The International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists (IFPA) was formed on April 1st, 2002 by members of the UK's three largest international aromatherapy associations. The IFPA is a democratic practitioner-led professional association and a UK registered charity, and currently consists of some 2500 practising members.

IFPA's aims and objectives are:

* to advance the knowledge and practice of professional aromatherapy through maintaining and ensuring a high standard of vocational education as a prerequisite for full individual membership of the IFPA
* to publicly promote the professional practice of aromatherapy by its members
* to regulate this practice in a way that ensures high standards of professionalism and safety
* to encourage and facilitate scientific research applicable to the practice of aromatherapy.

IFPA is committed to the professional development of aromatherapy at governmental levels, and is actively involved in the Aromatherapy Statutory Regulation Group (ASRG), whose lay Chairman has been appointed Her Majesty's Government and the Prince of Wales' Foundation for Integrated Health (PWFIH). The IFPA supports the parliamentary statutory regulation of the profession as the most effective way of safeguarding the public and establishing a common level of practice.

For further information regarding IFPA membership, our 1st Annual Conference on October 12th and 13th, 2002, or our professional journal In Essence contact:

IFPA Admin Office
82 Ashby Road
Hinckley
Leics LE10 1SN
ENGLAND

Tel: +44 (0)1455 637987
admin@ifparoma.org

http://web.archive.org/web/20030602194928/http://ifparoma.org/

IATA

IATA has been in existance for the past 7years. Our Educational and Safety Director is Martin Watt from Medical Aromatherapy Training Services in England. Martin supplies the IATA approved schools with  his researched materials for teaching purposes.

The IATA is the only organization in the whole world that offers its members a safety data booklet and skin safeguards chart. Also the only organization that can back its teachers and schools with the researched referenced data supplied by Martin. The Memberships vary from : Professional to non-professional Associate) and General.

The Professional members are members that has trained with the referenced researched materials.

The Associate members are members from any other complimentary industry or any Aromatherapists trained else where. Any school could join as an Associate member and could work its way up to the professional level for its students.

Any general members would be from the consumers interested in aromatherapy to students, studying at
different schools or just people dabbling in aroamtherapy. Our site can be reached at http://web.archive.org/web/20030602194928/http://www.aroma-iata.com/

AromaForum

 

The AromaForum is a South African networking platform established for the facilitation and dissemination of aromatherapeutic information. It also functions as a platform for the provision of diverse aromatic resources, thereby serving the needs of the layperson, as well as those of the professional practitioner.

The AromaForum‘s mission is to foster integration and good governance within the diverse aromatherapeutic sectors via:

1. promoting the practise of professional aromatherapeutics in South Africa by liaising with various relevant authorities e.g. Allied Health Professions Council of SA [Council], Board of Healthcare Funders [BHF], etc.
   
2. promoting and facilitating aromatherapeutic Primary Health Care [PHC] and Community Outreach [CO] initiatives 
   
3. keeping Affiliates abreast of current professional developments and other business-market related developments
   
4. supporting statutorily registered health practitioners within the discipline and encouraging unregistered persons towards registration
   
5. promoting safe and responsible usage of essential oils, as well as sound levels of aromatherapeutic education
   
6. encouraging responsible media representation of the profession 
   
7. promoting the benefits of holistic health and wellness.
   
   A bit of Background Info:
   Affiliates are indeed in good hands, since experience, vision, courage, dedication, perseverance and integrity are the words most used to describe the pioneer Founders of the AromaForum. The majority of the Founders, whilst being respected practicing health professionals, have also been primary campaigners and contributors towards statutory registration processes in various allied health disciplines in South Africa over the past 10 years. Several have been, and are, at the forefront of the Government statutory registration process for allied health, are involved in higher education and training, as well as representing aromatherapeutics and other disciplines by serving on many committees and boards, making parliamentary presentations, promoting the profession via press articles/writing, and generally lobbying media, public and the authorities whenever required. The struggle for the rights of integrated medicine/health to co-exist alongside traditional Western medicine finally culminated in successful statutory registration of aromatherapeutics, as an official allied health profession in November 2000, and also heralded the opening of a number of registers for other allied health disciplines. 
   
   Contact: info@aromaforum.co.za
   Or www.aromaforum.co.za