Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine – Transformation: Individuals in Balance; Families in Harmony 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.
No one exists in isolation. Deep within our consciousness, we recognize that at the energetic level we are all connected. Gradually, more of us are beginning to recognize and appreciate this expanded reality and its influence on health and well-being. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has perceived these connections for millennia. In its healthiest state, the family and its members reflect a microcosmic version of the Universe's harmonic connections. The health of the whole is dependant on the health of the parts.
Whether you belong to a nuclear family, an extended family, a blended family or define your "family" broadly in terms of the energetic relationships you share with those in your life, including patients, Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine 2007 offers a unique educational forum where you can gain new insights about health and healing. This year we focus on how to help individuals in particular, and families in general, become their healthiest.
Our goal is to provide an intimate, thought-provoking experience that will refresh you personally and stimulate you professionally.
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. This encompasses all aspects of this time-honored system, including its spiritual, philosophical and theoretical underpinnings, as well as the full complement of TCM modalities for prevention and treatment of health problems. These modalities encompass acupuncture, acupressure, herbal therapy, Qigong, the prescription of foods for healing, and Chinese psychology.
- 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.
- To delineate the unique strengths of TCM: in early diagnosis and prevention, its synergistic effect when used in complement with Western interventions for certain conditions; its philosophy of health and prevention that encompasses the mind, body and spirit.
- To offer clinical practitioners reliable information and practical ways to integrate 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.
