Workshops and Seminars
Karen is an experienced lecturer and provides education for health professionals. She teaches pulse diagnosis workshops, Chinese medicine psychology and acupuncture for allied health. The audience for these programs are acupuncturists, Chinese medicine practitioners, allied health professionals and GP's.
Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis
Pulse diagnosis for Chinese medicine and acupuncture practitioners
Are you questioning what you are feeling on the pulse?
Do you want to improve your diagnostic skills and treatment success?
Learn to have the pulse guide your treatment.
Study pulse diagnosis in a friendly supportive environment and learn to read a person's physiology.
Karen is a direct lineage holder of Shen-Hammer pulse diagnosis and an experienced instructor, teaching this method for 20+ years in the USA, China, New Zealand and Australia.
These workshops are designed to nurture your learning and are graded accorded to familiarity with the method.
1. Four day Foundations class - for people new to the method.
2. Two day Intro-mediate classes - for people growing their skill. A combination of instructor guided learning and live patients.
3. Two day Intermediate classes - for people using this method in their clinic. Pulse assessment of live patients, interpretation of findings and devising management plans.
4. Review days - a chance for people to check in and review their technique and advance their skills.
Chinese Medicine for Allied Health Professionals
Acupuncture Concepts for Women's Health Physiotherapists
Are you struggling with long lists of acupuncture points for dysmenorrhea, endometriosis? Not sure which is the best point combination for your patient?
Refine your diagnostic skills and treat more successfully.
Learn to use Classical Chinese medicine concepts to more effectively treat common women’s health conditions. Understand that the same diagnosis may require different approaches for different individuals. Develop your sensory awareness, improve diagnosis and apply more appropriate acupuncture.
Chinese Medicine Psychology
Psychology of Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies
Do you want a greater understanding of your client's psycho-emotional patterns and behaviours? Personality is a representation of the energy transformations within a person and an antecedent to future health patterns.
Development of 'Being' is influenced by genetics and the environment in which we grow from a small union of cells into adult human then our gradual decline and return to forces from where we emerged.
Explore Dr Leon Hammer’s model of developmental ontological psychology where the evolution of 'Being' is examined according to the energetic cycle of the five phases, an expression of the “great turning” or the cycle of yin and yang of Daoist cosmology.
