Not surprisingly, there has been a disturbing worldwide increase in mental health issues. You have probably seen it in your family members, friends, work colleagues, acquaintances, and patients. You are hit with it 24 hours a day on the news reports.

Yet, with the increase in mental health disorders globally, the literature to support the use of Chinese medicine to treat these emotional complaints has not kept up. No doubt you have been taught how to treat the traditional Seven Emotions (Qī Qíng/七情) but what do you do when a patient isn’t needing treatment for one of those seven?

Course description

David Hartmann has studied, and treated, mental health disorders for a long time. During this workshop, he will not only take you through the vast array of mental health disorders your patients are suffering from, but he will also explain what mental health is, from a Chinese medicine and philosophy perspective. By analyzing mental health disorders, along with their Yīn Yáng Organ/Five Element/Eight Extraordinary Vessel relationships and diagnosis, you will get an understanding of what it means to suffer from mental health disorders.

Acupuncture point combinations are included throughout, making the workshop clinically relevant immediately. David will not only explain to you the importance of good point combinations, and what point combinations have good results in certain mental disorders, but also how you can construct the best point combinations yourself for patients with emotional or mental problems.

David will begin our mental health journey by looking at the following mental health disorders:

Further, David will discuss with you how Chinese medicine understands what it takes to be healthy – physically, mentally, and spiritually. He will illustrate this by looking at the following issues that patients also suffer from:

After this David will end his fascinating workshop by explaining what ‘full inner mental health’ really is. This knowledge will allow you to help your patients better understand who they are, how they react/are triggered by life’s adventures and challenges, and how to let go of their emotional trauma and move into joy, peace, contentment, and harmony.

This remarkably insightful workshop will give you lots of new tools you can apply in your clinic immediately. Your patients will thank you for it!

David Hartmann about the course

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Learning Objectives:

At the end of this workshop you will:

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Knowledge Expectations:

Whilst not imperative, it would be advisable to be somewhat familiar with the following Chinese medicine concepts:

Since this workshop is partly theoretical, partly hands-on, be sure to be happy enough to do some needling on other people, as well as to be needled by others at various stages during the workshop.

Rest assured that there will be ample opportunity to ask questions should you not fully understand something. David will provide you with his email address so that you can contact him in the future should the need arise.

Even if you do not yet have all the basic knowledge mentioned above, you are welcome to the workshop, as long as you have some basic knowledge of Chinese medicine and needle techniques.

But of course it is true: the more basic knowledge you bring to this workshop, the more new and interesting skills and ideas you will be able to use in your future treatments!

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