Workshops, Seminars, Lectures, or Short-Courses on Acupuncture, Enzyme and Herbal Therapy and Nutrition
Contact me directly for details on scheduling Lectures, Workshops, or Short-Courses such as the following:
1. Weekend Workshop on Acupuncture - Exploring Traditional Chinese Medicine (Hands-on Workshop)
Designed to help lay people and students.
This is a 2-3 day workshop to introduce lay people to the ideas behind Traditional Chinese Medicine, including acupuncture. Ideal for a retreat center.
Not a lecture course, but includes participant activity each day. Topics chosen to illustrate the history and theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, research being done to test theory and practice, and how Traditional Chinese Medicine compares with other Medicines, particularly Biomedicine ('conventional western medicine'). Participants receive handouts, art materials they've produced themselves, a clear idea of how to find practitioners and what conditions benefit most from Traditional Chinese Medicine care.
2. Public Lectures
a) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine!
Suitable for lay people in college courses, or lecture series in clubs, libraries,community centers, churches or synagogues.
Consists of a 60 minute informative yet light-hearted presentation with photos & charts to introduce the ideas behind Chinese medicine and its practice, including a point location demonstration.
b) Steps Toward an Integrated Medicine
Designed for University-level students.
These are University-level seminars- can be offered as a 60 minute lecture or as a source for discussion in a 2-3hour seminar.
We will use a model developed from the History of Medicine and Anthropology. I create a matrix within which all Medicines can be encompassed. Suggests directions for productive exploration and discussion among those who would like to construct a functioning integrated medicine. I believe this sort of comparative medical analysis is fundamental to creating a future medicine that meets our urgent needs for medical care that is humane, affordable, effective, and respectful of diversity.
3. "Becoming a Better Acupuncturist" Series
Designed for senior acupuncture students and recent graduates.
Can be organized as short-courses/workshops, as seminars, or potentially, as lectures. Each school would assign credit to fit their needs.
a) Applying Logic of Care in the Clinic (a simulation class)
Designed to help senior students and recent graduates.
A fun, talkative, and low-key course! Designed to help senior students organize the mass of facts they've learned by 'solving' real life cases; this non-clinic practice will help interns be more comfortable in clinic and after graduation as they start their own practices.
Interns will practice tracing the logic of diagnosis and acupoint choice. Students will work alone and in small groups, and (as in real life), will often hear only part of the 'story' at first, with more data revealed gradually. Students will formulate treatments and explain their reasoning; classmates may offer their own explications, and the whole class can explore differences of approach, and how to determine if differences matter.
b) How Research Can Help an Acupuncture Practitioner
Designed to help lay people and students.
The goal of this course is to help students read published results with a critical eye so they can quickly identify the results, their quality, and their applicability to their own (intended) practices.
Students will read articles of varying quality, practice distinguishing perception from argument, identifying the design, and analyzing the conclusions. Students end the class with a basic portfolio of articles and quotable research findings to use with patients or when discussing acupuncture with others, such as public talks.
c) Creating a Healing Space
Designed to help senior students and recent graduates.
The goal of this course is to help students/practitioners imaginatively explore their own healing values, and how to create a workspace that will serve both themselves and their patients.
Practitioners work best in spaces that reflect their deepest healing values. This course will include instruments and discussion to help students identify their healing values. Next we will discuss the effects created by space, color, lighting and other features of an office. Finally, each student will begin to design an 'ideal' space for themselves that integrates healing values with office design features including some feng shui.
