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WHAT DOES CPD MEAN TO YOU? Heidi Hinton, FHT Education Executive, explains why CPD has to be more than just ticking the boxes…
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exciting and ever-evolving industry, there are always new skills being added to the mix. Make sure you keep an eye on what is out there to get involved in what is new. Building your therapy toolkit will benefit your practice, enhance your knowledge and help you to continue to reach your full potential.
THE OPPORTUNITY TO STEP BACK AND REFLECT CPD allows a therapist time to step back, reflect and progress. Reflect on what you feel you have
ONTINUING professional
within a therapy setting, topics such
development is a way of ensuring
as anatomy and physiology or
that you are reaching your
health and safety may take
full potential, not only within
on a new meaning to
done well, what could have gone better and your plans for the future, whether that is in your business or through further training. While you’re in
your therapy practice, but in your personal
you. Your business and
the thick of your day-to-day
development, too. It is there to help you stay
marketing skills can
practice, it can sometimes be
focused on your career progression, to keep your
always be developed
hard to work out what your
skills and knowledge up to date, and ensure that
and worked on,
next development step should
you are practicing safely at all stages of your
and with the social
career.
media world constantly
KEEPING UP WITH CURRENT PRACTICES
changing and evolving, or trick to help you reach out to your clients. Online training courses,
that they are up to date with current practices
webinars and tutorials will do the trick.
This year has taught us that ways of working can change quickly. As new research and findings
focus on your next goal. n
there is always a new tool
Professional therapists complete CPD to ensure within their therapy and the industry as a whole.
be, if you get the chance. So, take a step back, breathe and
ADDING TO YOUR TREATMENT OFFERING
are constantly occurring, this may mean that
By completing hands-on training courses, you
elements of what you were taught within your
are continually adding to your skillset and therapy
qualification may have had some changes since.
toolkit. Existing clients may benefit from new
By completing your yearly CPD, you are regularly
treatments and experiences and you find yourself
keeping in touch with your industry and modality.
with a whole set of additional clients too. In our
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HEIDI HINTON heads up FHT’s education programme and CPD.
The FHT offers a range of membership benefits to holistic therapists and runs the largest independently Accredited Register for complementary healthcare therapists. For more information visit
www.fht.org.uk.
FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Face-to-face training courses are invaluable for acquiring new skills and also a great way to meet new therapists and broaden your horizons. Who knows which doors your newly learnt knowledge or latest network will open? A new course that is slightly out of your comfort zone could give you that inspiration to take your therapy practice to the next level. If you never try, then you never know!
KEEPING THE ‘BASICS’ REFRESHED Online CPD courses ensure you keep your basic therapy knowledge refreshed so that you can give the best service and care to your clients. After years of practical experience and work
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