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An Opportunity of a Lifetime!      << back to contents >>

What’s the most important thing in life? The answer is ‘life’ itself!

What’s the most precious gift that you can give to another person? The answer is the appreciation of that life!

What one thing, is every human being looking for, regardless of their success or current situation? The answer is fulfillment!

What are you looking for; a successful career, a mortgage-free house, exotic holidays, a family, money? What do you want from your life and why do you think you want it? The answer is always that you want to be fulfilled, you want to enjoy, you want to be happy, and you want to be at peace.

 The successful career, the relationship and the money are just things that you think will make you feel fulfilled! They are all in fact desires and wants, things that most of us believe will be a means to an end. Positive desires are good, they are self perpetuating goals that make us get off our backsides and do something to achieve them. The problem isn’t having positive goals and working towards achieving them, its understanding the fundamental reason for the goal in the first place! When you can appreciate and understand why you really want something, getting it, is so much easier.

What is success? If you cannot walk, success could mean taking a couple of steps! If you suffer from severe pain and or discomfort success could be becoming pain free. Success is when you help a person to move from where they are to where they would like to be. This process may happen all in one go, especially when it’s a physical problem that needs resolving, or it could happen in a series of steps. If you wanted to become more successful in your career for example, you may need to go through certain evolutionary jumps to get to where you wanted to be! Understanding that success is different for everyone, and knowing how to help a person to get from A to ‘BE’, is the mark of a good life coach.   

It is often said that the teacher learns more from the student than the student learns from the teacher! That’s because the student raises questions and approaches the subject based on their personal experiences. This in turn stimulates both the student and the teacher adding a new dimension and understanding to the subject.

If you could sit down with a person and know that regardless of their situation, you could more than likely help them become more successful and fulfilled, how would that make you feel? If you are saying the word GOOD right now then this is the job for you! If you’re not, my advice is, don’t waste any more time reading, as this is not for you!

So what’s the difference between an Em-Power Life Coach and an Em-Power Practitioner?

In lots of ways you would be doing the same job however the fundamental focus would be slightly different. Em-Power Life Coaching primarily focuses on helping people with all aspects of their life; from health, fitness, wellbeing to career and business. Em-Power Practitioners however focus mostly on health related issues; bad backs, aches pains, stress relief, smoking, depression etc.  

How do I decide whether to become a Practitioner or Life Coach?

You don’t have to decide right now, as the first half of the training is basically identical and you would be attending the same lectures! During the lectures your trainer will explain your options and give you a sense of the different areas covered in both courses. If you wish, you could attend both courses simultaneously and be qualified in both subjects.

An amazing opportunity!

Since our incorporation in 1993, Zvikler Healing Research (UK) Ltd has been conducting ongoing research into Higher Self communication and developing the technology and delivery system for use in many fields. It is only in the last 12 months that information technology has reached a level where we can finally integrate it into the Em-Power System.

We now have plans to build web based online training and development facilities for our students. When this system is up and running Em-Power Practitioners and Life coaches will be able to run their business through an online portal. Everything from training to business development will be available through this secure online service.

The system will help you with clients and allow you to:

·         Access your own web page and change your details.

·         Guide your clients through initial online consultation process

·         Keep professional and updated records/accounts online

·         Diagnose problems and identify solutions using online questionnaires

·         Create a personalized program for each client that will include; daily step by step instruction and video tutorials.

·         Keep your clients up-to-date and maintain contact with them, using online progress reports

The system will help you with your ongoing training and allow you to:

·         Watch the latest training videos for your particular service

·         Refresh your memory by watching prerecorded lectures

·         Improve your knowledge by downloading reviews

·         Take part in video conferences with tutors

We hope that this system will be up and running within the next 12 month and believe that it will become a model for training companies worldwide. For this service to work we will need to make live recordings of individual lectures that will form the basis of our video training library. These will be videos that you can watch again and again. In this way your Em-Power training will be etched into your memory and you will gain maximum benefit from the experience!

If you help us with this endeavor we will help you by dramatically subsidizing the cost of your course. On top of this we will also give you one whole year of ongoing online training and all the above facilities for free (for one year) starting from when they become available.

Are you INTERESTED? We have a maximum of 50 places available!

If you want to take part you will need to contact Coby Zvikler personally:

Email: YZvikler@aol.com

Tel: 0161 280 3777 (The best time to call is 2pm to 5.30pm Monday to Friday)

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These Codes were adopted following consultation with the Em-Power Therapy Association advisory board.

