The Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program
As the only program of it's kind offered in Southern California, the Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program offers Acupuncturists and other licensed medical professionals the opportunity to become certified as Classical Five-Element practitioners. The program is taught by Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), C.T. (Adv.), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM), and a team of faculty and guest faculty approved by the Director.

The purpose of the Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program is to:
~ Enable practitioners to provide the highest standard of care
    to the bodies,minds, and spirits of patients
~ Offer the opportunity for continual growth, learning, and
    deeper understanding into the nature of health and well being
~ Prepare and train a new generation of practitioners who
    will carry on this tradition

The program is open to licensed acupuncturists, physicians, osteopaths, dentists, other licensed medical professionals (whose scope of practice includes acupuncture), and students of Oriental Medicine. Admission to the program will include assessments by written application and interview. Because of the personal one-on-one attention provided to each student, class size will be limited and enrollments considered on a first come, first served basis.

CEUs: This program has been approved for 462 hours of continuing education units by the California Acupuncture Board
and is an approved NCCAOM Professional Development Activity.

The Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program has been APPROVED by the American Osteopathic Association for 189 credits of AOA Category 2-B credit.

2011 - 2012 Program Dates:

September 16 - 19, 2011
October 14 - 16, 2011
November 11 - 13, 2011
December 9 - 11, 2011


January 13 - 15, 2012
February 17 - 19, 2012
March 16 - 18, 2012
April 13 - 15, 2012
August 10 - 12, 2012
           

Request an application today or click here to learn more about the program!


Beginning The Journey...™ Seminars
Most practitioners recognize that there is much more to understanding and treating patients than categorizing them according to symptoms and syndromes. How, then, do you heal the emotions, mind, and spirit, as well as the body, with acupuncture? Knowing the "spirits of the points" avails you little unless you know exactly how and when to use them and how to conjoin them with the underlying imbalance.

Our teaching provides a theoretical and experiential bridge that connects the promise and the fulfillment of acupuncture's potential for integral healing.

These seminars cover:
~ The mental & spiritual levels of the Five-Elements, Twelve Officials, & specific acupuncture points
~ Diagnosing the needs of the mind and spirit
~ How this system addresses physical pain and illness
~ Clinical interaction with patients
~ Rapport skills and patient management
~ Pulse diagnosis within the Classical Five-Element System
~ Detecting and resolving life-threatening energetic blocks
~ Treatment planning

CEUs: 15 California Acupuncture Board CEUs and 15 NCCAOM PDAs.

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Announcing the next offering of Beginning the Journey™ in Canada
Professor Neil R. Gumenick will be in Victoria B.C. for a special Beginning the Journey™ Seminar to take place February 11 - 12, 2012. The seminar will be held at the Pacific Rim College. This seminar is NCAAOM approved for 15 CEUs.

Please visit PacificRimCollege.ca for more information and registration details

Presentation Skills Seminars

Learn to connect to an audience in a way that will keep them on the edge of their seats and to patients in a way that will truly gain their trust. Through theater exercises and feedback in a real teaching situation, your confidence and love of teaching and practice will soar as you joyfully break through your barriers of stage fright, shyness, and self doubt.

Whether you are a teacher or not, in these seminars you will gain communication skills that will profoundly enhance your presentations to students, prospective patients, as well as enrich your rapport skills with those in your practice.

CEUs: 16 California CEUs and 16 NCCAOM PDAs

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Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Graduate Seminars

Join us for a this 2-day advanced, graduate level training with Neil R. Gumenick assisted by Brian Bender. Refresh your memory and your senses as we cover all aspects of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture practice, with particular emphasis on deepening your sensory skills of smelling, seeing, hearing, feeling, interviewing, pulse taking, and point location – all designed to get to the Causative Factor, choose and find the exact points for which the patient is asking. The seminar will feature new videos of Neil in clinic with a variety of patients.

We will welcome questions on any and all aspects of this medicine, including practice building. Come re-experience the magic of being together in this work.

CEUs: 15 California Acupuncture Board CEUs and 15 NCCAOM PDAs.

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The Five Element Acupuncture Symposium 2011
"Continuing the Journey™"
The 2011 Symposium was a success! Click here for more info.


 


THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL FIVE-ELEMENT ACUPUNCTURE INC.
2926 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica CA 90404-9900
www.5elements.com
(310) 453-2235