Presenting Deirdre Courtney, TCM Practitioner, Chef, Lecturer and Author of the best seller “Nourishing Life the Yang Sheng Way: Nutrition and Lifestyle Advice from Chinese Medicine” for our first ever Foundations Lecture. Learn how to recommend food appropriately during treatment to help sustain long term change!

Webinar Description

Applying Chinese Dietetic Therapy in Practice (Advanced)

One of the most important things you can do for your patients is to educate them about self-care and preventative medicine particularly with a notion on how to manage their TCM patterns for more positive and sustainable clinical outcomes. Food is one area where many patients may struggle with, where they do not understand how to eat for their condition or underlying pattern and it may not always be tonification, oftentimes TCM Practitioners should be looking at prescribing foods as medicine in a reduction, clearing and harmonizing capacity in the same way that we would prescribe herbs.

In addition, diet is one of the hardest things to change within someone’s lifestyle. How do we look to enact longterm and sustainable change within our patients for maximum effectiveness?

In Part 2 (Advanced) we will go deeper into how we can apply these principles in modern life, and the best ways to help support out patients and not overwhelm them. 

This course will dive deeper into how to construct recipes, in similar ways to constructing prescriptions along with more advanced patient management principles for diet. As TCM Practitioners we are and should be allowed to prescribe foods with an understanding of the underlying pattern, we have the foundations to do so as long as we understand the basic principles and theories of what we are prescribing and not just prescribing “shot gun” style. You will also be able to better and more confidently practice within your clinical scope of TCM dietary recommendation after taking both courses.

This is why we would highly recommend that all participants interested in taking this course, first visit and complete the foundations course as this advanced course is where we build on the previous knowledge and give TCM Practitioners and students alike the tools to heal with one of the biggest tools at our disposal. Food as Medicine.

This suggestion is predicated on the fact that this advanced course is an extension of the foundational course which is a four hour lecture of our Food as Medicine Series. This is highly recommended but (not a prerequisite) that registrants complete the foundations course first before doing the Advanced course to get the most out of this course content.

Click here for the Foundations Course Outline

Webinar Outline

1. Introduction and Theory on Application of TCM Nutrition and Dietetics
   – Assessment of a Patient’s Diagnosis and Dietary Requirements in accordance with TCM Principles:
   – We will look at ways to work with your patients diets that best suits them- Patient management aspect
2. Theory:
   – Understanding Certain Foods as Medicine and What Medicines are actually Foods as well
   – How and why we apply food prescriptions in Clinical Practice
3. Clinical Application:
   – How to build TCM-based Recipes: Selecting individual herbs/foods that can be added to stocks, congees and soups to support health and recovery from certain illnesses.
4. TCM Dietetic Modification Principles:
   – Adding different types of foods to help blood, Qi, Kidney Jing, Clear Heat, Drain Damp and Warm Cold etc.
5. Clinical Application:
   Providing Rationale and Recipes for:
   – Morning Sickness
   – Canker Sores
   – High Blood Pressure/Hypertension
   – Constipation
   – Parasites
   – Boosting Immunity
6. Discussion and review – Summary with tie up from prior knowledge (Foundations and Advanced Content)
7. (Q&A Section) 

Renowned Chinese Medicine Practitioner and qualified chef Deirdre Courtney as well as author of “Nourishing Life the Yang Sheng Way: Nutrition and Lifestyle Advice from Chinese Medicine“ will take us through the fascinating Part 2 (Advanced) of our Food As Medicine Series with Chinese Medicine Education, with a view to have a live lecture/workshop and cooking class next year, centering around women’s health, pregnancy and postpartum theories and traditional recipes.

It is highly recommended that those who are interested in attending her (potential) live workshop next year, complete her two foundation and advanced webinars first.

Prerequisites and Recommendations:
It is highly recommended that those who are interested in attending her (potential) live workshop next year, complete her two foundation and advanced webinars first.
– Students of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2nd year knowledge minimum)
– TCM Practitioners who are legally allowed to practice within their jurisdiction with a minimum of 200 hours of clinical practice and foundational theory of the substances and patterns

About Deirdre Courtney

Deirdre Courtney is an internationally known lecturer and teacher specialising in Yang Sheng; Chinese Nutrition; Herbs; Facial Diagnosis; Face Reading; Working with Spirit Points and the Emotions. She has been an Acupuncturist, Herbalist, Nutritional Counsellor and Chef, specialising in health foods for over 30 years. She is the author of the book, Nourishing Life the Yang Sheng Way: Nutrition and Lifestyle Advice from Chinese
Medicine, published by Singing Dragon in 2019. In addition, she is the Education Director for the Lotus Institute and the Master Face Reading Certification Program. She received her Masters Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from YoSan University in Los Angeles and maintains a private practice in Blackrock, Co Dublin, Ireland.

Details

Date: Sunday, 21st August 2022
Time: TBD
Pricing: $220 for Practitioners, $190 for Students (Undergraduates), $220 for Recording |
Combined (Foundations (Live or Recording) + Advanced): $350 – 8 CPD Points
CPD: 4 CPD Points
Notes: Included
VENUE: LIVE ONLINE COURSE- ZOOM LINK WILL BE PROVIDED CLOSER TO THE DATE

This is a live webinar conducted via the ZOOM VIDEO CONFERENCING Platform. 

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