 
PURPOSE

1. To establish and maintain standards of ethics and practice relating to the conduct of members of the Em-Power Therapy Association and their relationship with the public at large.

2. To inform and protect: Members of the public seeking and/or using Em-Power Therapy

Members of the Em-Power Research Project.
 

All members of the Em-Power Therapy Association will be required to sign their agreement to uphold this Code and agree to abide by the Disciplinary Procedures as a condition of membership. This code is in the process of constant development and will be reviewed as necessary.
 

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES: Integrity - Respect – Trust

• The Em-Power Therapy Association holds the following fundamental ethical principles, which all members will endeavour to uphold.

• To work with integrity, impartiality and respect for all individuals. All professional relationships and interactions will be ethical and non-exploitative.

• The highest standards of practice must be observed.

• Confidentiality must be respected wherever appropriate.

CODES OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

This section applies the Em-Power Therapy Association ethical principles to specific situations that may arise during the course of professional practice.
 

1. Insurance

All Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must be adequately insured to practice. The insurance policy must state provision for public liability and employee liability (if personnel are employed) and public indemnity, as well as provision for professional treatments.
 

2. Clear Contracts

1. Before treatment, Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must explain fully, either in writing or verbally, all the procedures involved in the treatment including such matters as client records, likely content and length of consultations, likely number of consultations, and fees, etc.

2. It is not possible to guarantee the outcome of any course of treatment, therefore the terms on which it is offered, should be stated clearly before the first session of treatment, with subsequent revisions being agreed in advance of any change. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must never claim to ‘cure’.

3. If another therapy is used in conjunction with Em-Power Therapy, this must be made clear to the client from the outset.

4. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must act with consideration concerning fees and justification for treatment. An Em-Power Therapy Practitioner has the same obligation to the client whether being paid or working in a voluntary capacity.

5. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners need to recognise the client’s right to refuse treatment or disregard advice.

6. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must retain the right to refuse or postpone treating a client should the practitioner believe the treatment to be inappropriate. The Em-Power Therapy Practitioner should make it clear to the client why they  are  refusing or postponing treatment, e.g.,

• If the client is under the influence of alcohol or mind-altering substances;

• If the client is intimidating or offensive, in a physical or sexual manner, or otherwise;

• If the client behaves in any way which may lead the Em-Power Therapy Practitioner to feel physically unsafe, disrespected, or abused;

• In the case of late attendance of the client, the Em-Power Therapy Practitioner may exercise discretion in refusing treatment

7. A copy of the Codes of Professional Practice should be available to the client on request.

8. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must not use titles or descriptions to give the impression of medical, or other qualifications unless they possess them and must make it clear to their clients that they are not doctors and do not purport to have their knowledge or skills. (See Appendix 2 – No.1. Prohibited Appellation)

9. Certificates and other qualifications shall be displayed or be made available by the Em-Power Therapy Practitioner.
    

3. Empowerment of the client
 

1. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners should be empathic, supportive and positive, thus encouraging uplift in the client’s mental outlook, and a belief in a progression towards good health practices. It is the client’s prerogative to make their own choices with regard to their health, lifestyle and finances.

2. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must not countermand instructions or prescriptions given by a doctor. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must not advise a particular course of medical treatment, such as to undergo an operation or to take specific drugs. It must be left to the client to make his/her own decision in the light of medical advice.

3. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners should refrain from making judgements upon the choices made by clients, and the way in which clients choose to conduct their lives. (See Codes of Practice - No. 4 Confidentiality and Appendix 2 – No. 5.     Guidelines for dealing with Clients expressing suicidal feelings)

4. Client Assessment

1. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must never give a medical diagnosis to a client in any circumstances, this being the responsibility of a registered medical practitioner. Em-Power Therapy does not take the place of conventional medical treatment.

2. The Em-Power Therapy Practitioner will make a base-line assessment during the first treatment and discus appropriate aftercare.

3. All clients must be asked what medical advice they have received. If appropriate they should be advised to consult their GP if they have not already done so. Since it is legal to refuse medical treatment, no client can be forced to consult a doctor. An Em-Power Therapy Practitioner may suggest that it would be advisable to seek an allopathic diagnosis but should not attach a medical name to the perceived condition.

