Foundation Level Exams

Note that this confirms that you have displayed the required competence and knowledge in the foundational skills. It is not a licence to practise beyond the scope of the practitioner’s other qualifications. The Advanced Level Examination needs to be successfully completed in order to gain full A.R.T.® certification.

Successful completion of the Foundation Level exam does not qualify you to teach Autonomic Response Testing in any form or claim A.R.T.® certification.

Part 1: Practical Exam

Duration: 30 – 45 minutes

The Practical exams will be carried out in person at the Klinghardt Institute or online via Zoom. You will be assessed by 2 members of the Klinghardt Institute Teaching team.

Outside the UK: in some countries there will be the opportunity to take the practical exam in-person before or after workshop events. Contact info@klinghardtinstitute.com to find out if in-person exams are available in your country.

Overview of the Practical Exam:

You will be asked to carry out an A.R.T. exam demonstrating calibration, correct positioning, how to check regulation and open blocked regulation, switching, scans at all levels with and without the pol filter, the O-ring test.

You should be able to demonstrate the skills and competencies listed below. During the exam, the examiners may ask you to demonstrate any of these skills and techniques and will ask questions to ensure your understanding.

• Muscle testing technique – The different forms of A.R.T. muscle testing; straight arm testing, patient standing, sitting and lying down. Demonstrate the correct ergonomic body position that ensures testing is accurate and reduces fatigue or muscle strain on the practitioner and the indirect person. Calibration.
• SE and Pol-filter – The correct positioning of the Signal Enhancers and Pol- Filter. Position and use of the polfilter for organ and tissue testing. Use of the opening angle. Where and when to use more than one Signal Enhancer.
• Opening Regulation with the 7 Factors – How to use the 7 Factors and finger acupressure points to open regulation. How we can quantify the body’s biophoton field as well as determine the best remedies the body needs by using the opening angle.
• Switching – Demonstrate how to test for neurogenic switching and the basic and advanced switching points. What they mean, how to resolve them with tapping points or other interventions and remedies.
• MFT Tapping Points – Demonstrate the MFT Tapping Sequence. Know which tapping points relate to which organs. How we use tapping points to treat organs and the correct way to tap using a waltz rhythm and for 33 secs.
• Organ Scan – Demonstrate the A.R.T. Body and Organ Scan (on the 3 layers). Explain what we may find at each of these layers and demonstrate how we apply knowledge of the 5 Levels and 7 Factors to treat. How to select remedies and intervention based on what was found at each layer.
• Priority Organ – How to determine the priority.
• Understanding the Different Arm ‘States’ – Demonstrating the Yin Mudra, the Yang O-ring test and the Vagus test and the meaning of each. Demonstrate how to get people out of a deep Ying or Yang state.
• Concave Mirror – Using the mirror as a biofeedback instrument when doing an organ scan.
• O-Ring – How to calibrate a person before using Professor Omura’s Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT) and how to use it as a standalone method for testing allergies, food and supplement testing.  How to quantify how good or bad a substance is for the patient (-4 to +4)
• Direct Resonance – Demonstrate Direct Resonance to test all the organs for underlying issues (toxins – mercury, aluminium, glyphosate and infections using Lyme slides and CDs).
• Dose Testing and Drug Uptake – How to dose test a remedy. How to use Direct Resonance to show that the remedy given will actually arrive in sufficient concentration to the targeted organs or areas of the body.
• Dental Exam – Perform a non-invasive dental exam.  Bite height/occlusion test, Romberg test, Jaw position. Individual tooth and extraction site testing for possible cavitations, direct resonance of teeth and jaw for infections (e.g. Bartonella) and toxicity. Two pointing/ Couvert two Pointing/ Double Couvert two pointing dental issues to other symptomatic areas of the body.
• Geopathic Stress and Electro-hypersensitivity/ Pineal Gland function – how to test for each and what to prescribe.

For Practical exams, a therapy table, patient and arm will be provided.

You need to bring your own Test Kit folder and A.R.T.® tools.

