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.
Overall Conference Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the current and potential role of TCM in contemporary health care
- Describe the philosophical and theoretical framework within which TCM operates
- Identify the primary theories and treatment modalities that comprise TCM
- Distinguish and identify TCM therapies that have been shown to benefit certain conditions
- Demonstrate an ability to hold an informed discussion with patients about TCM as an integrative or complementary therapy for certain health conditions