CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Inspire your practice. Expand your knowledge. Embrace your potential.

Your Reiki journey doesn’t end with qualification. It’s a lifelong opportunity to learn, grow and flourish.

Continuing professional development (CPD) is about more than meeting a requirement. It’s a chance to deepen your connection with Reiki, explore fresh perspectives and bring greater confidence and inspiration to your practice. As in most professions, it helps us maintain and build on our skills and knowledge, and bodies such as the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) recognise its importance in keeping standards high.

Your annual CPD

Making your learning count

Sometimes your enthusiasm for learning will take you beyond the annual recommendations, and that’s welcome. To support this:

• Carry your learning forward: if you complete more than 10 hours of Reiki-specific CPD in a year, you may carry forward up to 6 hours of the surplus into the following year.
• General CPD cannot be carried forward.
• Not CPD: giving Reiki treatments to clients, teaching students and taking Reiki 1 or 2 training do not count towards your CPD hours.

What counts as CPD?

Anything is acceptable provided you can justify why you do it and explain how it enhances your professionalism. Here are some examples.

Learning

• Studying on courses, including those leading to a qualification
• Studying on courses not directly related to a treatment or your therapy, for example business, accounts, IT or self help
• Attending a seminar, workshop or conference organised by a professional association, or others
• Distance learning
• Private reading, for example books, journals, magazines and reports which provide learning
• Research into therapy, treatment or methodology (either through management or private research)

Sharing and giving back

• Presenting at a seminar, lecture, conference or workshop (provided this is not what you do as your main job)
• Authoring, including work to prepare presentations, lectures or courses (not as part of your usual job)
• Writing articles
• Developing training materials, where this is occasional and developmental and not something you do on a regular basis as a tutor
• Being an examiner, tutor or assessor, where this is developmental and provides learning opportunities
• Work done on behalf of a professional organisation and assisting with its development, including attending meetings, writing articles, involvement in events, and representing your discipline in some way
• Organising events, meetings or conferences related to your discipline
• Voluntary work relevant to the therapy

Practice and professionalism

• Attending Treatment Exchanges or Shares
• Research done for Treatment Exchanges or Shares by the person running the share
• Receiving supervision or mentoring which helps with learning and development
• Peer supervision: learning from other practitioners about best practice
• Client case studies where learning has taken place
• Certified First Aid training
• Health and Safety training relevant to professional practice
• Marketing training relevant to your practice
• Training to enhance professional and ethical practice, for example maintaining professional boundaries and confidentiality

Getting the most from your CPD

Before you start any CPD, set yourself a learning objective: what is your purpose, and what do you want to get out of it? CPD works best alongside reflection, so for every activity you should be able to say how it has benefited you as a professional Reiki practitioner.

Recording your CPD

Please record your CPD on the CPD Summary Sheet below. You may be asked to supply it to confirm your hours as part of our annual CPD audit. Keep any documents that form part of each activity (attendance certificates, notes, evaluations and so on), ideally in one file that you can make available to the UK Reiki Federation if they request it.