EFT International Annual Practitioner Renewal Requirements

Once you have become an EFTi Accredited Certified Practitioner (or Advanced Practitioner or Trainer), your Practitioner Membership will come up for renewal annually. In order to renew, you will pay the annual fee and ascertain that you have completed two requirements during that year.

The EFTi renewal requirements are intended to serve you well and allow you to steadily increase your competence and skill as an EFT practitioner. For most people, continuing to learn and expand their knowledge and skills in the healing arts is something they are doing anyway. In addition, our requirement of annual mentoring, whether individual or group, affirms the value of community and connection as well as the great benefit of discussing your EFT work with an experienced EFTi trainer/mentor.

Here are the two annual renewal requirements:

• 30 hours of CPD (Continuing Professional Development), which can be achieved in a great variety of ways.
• 6 hours of mentoring with an EFTi-approved mentor (usually an EFTi Master Trainer). These can be through individual sessions, or group mentoring sessions with a group of 8 or fewer, or some combination of the two.

Renewal is done on the eftinternational.org website. All EFTi Practitioners are required to report their annual EFT-related Mentoring and CPD activities directly to EFT International when they renew, via an online form. Practitioners will be notified by email when their membership is coming up for annual renewal and, in order to pay their annual dues and remain certified in good standing, they will need to ascertain that their annual requirements are up-to-date.

What counts as CPD?

Your Continuing Professional Development is for many people ‘the easy part.’ What activities have you done during the year that expanded your knowledge of EFT and/or related healing arts approaches? Did you attend any professional trainings, watch any EFT/healing arts videos, read any helpful books, participate in any tapping groups or on-line discussions? Did you pursue your personal healing through therapy or EFT sessions? Did you do any EFT presentations? The list goes on and on.

EFT International considers four categories for CPD activities:

a) Group-based learning b) Self-directed activities c) Group Mentoring (any that is in addition to the six hours below, no limit to the size of the group)  d) Personal therapy

The EFTi website notes: “CPD (Continuous Professional Development) includes any EFT-related activity that supports the quality of your personal or professional EFT practice e.g. listening to audios, interviews, summits; watching videos; attending conferences, tapping groups, trainings, courses or presentations; reading books; assisting in an EFT Training; assisting EFTi Training Board; etc.”

Please create an annual log of activities with approximate hours (you don’t need to include the dates). Most people will easily document 30 hours in a year. The form on the website will simply ask that you check a box to affirm YES, you have completed 30 hours, also confirming that you do have a log if it should be requested. You are then asked to enter on-line three highlights of your learning activities during that year. The full log does not have to be submitted to renew. You simply keep your log in case you are asked to provide it.

You can view and download this EFTi (AAMET) CPD Examples document. It gives you many more ideas. Generally speaking, you can count almost any activity that in your judgment has furthered your development as an EFT practitioner and your understandings of related topics in the healing arts.

What Fulfills the 6 Hours of Mentoring/Supervision?

There are two criteria for the 6 hours required: 1) they must be led by an EFTi-approved mentor (usually an EFTi Master Trainer) and 2) if the mentoring is done in a group, the group must be 8 or fewer participants. Please note: you must be live on a group call for the mentoring to count. Reviewing a recorded mentoring session does not count for the 6 hours required.

Possibilities include:

• 6 hours of one-on-one mentoring (usually by videoconference or phone)
• 6 hours of group mentoring (usually by videoconference or phone, attended live)
• Any combination of the above to make 6 hours.
• Any configuration of the hours, for example 4 X 90-minute sessions = 6 hours.
• A 6-hour ‘mentoring day’ where a group meets in person with a mentor for an intensive mentoring experience (popular in the UK where distances aren’t so prohibitive).

My Offerings

I currently offer mentoring groups which are open to EFTi Practitioners who have been certified with me, those who have certified with other trainers, and those who have joined EFTi as external practitioner candidates. Several times a year, I offer a series of 4 group mentoring sessions (90 minutes X 4 = 6 hours), which completes the EFTi mentoring requirement. There is a Bonus 5th session if anyone misses one of the first four. Groups meet via the videoconferencing service Zoom. And if space permits, attending a single session (or 2 or 3) may be possible.

Next group sessions are scheduled for March-April 2021

Please email me if you are interested in being informed when the groups are scheduled.

For information and registration: Fast Track for Mentoring/Supervision

FAQ’s

How do I find out when my EFTi Practitioner Membership will be up for renewal? And how does the process work?

The new EFTi website makes this much easier to do. LOG IN ON THE EFT International website. If you are a member and don’t remember your login information, you can reset your password. Go to login (top right), use the email you signed up with and click on “new password.” Once you’ve reset the password, you can log in.

After login, you will see a new item on the menu, MEMBERS AREA. Here you can check your profile, status, renewal information, and so forth on the site. The new system is smooth and seamless!

You will receive an email from EFT International about a month before your renewal is coming due. You click on the link and fill in the form to report that your CPD and Mentoring requirements are up-to-date as you pay the membership renewal fee on the website. If you haven’t finished the 6 mentoring hours, you need to have a plan in place with an EFTi mentor. You then put that information in the Highlights section and the hours finished after the renewal date will count. The mentor automatically receives a copy of your renewal application.

I’ve been certified as an EFT Practitioner through EFTi (formerly AAMET), but had lost track of the renewal process. I want to keep my EFTi membership and practitioner status. What do I do?

Those who have lost track and have not been renewed will have a chance to recover their lapsed membership and restore their EFTi certification, after completing certain requirements. If your membership has lapsed for a few years, these may include some 1-1 mentoring sessions to assess your use of EFT and make sure you are still competent in the Core Foundational Skills. If you were not Accredited previously, you will be asked to complete the on-line Level 2 exam so that you are reinstated with full Accredited Certified status. Contact your Trainer or, if that isn’t possible, contact our Accreditation Coordinator, Christine Sutton at accreditation@aamet.org

I got Certified, but it was before Accreditation was added in 2014. I never upgraded to “Accredited” status. Is there any reason I should do so now? If so, how do I do that?

Yes! It is not a difficult process and it is highly recommended. Our new website offers an array of features for Accredited Certified Practitioners including an excellent Practitioner Listing where you can post a detailed profile and describe your work, a section for listing your workshops and trainings, and an opportunity to publish EFT articles. Once you add Accreditation, you will have access to all these features. You will find all the details on the new website, see Membership Info > About Accreditation or click here to be taken to the page. Or you can contact our Accreditation Coordinator, Christine Sutton at accreditation@aamet.org. The process also applies to external candidates who want to transfer their certification to EFT International.

What is the difference in the Mentoring/Supervision terminology?

In the UK, the term supervision was used in the past instead of mentoring. In the US, mentoring is the preferred term because “supervision” has a specific meaning in the licensed fields (psychology, counseling, social work). EFT International has recently decided to use “mentoring“ across the board to describe our EFT requirement. Basically, though, the terms are interchangeable.

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I look forward to supporting you in maintaining your EFTi Practitioner Certification! It’s a great credential to have. EFT International is known and respected for quality EFT education and high standards all around the world.

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