Certification Course Content

This course is a special program for professionals and differs from the program offered in Japan.
The instructor will be Mayumi Takahara, the founder, and president of JALO.
（Other instructors are also available to assist.）

The course offered in Japan is a two-level program: first, the Level 2 Certification Course, which is a beginner course, and then the Level 1 Certification Course, which is a professional course.
This e-learning course can be taken at your own pace, with a curriculum designed to help you obtain professional certification quickly.

The total course duration is 30 hours. With the exception of the instructor and student Q&A sessions, the entire program is delivered via an online learning system. The instructor speaks in Japanese. The video will be accompanied by English-dubbed audio and slides translated into English.

The instructor and student Q&A sessions will be conducted in two 90-minute sessions via Zoom meetings with English and Japanese interpreters present. These sessions are included in the course time.
The Q&A session schedule will be determined after coordinating the schedules of the instructor and students.
The course duration is 6 months.

Fundamentals

• What is Life Organizing?
• The 5 elements of decluttering
• Life Organizing and Brain Mechanisms
• Necessity and selection criteria of things = values
• Life organizing methods and processes

Knowledge section

1:History and Background in the Organizing Business

• The Concept of Organizing
• When was the job of tidying and organizing born?
• About NAPO
• History of tidying and organizing in Japan
• JALO Activities – 2011 Partnership with ICD
• JALO Activities – Affiliated with IFPOA in 2012
• Professional organizers are also diverse〜Types of certifications increase year by year

2:The Life Organizer’s Approach〜Life Organizing

• Basic Philosophy of Life Organizing
• Characteristics of Life Organizers
• What is structuring and optimization with “People” as the main factor?
• What is “Decluttering Behavior”?
• Life Organizing and “Decluttering Behavior”
• Analysis Tree of Decluttering Roadblocks

3:Life Organizer’s Work Process and Business Forms

• Life Organizer’s Work Process
• Main Business Forms
• Main Pricing Structure

4:What is “Start by Organizing Your Thoughts”? Organizing Time and Information

• How to Organize Your Thoughts
• Four major advantages of output
• Organizing Time
• The Story of the Big Stone
• Time Management Matrix
• Organizing Information
• Different ways of handling information
• Retrieval, Storage, and Preservation
• Things to be aware of to classify information

Techniques section

1:Preliminary Preparation

• Preliminary Preparation
• Preliminary Hearing and Visit Preparation
• Formulate a hypothesis based on the content of the interviews
• What you need to know to get a bird’s eye view, not a subjective one

2:Consulting

• Initial visit – face-to-face consulting
• How to proceed with consulting
• Confirmation of the contents of preliminary hearings and understanding of the outline
• Grasping and confirming the overall quantity of items in the house, storage areas, and lines of flow
• Consultation and determination of proposal content
• Photography and Measurement
• Mutually confirm the request and next action and exit

3:How to make proposals and drawings

• Preparing Quotations Approval and Contracts
• Plan how to proceed with the work and fix a date and time for the work
• Purpose of Proposal Preparation
• Presentation
• Purpose of Drawing
• How to Draw

4:On-Site Work and Follow-Up

• On-Site Work〜Precautions and How to Proceed
• Review of proposal and explanation of work procedures, precautions, etc.
• Getting Ready and Getting Started
• Strategy meeting during lunch (break) (even if you are alone)
• Follow the proposal and work to fit it in
• Completion and Follow-up

Pratical section

1:Field Case Studies and Product Knowledge

• Various needs of organizing
• Organize Work Case Studies and Product Knowledge You Need to Know

2:How to start an organizing business

• Business Concept and Goal Setting
• Narrowing down the target audience
• About Marketing
• Creating a Business Plan

3:Required Documents and Compliance

• Required Documents
• Compliance Requirements for Life Organizers

4:Support for Post-qualification Activities

• Post-qualification Guidance
• Become a Professional Life Organizer

Certification Examination

The certification exam will be passed if the assignment is submitted by the deadline and meets the certification criteria.
However, if the assignment does not meet the certification criteria, the student must resubmit the assignment.

Course Outline

• Format：Online
• Opening Date：Monday, January 29, 2024 at  1:00 p.m.（JST)
  ※Date and time to start using the online learning system
• Course Hours：30 hours  The course duration is 6 months.
• End Date：Monday, July 29, 2024 at  5:00 p.m.（JST)
  ※Deadline for submission of assignments
• Number of participants：6 students
• Course Fee：450,000 yen　※495,000 yen for those residing in Japan
• Payment method：PayPal / credit card payment（No installment payments）
• Qualification：Students can obtain Life Organizer® Level 1 certification by completing the entire program (including submitting assignments by the deadline), passing the certification exam, and completing the post-certification procedures and enrollment registration.
• An international membership fee for the fiscal year 2024 after accreditation is included. For the following year, 2025, an annual membership fee (15,000 yen) is required at the time of membership renewal. Resignation of membership is possible, but commercial activities in the name of Life Organizer® are prohibited.
• Primary application deadline: October 5, 2023
• Please read the Terms and Conditions of the course before registering.

• Textbooks used in the course will be downloaded in PDF format. However, some course materials will be mailed to your pre-registered address. Therefore, please write to an address where you can receive the course materials.
  ※Consumption tax is required on the course fee for foreign nationals in Japan. Please understand this in advance.