Becoming the best practitioner you can be takes hard work, it takes time and it requires the right training. Planning your training and finding the best course is often the hardest part to get right.
Emma Lane, founder of Integrative Health Education, explains her approach to her own CPD: ‘I’ve always been very proactive with my personal development. I’m constantly looking at how I can meet my clients’ health and wellbeing needs and improve or broaden my treatment options.
‘Talking to other practitioners is key. If I learn of a type of practice or treatment that I feel complements my existing skill set or will help me to answer a client’s health issue I then seek out the best practitioner in that field to learn from. I want to learn from the best and that’s the approach upon which we’ve built Integrative Health Education.’
Courses planned for 2015 include some well-established, ‘essential learning’ workshops such as Emma’s Holistic Approaches to a Fully Functional Gut and Graeme Jones’ Stress: A Modern Day Epidemic as well as some new topics that will have wide appeal like Tells of a Dis-Eased Body. Unique to Integrative Health Education, this one-day course takes a fascinating look at the warning signs the body gives us. Learn facial and tongue analysis, visceral somatic referral patterns and nail analysis – tools that will help practitioners understand their clients’ internal ecology and spot signs of potential disease development.
Personal trainers and corrective exercise specialists can look forward to some excellent courses next year and Integrative Health Education is delighted to welcome Mark Buckley. Mark is an orthopaedic rehabilitation expert and strength and conditioning coach from New Zealand who has worked with many professional athletes. He’ll be flying into the UK in September to teach his FMA Strength Training workshop.
Earlier in the year PTs should look out for Robert Yang who is coming over from America to teach Olympic Lifting in March and he flies back in July for his Programme Design course (definitely a ‘must-do’ for 2015!). Rob is a certified nutritionist, strength and conditioning specialist, Olympic weight-lifting coach and an advisory board member with the Titleist Performance Institute, so don’t miss out on him coming to the UK.
Graeme Jones, one of Integrative Health Education’s directors and our resident ‘stress expert’, will be on hand to help practitioners tackle this highly relevant topic. Stress: A Modern Epidemic will be held in February and June and is hugely beneficial to all practitioners as it introduces stress physiology, pathophysiology and psychobiology. Graeme’s new course, The Effects of Stress on Weight Loss: A Guide to Helping Clients is very relevant to a wide variety of practitioners, from PTs to nutritionists. Look out for this in June, October and November – no excuse to miss it!
Anyone looking to grow their business in 2015 should start the year as they mean to go on and book Nichole Sweetsur’s PR and Social Media course in January. This one-day workshop is a very hands-on day that helps ALL practitioners get to grips with their marketing.
This is a just a taster of what we’ve got in store for 2015…. look out for part two of this blog which is coming soon!
And for an overview of all the 2015 courses, have a look at our calendar.
