CLOSED training for clinicians of Region Ten Community Services in Charlottesville, VA. Actual class meetings are January 26/27/28 and FEbruary 12/23.
All participants must be approved by
Region Ten staff.
Materials provided
Training Resource Manual Reading Assignments with supplementary materials.
Plastic Ears
Beads and Seeds Kit with tool
Sleep mix tea
Link to resource materials
Personal kit, provided at Clinical Class,containing: needles for 40 treatments, various sizes, 40 alcohol swabs, hand sanitizer, mask, clean field, sharps container, hair ties, bobby pins, cotton pads, cotton tipped swabs, gloves, transport container
All additional treatment supplies for the practice clinic, including consent forms and first aid.
Materials to be provided by students:
Pen, clipboard, snacks
Preclass Homestudy:
_______VOCABULARY LIST: please be familiar with these words and terms before class starts
Auricular
Auriculotherapy
NADA – National Acupuncture Detoxification Association
ADS – Auricular Detoxification Specialist
Acudetox/Acuwellness
Lincoln Hospital
Energy Medicine
Yin/Yang
Clean Needle Technique
Universal Precautions
Recovery
Trauma Informed
Peer Support
Limbic System Response
Micro-system
Proximal/Distal
Superior/Inferior
Ear anatomy: Helix, anti-helix, triangular fossa, concha, tragus,
________Receive a body or ear acupuncture treatment.
________Review the attached monograph regarding research in Acuwellness. Find one study that interests you and come prepared to share about it.
________Watch a film or video about the acudetox movement such as
Dope is Death, Points to Change, The People’s Detox, “It’s First Aid!”- Tracing the Global Transmission of a Five-Point Ear Acupuncture Treatment, or Black Revolutionaries and Acupuncture.
Class One: 8:30–4:30
“Housekeeping”
Introductions
Guided tour of materials
Needles, Beads, and Sleep Mix tea
Acuwellness experience
NADA: historical roots, mission statement, evidence based practice – Points to Change
Preclass assignment review
Nature of Acuwellness/energy medicine – the very basics
Ear anatomy, intro to points
The five acudetox points
Homestudy:
Write: Identify a time in your life when receiving the five needle protocol would have been helpful. How might it have contributed?
Read: review TRM: 1-37
Do: practice finding the points using the pointer, drink and offer Sleeepmix tea, wear and offer beads and seeds
Class Two, 8:30 – 4:30
Homework review
Acudetox based treatment program models
Point Location review
Safety, clean needle technique, ethics pledge
Clinical materials introduction
Introduction to Needling
Needling practice
First Needling experience
Homestudy:
Write: Compose a “NADA elevator speech” to answer the question “Hey, what’s
Acuwellness?” Or “tell me about that thing you do with needles?”
Read Review: 41, 43, 44,47-48, 51-55, 117,119,120
Do: Do: Look at ears – on video and real life, notice the variety. Practice needling the eraser, the plastic ears, your family/friends. Do something nice for yourself
Class Three – 8:30 – 4:30
Point location/needling review
Clinical concerns
Protocol Modifications
Introduction to Chi/Five Phases
2 Practice clinics
Homestudy:
Do: Spend some time in nature. Reflect on what you see that reflects the seasonal energy. Where do you see transformation? Where do you see balance and imbalance?
Look for signs around you of empty fire/false yang. These could be in nature or in yourself or others. What signs and symptoms do you see?
Read: 85-89, 104-114, 80, 200
Write: Tell me how you experience transformation in nature. What is empty fire/false yang? How can it manifest in ourselves and others.
Class Four, 8:30 – 4:30
Acuwellness experience
Review clinical experiences
More about “the points”
Safety and Consent
DEIBA and the protocol
Working with trauma: “Unimagined Bridges” video
Clinics x 2
Homestudy:
Write: Design a piece of media/press release/flyers/poster about a real or imagined acuwellness program. Be sure the images you select reflect the services provided. Please email it to me if possible so we can share in class.
Read: TRM 67-79, 119-121,140,144-153
Do: Recruit patients for our practice clinics
Class Five 8:30 – 4:30
Clinical review/concerns
Patient Management scenarios
Program implementation
Practice clinics x 2
ADS competencies
Evaluations
All assignments and clinical competency must be completed before a Certificate of Completion is awarded.
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