CEU Courses For Licensed Acupuncturists:
2009 CSOMA Conference and Expo: San Francisco, September 26 & 27, 7:00AM to 8:30AM: Open-Body Medical Qi Gong 3.0 CEU's COMPLETED
AAAOM 2009 Conference and International Expo: Sacramento, April 26th, 7:00AM to 8:00AM: Open-Body Medical Qi Gong 1.0 CEU COMPLETED
May 16-17, 2009 COMPLETED
9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
San Francisco 14 CEU’s pending
Cost $280 regular/ $240.00 alumni
For information:
415-282-7600 x10, www.actcm.edu
707-815-4014, info@wasahinstitute.com
Therapeutic Techniques of Chinese Medicine Psychology:
Module II, Study of Life Patterns in Relation to Soul Purpose and History
Presented by Michael Guen, Ph.D., L.Ac., Dipl.OM.
Overview
I am happy to announce that ACTCM is sponsoring Module II, Study of Life Patterns in Relation to Soul Purpose and History on April 4-5, 2009.
Material that I presented at the "Anatomy" Orientations will come alive in this first of three core clinical training modules. In "Module III, Study of Posture and Character," which I plan to offer later this year, concentration will be on learning the essential art of reading and transforming body language. Through postural re-education repressions can be lifted and healing energy liberated. Training will include instruction on how to conduct both standing and lying down (table work) corrective techniques. Training skills in self-awareness, self-balance, and self-integration shall constitute a signficant portion of the weekend curriculum. In "Module IV, Study of Soma, Emotions and Consciousness," which I also plan to offer later this year, focus will be on developing vital clinical skills - including open-body medical qi-gong - that facilitate connectedness between yin and yang, inside and outside, masculine and feminine, physical and spiritual realms.
Course Description
In comparison to Modules III and IV, the April 4-5 Module II weekend shall be devoted to perfecting the art of patient interview. You will learn the steps needed to perfect the ability to quickly grasp the "big picture" of a patient's life story, to be present with and sustain an open engagement, and help patients discover their deeper (soul) purpose, and from that, the inner motivation to heal. Instruction will be given on how to sustain self and patient interest, even through difficult periods of navigating through the sometimes complex repressed shadow dimensions of personal and relationship history. Informed by the unified model based on "the double aspect of the heart," Chinese medicine psychology is that aspect of Chinese medicine that enables one to make sense of the entire body, soul, and spirit condition from within the pragmatic context of life patterns and reactive habits. As such, it constitutes 70% of the overall healing solution.
One half of the Module II "Life Patterns" weekend shall consist of blocks of free-experiential and/or instructor-guided role-playing, conducted in alternation with blocks of group review/discussion to refine your knowledge of how the various Chinese medicine psychology models and theories are applied. In this way, you will be guided to thoroughly integrate Chinese medicine psychology principles into your personal repertoire base.
The other half of the Module II "Life Patterns" weekend shall be devoted to self-rejuvenation and self-cultivation, with the intention of inculcating Chinese medicine psychology wisdom directly into your human organization. For you edification, please find below my latest description of the open-body qi-gong method, the core training upon which Chinese medicine psychology is based. It was submitted to the AAAOM 2009 International Conference & Exposition in Sacramento, and to The Living Tao: Modern Masters, Ancient Practices Conference at Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles, for classes I will be presenting at these locations in April and May:
The open-body style of qi gong, based on the medicine/philosophy of five elements and eight trigrams, emerged late in China's history (1850's Qing Dynasty Imperial Palace). With emphasis on opening heart-consciousness through yogic separation of internal organs and body regions, it was a radical departure from the tucked pelvis kidney-energy consolidation emphasis of conventional qi gong. With discovery of the open-body method, Chinese medicine's inquiry on the feminine (scholar) and masculine (warrior) expressions of human posture was completed. The open and closed spinal positions reflect two fundamental ways that humans orient to and make sense of the world. In this class, participants will directly experience the complementary nature of "Qi body" and "Intelligent body" cultivation: how the former enables management of fear, while the latter fosters Self-awareness and faith.
