificate states that. Not what someone expected of them and then denies them a piece of paper worth 200hr training. Now my friend has to go to another and start all over again. That is not right in my minds eye.
I like what you said Innerathlete about "A training that lacks integrity as part of its very curricula, well it would be grossly unreasonable to expect such a training to miraculously have integrity along the way."
I feel it explains everything and the instructor now has settled into Ego of (i) self and not participating in the conscious of (I) the universe.
That certainly is one possibility, that the instructor has bolstered their own Ego. This is all too common in the yoga world and we are all subject to it so stones should not be lodged with too much vigor.
In the practice we learn about duality. We learn to contract something and release something else. We learn to stabilize and mobilize. And we learn to look at the forest from many different angles and use compassion when it is called for but speak up when it is called for.
So here it is possible the trainee did not commit, did not execute, did not follow through. We simply do not know.