CPD & Seminars
College of Visionary Homeopathy
Primarily, CPD for health professionals/practitioners enables them to improve their abilities for the sake of their patients/clients. It certainly helps to improve their professional skills and practice, by gaining or extending their range of knowledge and understanding.
CPD can be extremely useful for networking, and as many health professionals/practitioners tend to work in isolation it can be quite refreshing to socialise with like-minded people.
We organise many of our own CPD events, opening them up to other therapists and students, both to increase our networking, and to keep the costs down. Using these and the School of Natural Health Sciences courses (particularly when the 'Special Offers' are on!) ensures we are getting best value for our CPD money whilst we get what we need to support the vision of our practices and business growth and expansion.
CPD as it is called or "continuing professional development" to give the full title is an 'option' whereby professionals from many walks of life carry out a range of additional learning to maintain and develop their careers. Knowledge expands over time and there may be better ways of doing things since an individual qualified. More information is likely to be available about why certain methods are more effective than others. CPD is designed in order that professionals continue to practice or work within their chosen field professionally and in line with up to date knowledge.
How we as complementary therapists choose to undertake CPD is usually much more flexible than we realise. It seems to be becoming a clever marketing tool to imply that attendance on what appear to be "accredited" CPD courses makes them a more legitimate way of obtaining evidence of CPD. Although, when looked at more closely, often an association suggests that reading a book, or a magazine article and writing a paragraph about it in a portfolio, counts as well as more formal study.
Primarily, CPD for health professionals/practitioners enables them to improve their abilities for the sake of their patients/clients. It certainly helps to improve their professional skills and practice, by gaining or extending their range of knowledge and understanding.
CPD can be extremely useful for networking, and as many health professionals/practitioners tend to work in isolation it can be quite refreshing to socialise with like-minded people.
We organise many of our own CPD events, opening them up to other therapists and students, both to increase our networking, and to keep the costs down. Using these and the School of Natural Health Sciences courses (particularly when the 'Special Offers' are on!) ensures we are getting best value for our CPD money whilst we get what we need to support the vision of our practices and business growth and expansion.
CPD as it is called or "continuing professional development" to give the full title is an 'option' whereby professionals from many walks of life carry out a range of additional learning to maintain and develop their careers. Knowledge expands over time and there may be better ways of doing things since an individual qualified. More information is likely to be available about why certain methods are more effective than others. CPD is designed in order that professionals continue to practice or work within their chosen field professionally and in line with up to date knowledge.
How we as complementary therapists choose to undertake CPD is usually much more flexible than we realise. It seems to be becoming a clever marketing tool to imply that attendance on what appear to be "accredited" CPD courses makes them a more legitimate way of obtaining evidence of CPD. Although, when looked at more closely, often an association suggests that reading a book, or a magazine article and writing a paragraph about it in a portfolio, counts as well as more formal study.
