Live RPET practitioner training with Martin Rothery
Imagine knowing how to help when somebody says, “I've tried everything, and the pain is still there.” Learn a practical approach to persistent pain, taught by Martin Rothery. No previous therapy experience needed.
Live Zoom or recorded learning · Practical volunteer work · RPET certification
The reason to learn
The grandmother who can no longer lift her grandchild. The builder who has stopped trusting his back. Someone whose first thought on waking is whether today will hurt more than yesterday.
That is what makes this work worth learning. They are asking for their ordinary life back, sometimes after years of being told that nothing more can be done.
RPET gives you a way of approaching the message of pain itself. You will learn what to pay attention to, what to ask, and how to work with someone rather than simply asking them to endure it.
The idea behind RPET
For the person experiencing it, pain is real. It might begin with injury, illness or a perfectly sensible warning. Yet a warning can sometimes persist, become learned, or be strengthened by expectation, fear and protective patterns.
That is where Martin's approach begins. The RPET method explores what the message is trying to achieve and whether the person still needs that warning in the same form. You will learn the reasoning and the practical structure, not simply recite a set of words.
Imagine a smoke alarm that goes off every time you cook dinner. It was designed to protect you. You wouldn't spend the rest of your life standing outside.
RPET asks what can be done about a warning system that has stopped responding proportionately.
Inside RPET practitioner training
From your first conversation to a complete practice session with a volunteer, the training follows the decisions you will make with a real person in front of you.
Why pain exists, what makes it useful and what can happen when a warning continues. You will explore the difference between acute and persistent pain, and how experiences of pain may involve physical, learned, emotional and expectation-related elements. The aim is to recognise what you are working with.
Where the pain is, how long it has been present, what changes its intensity and what the person has already been told. You will learn to establish a useful starting point, take a simple pain rating and notice the details that can influence your next question. Equally important, you learn when to pause and ask for medical assessment rather than trying to quiet a necessary warning.
Learn the principles of unconscious or ideomotor responses, including how to establish and check a clear response without requiring an elaborate trance. The quality of attention, your intention, and the way you calibrate a response all matter. This is practical work you will try for yourself.
The central working process. You will understand how Martin mediates with the unconscious response, acknowledges the purpose of the pain message, explores its continued necessity and works towards a different outcome. The training covers the structure, the working language and how to adapt your manner to the person without losing the method.
Why might a response continue even when someone consciously wants it to stop? You will look at protective intention, fear of reinjury, expectation, identity, emotional associations and what the manual calls secondary gains. These are possibilities to investigate carefully, never assumptions to impose on somebody.
Sessions do not always unfold neatly. Learn how to notice hesitation, unclear responses and objections; when a different question may help; and when the issue may require deeper work or a different kind of support. Good practice means recognising a boundary as well as knowing the process.
Explore the different judgements involved in back pain, sciatica, long-standing injuries, phantom pain, migraine and complex persistent-pain experiences. You will see why one person's history cannot be replaced with another person's script, even when both use the same word for the pain.
How to guide a complete session, stay present, compare the result with the starting point and review what actually happened. You will practise the work with a volunteer and learn to distinguish a meaningful response from simply assuming your intervention has worked.
From learning to doing
This is a practical training. Watching Martin explain a method is only half of it. You need to experience the conversation, the responses and the decisions involved when another human being is in front of you.
For live training: you will need a volunteer available for the practical work. Martin guides you through the training in real time, whether you are learning privately or with a group.
For recorded training: arrange someone willing to be your volunteer. You can pause, return to the teaching, practise the relevant stages and work at a pace that lets the learning settle.
You do not need a therapy practice, a treatment room or previous qualifications to begin. You do need someone willing to participate and a genuine interest in helping people.
Your RPET qualification
Both live and recorded training lead towards RPET certification. Once you have completed the teaching and the required practical work, you can receive certification giving you the title Rapid Pain Elimination Therapist.
It is a standalone qualification open to people coming to therapy for the first time, as well as therapists who want an additional way of working with pain. You are learning a defined RPET method, with a clear scope and a responsibility to exercise good judgement.
It does not require you to enrol in the full Sanomentology practitioner programme first. If you later choose to explore the wider Nine Realms work, this gives you a practical foundation from which to do so.
The kinds of pain discussed
Martin's teaching draws on work with a wide range of pain experiences. You learn to examine the message and the individual circumstances, rather than promising the same result for every diagnosis.
Voices from RPET and related training
“RPET can take the complete novice and turn them into an effective, confident and competent therapist.”
“Fantastic training with Martin today. Really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to introducing this in my own hypnotherapy practice.”
“The beauty of RPET is in it’s simplicity. It is well taught, with students able to choose whether they attend in person or join online.”
“I have just completed the first part of Martin Rothery RPET course and ... I'm impressed to the point that I can't wait for part 2!”
“Martin is a superb trainer and practitioner, not only did I learn a vast amount as a therapist but Martin helped me with a complicated issue from a client point of view”
“Thank you for the weekend training it was awesome. It really is a powerful technique and certainly one I will use going forwards”
“Great therapy training that works, top thing about Mind Mediation and Rapid Pain Elimination Therapy is it can work for so many things”
“I started out as a volunteer for another trainee and ended up learning it myself.”
“Amazing training easy and understandable has changed the way I work”
“the only people who loose out if you don't take this training are you and people waiting for you to help them.”
“It's not just the clients that benefit, it will change your life too”
Choose how you learn
Train live with Martin over Zoom, either privately or with a group you organise. Your training date and time are arranged personally. There is also a complete recorded course if you prefer to learn in your own time.
Live Zoom · Personally arranged practitioner training
Both options are taught by Martin Rothery. Dates and times are agreed personally after booking, and you will need a volunteer for the practical work.
One person · Private live training
One-to-one Zoom training with Martin, with the attention entirely on your learning. We arrange your training date and time together.
Two or more · Host a private group
Gather colleagues, friends or your own community for live training together.
All live bookings are paid directly to NRI. No fixed dates to choose from and no obligation to fill a promised number of group places.
Face-to-face training
If you want Martin to visit your practice, organisation, community or venue to deliver in-person training, get in touch. We will need to discuss the location, number of people, travel, costs and a suitable date before confirming anything.
In-person training enquiry. Tell us where you are and roughly how many people would attend. For Zoom training, use the booking options above.
Before you decide
No. This course is open to complete beginners, people who already work in healthcare or wellbeing, and experienced therapists looking for a new approach to pain.
Yes. You can organise a private Zoom group, share an invitation link, and have each person pay £299 directly to Nine Realms Institute. At least two paid participants are required. For in-person group events, use the enquiry form with your estimated attendee count and location.
Yes. The organiser creates a private invitation link and each trainee books their own place for £299. The organiser does not collect payments. The group needs at least two paid participants, including the organiser, before a training date can be confirmed.
The organiser earns £50 for each additional paid attendee in their private group. Their own booking is excluded. Commission is paid after the training has taken place.
Yes. In-person training is arranged by enquiry because travel, venue, group size and costs need to be discussed. Share the country, proposed numbers and any venue details you have.
Yes. Please arrange a volunteer for the practical work, whichever training format you choose. For recorded study, you can organise that at a time that suits both of you.
Yes. The recorded course includes the teaching and practical work required for RPET certification, leading to the title Rapid Pain Elimination Therapist on completion.
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