Member Benefits are Similar – But Different
Our Co-op Members working together is what creates benefits for each of us.
This effort makes for a more robust life-long-learning experience for everyone.
Here are the specific training benefits details for Co-op Members.
Members training benefits include the full core curriculum plus priority seating in specialty classes.
Active members are assigned two training credits (one credit equal to one course) for each term they maintain their co-op membership.
Co-op members complete 5 ‘co-op hours’ per term to maintain their membership. We call this ‘stacking the shelves’.
Co-op members are assigned one training credit for each additional 5 co-op hours they complete per term.
Here is the real-world application of this.
The co-op is managed by the executive who commit to meeting weekly all year to do so. (50 hours)
The co-op work mainly happens on the five 3 Mothers Medicine Camps each term that run from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. (12 hours)
A co-op member may work a paid shift (7.5 hours) plus any number of co-op hours up to maximum of 11.
All other benefits are described in both the Interns Wanted and Working Professional program descriptions.
Please read both to understand all of the details that affect member agreements.
The remaining information in this description explains only the differences and the added benefits for members.
The 18-course core curriculum requires 150 hours of in-person training and 150 hours of self-directed learning to meet the certification requirements of the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapists Association (IMDHA).
Co-op Members and Working Professionals can choose not to certify under IMDHA, but all Tau interns are required to be in the certification stream.
Practically, this means that Co-op Members can participate in the monthly training days without completing the oral and written reports that are part of the self-directed learning required for IMDHA certification.
You can obtain your Community Wellness Worker Certification by completing and registering your Co-op hours as your Community Service hours.
Any Tau charges non-members pay in the program are covered under your Co-op Training Benefits.
You will maintain any hiring priority you currently have by completing our Co-op Training Program, which includes the Tau Therapeutic Skills Development Program. Hiring Priority Formula is Co-op Shares Held Times Tau Courses Completed (number of terms multiplied by number of courses completed)
Most importantly, participating in our courses connects you to a community of practice for those in healthcare occupations and professions that centers on integrative, community-based wellness.
3. Community Service Requirement:
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- All Tau training participants complete a minimum of 5 hours of community service at the 3 Mothers Medicine Camps.
- Working Professionals can opt for CWW certification which requires an additional 5 hours of community service.
- Duties are wide ranging from set-up/takedown to providing Reiki.
Community Service Days are held on the second Saturday of each month (except April and October)
4. Application and Selection Process:
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- Limited intern positions are available, selected on a first-come, first-served basis for the best-qualified candidates.
- Indigenous seats reserved each term.
- Applicants not selected receive a refund of their payment or can choose waiting list option.
5. Scheduling and Affiliations:
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- Training days are typically on weekends, with occasional special workshops on weekdays.
- A full term schedule is provided to all
- The Tau Centre for Therapeutic Trance (TCTT) is a social enterprise of Our_Community Health Initiative Cooperative (OCHI),
a not-for-profit organization. - The Tau Centre for Therapeutic Trance (TCTT) is a certified training school by the International Association of Medical and Dental Hypnotherapists (IMDHA).
Whatever context brings you into contact with people seeking help with their problems, throughout and after there is a need for a better understanding of the counseling toolkit and the three main types of tools, unconditional positive regard, empathy, and the part of the work, congruency.
Being of Tau, or being a Tau Person is about chosing how you want to be in this world, today and a thousand years hence.
What the world gives in return is a deepened ability to “Bring to each the medicine that is uniquely theirs”
Counseling is the core of Therapeutic Arts
We host a arts and crafts program that provides challenge in a range of interests regardless of gender or generation.
Eus-stress, is the experience of positive (tau) challenge that is nurturing for humans of all ages.
So that we can be prepared to offer a more robust program we needed to bring a focus to the activities, as such we chose puppets.
The CWW program includes puppet making and puppetry as our arts component.
We weave them into our wellness work.
Our current area of interest are young children who are nonverbal.
Details about the arts part of the work are found below.
The ShoBoat
The centrepiece of our program is undoubtably our stage – a beautiful 20 foot Viking Longboat/Chinese Junk hybrid. With space for half a dozen performers inside and more that a few puppet surprises built in, our stage boat is sure to be a worthy vessel on our journey of self-discovey together.
Building Puppets
Members of our circle of elders are currently working away of a collection of customizable puppet bodies that can be dressed up and modified as easily as building a LEGO set using assessories mounted on velcro. Betwix’t members can modify and costomize one of these puppet bodies to create a puppet avatar that reflects some aspect or charactristics they would like to portray, or, if they are really ambitious, they can take on building their own puppet from scratch (with help and guidance from us,, if they want it.)
Puppeteering
A core part of the philosophy underpinning Betwix’t is the value of theatre and performance as a means of overcoming challenges and fears. When we perform in front of a live audience, we must be a little vulnerable and emotionally engage with our audience and fellow performers. We have to get the correct timing and delivery of things, and act in a coordinated manner with other people’s bodies in physical space. It requires us to overcome momentary anxieties to become capable of acting freely under pressure. But, of course, sometimes that’s a lot for a person new to performing to take on. Sometimes it helps to have a little puppet dude act as an intermidiary or safety barrier between yourself and the audience.
Similarly, puppet therapy can help people express emotions they might have difficulty with otherwise, and the use of puppets for the exploration of grief and trauma is well established.
The use of puppets in Betwix’t is to open participants up to engaging with their own identities and emotions, as well as with those of others, in a fearless and honest manner that results in a greater depth of communcation and understanding.
All Arts Needed
We have centred things like puppets and performance in our planning for Betwix’t, but we think of the show we are putting on a bit like the Space Race. The rush to be the first to explore space led to all manner of scientific and technological advancements beyond space travel applications. We use the goal of creating a live puppet show as a means of exploring and developing our entire character.
Similarly, it takes all manner of arts to put on a show. We need a variety of types of performers, each with their own skillsets. But we also need poets and writers, who can put what they are feeling into words of depth and beauty. We need craftspeople to build puppets, props, set additions, costumes – any material thing that can enrich our performance. We need visual artists to design images for our posters and playbills, as well as to even storyboard the staging and visual appearance of the scenes of our show.
Just like we believe in a diverse and equal world, any and every artform is welcome in Betwix’t. If a participant has something they love doing, we will put in every effort to integrate it into the final show.
And if you have no arts experience whatsoever? Then you are even more welcome to come!
Year End Show
Our year end show will be comprised of different parts. We’ll have some musical bits sung by our elders, and we’ll have important stories that we feel need to be told, as well as room for a bit of an open mic for whoever has a talent they’d like to share, but the part that our Betwix’t youth will be concerned with is a 12 minute segment centred around our youth’s undrstanding of their own identies and their place within our community. They will decide the characters and the storyline, and the themes of the story will be drawn from the lessons they learn during the time we spend working together.
Our starting point this term is the question of “I am not my body, but without my body I am not.” – a core struggle for many trans and queer youth. We aim to build empowerent to self-define, combined with the ability to act within and upon the external, physical world. We can define our own interpretation of reality while still engaging with an often unpleasant physical reality that exists independently of the language we use to understand it.
Our show this term will hopefully reflect our youths’ ability to assert themselves to the world on their own terms.