Practice at the Crossroads:
Acupuncture, Alchemy, Spirituality, and Healing
Our year-long Mentorship Program includes concepts, tools, skills, and practices drawn from Chinese medicine, Western depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy, consciousness studies, energy medicine, and alchemical traditions. The emphasis is on ways of working that support the arising of new possibilities rather than the return to old ways of being.
Participation in this year-long program will provide you with an in-depth understanding of Alchemical Healing and transformation as well as support in developing skills to work clinically and personally at the psycho-emotional and spirit levels.
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Mentorship Program
You can expect to gain entry-level mastery of specific diagnostic and therapeutic skills drawn from:
Five Element Acupuncture
- Working with the Elemental archetypes
- Integrating CSOE into practice
- Application of Five Element Unblocking Treatments
- Bringing seasonal energies into practice; working with the Sheng and K’o cycle as applicable to psycho-emotional and spirit-level treatment
Archetypal (Jungian Depth) Psychology
- Amplification of a psychic process using archetypes
- Dream Work Basics
- Active Imagination
- Working understanding of transference, counter-transference, and conscious work with field dynamics
- Entelechy and the Self / Manifesting Destiny and Tao
Lorie Dechar’s original work with the Five Spirits, somatic knowing, and Taoist and European alchemical tradition
- Inner Sensing Practice
- Understanding the dynamics of the subtle body
- Training in “seeing” to the level of shen for diagnosis and treatment
- Creating safe “alchemical vessels” or therapeutic containers for transformational processes
Zen Buddhist Meditation
- Deep listening and speaking from xin
- Mindfulness in practice
- Activating the healing power of silence
In addition, the program will provide training in:
- Alchemical tools, including Spirit Points, Flower Essences, and Essential Oils
- A Five Spirits Approach to Trauma
- A Heart-Centered Approach to Boundaries
- Clearing and Possession
- Ancestral issues
- Boundary violation
- Shamanic vs. Alchemical approach
- Integration vs. Exorcism
You will also receive:
- An introduction to consciousness studies that will support you in more fully accessing the power of Chinese medicine and other holistic practices.
- Year-long supervision of clinical practice from Lorie.
- Year-long support for personal inner work process from Lorie, Benjamin, small group partners, and assistants.
- An alchemical community of hearts, minds, and voices gathering to explore the edges of healing.
- A community of seekers willing to exit states of denial and addiction and open to the opportunities (gold) buried in the crisis / impasse (lead) of our current planetary crises.
The Mentorship follows the cycle of the seasons beginning with a two-day weekend introductory live virtual session that includes Q&A and break-out sessions. Five subsequent one-day virtual live sessions are scheduled seasonally with emphasis placed on the related seasonal Element and Spirit. There are seven full days of live teaching via Zoom. Recordings of the live virtual sessions are made available.
The in-person Zoom sessions are supplemented by:
- Additional pre-recorded lectures to be viewed between live sessions at your convenience.
- Assigned readings and suggested ongoing “lab work” with partners between live sessions.
- Monthly Office Hours with Lorie and Benjamin to discuss experiential exercises, demonstrations, and case presentations.
- Membership in the A New Possibility network community for ongoing access to a vibrant broader community of people committed to Alchemical Healing.
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Mentorship Program
PREREQUISITES FOR PARTICIPATION
The Mentorship is geared towards certified practitioners of acupuncture and Chinese medicine who are interested in working “alchemically.” This focus will entail the expansion of clinical skills in the domain of emotion, psyche, and soul as well as a deep dive into the spiritual and transformational aspects of Chinese medicine.
The program is also open to practitioners and committed students of other healing modalities as well as anyone seriously interested in becoming an Alchemical Healer. The caveat is that during the Mentorship we will at times be speaking the untranslated language of Chinese medicine and a certain amount of “confusion tolerance” will be necessary for those not yet familiar with the language.
Participants who fully engage in the practices, experiential exercises, readings, classes, and office hour meetings will have the confidence to apply alchemical tools in their own lives and practice. Graduates of this program will have discovered their own “unique alchemy” that will allow them to work effectively and joyfully with specific commonly encountered symptoms as well as the epidemic of soul suffering and longings of our time.
