Memory
The nervous system may still be responding to something that is over in time but not over in experience.
Professional practitioner training
Become the practitioner who knows what to do next, and why.
Sanomentology trains you to understand the person before choosing the intervention: to formulate what may actually be happening, select deliberately and know why the work belongs.
Already working with people? Sharpen the judgement behind what you do. Starting from scratch? Level 1 begins with practitioner foundations and teaches the method from the ground up.
Lifetime access · no deadlines
No previous practitioner training required
Suitable for career changers
Level 1 available separatelyPay in full or monthly
Current trainees include
Doctors · Nurses · Psychologists · Psychotherapists · Hypnotherapists · Coaches · Business leaders · Strategists · Copywriters · Career changers
Some arrived with years of clinical or professional experience. Others arrived with none.
5-day current-price window
Level 1 is £799 during your current window.
You have five days from your first genuine visit to enrol in Level 1 for £799 or 10 monthly payments of £85.
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Your current price ends Tuesday 27 October 2026 at 10:39pm. After that, Level 1 remains available at £899 or 10 monthly payments of £99 and the Complete Practitioner Pathway remains available at £3,599 or 12 monthly payments of £320.
Knowing why is not always enough
Understanding the problem intellectually does not always change it.
Some clients can explain their childhood, name the trigger, describe the pattern and tell you exactly why they behave as they do.
And it is still happening.
“I understand where the anxiety comes from.”
“I know I should stop doing it.”
“I have already talked about my childhood.”
“It worked for a while. Then it came back.”
These are not necessarily people who need another explanation. Often the useful work is changing how the experience itself is organised, represented or responded to.
The technique is not the treatment plan
See. Formulate. Select. Sequence. Review.
Sanomentology is a practitioner methodology for understanding the person before deciding what to do next. A practitioner can know twenty interventions and still have no good reason to choose one over another. Sanomentology changes the order. Understanding comes before intervention. The formulation is a working understanding, not a verdict on the person. If new information changes what you are looking at, the formulation has to move.
See
What is actually here?
Symptom, identity, emotion, context, physiology, relationship, meaning and the practitioner’s own contribution.
Formulate
What may be organising it?
What keeps the pattern in place? What function might it serve? What is missing from the obvious explanation?
Select
What fits this person?
Choose the work because the formulation supports it, not because it is the technique you happen to use most.
Sequence
What happens now, later or not at all?
Good judgement includes knowing when to pause, when less is better and when another professional should be involved.
Review
What changed, and what does that tell you?
Notice what moved, what did not, and whether the formulation, process or sequence needs to change before you do more.
With anxiety, the useful question becomes: why is this person anxious, what is organising it, and what would need to change?
A working map, not a diagnosis. More places to look before deciding what to do.
Free practitioner class · about 30 minutes
When the Client Does Not Fit the Technique
Training examples are tidy. Real people are not. They arrive with their own explanation, familiar labels, contradictions, half-finished thoughts and signals that do not always fit the technique you were taught to reach for.
This class is about what happens before the technique: how I think about a case, what I pay attention to, and why formulation comes before intervention.
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Look Again Practitioner Formulation Field Kit
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The same label can hide very different cases
Five people can say “I have anxiety.”
They may need five different pieces of work. The word tells you what they are experiencing. It does not automatically tell you why it is happening or what should change.
Meaning
The sensation may be frightening because of what the person believes it means.
Uncertainty
The real struggle may be an inability to tolerate not knowing what comes next.
Context
The person may be living in circumstances that would keep almost anybody on alert.
Protection
Vigilance may have become part of staying safe. Remove the symptom without understanding the job and the system may replace it.
Same symptom. Five formulations. Five possible directions.
What should improve in your work?
The decisions you make in the room.
Useful training changes what you notice, the questions you ask and the reasons behind whatever you choose to do next.
“What technique should I use?”
What am I actually looking at?
“Why didn’t that work?”
What is maintaining this?
“I need another modality.”
I need a clearer formulation.
“This person is resistant.”
What is this response protecting or accomplishing?
“I should be able to fix this.”
Is this mine to work with at all?
“More must be better.”
What is useful here, and what should I leave alone?
You can stop at Level 1
You do not have to buy the whole pathway.
Level 1 is complete practitioner training in its own right. Start there, use the work, and decide later whether you want Levels 2 and 3.
See Level 1 training optionsA new career is a real possibility
You can start from scratch.
Level 1 assumes you are learning from the beginning. It starts with the foundations of working responsibly with another person, then builds into the Sanomentology method itself.
