Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine – Transformation: Spirit in Healing is a landmark educational forum on traditional Chinese medicine for Eastern and Western health-care professionals interested in exploring this medical system's growing role in integrative and complementary health care.
Body, mind, spirit and emotions. They are inextricably fused, and it is spirit that informs and energizes our physical self and psyche. To journey to the heart of healing necessitates an encounter with spirit. The path to transformation causes us, as Eastern or Western health-care professionals, to ask: What makes a patient truly whole? How can we incorporate spirit in healing to create harmony within and transform the lives and health of those we serve? How can we move beyond simply alleviating symptoms? Qi, or energy, plays a vital role in this transformative process.
Join us for our fifth year of exploring these provocative concepts from the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) perspective. Dialogue with firsthand TCM experts who have received in-depth training from some of China's most respected healing masters. Learn from today's dynamic integrative Eastern and Western medical professionals as they explore the roots of healing and health. Together we can transform contemporary health care.
The ultimate goal of Building Bridges for TCM is to expand health options and improve medical outcomes in the United States by educating CAM and conventional medical, health-care and research communities about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This includes all aspects of this time-honored system—its philosophical and theoretical underpinnings—as well as the full complement of modalities that TCM employs to prevent and address health problems. These modalities encompass acupuncture, acupressure, herbal therapy, Qigong, the prescription of foods for healing, and Chinese psychology.
Conference Goals
- To further and provide a forum for the ongoing exchange of information on the philosophy, theories, techniques, scientific research and information about the full range of traditional Chinese medicine in a broad integrative health-care context.
- To offer contemporary health-care practitioners insight into TCM principles, theories, techniques, case studies, and evidence-based research results, as well as practical ways to integrate this whole-person medicine and its healing knowledge into patient care.
- To delineate the unique strengths of TCM: in early diagnosis and prevention, its synergistic effect when used to complement Western interventions for certain conditions; its philosophy of health and prevention that encompasses the mind, body and spirit.
- To offer clinical practitioners reliable information on integrating this holistic medical system into their practice.
- To raise awareness and increase implementation of TCM in the United States by providing in-depth information about the challenges and advantages of integrating TCM with Western medicine.