Rules For Posting Announcements for Workshops, Trainings, and Events

Only ACEP members may submit events for posting.
ACEP retains the right to decline to post inappropriate topics. All workshops submitted for consideration must relate to energy psychology. All submissions will be reviewed to determine if they relate specifically to psychology, psychological interventions and/or psychological practices utilizing energy psychology methods. The Communications Director will make the final determination regarding whether a submission is appropriate.
We will accept postings for events that will occur within 6 months of posting. We will leave a posting up until the event has occurred.
Please limit your workshop submissions to three listings per 6-month period. If you have an extensive seminar schedule, we can refer readers to your web site for your complete curriculum.
Members who list announcements on the Web site agree to distribute ACEP brochures at their event and support ACEP membership.
Presenters agree to follow ACEP's Code of Ethics for Trainers and Presenters, stated below.

SPECIAL GUIDELINES FOR TRAINERS AND PRESENTERS: Energy practitioners present or provide training in any method only after receiving permission from the developer or the developer's designated representative.

The need to establish credibility through sound practitioner training necessitates that energy psychology trainers make a point of being trained in sound curriculum design and training methods, thus ensuring that training is as proficiency-based as possible. Trainers incorporate modules into their training programs on ethics, scope of practice and responsible referring. Trainers credit those whose theories, research, methods and other contributions are being taught. The trainer shoulders the responsibility to assess the capabilities and limitations of trainees, and to provide feedback to trainees concerning these issues. Trainers restrain overeager, impulsive, immature, or otherwise unwise trainees from going outside established guidelines for practice in the modalities in which they are training. Trainers encourage mature, seasoned trainees to innovate, and to receive training in multiple energy diagnostic and treatment approaches. Trainers create consultation mechanisms for their students to use. For the sake of protecting the public, trainers develop methods to evaluate the proficiency of trainees prior to any formal certification they may choose to offer in the method they teach.

Trainers and presenters are cautioned to prioritize the welfare of volunteers for demonstrations above the presentation itself. Trainers and presenters ensure that volunteers who are selected for demonstrations will not be harmed by the demonstration. Demonstration volunteers should sign a waiver prior to work being begun that describes the potential risks of volunteering as a demonstration volunteer, including loss of confidentiality and the possibility of issues and emotions unexpectedly arising. Trainers and presenters do proper informed consent with demo volunteers in front of the group, so that the attendees can witness specifically what the demo volunteer is agreeing to, thereby decreasing unnecessary confusion among both volunteers and attendees. Trainers and presenters who choose to do live demonstrations provide care for any volunteers who may not have completed processing initiated by the demonstration. The trainer has an obligation to provide first aid for any immediate distress that arises during or as a consequence of a demonstration and to offer an appropriate referral. Trainers do not charge for first aid treatment in this circumstance. If a deeper issue is uncovered during a demonstration, or if what is uncovered goes beyond the scope of the demonstration, the presenter is not obligated to provide ongoing therapy to resolve that issue unless no waiver was signed indicating this possibility. If an appropriate waiver has been signed, the presenter's obligation is to provide first aid and a referral, as described above. Trainers and presenters who choose to show a video or other representation of their work are responsible for acquiring the informed consent of the video (or other media) demonstration patient/client. Trainers and presenters who use such materials are responsible for ensuring that their clients/patients understand the limits of confidentiality of these materials and the potential that the individuals represented in such materials may be identified. Whether trainers and presenters do live or video demonstrations, they remind the audience to maintain confidentiality concerning the identity of the demonstration volunteer and any personal information that may arise. Trainers and presenters never provide a demonstration, live or on video, that highlights a patient or client's particular vulnerability for the purposes of exploitation. Clients or patients with especially vulnerable diagnoses, such as Dissociative Identity Disorder, are not used as demonstration volunteers without consultation from at least one senior ACEP trainer.

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