OVERVIEW

Our Goals
Building Bridges for TCM seeks to continue to offer innovative, effective ways to expand health options and improve outcomes in the U.S. We aim to do this by educating CAM and integrative healthcare and medical practitioners in classical 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, spiritual self-cultivation and self-awareness, so that they can experience the inextricable connections between body-mind-spirit, to model health and radiate a true healing environment for their patients. We seek to present the authentic ancient philosophical principles and theories underlying traditional Chinese and create a deep understanding of this holistic medical system that emerged several thousand years ago from a powerful spiritual practice.

Our ultimate goal is to broaden our 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 theoretical, philosophical and spiritual framework within which the ancient medical system of TCM operates.
• Offer today's 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 body-mind-spirit approach.
• Introduce protocols of self-cultivation for ourselves and patients that encompass true body-mind-spirit medicine.
• Study the connections between body-mind-spirit medicine and good health in TCM.

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

• Summarize the theoretical, philosophical and spiritual framework within which the ancient medical system of TCM operates.
• Compare the advantages of treating the whole person by bringing the bringing back instead of focusing his or her illness or disease
• Differentiate some of the positive contributions TCM could make to prevention within contemporary healthcare
• Explain the purpose of self-cultivation in the practice of body-mind-spirit medicine.
• Demonstrate an ability to hold an informed discussion with patients about TCM as a complementary therapy for certain health conditions discussed at this event.