The Affiliation of Crystal Healing Organisations
All schools have agreed to teach this core curriculum. All students are internally assessed by the school and can have an external validation
by the independent Open College Network (OCN if the school is registered with OCN) or by one of ACHO's Verifiers.
The core curriculum is accredited and validated at 18 OCN/NVQ credits at level 3.
The Core Curriculum must be NO MORE than half (90hours) the content of a full course.
The remaining part of the course is taken with crystal topics (at least 90% of the course)
chosen by the school to reflect their areas of expertise.
These topics and a short explanation must be registered with ACHO to ensure the 90% content.
The full course must take a minimum of two years to complete.This can be evenly spread or in blocks of days.

The ACHO core curriculum Crystals Course

Unit 1 Title: Crystal Formation
1.1  Evaluate, critically compare and describe each system of crystal formation, giving at least four examples of each one
1.2  Research and evaluate the structure of the Earth and its implications on the distribution of minerals

Unit 2 Title: Crystal Properties and Acquisition

2.1  Compare and discuss the implications for crystals categorised according to Mohs' Scale
2.2  Compare and contrast crystals falling under technical descriptions, such as amorphous, anhydro, elestial etc
2.3  Justify reasons for the careful handling of certain crystals
2.4  Critically discuss the techniques used to mine crystals
2.5  Analyse and compare the effects that mining has on the environment

Unit 3 Title: Curriculum Crystals
3.1  Describe and evaluate the full crystallography of curriculum stones covered by the programme. e.g. hardness, composition, habit etc
3.2  Compare and critically discuss commercial methods for enhancing and treating crystals
3.3  Understand, operate and apply relevant Health and Safety guidelines on all occasions

Unit 4 Title: Choosing Crystals
4.1  Compare and contrast various considerations when choosing crystals
4.2  Evaluate and critically discuss the choices of crystals for healing
4.3  Analyse and justify reasons for choosing crystals for meditation and self-healing

Unit 5 Title: Cleansing Crystals
5.1  Appreciate and justify reasons for cleansing crystals
5.2  Evaluate and justify choices of four methods of crystal cleansing
5.3  Appreciate and critically discuss the difficulties of using uncleansed crystals

Unit 6 Title: Linking with Crystals
6.1  Evaluate and critically discuss three methods of attuning to a crystal
6.2  Analyse and justify motives and methods of modifying the activities of crystals e.g programming, charging etc
6.3  Compare and discuss reasons for dedicating crystals for general and specific use

Unit 7 Title: Chakra Theory
7.1   Evaluate the correspondences and positions for each of the main chakras
7.2   Critically discuss the functions and dysfunctions of the chakras

Unit 8 Title: Crystals and Chakras
8.1   Justify choices of three crystal healing techniques to work with the chakras

Unit 9 Title: Crystals and Subtle Bodies
9.1   Analyse one method of describing the subtle bodies and justify its choice as a model for working with crystals
9.2   Justify the choice of at least one crystal healing technique for working with the subtle bodies

Unit10 Title: Meridians
10.1  Critically discuss the function and correspondences of the meridians
10.2  Know the positions of the main meridians

Unit 11 Title: Crystal and Meridians
11.1  Justify the choice of one crystal healing technique that utilises knowledge of the meridians

Unit 12 Title: Crystal and The Aura
12.1  Use, evaluate effectiveness and justify three ways to protect the human aura
12.2  Use, evaluate and justify choice of techniques to cleanse the aura, including one using crystals

Unit 13 Title: The Crystal Healing Session
13.1  Create and use a case history format and justify its design
13.2  Analyse and justify techniques to prepare themselves prior to a session as a crystal healer
13.3  Evaluate and justify the choice of techniques for preparing a person to receive crystal healing
13.4  Evaluate methods for concluding a healing session

Unit 14 Title : Crystals for Healing
14.1  Critically discuss and evaluate the handling of crystals during the healing session
14.2  Critically discuss and analyse at least two theories of how crystals are thought to work
14.3  Use and evaluate the effectiveness of techniques that can be used for self-healing

Unit 15 Title: Further Work with Crystals
15.1  Evaluate and use two healing techniques other than those using chakras, subtle bodies and meridians
15.2  Evaluate and justify the use of crystals for absent or distant healing

Unit 16 Title: Energy Management
16.1  Evaluate, analyse and justify the choice of three methods of earthing an individual
16.2  Analyse and critically discuss aspects of body language that show whether an individual is earthed or not
16.3  Analyse and justify a choice of techniques to centre an individual's energy

Unit 17 Title: Healing Management
17.1  Use and critically discuss strategies to deal with healing crises during a healing session
17.2  Use and critically discuss strategies to deal with healing crises after a healing session

Unit 18 Title: Relaxation and Visualisation
18.1  Use and analyse the effectiveness of at least three relaxation techniques
18.2  Use and evaluate their delivery of a visualisation technique

Students need to complete listening skills (15hours)
Anatomy and Physiology (30 hours, plus written assessment)
Anatomy & Physiology (not to be included in the 90 hours core curriculum)
and Practice Management (7 hours)

Curriculum Crystals - required for crystal healing course