Coherence Advantage™ a HeartMath^® Trainer Certification Program

Certification enables you to train and teach the HeartMath skillset to groups of any size, anywhere in the world.

Heart-Brain Coherence Optimizes Physical and Mental Performance

Coherence is Key to Increasing and Sustaining Our Energy Levels and Resilience.

Train others to connect more deeply with the wisdom and guidance of their heart’s intuitive intelligence — turn challenging days into ones with more ease and flow.

Teach the art and science of shifting into into heart-brain coherence, an optimal state that lays the foundation for clearer thinking, wiser choices, maintaining composure in times of chaos or stress, improved sleep, and sustainable health, wellness, and performance gains.

Coherence is Key to Increasing and Sustaining Our Energy Levels and Resilience.

Small group classes with a maximum of 6 students ensure individualized guidance & in-depth learning.

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What You Can Expect

To ensure your mastery of the material, the certification program uses a variety of engaging learning methods, creating an immersive six-week experience. The blended learning format requires participation in:

Five 2-hour small group classes
Two 7-hour teach back days
One 3-hour final class
Between 2 and 4 hours of study per week

Optional after Certification: Join the HeartMath Community of Practice, offering support, product discounts, learning, connection and a true sense of belonging.

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Who typically enrolls in this Trainer Certification Course?
The HeartMath Institute primarily certifies trainers who serve the general public, nonprofit organizations, schools, universities, social-service agencies, first responder organizations such as law enforcement, fire services, corrections, military, veteran and other government agencies.

Those who get certified include:
- Trainers
- Consultants
- Coaches
- Managers
- Practitioners
- Directors
- HR Personnel
- Psychologists
- Counselors/Social Workers
- Peer Support Persons
- Mentors
- Educators
Is ongoing learning as well as support in developing my training business available?

After obtaining your certification, you’ll be invited to join our exclusive HeartMath Community of Practice – a supportive, heart-based community created especially for HeartMath Certified Professionals. The CoP is designed to help you build on your training and provide valuable strategies to develop a thriving business, including marketing guidance, continuing education, and templates for engaging trainings with clients. You’ll also be able to forge meaningful connections and collaborations with other heart-based professionals. Along with these benefits, you’ll receive practical perks such as discounts on product purchases and a listing on our Directory of Certified Professionals. The cost for the first year is only $29.50, with an annual fee of $295 thereafter.
Is this program evidence-based?

Numerous research studies conducted in a wide range of diverse populations have shown that practicing the coherence techniques results in significant reductions in stress, depression, anxiety, anger, hostility, burnout, fatigue and increases in caring, contentment, gratitude, peacefulness, resilience and vitality.

Additionally, statistically significant improvements in mental and emotional well-being have been demonstrated in over 14,000 people after 6-9 weeks of HeartMath training. As a HeartMath^® Certified Trainer, you will have access to the normed and validated Personal and Organizational Quality Assessment (POQA-R) for use in your organization or with clients.
Is this course appropriate for First Responders or Military Service Members?
The Coherence Advantage was originally developed for the U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Combat Command to assist with their highly demanding missions. Since then, culturally appropriate versions of the coherence-building techniques have been successfully taught to over 100,000 First Responders and Service Members in various countries, including Canada, Colombia, Nepal, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

To ensure cultural appropriateness, there are three versions of the workshop materials available:
1. General population: This version is suitable for individuals from various backgrounds, including nurses, teachers, government employees, and more.
2. First Responders: Designed specifically for Police, Firefighters, EMTs, and 911 Call Center Staff.
3. Active Duty Service Members: Tailored for allied military personnel.
These adaptations cater to the unique needs and requirements of each group, allowing for effective implementation of the Coherence Advantage techniques.
Are interest-free monthly payment plans available?

In response to many requests, we have made our certification program more affordable and accessible with an interest-free monthly payment plan. You can now spread your payments equally over four months. Our simple and non-binding certification course application makes the process straightforward. We want to assure you that your information is safe with us, and we won’t share it with anyone outside our organization.
Is this Certification Course also taught in Spanish?

While the certification course is taught in English, presentation and workshop participant materials are all available in Spanish. In addition, we offer the Building Personal Resilience Mentor Certification in Spanish.

