Continual Professional Development (CPD)

The HGI is committed to both maintaining high standards in psychotherapy and supporting its members as they maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge and skills — developing the personal qualities required in their professional lives and maximising the benefits for everyone that can be gained by working in tune with the human givens.

CPD is required by most professional membership associations, particularly in the health and educational fields where it has become a compulsory part of accreditation. Through extensive consultation with its members, the HGI  agreed to formalise the common sense recommendation that we should all continue to 'stretch' ourselves throughout life in what we learn and do.

In fields, such as ours, where there are continual advances, CPD can provide additional re-assurance to the general public that HG practitioners are constantly updating and developing their knowledge and practice, just as we expect our doctors, lawyers and accountants to be up-to-date with the latest techniques and regulations.

The HGI requires that all its Professional Members (GHGI, MHGI and FHGI) undertake CPD as set out in ‘CPD Requirements’ and supervision as set out in the HGI supervision policy as a condition of continuing membership. Professional Members are asked to make a self-declaration of their compliance with its CPD requirement when they renew their membership, and to maintain a record of both their CPD and supervision activities, which are then liable for random audit. (Record cards are provided to make this as easy as possible.)

As all HG Diploma graduates know, the human givens approach is organic — continually being refined and improved as new knowledge is incorporated into it. Our CPD requirement reflects this and has been kept simple and relevant.