4. A client should be advised not to discontinue prescribed medication without consulting their doctor.

5. All advice must be recorded for the Em-Power Therapy Practitioner’s protection.

5. Confidentiality

1. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners, their assistants and receptionists have an implicit duty to keep all information relating to attendance, records and views formed about clients, entirely confidential. No disclosure may be made to a third party, including any member of the client’s own family, without the client’s consent unless it is required by due process of the law, whether that be Statute, Statutory instrument, order of any court of competent jurisdiction or however otherwise.

2. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must ensure that they comply with the Data Protection Act.

3. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners who sell or otherwise transfer their interest in a practice must inform all their clients of the change and give the name of the Em-Power Therapy Practitioner who has taken over. No information on a client shall be provided to the incoming Em-Power Therapy Practitioner without the permission of the client.

4. If an Em-Power Therapy Practitioner believes that there is a risk of self-harm by an individual, the confidentiality guidelines are overridden. (See Appendix 2 – No. 5. Guidelines for dealing with Clients expressing suicidal feelings)

5. If an Em-Power Therapy Practitioner believes an individual intends to harm or abuse a child, or learns of any terrorist activity then the confidentiality guidelines are overridden. The Em-Power Therapy Practitioner is obliged by law to report this to the appropriate authorities.

6. Client’s Records
 

1. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must ensure they keep clear and comprehensive records of their treatments including dates and advice given. These records should be factual and avoid opinion. This is especially important for the defence of any negligence actions as well as for efficient and careful practice.

2. Records are to be kept in safe custody for seven years from the time of the last consultation.

3. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners should arrange for the correct disposal of case records in the event of their death.
    

7. Personal Relationships – Boundaries
 

1. The relationship between the Em-Power Therapy Practitioner and client should be of the highest professional standard. Due diligence of care, skill and integrity should be demonstrated at all times.

2.  Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must not exploit their clients financially, sexually, emotionally or in any other way. The Practitioner will not undertake any form of sexual activity with a client in their care or with a student in their tutelage or supervision. The Em-Power Therapy Association requires that the Practitioner formally ends the therapeutic or educational relationship before starting a sexual relationship.

3. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must not request the removal of clothing except for coat and footwear.

4. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners shall be without judgement concerning race, colour, creed, gender or sexual orientation.

8. Responsibilities to Self

1. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners shall recognise the value of self-treatment and also working with other Em-Power Therapy Practitioners, as part of their continuing self-development.

2. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners have a responsibility to themselves to maintain their own effectiveness. They are expected to monitor their own personal functioning and to seek help and/or withdraw from giving treatments when their personal resources are sufficiently depleted to require this through personal or emotional difficulties, illness, disability, alcohol, any mind altering substances or for any other reason.

3. Members must take all reasonable steps to monitor, develop and advance their professional competence, and to work within that capacity. Professional development may include in-service training, supervision, counselling, research and other consultative support.

4. An Em-Power Therapy Practitioner shall be aware of their own professional limitations and refer a client elsewhere when the need demands.
    

9. Responsibilities to Others
 

1. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners shall seek a good relationship and work in a co-operative manner with other healthcare professionals, recognise and respect their particular contribution within the healthcare team, irrespective of whether they perform an allopathic or complementary base. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners will not undermine a client’s faith in any other form of treatment and shall respect and support the client’s choices.

2. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners will encourage understanding of Em-Power Therapy within other fields and modalities within the healthcare sector.

3. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners shall at all times conduct themselves with due diligence in their relations with all people whilst conducting their professional practice.

4. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must not attend women in childbirth or treat them for 10 days thereafter unless they hold an appropriate qualification in midwifery or unless the client, in consultation with a practising midwife or a Registered Medical Practitioner requests their services. (See Appendix 1 - Em-Power Therapy & LEGISLATION)

10. Soliciting of Clients
 

Em-Power Therapy Practitioners shall not encourage clients away from other professional colleagues.
 

11. Em-Power Therapy in Hospitals
 

1. hospital is responsible for the patient.

2. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners may only treat patients in hospitals with permission from the patient and the hospital authority including the ward charge nurse.

3. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners shall not wear clothing, which gives the impression that they are a staff member of the hospital. They may have some form of identification such as a lapel badge.

4. Where permission is given to provide treatment on the ward, this must be carried out without fuss or interruption to other patients and staff.

