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. (U.K.), C.T. (A), 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 next Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program begins September 2008.
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: Approved by the California Acupuncture Board for 15 CEUs and by the NCCAOM for 15 PDAs.

Schedule:

Beginning The Journey...™ will return in 2009. Sign up for our Mailing List and you'll know as soon as dates and locations are announced!


Presentation Skills Seminars
The communication skills of the accomplished actor are much the same as those of the teacher or practitioner of acupuncture. In each case, one must be fully present, emotionally open, receptive, and genuinely responsive to either another actor onstage, a patient on the table, or a class assembled to receive one's teaching.

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 NCCAOM PDAs Approved

Schedule:

Presentation Skills I
~ November 22-23 2008 in Santa Monica CA

Conact us to request registration information today!

 


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