Collaborative Membership
Contents
1. Our invitation to Collaborative Membership.
2. The Benefits: Why become a Collaborative Member?
3. Training Standards
Senior Practitioner/Fellowship status
Building a bridge of language and excellence.
4. Logistics
The mutual benefits of Collaborative
Membership, and sharing of fee.
5. Further details of benefits:
To the host organisation/Collaborative Partner
To the individual Collaborative Member
6. Career Progression.
7. How to register your interest.
1. An invitation to become a Collaborative Member
The Institute for Complementary and Natural Medicine (ICNM) invites your organisation to join us giving your individual Members the benefit of an additional Collaborative Membership with ICNM. This has been designed for several reasons:
- To protect the future of Integrative Medicine and Healing Practice:
With state regulation in the wings, the ICNM have a particular interest in protecting and developing all CAM disciplines - but specially those which are not yet under a regulatory umbrella. The interests of such organisations at the leading edge of integrative/energy medicine need, in particular, great care if we are to preserve the integrity of their purpose and development. This includes especially the work of energy medicine in its various forms and healing practice. The ICNM see both as specialist fields of professional work. - To provide a united presence:
By providing an opportunity for joint membership, these disciplines will have the benefit of our long-standing presence in the CAM regulatory field, and be firmly associated with our aims and objectives for Best Practice within our Membership and liaison with sister organisations in the field. - To develop an additional professional identity for Members:
In other words, the proposal aims to provide an additional platform
whereby practitioners of energy medicine and healing, in particular, can have the benefit of joint membership with the ICNM. That will give your Members a joint professional identity both within your specific field and formally within the CAM movement. - To provide a recognised career path in the field:
This offers Collaborative Members a more structured pathway to become a professional Practitioner, and by being part of a larger organisation with an established career path creates a greater presence in the CAM world.
These benefits are described further in the next section.
2.Why become a Collaborative Member of ICNM?
From our inception in 1982, the ICNM has been established to cover the widest possible membership of CAM divisions and practises under one umbrella and has become a respected, authoritative voice of CAM for many years.
Being part of such an established body, member organisations can provide added credibility to their own members in terms of:
- positioning their practice within the CAM profession;
- developing new and recognised professional career paths within their discipline, and within the umbrella of CAM practice;
- providing a strong, professional forum for recognition, especially within the energy medicine and healing professions and in terms of any future Regulation;
- sharing in the many benefits that the ICNM can offer.
As each division grows, every member organisation becomes stronger and has greater, shared platform with individual benefits to each organisation. Together, our organisations have a much more powerful voice both in terms of any Regulatory elements in the future, and in terms of our services to the general public.
3.Training Standards
ICNM and the BRCP have a special interest and active role in the development of training standards within CAM. This includes the following which are currently in development:
- Senior Practitioner Status:
ICNM and the BRCP are actively engaged in the development of Senior Practitioner Status, together with the additional award of fellowship of the ICNM. This is being developed and benchmarked as a recognised career path within CAM and will be a further opportunity for recognition of best practice and Senior status within the profession, through the BRCP. - Building a bridge between conventional and complementary healthcare:
There may be opportunities within Collaborative Membership liaison to discuss and develop mutual projects, especially within the field of integrative healthcare/energy medicine. This could include Research or specific clinical work, together with further development of training standards.
4. Logistics
It is proposed to make Collaborative Membership a simple and streamlined process, with the absolute minimum of additional admin for either ICNM or the Collaborative Partner.
The administrative format is as follows:
- Each Collaborative Member Organisation pays the ICNM an annual fee of £20 to register their membership with the ICNM.
- An agreed additional top-up fee is added to the annual Membership fee by each organisation concerned.
- The organisation collects and collates Members' payments and sends a single, agreed percentage payment to ICNM annually.
- The host organisation provides the ICNM with an Excel spreadsheet of Members' details for Registration, including the following fields: Name - forename and surname, Address - Number, street, town, county postcode,daytime telephone number,email address
- These details are held in strict confidence, are never shared with a third party, and enable each individual Member to be fully registered with ICNM.
- ICNM creates individual certificates which are sent out in one package to the host organisation who then distributes to individualCollaborative Members, as part of their new Membership with the host organisation, or annual renewal.
This is considered to be the most mutually cost-effective way of managing Collaborative Memberships, but individual packages can be discussed and tailored accordingly.
The shared membership fee:
It is proposed that Collaborative Member organisations may elect to add £10 to their annual Membership (for Full Members), of which £7 will be due per head to ICNM annually.
5 Further detaiIs of benefits:
Collaborative Membership will then provide the following benefits:
a To the host organisation/Collaborative Partner:
- Working in collaboration with the ICNM.
- Weblink to organisation's website.
- Free advert for organisation on ICNM website (jpeg artwork to be provided by organisation), worth £160 per annum.
- Percentage of the annual top-up fee
b. To individual Collaborative Members:
- Each Collaborative Member to receive an ICNM Certificate.
- Each Collaborative Member can refer to their relationship to the ICNM as 'a Collaborative member of the ICNM'
- Recognition of being part of an established complementary/integrative medicine organisation.
- Discounted Membership available to upgrade Collaborative Members to Full Membership of the BRCP if required.
- A progressive, recognised career path available once a member has upgraded to the BRCP from Therapist, Practitioner, Senior Practitioner and Fellowship status .
- ICNM CPD courses - at discounted rate.
- Advice on education and training.
- Weblink sent by email to quarterly ICNM Journal.
6. A new pathway in CAM progression:
Options for Collaborative organizations and their Members:
ICNM Collaborative Member
An organisation becomes a Collaborative Member of the ICNM which enables them to offer their individual Members an additional, recognized and holistic career pathway within CAM
ICNM member
This provides their Collaborative Members with a joint professional identity both within their specific field, and formally within the CAM movement
BRCP Student
Student Membership of the BRCP would remain open to Collaboratives within an approved training course, at the standard rate of £25 per annum. This includes the opportunity to upgrade to Full Membership at a reduced rate of £80 instead of the £140 normally charged.
BRCP Member
BRCP Membership is open to Therapists and Practitioners who have completed an approved course. Collaborative Members meeting this criteria will be eligible for Full Membership of the BRCP at the reduced rate of £80 instead of the £140 normally charged for joining. Fee for subsequent years is £70
BRCP Senior Practitioner
BRCP Members who have five years continuous evidence of good practice, CPD, and innovative professional work, are eligible to apply for BRCP Senior Practitioner status.
BRCP Fellow
The BRCP Fellowship is a discretionary award for Practitioners who have achieved an outstanding contribution through their professional life in the field of complementary and integrative medicine
7. Register of Interest:
To register your interest and to discuss the needs of your individual organisation, please telephone in the first instance to:
Clive Teal, Membership Registrar
Telephone: 020 7922 7980
Email: clive.teal@icnm.org.uk
We are pleased to have further discussions by phone or in person, and to visit your office if that is convenient. If your organisation decides to participate in Collaborative Membership, a simple form of agreement which can be renewed annually can be downloaded
