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«Practitioner Certifications in specific fields for Guild members»

Become Guild Certified in the following (subject to conditions)

Your Guild certifications are permanent - no annual renewals! 

New Age Counselling
New Thought Counselling
Spiritual Life Coaching
Holistic Therapy
Meditation Training
Spiritual Counselling
Metaphysical Counselling
Religious Counselling
Interfaith Counselling
Psychic Counselling
Mediumship
Channelling
Psychic and Paranormal Investigation
Tarot and other Divinatory Counselling
Astrological Counselling
Mantic Arts
Psychic Artist
Shamanic Counselling
Bereavement Counselling
Spirit Release Work
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy
Past life Regression
Lightworking/Lightworker
Guided Visualisation
Self-Hypnosis Trainer
Stress Management
Spiritual Radionics
Radiesthesia
Spiritual Dowsing
Feng Shui
Wiccan Counselling
Pagan Counselling
Past Life Reading
Karmic Counselling
Yoga Therapy
Rebirthing & Breathwork
Buddhist Therapy
Energy Therapies
Space Clearing
Earth Energy Work
Affirmation Work
Dreamwork
Animal Healing
(ask us if what you do is not here)

see below for certification procedures and fees

Guild-Certified Qualifications  (extract from prospectus)

As a major benefit, the Guild will offer certifications (bearing the words “Guild Certified”)  to members based upon knowledge, skills and experience.  These qualifications are not diplomas or degrees and are not academic awards.  They are not bought titles. They are proof that the Guild recognises you as a practitioner of a particular activity.  They cannot be obtained just by being a member or through paying a fee alone. 

In order to become Guild-certified in a particular discipline, the Member will normally either have to show (a) evidence of prior qualifications and/or professional memberships in the field, or (b) to submit a portfolio of educational achievements and/or private study, an account of experience in the specific field, a statement of the methods used, and two references or testimonials from people the member has helped.

A similar system has already been used with success by some associations in the fields of business management, hypnotherapy, counselling and other fields.

Since we believe that once a qualification is issued, it should last forever, members who have had annually renewable qualifications via other organisations can submit them as evidence of required training and thereby gain a Guild-Certified certificate, even if the renewable qualification has lapsed.  This can avoid payment of expensive renewal fees in order to continue doing the same work.   

Guild-Certified qualifications can only be issued in fields which are not unique trading names, whether or not trademarked or copyrighted, since we cannot infringe the proprietary name of someone else’s copyrighted or trademarked therapy or system.  If you have been trained in a copyrighted or trademarked system, we can issue a Guild-Certified certificate in a similar “generic” type of work, or use a form of wording that will not infringe the copyright. If you are in doubt about whether the name of the therapy is trademarked, ask the originators or their representatives (your own teacher might not have the correct and up-to-date information).  If you are told that anyone can use the name, obtain a written statement to that effect from the founder or the current leader of the particular discipline.

Through the Guild-Certified system, members who are self-taught or self-developed, who have trained in folk methods through family lineages, who have trained with masters or gurus who do not issue qualifications, or who have obscure though genuine foreign qualifications, can through producing an appropriate portfolio be granted the nearest possible Guild-Certified certificate as a mark of their professionalism and skills.

Guild-Certified qualifications may be sought also where a member wishes to change the title used for his/her work due to emigration or changes of the law in one’s own country: for example a hypnotherapist who is prevented from practising hypnotherapy by new laws can apply to re-certify in “Stress Management”, “Guided Visualisation”, etc.   Such additional certifications may also be useful if you are visiting a country with restrictions and want to arrange to see clients, give workshops, etc., while you are there.

Guild-Certified qualifications may be sought also if you have qualified in one discipline that has included other sub-fields without issuing certificates for them. For example, your hypnotherapy training has included training in NLP or past-life regression but does not certify you specifically in those fields.  If we are satisfied that the subsidiary training has been thorough enough, or that it has been topped up by additional knowledge and experience, we can issue a Guild Certification in the subsidiary field.

The Guild reserves the right not to grant a Guild-Certified qualification in any instance, and if that decision is made, the Guild will advise the Member on what further work may be needed in order to earn the qualification (in most cases we envisage setting a task such as a detailed case study, or an essay based on recommended reading.)

Fees will be charged to apply for Guild-Certified qualifications.  Fees will not be refundable as the fee will be charged for the evaluative work and not the issue of the Certificate. If the evaluation is successful the certificate will be issued. If the evaluation falls short, advice will be given but there will be no additional charge for resubmission and issue of the certificate later.

The list of subjects which may be Guild-Certified is provisionally based on the list entitled  “A Provisional List of Broad Types of Spiritual Counselling Approved by the Guild” which is set out earlier in this brochure.  However requests may be made to certify other similar fields.

The Guild will also offer certification as Supervisor, Mentor or Trainer in certain activities subject to having been a member for at least a year and evidence of providing training or supervision activities.  (Founder Members may apply for the year’s qualifying period to be waived).

Before submitting a request for Guild Certification in a field not listed, the applicant for certification MUST be a paid-up member of the Guild or a person holding free Founder membership.  We cannot give advice on possible further certifications to non-members.

Please note that verification letters and Apostilles (notarised government endorsements) cannot be issued for these certifications. The certificates do not have any government-recognised accreditations. They are intended for use by private practitioners as a mark of achievement based upon genuinely held skills. The individual member is responsible for how the certificates are used and for enquiring locally whether they are suitable for any particular purpose. They are not a substitute for any particular local or accredited qualifications that might be required in certain countries and for certain disciplines.

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Details of fees for certifications        all fees are in GBP (Pounds Sterling) -
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Please note that we cannot accept payment by instalments, and we cannot reduce the fees quoted below under any circumstances.  
 

Practitioner Certifications

Application fee for a single Guild Certification in a particular practitioner field:    £ 125.00

Application for a second practitioner Certification made at the same time:            £   75.00

Application for any further practitioner Certifications made at the same time:       £   50.00

Duplicate of any certificate (to display at an additional place of work) -   £ 25.00  (if ordered at the same time as the original).

Application for an additional practitioner Certification made at a later date:    £  75 per subject.   (You may keep adding Certifications as you acquire new knowledge and do formal or informal study).

Trainer Certifications

Application fee for a single Trainer Certification in a particular practitioner field:    £ 250.00

Application fee for a further Trainer Certification ordered at the same time:  £ 125.00

Application fee for Practitioner and Trainer Certifications in the same field at the same time:  £ 295.00

Notes

Only Founder Members/ Founder Fellows or fully-paid Members/Fellows are eligible for certifications.

Applicants for Trainer Certifications must first hold a Guild-Certified Practitioner Certification.

Trainer Certifications will not be issued for nutrition, physical therapies or therapies involving touch or administration of any remedies, essences, etc.  

If you are paying by bank transfer (wire transfer) from outside the UK, extra charges are payable (see Appendix 1 – Scale of membership Fees in the Prospectus)   If these extra charges are not paid, the certificates will not be issued.

Guild-Certified Practitioner Certificates are not time-limited.  They are yours to use as long as your membership is in good standing.  However the actual documents remain the property of the Guild.

The certificate application fee includes the actual document suitable for framing.  However, you are paying for the application and the work and research done to evaluate your information.  If your application is refused, no refund will be made.  However we reserve the right to award a certificate in a different discipline in cases where we determine that the applicant is not entitled to a certificate in the field or speciality actually applied for.  Alternatively, we may request that you provide an essay or case study in cases of doubt.  All decisions made by the Guild will be final and by paying the fee, you agree to abide by our decisions.

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