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.
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:
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.