That works equally well if you are adding something substantial to an existing profession or beginning a completely different kind of working life.
Level 1 contains the practitioner foundations and Sanomentology training you need to begin.
Professional titles, insurance, licensing and regulatory requirements vary by country and type of practice. Sanomentology gives you the training pathway itself; you remain responsible for meeting any local requirements that apply to the work you choose to offer.
Who is training now?
Doctors. Nurses. Psychologists. Psychotherapists. Hypnotherapists. Coaches. Business leaders. Strategists. Copywriters. Complete beginners.
They are not all aiming for the same kind of work. Some are deepening clinical or therapeutic practice. Others use the thinking in leadership, strategy, communication or creative work. Some are starting a new helping career from the beginning.
Build a new practice
Begin with the practitioner foundations, complete Level 1, then decide how far you want to take the pathway.
Deepen an existing practice
Add a wider formulation model and more deliberate case direction to therapy, coaching or change work you already do.
Use the thinking in other people-centred work
Leadership, strategy, communication, creative work and consulting all benefit from understanding people beyond surface behaviour.
Continue through the full pathway
Move from Foundation Practitioner to Advanced Practitioner and, if you want the full method, Master Sanomentologist.
What is actually inside Level 1?
What you learn in Level 1.
The foundations, the Consciousness Codex and the actual Sanomentology processes. Here's what you will be learning to use.
Practitioner Foundation
Intent, intuition, confidence, faith, rapport and alignment. Learn to listen properly, recognise what a client may be telling you beyond their words, and conduct a session with confidence.
The Consciousness Codex
Explore the six dimensions of consciousness, Reason, Will, Vision and the Grid of Reality. Understand how familiar patterns develop and why people can find themselves repeating them.
Working with the Unconscious
Learn induction, deepening, unconscious communication and how to recognise and respond to different states during a session.
Dreamscaping and Inner Journeys
Guide Inner Journeys and Interactive Lucid Dreaming. Work with the images, characters and experiences people encounter through their imagination, including dimensional journeys.
Mind Mediation
Work with competing thoughts, feelings and unconscious responses through the person's own internal experience, rather than relying on discussion alone.
G.O.S.H. and T.I.M.E.
Learn two complete Sanomentology processes. G.O.S.H. (Gift of Self-Healing) works with a person's internal experience and resources. T.I.M.E. (Bringing the Pieces Together) addresses unresolved or disconnected experiences.
Working with the problems people bring
Practical work on pain, fears and phobias, sleep, and stress, anxiety and depression. You'll also learn FreeSpa for substance and process addictions, and YES for weight management.
Putting it into practice
Bring the work into an actual session: understand the presenting problem, choose an appropriate process, adapt your direction to what happens and bring the session to a proper close.
Includes the complete Level 1 manual, exercises, practical sessions, assessment, certification route and ongoing online support. Every lesson remains yours to revisit, for life.
Beyond Level 1
There is a great deal further you can take this.
Level 1 stands on its own. If you want to continue, here is what the next two levels add.
Level two
Advanced Practitioner
£1,200or 6 monthly payments of £220
Level 2 goes into the Identity and Emotional Realms. You learn how the twelve archetypes, the roles people adopt and the emotions they carry can keep a problem going, even after the original trigger has changed.
The processes include Reckoning and Redemption, Unity and Awakening for emotional integration; LAF for love and fear; BAC UP for belief and confidence; and the Resolute Pact for old conclusions that still govern somebody's choices. CREATE is the structured trauma and PTSD programme.
You'll also work with shame, imposter syndrome, identity collapse, secondary gains, complex pain, stress, anxiety and depression, and the psychological experience of chronic and serious illness. Advanced case work connects all of it to the person sitting in front of you.
Level three
Master Sanomentologist
£1,699or 10 monthly payments of £175
Level 3 opens up the more ambitious parts of Sanomentology. Base 12 and Connections explore the relationship between the individual and the wider world through an extraordinary journey across different scales of experience. God-Seed extends the identity work into the thirteenth archetype.
MYDAS works with intention and bringing ambitions into everyday life. LOGOS explores language and personal command. CHANGES works with character and deliberate becoming, in both single-session and three-session forms.
Travellers explores relative reality; Bifrost takes the journey across the realms; ENIGMA brings the whole system together. You'll also learn Breakout, Reality Check and Access Knowledge, alongside the philosophical territory of When Hermes Meets Hawking and its seven Hermetic laws.
Complete Practitioner Pathway
All three levels, from the beginning.
