Planning for Continuing Professional Development

A series of study days in the Wiltshire Psychological Service is described as an example of how to prepare for the uncertainties of the future through continuing professional development activities. The days focused on various scenarios for the future, the kind of psychological service we would ideally like to provide, the ways in which we might approach this ideal within various scenarios, key tasks required to be ready for a range of possible future circumstances, identification of individual CPD needs and the preparation of area team CPD plans which were then used to devise an initial whole service plan. Examples of the work produced during these activities and some evaluative feedback suggest that the approaches described could be helpful more widely.