Part 2: Multiple Choice Assessment

This is to be completed within 1 month of successfully passing the Practical part of the examination.

You will have a 1-week window within which to sit the exam. Once you start, you’ll have 40 minutes to complete the multiple-choice assessment through our online portal and will be asked to answer 30 questions selected at random from a question bank. These may cover:

• The 5 Levels of Healing, what each level means and why it is important to understand downward causation from the higher realms down to the physical.
• The 7 Factors which lead to disease. How we can test and determine which of these are the most significant for our patients. Understand and describe how the 7 Factors can guide us to the most effective treatment protocol.
• The 4 Laws of A.R.T. – the tenets of the system devised by Dr Klinghardt. How and when do we apply them to assist our patient.
• Biophoton Theory, what it is and how we test the patient to see if they are emitting healthy coherent light from the whole of the body and organs or whether a particular area, joint or organ is emitting unhealthy incoherent light or even no light. How to interpret this and the ways to correct it so we bring the body back into balance so it emits healthy coherent light.
• The Autonomic Nervous System and Vagus Nerve and how and why it is important in A.R.T. testing.
• Blocked Regulation, what it is, how to test for it and how to resolve it, so that the patient has ‘open regulation’. What are the benefits of having open regulation.
• A.R.T. Testing – What makes A.R.T. different from regular kinesiology. Why we perform indirect versus the normal direct testing used in other forms of kinesiology. How to use our essential tools (Polarisation Filter, Signal Enhancer, Concave Mirror, and Lasers). Why we do the organ scan twice, once with pol-on and once with pol-off.
• Neurogenic Switching, understanding basic and advanced switching points, what this means to our patients, the most common things we look for and how to correct. Describe why Interference fields play such a big part in preventing healing.
• Understanding the different arm states – Strong, Weak, Yin, Yang and Allergy and the difference when the Pol-filter is on and off.
• Ki Science Remedies, explain why they are so special and how we use them clinically. The correct use of Binders (Chlorella Vulgaris, Chlorella Pyrenoidosa, Zeolite).
• Treatment Protocols for Lyme, parasites, metal and environmental toxicity (mercury, aluminium, glyphosate), retroviruses, covid. Treating organ dysfunctions including the brain, liver, thyroid, adrenals, heart and gut function. How to test for and treat electro-hypersensitivity, geopathic stress and Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI). Basic Footbath protocol. Homeopathic auto-urine therapy.
• Two Pointing, what is two pointing, couvert 2 pointing, double couvert two pointing.
• O-Ring Testing, when can we and can’t we use the O-ring. What is the benefit of using O-ring testing as a standalone method for evaluating foods and supplements.
• MFT Anatomy & Procedures – Demonstrate the basic tapping technique and tapping lines, how to modify the technique for healing. How to use it to empower a current treatment regimen.
• Callahan’s 9-G Procedure, what it is and when it would be used.
• Erickson’s 3 Point Attention, understanding of how and when to use this technique.
• Super Brain Yoga, the purpose and steps involved.
• How and when to use The Invocation.
• The 10 Steps of MFT, knowledge of what the steps are and how to take a client through them.
• Limiting beliefs, identifying and correcting them.

Part 3: Submission of Client Case Studies

Two patient case studies must be submitted within one month of taking the practical exam. Once you have booked your exam, a template will be provided for you to complete the case studies which can then be sent in electronically via our examination portal.

Each case study should cover a new patient appointment.

Price and Booking:

The price for the full exam including all 3 parts is £500 (including VAT)

Should you fail the practical exam, there is a retake fee of £150.

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If there are no exam slots that work for you in your timezone, please email info@klinghardtinstitute.com

Full Certification:

To progress to the Advanced Level exam, completion of A.R.T. 3 and MFT 2 is required, together with attendance at official Practice events.

You will need to have passed the Advanced Level Examination to be certified as an A.R.T. Practitioner and be listed in the Directory on the Klinghardt Institute & A.R.T. Global websites.

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