If you want the entire training, you can enrol for all three levels together and work through them at your own pace. You don't need to commit to a speciality or know which processes will become your favourites. You'll discover that as you learn.
See enrolment and payment options£3,299Save £399£3,698 if bought separatelyor 12 monthly payments of £285
What £799 includes
The whole Level 1 practitioner foundation.
That includes the practitioner foundations, a coherent way to formulate, complete process material, a substantial manual, exercises, assessment, certification route and direct support.
The test comes later, when somebody is sitting opposite you and you can see more clearly what you are dealing with, why you are choosing the work and when to leave something alone.
Be ready for the room.Rapport, listening, boundaries, safety, practitioner state and professional judgement come before clever processes.
Make sense of the case.Move beyond the presenting complaint and ask what may be organising, maintaining or protecting the problem.
Learn the processes in full.The Sanomentology structures and trainee wording are preserved. You learn the work as designed, not fragments of it.
Keep the manual beside you.The manual, exercises and structured training remain available while familiarity and confidence develop.
Earn the certification.Certification follows the required learning and assessment. Payment alone does not create competence.
Ask when you are unsure.Direct online support means questions do not have to remain questions when you begin applying the material.
Do not buy professional training without hearing the teacher
Watch the actual training.
Listen to a real lesson. You will know quickly whether my way of explaining the work makes sense to you and whether you want more.
If it does not, do not enrol.
Practitioners, in their own words
What practitioners say after training.
They came from different professional backgrounds and noticed different things about the training: its depth, how it fits with work they already do, and whether it is useful with real people.
Monika Krasowska
Psychologist & Psychotraumatologist
“I am a psychologist and psychotraumatologist, and I can really see the effectiveness of Sanomentology. I am glad I came across such a well-structured modality.”
Marta Noryśkiewicz
Psychotherapist · Schema Therapy
“Sanomentology fills this gap beautifully... Through symbolism, Sanomentology teaches how to release emotions and change the Core Schema.”
Tee Liburd
Sanomentology Practitioner
“Your Sanomentology training is the best training I have had so far. Your tools are my go-to when supporting others.”
Nik Oakes
Sanomentology Practitioner
“There’s nothing remotely shallow about this structure.”
Lidia · Sanomentology training participant
When the work became personal
Lidia found Sanomentology when she needed the work herself.
“Sanomentology was my lifeline.”
She came to the work during a major crisis after losing a job she had been deeply identified with. Her experience was strong enough that she later chose to train in Sanomentology herself.
The crisis
After almost seven years in a company she strongly identified with, her role was removed during reorganisation. She described grief, depression and a collapse in confidence.
The problem
Shame, guilt, self-doubt and imposter feelings became so strong that even job interviews could end in tears.
Her experience
Lidia says that after the first Sanomentology session she felt able to act again, became calmer and stronger internally, and later found a new job within three months.
Then she trained
The experience led her to learn Sanomentology herself because she had finally found something that felt deeper than previous therapy, coaching and training.
“The Sanomentology training truly proved to be a game changer in my life. When I started, I was going through a major crisis.”
“I was paralyzed by overwhelming shame, guilt, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome... I needed a fast, effective solution, as traditional therapy seemed too slow. Sanomentology was my lifeline.”
Lidia’s account is her own experience. Individual experiences vary and it is not presented as a guarantee of outcome.
When Level 1 is finished
You should be able to do more than explain the theory.
You should be able to sit with another person, think more clearly about what is happening and have a reason for whatever you choose to do next. The process itself is not the destination. What matters is whether something useful changes in the life the client goes back to.
Structure an initial practitioner conversation without turning it into an interrogation or rushing to a technique.
Formulate beyond the presenting problem and identify plausible maintaining patterns, meanings, identity issues, emotional processes and context.
Use the Level 1 Sanomentology processes as taught with the manual and full session structure available as working support.
Choose rather than grab. Have a reason for selecting a piece of work and a reason for leaving something alone.
Recognise the edge of your competence. Know when to pause, seek guidance or refer rather than pushing on because you feel you should fix everything.
Have a clear next step. Stop at Level 1 with substantial practitioner training, or continue into Levels 2 and 3 if you want deeper complexity and master-level formulation.
No previous practitioner experience is required to begin. Professional titles, insurance, licensing and regulatory requirements vary by location and type of work.
Start with Level 1
Choose how you want to begin.
Start with Level 1 and decide later whether you want to continue, or take the complete three-level pathway from the beginning.
No previous practitioner experience is required.
Take your time. The training isn't going anywhere.