"Chinese Medicine Psychology May Be Chinese Medicine's Hidden Treasure of the 21st Century"
Chinese Medicine Psychology will enlighten your practice, and empower your life
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November 1-2, 20008 AIMC Berkeley COMPLETED!
January 31-February 1, 2009 COMPLETED!
9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
San Francisco 15 CEU’s pending
Cost $280 regular/ $240.00 alumni
For information:
415-282-7600 x10, www.actcm.edu
707-815-4014, info@wasahinstitute.com
Anatomical Roots of Chinese Medicine Psychology: The Forgotten Relationship Between Medicine and Mysticism
Presented by Michael Guen, Ph.D., L.Ac., Dipl.OM.
Course Description
Classical Chinese education regards knowledge of character and human interrelationships as key to life success. In this Introductory weekend to a six-module Chinese Medicine Psychology certification training participants will experience how traditional fascia-sculpting qigong, and innovative counseling and role-playing techniques can incorporate this wisdom directly into their clinical toolbox, to immediately expand the range and scope of their practice.
Chinese medicine psychology provides critical perspectives on human physical-spiritual makeup, whole lifespan development, male and female differentiation, and biological-spiritual identity unlike western psychology, which merely addresses the person in parts or from the conceptual mind.
This course will present the hidden architecture of a rare life practice discipline from the Qing Dynasty Imperial Palace. It will outline the system’s eight trigrams (ba gua) framework, detail the multi-layered holographic nature of its miraculous body-mind-spirit design, and illustrate how tightly the principles of medicine and psychology are interwoven into all aspects of traditional Chinese science, philosophy, and way of life. Participants will discover why scholars throughout history had to undergo a “dark age” before the standards taught by Daoist Saints in the Neijing could be rendered into useful modern day tools.
This knowledge has been orally transmitted privately to disciples of worthy calling. This most recent orthodox teaching evolved in the 19th Century and has not been previously taught in acupuncture curriculums. The knowledge and use of these teachings will greatly enhance the participant’s Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment, as well as the applicability of qigong, yoga, and martial arts to one's healing practice.
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Therapeutic Techniques of Chinese Medicine Psychology
Certification of Completion Program - revised July 18, 2009
The curriculum consists of five weekend modules. Five topics of study have been selected based upon careful consideration of areas of expertise that would make an acupuncturist's knowledge and skills more well-rounded and complete at both Masters and Doctorate levels:
I. History and Theory of Chinese Medicine Psychology
II. Study of Life Patterns in Relation to Soul Purpose and History
III. The Sage-Physician: Actualize Your Five (Elements) Archtetypes
IV. Study of Posture and Character
V. Study of Soma, Emotions, and Consciousness
"Anatomy: Breakdown of activities
15% physical organ-fascia restructuring - "open-body" qigong method
30% lecture-discussion on history, principles, theory, methods
20% case study reviews
35% supervised therapist-patient role playing
"Modules II, III, IV, V: Breakdown of activities"
50% physical organ-fascia restructuring - "open-body" qigong method
35% supervised therapist-patient role playing
15% review/discussion on principles, theory, methods, history; case study reviews
Module I - January 31 - February 1 , 2009
Module II - May 16-17, 2009
Module III - TBA
Module IV - TBA
Module V - TBA
The Presenter
Dr. Michael Guen graduated from ACTCM and holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Boston University. He specializes in TCM spiritual psychology in his private practice in Santa Rosa. He is the author of (c) 2009 “Way of the Saint: The Forgotten Relationship Between Medicine, Mysticism And Martial Arts.” Michael is lineage holder of the famous Chinese medicine/philosophy system ba gua quan (eight trigrams boxing) from the Qing Dynasty Imperial Palace. In 2008, he lectured on Indigenous TCM Psychology at the 2nd Annual Academic Congress on TCM Psychology in Beijing, and in San Francisco at the 2008 CSOMA Expo. In 2009 he will be introducing Open Body Medical Qi Gong at both the AAAOM Conference & Exposition in April, and at the CSOMA Conference & Exposition in September.
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