We Learn When We Teach – Benefits for You

Increased Self Awareness

Increased Self Awareness: As a HeartMath Certified Trainer, you will acquire effective techniques and strategies to boost coherence, self-regulation, and emotional resilience. You’ll develop a deeper understanding of your own emotional states, equipping you with the skills to effectively shift depleting attitudes and emotions and respond to stress in a more positive and balanced manner.
Deeper Connection with Heart Intelligence

Heart Intelligence: Strengthening your connection to your heart’s intuitive intelligence is a key benefit of becoming a HeartMath Certified Trainer. Through the practice and teaching of the coherence-building techniques, you can develop a more profound connection with the wisdom and guidance that arise from within.
Improved Health and Well-being

Improved Health and Well-being: HeartMath techniques are designed to help you manage stress and improve your overall health and well-being. By practicing these techniques, you may experience lower blood pressure, reduced anxiety, improved sleep quality, and increased energy levels.
Elevated Focus, Creativity and Performance

Elevated Focus, Creativity and Performance: People functioning in a state of higher coherence are more innovative, resilient and aligned. This can improve strategic thinking, increase the ability to execute on key objectives and reduce costly mistakes.
Profound Sense of Purpose and Fulfillment

Profound Sense of Purpose and Fulfillment: As a HeartMath Certified Trainer, you will have the opportunity to teach this impactful skillset to others, enabling them to operate at a heightened level of personal and professional effectiveness. Through this transformative work, most trainers experience a profound sense of purpose and fulfillment, utilizing their expertise to make a positive and meaningful impact in the lives of those they serve.

Coherence Advantage Trainer Certification is $3,995* Comprehensive and Transformative *4 equal monthly payments of $999

Teach Others to Shift From:

Uncertainty and clouded thinking to discernment for making more effective choices and unleashing creativity.

Being anxious, overwhelmed, or impatient to experiencing ease, flow, and peace of mind.

Stressful interactions and relationships to kinder, more patient and cooperative ones.

Feeling exhausted or mentally and emotionally drained, to experiencing more energy, better sleep, and motivation.

Statistically Significant Improvements From 14,266 HeartMath Trained Individuals

Statistically significant improvements in mental, emotional and physical well-being have been demonstrated in 14,266 people, 6-9 weeks after HeartMath training. This large group comprises individuals from various backgrounds and life experiences.

*N=14,266
Percent of individuals responding as often or always on normed and validated pre and post Personal and Organizational Quality Assessment (POQA-R).

A substantial amount of research has been conducted on the effectiveness of the coherence techniques offered in the Coherence Advantage (formerly titled the Resilience Advantage). Studies conducted on a wide range of populations have consistently shown that practicing these techniques leads to significant reductions in stress, depression, anxiety, anger, hostility, and burnout, as well as increases in positive emotions such as caring, contentment, gratitude, peacefulness, resilience and vitality.

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Benefits for Your Clients

As individuals learn to integrate the Coherence Advantage skills into their daily lives, they become better at handling day-to-day challenges and stressors that often leave them depleted. Using these skills has been shown to provide a wide range of long-term personal and professional benefits, including:

Statistically Significant Increases In:

Emotional Vitality
Contentment
Emotional Buoyancy

Statistically Significant Reductions In:

Organizational Stress
Physical Stress
Emotional Stress
Relational Tension
Anger and Resentment
Anxiety and Depression
Fatigue
Health Symptoms
Intention to Quit
Pressures of Life

"I am very happy that I connected with the HeartMath family. It’s really been a blessing. I took the Resilience Advantage (Now Coherence Advantage) certification training and I have been able to use the tools I learned in the courses I teach. I have been helping a lot of people get connected to their heart. I’ve been doing it for most of my life, I just didn’t know how to train on it. Now I feel like I have all the tools I need to fulfill my mission, even in a greater way. Thank you HeartMath."

