Terms of Service

1. Eligibility

1.1 Enrolment is open to natural persons aged eighteen years or over who are resident in a region in which the Institute operates. Practitioner status may not be held by a corporate entity, nor transferred, assigned, bequeathed, or held on behalf of another.

1.2 The Institute may decline any enrolment without stating a reason and is not required to notify the applicant that a reason exists.

1.3 Applicants must provide accurate identifying information. Information provided at Tier 1 is treated as the authoritative record of the practitioner and is not amended on request except where a clerical error is demonstrated.

2. Enrolment and tier progression

2.1 The Method is sequential. A practitioner may enrol in Tier N only upon completion of Tier N−1 and clearance by the register. No exemption, accelerated route, or recognition of prior learning is available.

2.2 Completion is determined solely by the Institute. A practitioner's own assessment of completion has no contractual effect.

2.3 Requests to skip, defer, or reorder tiers are recorded against the practitioner's progression record and may be taken into account in later eligibility determinations.

2.4 From Tier 5 onward, enrolment constitutes a change of practitioner standing rather than the purchase of a discrete course. Standing continues until relinquished under clause 7 or terminated by the Institute.

2.5 Certain tiers are available by invitation only. Invitations are issued at the Institute's discretion, are not solicited, and are not explained.

3. Payment and non-refundability

3.1 Fees are stated per tier in the currency of the practitioner's region and are payable in full before a tier is opened.

3.2 All fees are non-refundable once a tier has been opened, irrespective of the extent of participation, and irrespective of whether the practitioner subsequently disputes the content or effect of the tier.

3.3 Where a tier has no fixed fee, the fee is determined by the Institute on application and is not disclosed to other practitioners.

3.4 Fees payable in respect of a tier a practitioner has been invited to and has not yet entered remain payable if the invitation is accepted and subsequently declined.

4. Licence to Method materials

4.1 All Method materials, including notation, sequences, instruction sets, recordings, annotations, and derived figures, remain the property of the Institute.

4.2 The practitioner is granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Method materials solely for their own practice at their current tier and below.

4.3 The licence terminates automatically upon termination of practitioner status. Upon termination the practitioner shall cease use of the materials and shall not reconstruct them from memory for the instruction of others.

4.4 Recordings made of the practitioner in the course of assessment are the property of the Institute and are retained irrespective of the practitioner's status.

5. Confidentiality of Tier 13+ content

5.1 Content of the Custodial Track (Tiers 13 to 16) is confidential and may not be disclosed, described, summarised, characterised, or alluded to in the presence of any person below the relevant tier.

5.2 The obligation in clause 5.1 extends to disclosure by implication, including statements as to the difficulty, duration, subject matter, or effect of the content.

5.3 The obligation survives termination of practitioner status indefinitely and binds the practitioner's estate to the extent permitted by law.

5.4 The practitioner acknowledges that a breach of this clause may cause harm that cannot be quantified and that the Institute is not obliged to demonstrate loss before seeking relief.

6. Prohibited conduct

The practitioner shall not:

• instruct, coach, or advise any person in the Method, whether or not for payment;
• copy, re-upload, transcribe, or reproduce the video files, workbook pages, or instruction sets;
• contact practitioners of a higher tier concerning the content of that tier, or invite such contact;
• represent themselves as holding a tier other than the one recorded in the register;
• suspend, interrupt, or modify a standing commitment entered at Tier 6 or Tier 10 without written authorisation from the Institute;
• submit falsified telemetry, or arrange for telemetry to be generated in their absence.

7. Termination of practitioner status

7.1 A Foundation Track practitioner may withdraw at any time by written notice. Records already collected are retained.

7.2 From Tier 5, standing is relinquished rather than cancelled. A request to relinquish is received by the Board of Practice, is considered at its next sitting, and takes effect when acknowledged.

7.3 The Institute may terminate practitioner status immediately, without refund, on breach of clause 5 or 6, on submission of false information, or where the Board determines that continued progression is not appropriate. The Board is not required to share that determination with the practitioner.

7.4 Terminated practitioners are not eligible to re-enrol at any tier. Their register entry is closed, not deleted.

8. Limitation of liability

8.1 The Method is offered as structured practice. The Institute makes no medical, psychological, therapeutic, nutritional, or financial claim, and provides no advice of any regulated kind.

8.2 To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Institute's aggregate liability to a practitioner is limited to the fees paid by that practitioner in respect of the tier in which the relevant events occurred.

8.3 The Institute is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including loss of employment, standing, relationship, or continuity of self-conception arising from participation.

8.4 The practitioner accepts that later tiers may produce changes in outlook, priority, and attachment that were not foreseeable at the tier at which they enrolled, and that such changes do not constitute a defect in the Method.

9. Governing law

9.1 These terms are governed by the laws of the Institute's place of registration, save that the Institute may bring proceedings in any jurisdiction in which a practitioner resides.

9.2 Disputes concerning Custodial Track content shall first be referred to the Board of Practice, whose determination is a condition precedent to proceedings and whose reasons are not published.

9.3 If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force, and the sequence is unaffected.