Teacher Certification
The Fitzmaurice Voice Institute offers an intensive two-year Voice Teacher Certification Program in Fitzmaurice Voicework®. Participants include voice teachers and people with a wide range of other backgrounds and interests. After successfully completing the Voice Teacher Certification Program, participants are certified as Assistant Fitzmaurice Voicework Teachers. They can then pursue optional Advanced Training.
Participants in the teacher training learn to understand, embody, and teach the work. In addition to the core work, they explore a variety of specializations, including presence, diversity and inclusion, singing, speech, text, acting, and performance.
The Benefits of Certification Training
You will gain:
Deepened pedagogy as a skilled voice trainer which is:
holistic
somatic
individualized
experience-based
evolving
Personal development as a vocal practitioner.
Mentorship by highly skilled and experienced voice teachers.
A highly sought after and academically recognized methodology and certification that can provide advantages in the job market.
A community of “Trems” (those who have gone through the training) to support you in your journey through certification and beyond.
Exclusive resources on the Fitzmaurice website including:
opportunity for a public profile
event marketing
sample curriculum & syllabi
access to archival resources
Advanced professional development opportunities.
“Fitzmaurice teacher certification made me a better teacher to my students: more present, compassionate, and better able to hear and respond to their many different ways of being and performing. And that’s because Catherine’s work made me a better teacher to myself. In being with myself, I can be with my students.”
“The depth of my experience with Certification is vast and will continue to resonate within me for years to come. I was brought home in many ways—through the supportive community and family of my teachers and my fellow certs, through a renewed and newly discovered intimacy with my voice, and through a deep journey into the sea of my self.”
Training Overview
Part One
Participants study with certified FV teachers who are leading industry professionals, exploring the following topics:
Presence and Destructuring Details
Restructuring Details and Anatomy
Deep Destructuring and Restructuring Applications
Identity & Values and Teaching Practice
Interim Year
In the year between parts one and two, each participant teaches the work, attends monthly online group sessions, and connects with their assigned mentor.
Part Two
Participants study with more certified FV teachers who are leading industry professionals, exploring the following topics:
Presence and Singing
Speech and Text
Performance
Teaching with Feedback
When & Where
Our next certification is taking place in USA:
Los Angeles, CA
(Certification 19)
June 1st to June 29th, 2024
May 31st to June 28th, 2025
Prerequisites
Certification participants already have a strong foundation in Fitzmaurice Voicework—as embodiment is vital in the teaching of this work. The base requirement for consideration for acceptance into certification training is 30 hours of study. We highly recommend 5-day in-person workshops, as the structure and intensity will give a sense of the rigors and depth of certification training.
Other opportunities for exploration include:
Level 1 & Level 2 on-line courses
Other FVI workshops / events
Other workshops / events with FV teachers
Group classes / individual study with FV teacher
Priority for acceptance is given to those who already have a teaching or coaching practice of some kind. This does not necessarily need to be in the area of voice.
Program Fee
$11,800 (including $800 deposit)
Payment plans, internships, and scholarships are available to support diverse financial needs.
“The Fitzmaurice Voicework certification program is one of the most powerful choices I have ever made. It changed my relationship to my own learning, transformed my teaching practice, and revolutionized my relationship to my art. I became not only better in teaching the technical aspects of voice, but the program also gave me a resilient framework for teaching a challenging and nuanced topic. It changed my relationship to my role with clients and I have a greater understanding of my strengths as a teacher, and my ability to facilitate experiences for clients, empowering them to claim their voices, creativity, and presence. I also learned about how to refine and develop areas of my teaching practice that were blind spots for me - all in a supportive and playful environment lead by many, many remarkable teaching masters.”