Continuing professional development (CPD) living educational theory offers an approach to CPD that enables educators to enhance their own professional practice and enable them to offer as gifts the knowledge, expertise and talents they develop to extend the knowledge base of the profession. In this paper we briefly introduce living theory research and the international CPD project, ‘Living Values Improving Practice Cooperatively’, that began in the process of supporting educators through a Master’s programme.
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