Acupuncture training & CPD events

The popularity and value of our programme of continuing professional development (CPD) events is well established.  Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine practitioners from this and other colleges come to Reading to develop their knowledge and meet their peers. 

To book a place (or read further info), please click on the title of the event you are interested in. If you have any queries please email Laura Long LLong@cicm.org.uk or call her on 0118 950 8880.  If you prefer to pay by cheque, please make it payable to 'CICM' and post to us along with your contact details and the CPD event title and date. 

Please note that your place is only confirmed once we receive payment. 

When courses become fully booked, we try to arrange supplementary dates in response to demand. Please email Laura Long LLong@cicm.org.uk  if you would like to be put on the waiting list and we will contact you when a place becomes available again or a new date is arranged.

• Trigger points and beyond

  16 - 17 January 2020

  Learn theory and practical needling techniques with Nicholas Garner

• The NADA protocol

  12 - 13 February 2020

  A two-day seminar introducing the theory and practice of the NADA auricular protocol with Rachel Peckham

• Getting better at getting the CF

  11 March 2020

  An opportunity to attend a one day ‘oral tradition’ seminar with Angela Hicks and John Hicks

• The art of feeling qi

  24 - 25 March 2020

  Learn how to relax and open up into feeling your own and others’ qi with Bill Ryan

• The art of needling with qi - level 1: point location and needle insertion

  26 March 2020

  Build on your ability to feel qi and extend that skill into your needling with Bill Ryan

• Dragon and Tiger qigong: A review with an emphasis on feeling qi

  27 March 2020

  Boost or restart your practice of Dragon & Tiger with a tune-up from Bill Ryan

• The art of needling with qi - level 2: intention and treatment

  28 - 29 March 2020

  Take your needle technique to a deeper level with Bill Ryan 

• The inner library of 5 emotions

  23 April 2020

  Explore how each CF experiences the different emotions with Kim Chan and Sarah Matheson

• Master tung acupuncture*

  13 - 14 May 2020

  Add an effective style of treatment to your practice with Philip Weeks

• Miscarriage and menopause: Neglected areas of women’s health

  04 June 2020

  Understand aetiology & pathology of miscarriage and menopause to give effective skilful acupuncture treatment with Jill Glover

• Nurturing the young: Chinese medicine principles to help children thrive

  18 June 2020

  To enable participants to better understand what may be health-promoting and health-limiting for children and to provide concrete ideas that can be immediately implemented to further the health and happiness of children with Rebecca Avern

• Mental health in a first aid setting

  02 July 2020

  Build your knowledge and confidence in dealing with poor mental health in your patients with George Peterkin

• Everything you ever wanted to know about moxa

  16 - 17 July 2020

  To understand the Sawada style method and application of moxibustion as well as the ability to roll different types of moxa according to different conditions with Snow Wang

• The point of the journey: The art of choosing acupuncture points

  03 September 2020

  To consider different ways of choosing acupuncture points by understanding the patients treatment as a journey with Lorraine Taylor

• Healing the eyes with acupuncture

  1 - 2 October 2020

  Learn the principles and practice of treating eye conditions with acupuncture with Julian Scott

• Acupuncture treatment of acute pain and injury *

  15 - 16 October 2020

  Learn how to bring rapid relief and recovery in acute cases of many pain conditions with John Kelly

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