Learn when it suits you, return to any lesson whenever you want, and take as long as you need to finish. You have lifetime access to the training you purchase, with no annual fees, renewal charges or extra costs to keep your access.
Lifetime accessNo completion deadlineNo annual feesNo renewal charges
Start here
Level 1 · Foundation Practitioner
Practitioner Foundation, the Consciousness Codex, core Sanomentology, full manual, exercises, assessment, certification route and direct support.
£799or 10 monthly payments of £85
Yours for life, with no deadline to finish. No annual fees or renewal charges. You do not have to commit to Levels 2 or 3.
Complete pathway
Levels 1, 2 and 3
The full Sanomentology practitioner pathway available from the beginning.
£3,299or 12 monthly payments of £285
All three levels, with lifetime access and no deadline to finish. No annual fees or renewal charges.
ALSO AVAILABLE · LEARN IN PERSON
Or join me for six days in Gdańsk.
I'm teaching in person again for the first time in four years. Join me for six full days learning the Level 1 processes, seeing demonstrations, practising together and asking the questions that are so much easier to explore when we're in the same room.
We will work with Mind Mediation, Dreamscaping, G.O.S.H., T.I.M.E., the practitioner foundations and how to select appropriate sessions for the person in front of you. Beginners and experienced practitioners are welcome.
Your place includes the training materials and your Level 1 certificate on successful completion.
Also included: the complete online Level 1 training, for life.
Every live booking includes the entire self-paced Level 1 course, with its lessons and supporting materials, so you can study beforehand and revisit everything after our six days together. Online access is unlocked as soon as your bootcamp fee is paid in full. A deposit alone does not unlock it.
14–19 June 2027 · Gdańsk, Poland · Taught in English
Early bird fee until 30 November 2026£1,495£1,695 from 1 December 2026
Reserve your place with£295 depositBalance of £1,200 due 28 February 2027
Travel and accommodation are arranged separately. Please read the full event details and booking terms before paying. The online Level 1 course is included with this booking once the full fee has been paid.
Already training? See Level 2 and Level 3
Level 2 · £1,200
or 6 × £220. Available after Level 1 purchase.
Level 3 · £1,699
or 10 × £175. Available after Level 2 purchase.
Where Level 1 can lead
The pathway continues through three levels.
If you continue, Level 2 takes you further into identity, emotion and complex presentations. Level 3 brings the wider method together through advanced formulation, integration and sequencing.
Level 1
Foundation Practitioner
Learn to practise. Practitioner foundations, the Consciousness Codex and core Sanomentology.
£799
or 10 × £85
Level 2
Advanced Practitioner
Learn how identity and emotion can hold a problem in place. Study the processes for shame, unresolved experience, trauma, belief, complex pain and more demanding cases.
Explore the Level 2 curriculum and processes
Identity and the twelve archetypes
Study the identity patterns people build, the roles they inhabit, the qualities they reject and how an old sense of self can keep recreating a problem even after its obvious cause has been addressed.
Emotion and its patterns
Explore the Emotional Codex, emotional imprints and the interplay of sensation, feeling, interpretation and behaviour. Learn to distinguish emotional movement from a temporary release.
Reckoning and Redemption
Work with unfinished emotional business and the hold it can retain over the present. The training also develops Unity and Awakening as further ways of exploring and integrating experience.
LAF and BAC UP
Explore Love and Fear through the LAF model, then beliefs and confidence through BAC UP. The course examines these individually and in combination.
The Resolute Pact
A structured body of work involving conclusions, the Schrödinger Protocol and resolutions, including a complete-session form of the process.
CREATE
A multi-session Sanomentology programme for trauma and PTSD-related work, taught from initial assessment and readiness through its core protocol and subsequent sessions.
When the obvious problem goes deeper
Shame, imposter syndrome, identity collapse, secondary gains, persistent pain, complex anxiety and depression, and Consciousness Regeneration.
Illness, recovery and complex cases
Explore Sanomentology's approach to the lived experience of chronic and serious illness, including asthma, skin and digestive conditions, diabetes, thyroid conditions, neurological illness, cancer, surgery and recovery. The level closes with substantial case formulation and selection work.
£1,200
or 6 × £220
Level 3
Master Sanomentologist
Explore the most ambitious parts of the Sanomentology model: connection, character, intention, reality, consciousness and whole-system integration, alongside advanced case work.
Explore the Level 3 curriculum and processes
Base 12 and Connections
Study the model of consciousness at different scales, from its smallest imagined components to the greater whole. Connections makes those changes of scale into a guided experiential journey.
