NADA ADS Training for Encompass Community Supports (Closed)

Four day in person training for staff and emplyees of Encompass Community Supports.

Attendence at all sessions is required, as is some homestudy assignments, including clinical practicum.

Materials provided

Training Resource Manual

Additional handouts (VA regulations, Clinical log, Acudetox, Why and  How, Class assignments)

Plastic Ears

Beads and Seeds Kit with tool

Sleep mix tea

Link to resource materials

Personal kit containing: needles for 40 treatments, various sizes, 40 alcohol        swabs, hand sanitizer, mask, clean field, sharp shuttle, hair ties, bobby pins, cotton swabs, gotten 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

PRE-CLASS ASSIGNMENT:

Upon registration each student will receive a preclass assignment designed to assure that all students share a common vocabulary and maximizes the effectiveness of the time we have together.

You may use previous experience to inform these assignments

Class One:

“Housekeeping”

Introductions

Acudetox experience

“Points to Change” video

Why Acudetox?

NADA:  historical roots, mission statement, vision/principles

(TRM: 1, 8, 15, 136)

Nature of Acudetox/energy medicine – the very basics

Needles, Beads, and Sleep Mix tea (TRM 36,37)

Pre-class assignment review

Ear anatomy, intro to points (TRM 24-30)

The five acudetox points

Introduction to needling -plastic ears only

HOMEWORK:

Write:  Identify a time in your life when receiving acudetox would have been helpful.  How might it have contributed?

Read:  TRM 1 – 50

Do: practice finding the points using the pointer, drink and offer Sleep mix tea, wear and offer beads and seeds.

Class Two

Spirit of NADA QUOTE:

EVERYONE has the right to be

DRUG FREE     GUILT FREE    SHAME FREE

The right to be nurtured with needles and beads, with tea, in 12 Step programs.  The right not to be categorized.  We are all human beings.

WE ARE ALL SACRED.”

-Michael O Smith

Homework review

Point Location review

Safety, clean needle technique, ethics pledge (TRM51,117,119)

Acudetox based treatment program models (TRM43,44,45,67)

Introduction to needling/needling practice in triads

Practice clinic with a family or friend

Homework:

Read: TRM 85-88

Write: A “NADA elevator speech”

Do: Look at ears – on video and real life, notice the variety.  Practice needling the eraser, the plastic ears, your family/friends

Class Three

Spirit of NADA QUOTE: When you first meet a client, you have about five minutes to help them – to make them realize that they are alive and that something good is possible.  You give them acupuncture, and you have offered the knowledge that they have life and potential.

There is not much that’s important to a using addict so you have to make what you do count.  NADA gives them self-validation and is a treatment for their Spirit.”

Point location/Needle placement

Clinical concerns (TRM 32-34,140)

ADS Self Care (TRM 41, 67)

Acu-energetics/Spirit of the Points

Practice clinics (2)

Homework: Write:  Design a flier or press release for an imagined acudetox program.  Please email it to me if possible so we can share in class

Read: TRM 83 – 89

Do: Practice, practice practice

Class Four

Spirit of NADA QUOTE:

“All of us are made of different seeds.

Some things sprout quickly, but others that are hidden might take a longer time to blossom…

One of the very few, if not only, methods of nurturing a hidden seed is through acupuncture, because you can nurture and relate to something that is private.

So BE A GOOD FARMER

Know in which season to rest and know in which to work.  Know what part of a person can be given guidance and what part is private.” M O Smith

Acudetox experience

Client management

Safety/Consent (DEIBA)

Program Implementation/Sustainability (TRM 72)

Practice clinic

ADS competencies (TRM 13)