– Patricia Van Pelt, Ph.D., Illinois State Senator, Chicago, Illinois

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Call us at (800) 711-6221 or (831) 338-8500. Or, e-mail us: training@heartmath.org

Coherence Advantage™ Trainer Certification Overview

1. This live, interactive on-line certification course spans 7 weeks and includes:

Five, 2-hour small group classes over consecutive weeks.
Two Full Teach-Back Training Days.
Final Day (3 hours) – Resources, Implementation Discussion, Technology Demo and Other Topics.
Self-Paced study of each of Coherence Advantage Modules as Master Trainers present and discuss the content.
Interactive Instruction and discussion in small groups on how to deliver the Coherence Advantage workshop or selected modules of your choice.
Teach backs with peers and Teach Back Facilitator for 2 days including additional customized feedback. Certification primarily based on these sessions.
Regular program updates, new developments and support materials.
Monthly Science Q & A with our Research Director.

2. Training Materials Package e-Version:

Coherence Advantage trainer Notes.
PowerPoint and additional material.
Program participant e-Guidebook and handouts.
Links to Certified Trainer Resources, including workshop planning resources, Website and reference materials.
HeartMath^® Certified Trainer Logo, flyers, articles and marketing information.
Access to Coherence Technology Demos and videos.

3. Post-Certification Community of Practice:

Upon successful completion of the program, graduates are eligible to join the HeartMath Community of Practice. To help insure your success as a HeartMath Certified Professional, the first year fee is only $29.50 (normally $295 per year).
You will also receive a listing in the Certified Professional Directory and a 25% discount on product purchases.

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Coherence Advantage Trainer Certification is $3,995* Comprehensive and Transformative *4 equal monthly payments of $999

Overview of Course Content by Module

Module 1: Introduction

Learn to create an environment of psychological safety where participants are more comfortable sharing their thoughts, insights, questions or challenges.

Module 2: Expanding Our Energy Capacity

Discover an important physiological state called ‘heart-coherence’ which underlies resilience. We’ll introduce an effective tool that relates your everyday experience to your physiology and that encourages making empowered choices. It also illustrates that relaxation and coherence are not necessarily the same thing. You’ll also learn another coherence technique.

Module 3: Self-Regulation: The Key to Having More Energy

Vital to having more energy is learning how to self-regulate one’s emotions. Performance can decrease when people lack the ability to self-regulate emotions and behaviors when faced with on-going challenges. This module discusses how self-regulation is fundamental in building our energy capacity and performing optimally.

Module 4: The Science and Practice of Getting in Sync

Discusses the basic science of heart-rhythm coherence, an optimal physiological state identified by the HeartMath Institute. Describes basic autonomic nervous system function and the communication between the heart and brain. Two important proactive practices are introduced for sustaining coherence.

Module 5: Moving from Depletion to Renewal: Keeping Your Inner Battery Charged

A science-based exercise called the Depletion to Renewal™ Grid is taught. This is an effective tool for expanding self?awareness of the wide range of emotions and attitudes we experience. It also shows how those emotions and attitudes affect our physiology and performance.

Module 6: Practical Intuition: Accessing Your Inner GPS and Unfolding Creative Solutions

Experience the heart as a source of intelligence that acts as an inner prompter for moment-to-moment intuitive guidance, making heart intelligence a practical part of daily life. We’ll introduce a technique to activate your heart’s intuitive intelligence.

Module 7: Establishing Coherent Baselines: Breaking Through Self-Limiting Patterns

How are internal baselines and emotional memories formed? The science shows that new baseline attitudes, habits and behaviors cannot be formed by merely visualizing desired changes. This is supported by understanding how the brain operates as a pattern?storage and pattern?recognition system.

Module 8: Energetic Communication: "What are you feeding the field" – It matters.

Review the progress you have made, reinforce positive changes and focus on the importance of establishing a new baseline for lasting change. We’ll introduce an effective technique to plan your next steps, drawing from all you’ve learned.

Module 9: Building a New Foundation for Sustaining Personal Transformation: Your Next Steps

Participants develop their own sustainability strategy so they leave the workshop with a practical plan they can implement right away. Their strategy incorporates the insights, techniques and practices they have learned to implement in their daily lives.

QUESTIONS?

Schedule a Call

Call us at (800) 711-6221 or (831) 338-8500. Or, e-mail us: training@heartmath.org