CPD FOR COMPLEMENTARY THERAPISTS: INDIVIDUAL TUITION

Continuing Professional Development, CPD, Brighton, Sussex, with Laurel Alexander

CPD Entry Requirements Where are the CPD workshops held? Workshops Available Cost Of Workshops How to Enrol

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the process whereby complementary therapists take responsibility for their own learning and development and apply it to improving their professional practice in the interests of clients and the development of the profession. The term CPD is used to cover all relevant activity undertaken by complementary therapists to maintain, enhance and develop existing knowledge and skills following the completion of their professional practitioners’ qualification.

There is increasing pressure on all registered complementary therapists to keep a CPD Portfolio and CPD may soon be compulsory

The benefits of these one-day workshops are to:

• Experience and develop new approaches
• Gain further professional satisfaction, enthusiasm and confidence.
• Assess your own practice, and through personal reflection focus your energy effectively on areas for development.
• Gain greater esteem for the profession in the eyes of the public with a likely increase in client numbers
• These workshops are uniquely designed with complementary therapists in mind and will provide evidence of CPD as well as improving your professional practice.

The CPD workshops are delivered on a 1-2-1 basis in order to focus on your specific needs. The one-day workshop can be at any time to suit.

ENTRY REQUIREMENT

You need to be a registered complementary therapist to enroll on these workshops. Most workshops are suitable for all disciplines unless otherwise stated.

WHERE ARE THE WORKSHOPS HELD?

The workshops are held in Brighton, Sussex. The day runs from 10am – 4pm. We have a break mid-morning and mid-afternoon plus a lunch break. There is plenty of on-street parking. Buses are plentiful and train stations (Preston Park and London Road) are nearby. You can bring your own lunch, visit local delis or enjoy either of the lovely parks close by which have cafes.

WORKSHOPS

Helping Skills for Therapists

As therapists, we need a range of quality communication skills to assist us in being more effective when helping clients. This workshop looks at how we can improve our client care skills through: active listening, effective questioning, showing understanding, positive verbal and non-verbal body language and providing constructive feedback. We also explore how to facilitate change in clients and how to identify and maintain boundaries.

Helping Clients Create Healing Rituals

Clients come to us for TLC, treatment and practical advice. But healing is also about facilitating the client to take positive action for themselves. This workshop will guide you into creating meaningful healing rituals for yourself as well as teaching you how to help clients create rituals for themselves. Suitable for acute, chronic and terminal conditions.

Serenity Medicine

The safest way to heal is to let Nature do the work. This requires nothing from us. And the more nothing we can provide, the more effective serenity medicine is. Unplug the phone, leave the computer turned off, enter the silence, cultivate acceptance, abandon the mind's ceaseless control, and be here now. This workshop opens you to experience the four cornerstones of Serenity Medicine: mindfulness, entering the silence, self acceptance and listening to our bodies.

Healing Power of Journaling

The written word can be a profound mindbody technique to use with clients to aid the healing process. This workshop takes you on a journey of insight and self discovery which you can use for yourself and with your clients. Suitable for acute, chronic and terminal conditions.

Using Imagery in Wellness

Imagery is using the power of the mind to facilitate healing of the body. This workshop offers techniques so that you can guide your clients into using “active imagination” which will engage them in their healing processes. Suitable for acute, chronic and terminal conditions.

Developing the Healer’s Energetic Anatomy

It is through our energetic anatomy (chakra system and auric field) that we take in and give out the subtle energies which provides the building blocks of our healing practice. Come on this workshop and reconnect to the most profound of energies for the wellbeing of yourself and your clients.

Providing Non-Medical Nutritional Guidance

Good nutrition is one of the building blocks of good health and is something clients can do to help themselves. This workshop guides you through the basics of healthy eating, how to recognize food intolerances and allergies in clients and knowing when to refer a client on to a qualified nutritionist.

Crystal Healing

Using crystals in healing work can be a profound experience for healer and client. This workshop covers: grounding, protecting and cleansing (self), crystals and Earth energy, energetic anatomy, working with energy, cleansing and charging crystals, crystal shapes, healing with crystals and meditation with crystals.

Relaxation training

Most clients would benefit from physical relaxation. This workshop will teach you the basics of progressive muscular relaxation, autogenic training and breathing techniques which you can then coach your clients in.

Reiki

Reiki has three degrees of competency. First-Degree Reiki is suitable for body-work therapists. Second-Degree Reiki is suitable for talking therapies (you can only do this degree after successful completion of First-Degree Reiki). Third-Degree Reiki involved deepening the Reiki experience and includes teacher level (you can only do this degree after successful completion of First and second-Degree Reiki). Please click here for further details.

Using Flower Essences

Using flower essences can enhance the healing process. This workshop introduces you to the practical application of either the Bach Flower Remedies or the Australian Bush Flower Essences.

Reflexology for Cancer Patients

This workshop, suitable for qualified reflexologists, explores how reflexology can help cancer patients during all stages of their cancer experience.

Working with Cancer Patients

Many cancer patients are looking for integrated cancer care and seek out complementary therapists to help manage the side-effects of cancer treatments and to help deal with the cancer journey itself. This workshop will help set out what cancer patients are looking for in relation to treatment and how we can help make their journey easier.

Holistic Pain Management

While painkillers can be of great use to clients, self-help methods of pain management are also desirable. Not only for medical reasons but also as a tool of empowerment for the client. This workshop will introduce you to several practical and easy methods of pain relieve which you can pass onto your clients. Suitable for acute, chronic and terminal conditions.

Anxiety Management

Clients often present in anxious states which can impede the healing process. The anxiety may be a learned response which may precipitate various conditions e.g. high blood pressure or the client may have a condition which elevates their stress threshold. This workshop will help you understand the stress response and offers different solutions when helping the client help themselves. Suitable for acute, chronic and terminal conditions.

COST OF CPD WORKSHOPS

The fee for each workshop is £99 and includes professional tutoring with a qualified therapist and a Certificate of Completion from Complementary HealthCare for CPD purposes.

HOW TO BOOK YOUR INDIVIDUAL ONE-DAY CPD WORKSHOP

If you would like to book an Individual One-Day CPD Workshop, please complete the enrolment form and send together with a cheque for the full amount or £99 made payable to Laurel Alexander, 101 Osborne Road, Brighton, Sussex BN1 6LW. I will contact you and arrange a day.

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