The Chinese Medicine Psychology of Dragon Rises Red Bird Flies with Dr. Karen Bilton (PhD)
Seminar recorded 17-18 August 2024
Course Overview
After this course you will be able to:
- Identify psycho-emotional signs in your patients with confidence
- Understand the development of personality in terms of 5 phases
- Effectively manage maladaptive behavioural patterns of patients
- Apply Classical formulas & acupuncture according to psychological imbalances
What you will learn:
- The development of the “self” and the evolution of being through a five element lens.
- The origin of diverse psycho-emotional behaviours and related energetic imbalances.
- Psycho-emotional signs (as well as you do physical symptoms) to diagnose and treat your patients more effectively .
- Discussion of diagnosis includes the integration of Shen-Hammer Pulse signs.
- Treatment approaches include Classical Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture
Why learn with Karen Bilton?
- Karen has 30 years of clinical experience
- Studying and collaborating with Dr Leon Hammer on the modern interpretation of the Menghe Ding pulse method – Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis since 1997
- Direct inheritor of Dr Hammer’s non-pathologizing model of ontological psychology – the Psychology of Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies
- Completed PhD research – Investigating the Reliability of Practitioners using Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis
- Co-edited a Handbook of Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis with Dr Hammer
- Teaching Shen Hammer Pulse Diagnosis since 2003 in USA, Australia, and in China 2016 to 2019
- Lectured at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (New York); UTS and UWS in Sydney.
- Continuing study of Classical Chinese medicine with Dr Heiner Fruehauf at NUNM, Portland OR
Course Outline
Day 1
Day 2
NOTE: The above outline was for the live seminar. All of the content is still covered in the recordings, although some breaks and timing may be different.
About Dr. Karen Bilton (PhD)
Karen started her career in healthcare as a physiotherapist. She has been practicing acupuncture and Chinese medicine for 28 years and is licensed to practise in Australia and the USA. Having worked in the USA for 15 years she has been studying with Dr Leon Hammer, MD since 1997. She completed doctoral studies evaluating the reliability of practitioners applying Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis clinically. Karen is one of a handful of people who inherited this pulse method and model of developmental psychological model directly from Dr Hammer.
She is co-author of a Handbook of Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis; taught Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis classes as well as presented at conferences in China, USA, Australia, and New Zealand; and has published her work in peer review journals. Karen having lectured at respected institutions like Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, New York City; the University of Technology, Sydney; and the University of Western Sydney; is further testament to her academic excellence and contribution to Chinese medicine.
Currently she is in clinical practice in Sydney, Australia, and continues her exploration of acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine in relation to Daoist cosmology. She endeavours to share her knowledge teaching classes in pulse diagnosis and the psychology of Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies.
What You Get After You Complete The Course
- Notes to keep
- 12 CPD Points
- CPD Certificate
- 5 year access
- Unlimited revisions during access period