Advanced NADA Training
ADVANCED AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE TRAINING
APT Training
8:30-4:30
Day One: attendance sheet/ tees/purell/urine cups/
o Sign In / Name tags
• Introduction/Topic overview/Objectives/Standards of Competency
o Paperwork for NADA: Attendance sheet
• Treatment (30 min)
o Reflections: Clients and Trainees (30 min)
Trainees introduce self with their reflections)
• Integration PP and discussion
Break 10:45
o History of NADA
o Power point : NADA /TEAM
o Integration of Eastern and Western Medicine
o Yin/Yang, Empty Fire and Addictions
Why “the Ear”?
• “The schpeil”: contraindications and Consents
LUNCH Break
Examine ears (5 min)check for shiny lines, shadows, etc..rotate
o Universal Precautions/needle safety
o Importance of “grounding”/ Needle Shock
o Practice on plastic ears / Needle technique/Non-Verbal
o Ear picture up
• Point Location and practice shenmen
• Point Location and practice sympathetic
• Point Location and practice lung
• Process the day
o Hand out manuals, index cards/tea
o HW: Read pp 21-55 (section IIA, IIB, III) Partnership w clients
o Write schpeil on index card
o Practice points
o Reminder to drink ++water/salt bath
ADVANCED AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE TRAINING
Day Two: Sign in
Reflections on practice
Go over index cards:Descriptors for each point from homework
Demonstration: what this should look like:
Treatment on each other with schpeil/ clients
Break
• Point Location and practice kidney
• Point Location and practice liver
• Video: “Gabor Mate’ or
• Video: “Uncommon Bridges” (20 min)
LUNCH BREAK:
o Integration with 12-step and community support
o Auricular Acupuncture and the recovery process
Serenity Prayer and Acudetox: Advise AA meeting
o Integration into the treatment mileu
o Cultural Sensitivity, Diversity and Equity
• Break -NADA QiGong
• Ear test on screen with pointer
• Practice all 5 points (groups of 3- one critique)
o NADA is good for the “System”
o Boundaries and self care
o Beads/ seeds
• Process the Day
• HW: Practice points (clinic practice Tues 3:30)
• Read: research article (Sect IV, V, VI) OM, integration
• Reminder to drink ++water/salt bath
ADVANCED AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE TRAINING
Day Three: Sign In
• Research Discussion
• Treatment 5 points clients and trainees
• Supervision
• Guide tube practice
Break
• Role Play (40 min)
• Brief “Quiz” and discussion (30 min)
• Paperwork: Legal/Consents/Logs/ charting (10 min)
o CT legislation/TIP 43 -handouts
• Evaluations
• Pledge/ hand in all paperwork
• LUNCH & video on NADA and the Legal System
Practice and questions
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION…
THE TREATMENT & RECOVERY COMMUNITY IS GRATEFUL!