5. If other patients request treatment, the permission of the ward charge nurse, nursing officer (and if relevant, the patient’s doctor) must first be obtained. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must never undermine the patient’s faith in hospital treatment or regime.

6. Where credentials are requested, Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must provide their current membership card or other proof of membership and permission to visit. These are the guidelines set down by the British Complementary Medicine Association.
    

12. Premises
 

All Em-Power Therapy Practitioners shall ensure that their working conditions are suitable for the practice of their therapy. (See Appendix 2 – No. 3. Premises)
 

13. Em-Power Therapy Code of Disciplinary Procedures

1. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners will follow and abide by decisions made under the disciplinary procedures of the CMA (Complementary Medical Association) & Em-Power Therapy Association.

2. The primary concern of the UK Em-Power Therapy Association shall be to protect the public and to uphold the reputation of the organisation and its members.

14. Advertising/Public Statements
 

1. Advertising must be discreet and dignified in tone. It shall not contain unsubstantiated claims, or claim a cure for any disease. It shall be confined to drawing attention to the therapy available, the qualifications of the Em-Power Therapy Practitioner and offering general information regarding the treatment process. (See Appendix 2 – No. 4 Advertising)

2. The Em-Power Therapy Association Logo can only be used to advertise events that are being officially organised on behalf of the organisation and approved by the Advisory Board.  

APPENDIX 1

EM-POWER THERAPY AND LEGISLATION
 

In the UK the following are noted;

1. A parent or guardian who wilfully fails to provide adequate medical aid for a child under the age of 16 may be committing a criminal office. Em-Power Therapy is not defined as a medical aid by law so anyone who treats a child whose parents refuse medical aid could be seen to be aiding and abetting that offence. When treating a child it is advisable to secure the signature of the parent or guardian to the following statement. "I have been warned by (Em-Power Therapy Practitioner’s name) that according to Law I must consult a doctor concerning the health of my child (child’s name)." This statement should be signed and dated by both parent/guardian and a witness and kept with the client records.

2. It is illegal to practice dentistry if unqualified.

3. It is advisable to not knowingly give Em-Power Therapy to people who are suffering from syphilis, gonorrhoea or soft chancre. Under the Venereal Disease Act 1917, it is illegal to treat the above mentioned for reward, whether direct or indirect. Any service must be provided entirely free.

4.  It is an offence to offer treatment or prescribe a remedy or advice for cancer.

5. Any advertising should comply with the British Code of Advertising Practice and meet the requirements of the Advertising Standards Agency. Adverts should be dignified and should not claim a cure or mention any disease.

6. Except in cases of urgency or sudden necessity it is illegal for anyone other than a certified midwife to attend a woman in childbirth without medical supervision or for anyone other than a registered nurse to attend for reward as a nurse on a woman in childbirth or during a period of 10 days thereafter.

7. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners should not prescribe or sell remedies, herbs, supplements, oils, etc., unless they have undergone appropriate training and have qualifications, which entitle them to do so.

8. Before treating animals it is advisable to seek assurance from the owner that a vet has examined the animal. The Veterinary Surgery Act of 1966 prohibits anyone other than a qualified veterinary surgeon from treating animals, including diagnosis of ailments and giving of advice on such diagnosis. However the healing of animals by contact healing, by the laying on of hands or distant healing is legal. However the Protection of Animals Act 1911 requires that if an animal clearly needs treatment from a veterinary surgeon the owner must obtain this. To give emergency First Aid to animals for the purpose of saving life or relieving pain is permissible under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 Schedule 3.

9. It is required that cases of certain infectious diseases are notified to the Medical Officer of Health in the district where the client is resident. The notification must be made by a GP, so if an Em-Power Therapy Practitioner suspects that the client is suffering from a notifiable disease they should insist that the client should see a doctor.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
 

Under the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984. Cholera, Plague, Relapsing Fever, Smallpox, Typhus, Food Poisoning.

Under the Public health (Infectious diseases) Regulations 1988. Acute Encephalitis, Acute Poliomyelitis, Anthrax, Diphtheria, Dysentery (Amoebic or Bacillary), Leprosy, Leptospirosis, Malaria, Measles, Meningitis, Meningococcal Septicaemia (without Meningitis) Mumps, Opthalmia Neonatorum, Paratyphoid Fever, Rabies, Rubella, Scarlet Fever, Tetanus, Tuberculosis, Typhoid Fever, Viral Haemorrahagic Fever, Viral Hepatitis, Whooping Cough, Yellow Fever.
 

