WHAT IS CPD?

If you are an AAMET EFT practitioner, you need to do 30 hours a year Continuing Professional Development (or CPD) to keep your practitioner status.  Most conscientious therapists, if they count up, find that they do at least that to keep developing personally and professionally and to keep up to date with what is going on in the field.

The only difference is that you need to log what you do and when and why you do it and to have your log available if your trainer asks to see it as part of his or her regular random checks. If you have a complaint made about you, the ethics committee will also ask to see it.  Along with the log you need to keep relevant receipts and attendance certificates.
AAMET is very flexible in what it accepts as CPD.  It includes not only courses and workshops but also studying by yourself.  And it defines CPD not as just learning more about EFT but as learning more that would help you to use EFT better.

To quote the AAMET guidelines:  “Examples of CPD include (but are not limited to) the hours spent on carrying out ANY personal or professional development activity that could reasonably be expected to add to a practitioner's competency.” They include:

• attending or delivering ANY professional training (EFT oriented or otherwise) that could reasonably be expected to add to a practitioner's competency
• repeating training and/or preparing for further professional accreditation
• writing up and reflecting on the Practitioner’s own case studies and/or theory and philosophy of practice
• staying up to date with developments in EFT and/or AAMET
• reading relevant books and newsletters
• regular use of the Personal Peace Procedure and other forms of personal therapy, with or without the help of others
• participating in EFT discussion groups or teleconference
• establishing a practice and/or documenting the integration of EFT into an existing practice

Everyone who works with others needs to work on and keep working on clearing their own issues, so they do not get in the way of their effectiveness as a practitioner.  This can be done alone or working with someone else.

You can learn more and see a sample of how you might keep a log on www.aamet.org   

CPD OPPORTUNITIES

Everyone using EFT as a practitioner now has to do 30 hours CPD (continuing professional development) and 12 hours group mentoring a year to keep their status and remain eligible for membership of AAMET and listing on its website www.aamet.org.  Full details on the website. Private study counts as well as attending courses.  You just have to log what you did when.

Mentoring is similar to what is called supervision in other therapies but does not require a qualified supervisor. It can be done in a peer group. Ideally, it is done with someone with more EFT experience than your own.  Supervision counts as mentoring but mentoring does not need to meet the strict criteria that supervision does.  Instead of 12 hours in a group you can opt for six hours one-to-one.

A great opportunity to clock up CPD hours is to go to the EFT International Masterclass 2009 in Manchester on October 9/10 You can throw in a pre or post conference workshop for good measure. 

EFT Masterclass

The EFT Masterclass in York on October 22/23 is a brilliant way to clock up some of your CPD hours for 2011.  It is an opportunity to meet up with seven of the UK’s EFT Masters who will be showing and talking about and answering questions about their cutting edge developments in EFT. 

Not only do you earn 14 hours CPD but you get the chance to network with loads of other seriously-keen EFTers.
Book here now and it will cost you only £275 and that includes lunches and breaks. www.eftevents.com

EFT training courses

You can get CPD credits for doing a course again with a different trainer from your original one.  To see when and where the EFT Masters have courses, click here and then click on the picture of the Master whose trainings you are interested in.