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Centralia Advanced Reflexology Education Authority (CAREA) was established in 2010 when Centralia originated and then developed Level 5 training. We are the profession specific link between the Awarding Organisation OTHM and the Licensed Academies and their students.   Standardisation is important in all qualifications and CAREA supply the training programme, manuals and treatment films to all the Licensed Academies.  

All assignments are also standardised so that students know that wherever they choose to learn, there is consistency in every aspect.   From the fee structure to shared values and goals and everything inbetween. 

The tutors assess all students work, then CAREA sample the students work for  quality assurance to ensure that both the student work and the tutor marking is consistently high and relevant to a level 5 qualification.   Then a sample is externally quality assured by OTHM before award of certification. This is rigour and scrutiny to protect the integrity of the OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Applied Reflexology for Integrated Medicine and to protect the learning experience in regulated qualification.  As Partners, CAREA and the training centres, provide the reflexology training for the future both educationally and professionally.

A new teacher or a new Academy will be supported throughout the process of setting up a new business and of course will then have all learning aides made available to them in order to run their own training programme. Fully supported through every stage. Don’t worry if you do not have a teaching qualification as we have that covered too.

For all Licensed Academies, they are guaranteed that CAREA:

• Write and revise the syllabus, curriculum, and assessments to ensure that all content and delivery is up-to-date, relevant and meets the required standards
• Facilitate the Internal and External verification and quality assurance, to ensure all tutors are delivering, assessing, and marking to the standards required
• Are an advisory hub that provides individual tutors with ongoing support for all aspects of academy management, including safeguarding, teaching, and delivery
• Hold regular zoom meetings with all academy directors and tutors to guarantee meaningful collaboration and the exchange of best practices 
• Meet with all Academies and their tutors for a couple of days to exchange new developments, share new practices, make sure standards are upheld and much, much more including an evening over dinner with one another!
• At IQA time, there is a Learner Voice forum for every group of learners to guarantee that learners’ views are heard … and responded too
• Engage in ongoing support and training to all our licensed tutors and academies to ensure that education, delivery, marking and assessments are consistent and high-quality
• Have a direct connection with the awarding organisation OTHM with access to  their educational and governance expertise
• CAREA continually liaise with OTHM on behalf of the Academies and their students

The word ‘partner’ is an important one.  In the past reflexology trainers did not have a real opportunity to share their knowledge or their expertise – there were good membership organisations and then Awarding Organisations, but none were able to facilitate this aspect. When learning became unit and credit-based (end 2010) the authority for training and education was removed from our Membership/Professional Organisations and was given to Awarding Organisations/Bodies. This meant that without the involvement of membership organisations there was a loss of reflexology specific knowledge and this is where Centralia stepped in.

Because CAREA directors have also been, or still are tutors, they understand how important it is to have a sense of belonging, but also to know that there is someone who they can turn to for advise, for support, sometimes even for comfort if something has gone wrong.

CAREA is more than a recognised centre, it is the hub of the Teaching Family who deliver incredible reflexology training. The License part refers to being given permission to teach the CAREA Matrix of Duopody, CALM and NEPIP, the three exceptional treatment techniques that set this qualification apart from all others, and therefore sets the graduate Practitioners apart as well

Absolutely, if you havn’t studied Duopody, then this will be included as part of your training to become an accredited CAREA tutor and/or Licensed Academy. You will be taught the Duopody technique, along with all the other CAREA Matrix treatments alongside teacher training methodologies, skills and knowledge.

CAREA have several routes to becoming a Licensed Academy and whichever this route is, you will be supported the whole way.   

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1. The quickest route is arrived at if you already hold the OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Applied Reflexology for Integrated Medicine as you will already be qualified in the CAREA Matrix.
2. The next quite quick route is if you have the Agored Cymru Level 5 Diploma in Practitioner Reflexology which included Duopody, NEPIP and CALM training.   You will have Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) credits and will study with CAREA to gain the extra credits required
3. Next takes a bit longer and is that you have route 2, but you didn’t learn Duopody and CALM, so again you have RPL, but as well as the extra credits taught in route 2, you also study with CAREA to gain the credits allocated to Duopody and CALM
4. If you don’t have a Level 5 qualification please get in touch because as we all know, experience means a great deal.

A PGCE is the most desirable teaching qualification, but if you have another teaching qualification this may be valid, get in touch to discuss

If you have no teaching qualification, then you can enrol with CAREA on the OTHM endorsed teacher training programme that is specific to the Level 5 Diploma in Applied Reflexology for Integrated Medicine

You will have to complete some practical tutoring and assessing tasks and these can be done at your nearest CAREA Licensed Academy.   

The majority of the tasks and assignments will be completed in your own time. There will be online support and online tuition. The online tuition will be a mixture of pre-recorded lessons and others will be live online tutorials with a CAREA Tutor.

This will be up to you!

CAREA Licensed Academies may invite their own graduates the opportunity of ‘shadowing’ with them for the duration of the course training schedule and during this time you will complete your teacher training assignments. Or you may not be able to commit to this time, in which case you will liaise with the Academy to arrange times when you can be assessed tutoring and doing your own in-class assessment.

If you have no other commitments, it is possible to complete within 3 to 4 months, but more usual is to allow 6 to 9 months or if you are shadowing a course as a tutor assistant, then the duration of the course is the time you should allow to complete

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