Contact me directly for details on scheduling Lectures, Workshops, or Short-Courses such as the following:

1. Weekend workshop on acupuncture

Title: Exploring Asian Medicine, a Hands-on Workshop

Audience: a 2-3 day workshop to introduce lay people to the ideas behind East Asian medicine, including acupuncture. Ideal for a retreat center.

Method: This is not a lecture course, but includes participant activity at each session on each day. Topics will be chosen that illustrate the history and theory of East Asian medicine, the kinds of research that is being done to test theory and practice, and how East Asian medicine compares with other Medicines, particularly Biomedicine ('conventional western medicine'). Participants will leave with handouts, art materials they've produced themselves, a clear idea of how to find practitioners and what conditions benefit most from East Asian medical care.

2. Public Lectures

a) Title: Let me stick it to you: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Acupuncture and Asian Medicine!

Audience: Lay people...in college courses, or lecture series in clubs, libraries,community centers, churches or synagogues.

Content: A 60 minute informative yet light-hearted Power Point presentation with photos &charts to introduce the ideas behind Chinese medicine and its practice, including a point location demonstration (but no needling).

b) Title: Steps Toward an Integrated Medicine

Audience: University-level seminars and (any) medical school seminars; can be offered as a 60 minute lecture or as a source for discussion in a 2-3hour seminar.

Content: Using a model developed from History of Medicine and Anthropology, I create a matrix within which all Medicines can be encompassed. Since this universe is far larger than any one Medicine, each individually can be 'mapped' into a credible medical philosophical space...once we also understand each Medicine's assumptive patterns, healing aims, and logic of care. Such a map graphically shows why the various Medicines have difficulty understanding one another, and 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

Audience: Senior acupuncture students and recent graduates

Format: 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

Despite its name, this is a fun, talkative, and low-key course! The goal of this course is 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.

Method: Moving from simple to complex real cases, 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) Critical Reading of Research Data...How Research Can Help Me as an Acupuncture Practitioner

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.

Method: 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, as in public talks.

c) Creating a Healing Space

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.

Method: Practitioners work best in spaces that reflect their deeply held healing values. This course will include instruments &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. NB: This is not a class on feng shui though some of its principles would emerge naturally.

 

Contact me directly for details on scheduling Lectures, Workshops, or Short-Courses such as the following:

1. Weekend workshop on acupuncture

Title: Exploring Asian Medicine, a Hands-on Workshop
Audience: a 2-3 day workshop to introduce lay people to the ideas behind East Asian medicine, including acupuncture. Ideal for a retreat center.

2. Public Lectures

a) Title: Let me Stick It to You!: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Acupuncture and Asian Medicine.
Audience: Lay people...in college courses, or lecture series in clubs, libraries, community centers, churches or synagogues. 60 minutes

b) Title: Steps Toward an Integrated Medicine
Audience: University-level seminars and (any) medical school seminars; can be offered as a 60 minute lecture or as a source for discussion in a 2-3 hour seminar.

3. "Becoming a Better Acupuncturist" Series

Audience: Senior acupuncture students and recent graduates
Format: Can be organized as short-courses/workshops, as seminars, or potentially, as lectures. Each school to assign credit to fit their needs.

a) Logic of Care in the Clinic, a Simulation Class
The goal of this course is 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 as they start their own practices.

b) How Research Can Help Me as an Acupuncture Practitioner...Critical Reading of Research Data
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.

c) Creating a Healing Space
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.