Em-Power Therapy Practitioners must investigate and co-operate with local by-laws and all relevant Health and Safety legislation. Ignorance of the law is no defence.
 

APPENDIX 2
 

1. Prohibited Appellation
 

In order to enable the public to distinguish between those who are professionally qualified and those who are not, the law makes it a criminal offence for anyone who does not hold the relevant qualification to use any of the titles specified hereunder or to use any other title or description which suggests or implies that he or she is on the statutory register of the persons who hold those qualifications. The titles are Chemist, Chiropodist, Dental Practitioner, Dental Surgeon, Dentist, Dietician, Doctor, Druggist, General Practitioner, Medical Laboratory Technician, Midwife, Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Optician, Orthodontist, Pharmacist, Physiotherapist, Radiographer, Remedial Gymnast, Surgeon, Veterinary Practitioner, and Veterinary Surgeon. It need hardly be said that an Em-Power Therapy Association Practitioner must scrupulously avoid the foregoing titles unless of course he is additionally qualified in any of the fields concerned when he is entitled to use the appropriate description.
 

2. Fraudulent Mediumship
 

The law provides that anyone who:

1. With intent to deceive, purports to act as a spiritualistic medium or to exercise any power of telepathy, clairvoyance or other similar powers or,

2. In purporting to act as a spiritualistic medium, or to exercise the powers mentioned in (a) above, uses any fraudulent device, is guilty of any offence.

3. Premises
 

1. When carrying on a trade, business or profession from any premises an individual must ensure that their working conditions and facilities to which members of the public have access are suitable and comply with all legislation. In the case of Em-Power Therapy Practitioners using their own homes as base for their practice, in addition to complying with national legislation for any therapy they practice, they should check on any local authority by-laws covering their practice as these vary considerably through the country.

2.  If staff are employed on the premises Practitioners must pay equal attention in this area.

3. Em-Power Therapy Practitioners working from home should give special attention to insurance, the terms of their lease or other title deeds any local government regulations limiting such practice or under which he may be liable to pay business rates.

4. Advertising
 

1. The law makes it an offence to take part in the publication of any advertisement referring to any article or any description in terms which are calculated to lead to the use of that article for the purpose of treating human beings for any of the following diseases: Bright’s Disease, Glaucoma, Cataract, Locomotor Ataxy, Diabetes, Paralysis, Epilepsy or fits, Tuberculosis.

2. It is also an offence to publish any advertisement which:

• Offers to treat or prescribe a remedy or advice for cancer, or

• Refers to any article calculated to lead to its use in the treatment of cancer.

3. At all times advertising should comply with standards laid down by the British Code of Advertising Practice and meet the requirements of the Advertising Standards Authority.

5. Guidelines for dealing with Clients expressing suicidal feelings.
 

The legal position
It is not against the law for an individual to commit suicide or to attempt to commit suicide (Suicide Act 1961) However, the law states that anyone either a professional or lay person can be charged with the offence of aiding and abetting a suicide in the following circumstances:

• If they actively assist a suicide.

• If they are aware of someone’s decision to attempt suicide and do not inform an appropriate professional, e.g. the general practitioner, hospital psychiatrist or approved social worker.

Em-Power Therapy Association Position
 

Legal obligation
Each individual has his or her own beliefs about the acceptability of suicide as a choice in someone’s life. However, in our role as Em-Power Therapy Association members, we are bound by law. This means that practitioners should never help a client to end their life or fail to take appropriate action to prevent a suicidal act.
 

Confidentiality
A threat of suicide constitutes an exceptional circumstance where confidentiality has to be reviewed. It is always better to get the client’s consent to break confidentiality and to keep the information disclosed to the minimum. If however you cannot secure your client’s consent you are still under legal obligation to seek other help and this should be explained to the client. It is vital you make clear to the client that the minimum of information will be disclosed to other relevant professionals. For example, it is not always essential to reveal their medical status or the circumstances, which may make the client, feel such despair. It is usually sufficient to state you are concerned for their safety because you believe they are at risk of committing suicide.

We would like to express our gratitude and say a big 'Thank-you' to the Em-Power Therapy Association’s Advisor Board for their constructive comments and to all the members of the Em-Power Research Project for their support in the development of Em-Power Therapy and The Em-Power Association. << back to contents >>