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This talk will look at why it is vital that babies and children get what they need in the first years of life, what they need and how to go about giving it to them. We will see how the wisdom of Chinese medicine can be applied to today’s children and how it can help them to thrive.
Over 1300 years ago, Sūn Sīmião wrote extensively about the importance of nurturing the young. These days parents are faced with an overwhelming amount of often contradictory advice about how to raise happy, healthy children. Yet somehow, we find ourselves with a generation of children, many of whom are unhappy and/or chronically ill.
Learning objectives
- To understand the nature of children from the Chinese medicine perspective
- To understand how children grow and develop from the Chinese medicine perspective
- To gain an awareness of commonly accepted aspects of 21stcentury life that are causing imbalance in our children
- To look at ways that parents, teachers and practitioners can make changes that support children’s growth and development
Outline
- The importance that Chinese medicine (CM) has placed on nurturing the young
- Understanding childrens’ physiology from a CM perspective
- 8 key aspects of childhood that optimise physical, emotional and psychological growth – some common pitfalls and some suggestions
- Attachment and intimacy
- Physical touch
- Appropriate care during illness
- Space and time to grow and develop
- A yin environment
- Appropriate diet and eating habits
- A balance between rest vs activity
- A balance between protection vs exposure
- Questions
Approved:
Catalog:
NCCAOM AOM-OM:
3.00
Texas General Acupuncture:
3.00
Massachusetts Core Knowledge:
3.00
Florida General:
3.00
California Category :
Category 1
Rebecca is a senior lecturer, clinical supervisor and teaching clinic director at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine (CICM) in Reading, UK. Soon after qualifying in 2001, she spent 4 years working alongside and assisting Giovanni Maciocia in the writing of Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine. She studied paediatric acupuncture with Julian Scott. In 2012, she founded an acupuncture centre for the treatment of children in Oxford – the Panda Clinic. She is the author of the recently published textbook Acupuncture for Babies, Children and Teenagers: treating both the illness and the child. She teaches paediatrics at undergraduate and post-graduate level, most notably a year-long paediatric diploma at CICM.
$75.00 USD
