Why Belong to the Association of Systematic Kinesiology?

ASK is a registered charity with a charitable status of education.

ASK is the recognised accrediting body for Systematic Kinesiology.

All reputable professionals belong to a professional body whose function is to define, promote, oversee, support and regulate the affairs of its members. This enables us to maintain a professional standard from which the public can have confidence and is in the public interest.

ASK sets a national standard for Kinesiology practitioners and tutors and provides a register for lay people and professionals to use giving confidence in the use of Kinesiology by qualified practitioners.

Professional associations maintain the highest possible standards in their field of expertise. This includes training, practice and teaching.

Professional associations help to tell the public that you have a certain standard of practice - a professional standard. Belonging to ASK gives the public confidence that you are trained to a high standard in the specific area of Kinesiology and follow a professional code of conduct.

An association is there to encourage communication between like minded people and to encourage sharing of ideas and resolving challenges. The information on the website and leaflets helps the public and future potential practitioners see what our therapy is all about.

It encourages practitioners to maintain their high standard, competence and performance. It shows others that we move forward in our professional development together keeping our skills and knowledge up to date by doing 'continued professional development '(CPD). CPD is a reflective practice whereby we use our knowledge and experience and build upon it to develop ourselves professionally so that we maintain an excellent standard incorporating new ideas and techniques that are accredited.

Belonging to an association is important when establishing it as a therapy available to the NHS or private medicine and when interacting with other professionals who belong to their own specific professional body.

As a professional body we seek good relationships and work in a cooperative manner with other healthcare professionals.

The ASK encourages networking for problem sharing and problem solving, encourages practitioners to develop professionally and offers best educational practice. It encourages collaboration with the NHS and is involved in maintaining high teaching standards with ongoing curriculum development and standard setting. The Kinesiology National Occupational Standards (KNOS) have been granted and ASK accredited courses comply with, and exceed, the KNOS requirements.

From our extensive experience in the ASK office we recognise that the public are becoming more educated in recognising the benefit of working with a registered professional member of a recognised association and want to see evidence of that in the form of certificates of qualification.

ASK promotes best practice and its aim is to increase the profile of systematic kinesiology throughout the UK and abroad.

Benefits of Professional Membership to ASK

As well as the benefits outlined above professional membership to ASK provides the following:

· Promotion of Kinesiology to the general public via the website, free leaflets and advertising.

· Developing relationships with the media and other professional bodies.

· Inclusion in the systematic kinesiology membership directory on the ASK website with area search facilities to find practitioners.

· Your name is entered on to the ASK Professional Practitioner listings, which is the ASK office reference for telephone enquiries for professional practitioners.

· Free advertising on the web by name and status. With your permission your contact details may be given out on the ASK website.

· Free advertising of courses and links to personal websites.

· Use of ASK registered trade mark logo on all promotional material to publicise your kinesiology practice and training courses.

· Access to members forum within the ASK website – www.systematic-kinesiology.co.uk.

· Certificate of membership and professional status each year.

· Qualifies you to use the title ‘Cert. ASK or Dip ASK’ dependent upon the qualification gained.

· Excellent Professional liability insurance package via Balens. Increasingly insurance companies will only insure practitioners who belong to a Professional body.

· Help-line available from the ASK office. Access to a friendly, efficient and supportive administration office with an administrator who has years of professional experience in kinesiology practice, teaching, book keeping and administration.

· ASK pays £100.00 a day to professional practitioners who man ASK stands at health shows.

· Option to advertise your practice by leaving your business cards at our health show stand.

· Newsletter 3 x a year. Newsletters and updates within the changing world of complementary medicine and on any matters that may affect your practice.

· Subsidised ASK and professional day following ASK day.

· In order to promote ASK practitioners to work within the field of the NHS, hospices or nursing homes ASK will pay diploma members £30.00 an hour (terms and conditions apply and are available on request).

· ASK promotional leaflets are free to professional members.

· Posters are available from the ASK office for your promotional literature, free of charge.

· Support you in dealing with any complaint from the public – although this is increasingly common in the current climate of litigation, no member of ASK has ever had a complaint upheld against them.

· Purchasing supplements from most reputable companies at a practitioner’s discount. Companies are increasingly requesting that practitioners belong to a professional body.

· ASK Accredited Nutrition, Anatomy & Physiology and first aid courses. The courses have been written by ASK members, specifically for kinesiologists.

o Nutrition - Julie Langton Smith is an ITEC tutor. Tel: 0790 0218954
o Anatomy & Physiology - Julie Langton Smith is an ITEC tutor. Tel: 0790 0218954
o First Aid- Lynda Pudney is a qualified nurse. Tel: 020 7935 2716 mob: 07801 580 060