Recently I saw a post on a Reiki FB page where a person was asking for advise on How to build a Reiki business making sure all the business elements are done correctly. This is was advice I gave and I thought it might be useful to put it here too…
It depends where you are. The basis of being a Reiki Practitioner anywhere in the World is to have received traditional Reiki training, to include the Reiki Attunements/Initiations – in person.
In the UK we have the Reiki Council which is an organization for Reiki Organizations. The Reiki Council (RC – reikicouncil.org.uk) worked with the Skills for Health (Government Services Provider) to produce National Occupational Standards for those Reiki Practitioners wanting to offer Reiki in a ‘professional/conventional’ setting, e.g. a hospice. RC also worked with the CNHC (Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council – cnhc.org.uk) to provide a Core Curriculum (CC) for the teaching of Reiki to a professional standard and the CNHC have a Directory of all those Reiki Practitioners who have been through this, fairly rigorous, training schedule to bring therapists/practitioners more in line with the conventional medical profession.
I must stress here that this is Voluntary Self Regulation as opposed the statutory i.e required by law.
CNHC provide a list of courses that have been verified to ensure they meet the criteria of the CC. Reiki Practitioners can gain admission to the CNHC register by going through a Verifying Organization (VO) – a list of these is available on the CNHC website and the RC. This is something I have been involved with for the last 25 years initially starting up The Reiki Connection (reikiconnection.co.uk) organization, which is a founder member of RC. and being involved with the initial talks of of NOS for Reiki and currently represent Reiki on the CNHC. You can visit any of the website listed above, or go direct to my TRC website for direct links to:-
CC – https://www.reikiconnection.co.uk/trc-rc-cnhc/
NOS https://www.reikiconnection.co.uk/skills-for-health/
I stress again that this is Voluntary Self Regulation and here in the UK we have a number of Reiki Practitioners who have, voluntarily, gone down this route and have found that it can open doors to working in our Government Healthcare Trusts.