God-Seed
Explore the thirteenth archetype, introduced at Master level, and the distinctive activation process associated with it.
MYDAS and LOGOS
MYDAS explores intention and deliberate movement towards chosen outcomes. LOGOS examines the place of language, reason and personal command in that work.
CHANGES
A process concerned with character, ethos and deliberate becoming, taught both as a single-session approach and across three sessions.
Relative Reality and Travellers
Explore the model of relative reality and the Travellers journey, allowing questions of perspective, possibility and experienced reality to be examined through the Sanomentology approach.
Bifrost and ENIGMA
Bifrost is the bridge across realms; ENIGMA works with the alignment of the wider system. Learn why each exists and where it belongs in the progression of work.
Breakout, Reality Check and Access Knowledge
Three further directions in advanced consciousness work: exploring perceived boundaries, examining reality and interpretation, and working with knowledge reached outside an ordinary step-by-step reasoning process.
Master judgement and case work
Bring the three levels together through selection, sequencing, integration, a substantial collection of master cases, a case conference and your practice portfolio. Mastery means choosing established processes well, not inventing new ones.
£1,699
or 10 × £175
Complete Practitioner Pathway
All three levels from the start.
If you already know you want the full Sanomentology pathway, take all three levels together. Study at your own pace and revisit any part of the training for life, without annual fees.
Save £399 compared with buying all three levels separately.
£3,299or 12 × £285
Why this exists
I have spent 38 years trying to understand why people do what they do.
I developed Sanomentology first. Nine Realms Institute grew around it later as the wider home for the training, books, programmes and the Nine Realms. Sanomentology developed from a practical frustration: people do not arrive in neat categories, and knowing an intervention is not the same thing as knowing when it belongs in the room.
I am still trying to work people out. I would be suspicious of anybody who was not.
Curiosity is a legitimate therapeutic tool.
Before you decide
Things people usually want to know before they enrol.
What is Sanomentology?
Sanomentology is a practitioner methodology developed by Martin Rothery. It trains practitioners to understand the person and formulate what may be organising a problem before selecting and sequencing the work. It includes specific Sanomentology processes, but it is not built around using one technique for every person or presentation.
Who developed Sanomentology?
Martin Rothery developed Sanomentology before the Nine Realms and before Nine Realms Institute. The Institute came later as the wider home for Sanomentology, the Nine Realms, practitioner training, personal programmes and Martin's broader body of work.
Do I have to finish within a certain time? Are there annual fees?
No. You can take as long as you need, and the training you buy stays available to you for life. There are no annual fees, renewals or extra charges to keep accessing your lessons and materials. Choose the full-payment or instalment option when you enrol; either way, your training access is not an annual subscription.
How is Sanomentology training structured?
The current practitioner pathway has three progressive levels: Level 1 Foundation Practitioner, Level 2 Advanced Practitioner and Level 3 Master Sanomentologist. Level 1 can stand alone, while Levels 2 and 3 develop greater complexity, integration, formulation and sequencing. Current pricing and enrolment options are shown on this page.
Can I really start with no experience?
Yes. Level 1 begins with practitioner foundations and does not assume previous therapy, coaching, Sanomentology training.
Is this suitable if I am considering a new career?
Yes. That is one of the reasons Level 1 begins where it does. It gives you the Sanomentology practitioner foundations and method from the ground up. You remain responsible for any local licensing, insurance or regulatory requirements that apply to the work you later choose to offer.
Do I have to abandon the methods I already use?
No. Sanomentology is designed to improve what you notice and how you formulate. Sometimes the best intervention will be something you already know.
Is Sanomentology just another modality?
No. It includes specific Sanomentology processes, but the larger training is about practitioner judgement: how to understand the person, formulate what may be happening, select the work deliberately, review what changed and know when another route is more appropriate.
Will I actually be able to use it?
The training includes the full session structures, exercises, manual, practical applications and assessment rather than leaving you with theory alone.
Can trainees invent new Sanomentology processes?
No. The full process wording and structure are preserved. Advanced practice is about better formulation, selection and sequencing, not inventing new protocols.
Is certification automatic?
No. Certification follows the required learning and assessment. Payment buys access to the training, not an automatic professional claim.
What happens after Level 1?
You can stop there, or continue. Level 2 becomes available once Level 1 has been purchased. Level 3 follows Level 2.
Sooner or later somebody will trust you with something important
Be ready for the person in front of you.
Listen properly. Work out what may be happening. Then have a reason for whatever you do next.
Begin Level 1 · £79910 monthly payments · £85
