Continuing Professional Development
The method evolves.
Your practice must keep pace.
The Vital Code Annual Update is the annual digital programme that keeps certified Vital Code® professionals current with the latest developments, clinical refinements, and new tools created by Nuno Cortez each year.
8 hours · 100% digital · Once a year · Included in your certification membership
Why It Exists
Certification is a starting point, not a finishing line
The Vital Code® Method develops through ongoing clinical practice. Each year brings new cases, refined techniques, and a deeper understanding of its dimensions. Practitioners who stop updating their knowledge risk working with an older version of the method.
The Vital Code Annual Update exists to close that gap. It brings every certified professional up to date with exactly what has changed since the previous edition, directly from Nuno Cortez.
The Programme
8 hours covering a year of development
Once a year, Nuno Cortez condenses the main evolutions of the Vital Code® Method into an 8-hour digital programme.
Each edition covers what has changed since the previous year: techniques refined through clinical practice, new approaches developed from real cases, and evolutions in the method's theoretical framework. It is not a repeat of the original training.
The Annual Update is the primary channel through which Nuno Cortez communicates the evolution of the method to certified professionals, before it reaches any new training programme or public offering.
Format: 100% digital, recorded content available in your member area. Access it at your own pace, as many times as you need, throughout your membership year.
Technical Updates
Refinements to the method's clinical tools: what changed, what improved, and why.
New Protocols
Approaches developed from real cases and applied research, ready to integrate into practice.
Deepening the Dimensions
Expanded revisit of specific aspects of the P-S-E-L-R-V system as understanding develops.
Paradigmatic Cases
Analysis of clinical cases that illustrate the evolution of practice: anonymised, concrete, and instructive.
Clinical Questions Answered
The most relevant questions raised by practitioners during the year, addressed directly by Nuno Cortez.
Why It Matters
Your practice reflects the method
As a certified practitioner, you carry a responsibility to the method and to the clients who trust it.
Clients who seek a Vital Code® practitioner do so because they trust the Institute's standards. That trust has been built over more than 20 years of clinical practice and is maintained by every professional who works with rigour and stays current with the method.
The Vital Code Annual Update is how that standard is upheld consistently, regardless of where you practise or how long you have been certified.
Maintains clinical competence
The method develops year on year. 8 hours of annual training is the minimum commitment expected of a practising professional.
Renews your certification
Completing the Annual Update is the CPD requirement for keeping your Vital Code® certification active. It is included in your annual membership.
Direct access to the source
Updates created by Nuno Cortez reach certified professionals through the Annual Update first, before any new training or public content.
For Whom
For practitioners who take their work seriously
Practitioner
You are developing your practice. The VCAU ensures the tools you use reflect the current state of the method and that your certification remains active.
Master Practitioner
You work at a senior level and supervise others. The VCAU keeps you aligned with the current state of the method and ensures what you transmit to others is accurate.
Authorised Trainer
You train Practitioners and Masters. What you teach must reflect the current version of the method. The VCAU is your direct update, delivered before any other channel.
Included in Your Membership
Access is included in your annual membership
Your annual certification membership keeps your credential active and includes access to the Vital Code Annual Update each year.
Practitioner
€100/year
- Vital Code Annual Update (8h digital)
- Active certification maintenance
- Practitioner directory listing
- Digital credential & badge
Master
€149/year
- Vital Code Annual Update (8h digital)
- Active certification maintenance
- Priority directory listing
- Mentoring tools & supervision access
Trainer
€290/year
- Vital Code Annual Update (8h digital)
- Active certification maintenance
- Featured trainer directory listing
- Programme management tools