OVERVIEW

Our Goals
Building Bridges for TCM seeks to offer innovative, effective ways to expand health options and improve outcomes in the U.S. by educating CAM and practitioners in Chinese medicine’s Five-Element perspective on the role of consciousness and belief systems in creating and maintaining health. We seek to offer participants wisdom, knowledge, information and techniques to develop personal protocols of physical movement, self-cultivation and self-awareness. We seek to present the authentic ancient philosophical foundations underlying traditional Chinese medicine and create a deep understanding of this holistic medical system as a byproduct of a spiritual practice.

Our ultimate goal is to broaden the contemporary understanding of health and wellness by introducing TCM’s innate concepts of self-empowerment, responsibility, self-care and prevention into the current paradigm of healing and recovery.

Conference Goals:

• Develop a deeper understanding of the spiritual, philosophical and theoretical framework within which TCM operates.
• Offer healthcare practitioners insight into TCM principles, theories, techniques, and case studies.
• Raise awareness and increase implementation of TCM in the U.S. by defining and explicating its unique whole-person approach.

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the Five-Element consciousness that informs TCM.
• Describe the correlation between belief systems and health and healing.
• Demonstrate insight into the ability to develop protocols of self-empowerment for ourselves and patients.
• Demonstrate an ability to hold an informed discussion with patients about TCM as a complementary therapy for certain health conditions discussed at this event.