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Natural Health Conference 2007
Building a Natural Health Community

Intensives

Intensives offer three hours of concentrated learning in a specific facet of natural health. Intensives are offered for an additional cost.

Comparison of Popular Diets

Annmarie Colbin, Ph.D

Compare the Zone, Atkins, Ornish, Pritikin, South Beach, and other popular diets. Learn if you are eating right for your body type, how low-carb affects your health, and if the food guide pyramid diet is right for you.

Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

Wendy Arthur, M.D., FAAFP

Myofascial pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints, and fatigue is rampant in our society. This intensive will look at ways to educate your client on mind/body/spirit methods to address chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Learn the common complex complaints that accompany these syndromes and how to develop educational tools to address lifestyle changes, diet, and nutritional supplementation. Supporting clients with these problems takes a team approach, so this session will cover both cutting edge techniques and conventional therapies including identifying when to refer clients to a medical provider. There will be case presentations based on Dr. Arthur’s 18 years of treating individuals with FMS/CFS.

Chronic Inflammation: The Viral Connection

Daniel Gagnon, AHG, Medical Herbalist

The fear of the avian flu has many people searching for natural ways to boost immunity and reduce risk of infection. By understanding the nature of viruses, how they enter and reproduce inside human cells, how they spread to new human hosts, and how they evade our defenses once they get to new hosts, we become better prepared to cope with disorders that cause inflammation and reduce immune functioning. This intensive will also cover how herbs can contribute to staying healthy and stopping the viruses before they take us as hostage and how to deal with the infection if the viruses win the entry game. The role of cytokines and other inflammatory compounds and herbs that deal with them will also be covered.

Digestive Health and Common Disorders

Phyllis D. Light, RH, Herbalist

Digestive problems are one of the most frequently reported health complaints in the United States today. Discuss natural methods for improving digestive function and maintaining digestive health. Common digestive tract complaints and herbs, foods, and supplements for those complaints will also be discussed.

Endocrine System Disorders

Phyllis D. Light, RH, Herbalist

The endocrine system is a collection of glands that produce hormones necessary for growth, metabolism, sexual activity, response to stress, temperature regulation, and sexual development. Each gland has a specific function and releases specific hormones to help maintain the internal environment of the body. Checks and balances are found in the form of feedback loops. This session will cover the workings of the endocrine system, component glands, and signs and patterns of endocrine dysfunction. Herbs, foods, and lifestyle techniques to address endocrine issues will be presented. Specific indications for herb use, folk remedies and supplement use will also be covered. Energetic effects, stress, mental constructs and emotional imbalance and their influence on endocrine health will be included.

Homeopathic First Aid

Caroline Walrad, Ph.D., CN

Minor first aid problems such as aches, pains, bruises, stings, bites, stomach upsets and cuts respond well to homeopathic remedies. Learn how you can support the body’s own natural healing ability with basic homeopathic first aid remedies and which remedies are most effective in specific situations.

Marketing a Natural Health Practice

J.J. Virgin, CNS, CHFI

How do you define your message and then deliver it to reach your ideal clients? How do you develop a winning marketing plan that you can implement using sweat equity? How can you become known as a leading expert in your town? This intensive will help you identify your ideal clients and strategize on how to reach them, create your message and how to get it out to your community, develop a marketing plan to reach your business goals and learn how to work with the local media and capitalize on free PR. You will leave this course with an action plan to help you develop your dream business.

Medicinal Plant Identification

Darryl Patton, ND

The field identification and medicinal uses for plants found in the deep South and Appalachia will be the subject of this intensive. Approximately 100 of the main herbs used medicinally by the inhabitants of this diverse environmental region will be our focus. Particular emphasis will be on increasing the ability of the participant to both identify plants in their native habitats and to understand the various methods by which these plants can be used in a therapeutic setting.

Natural Health for Children

Ellen Tart Jensen, Ph.D.

Good nutrition, quality sleep, fresh air, sunshine, and herbal remedies are incredibly effective for most children’s ailments. Learn what every parent or grandparent needs to know about using natural therapies and herbs for common children’s complaints, including colds, stomach upset, sleep issues, hyperactivity, indigestion, and “the whatever is going around school” syndrome.

Walking the Walk, Talking the Talk: Practice What We Teach

Susie Hale, ND, Ph.D.

This intensive marks the first face-to-face practitioner training offered to CCNH students and graduates who are interested in putting the CCNH Empowerment Model for a Natural Health practice into actual practice! As Director of Practitioner Education at CCNH, Susie presents this for soon-to-be practitioners or experienced practitioners who want to hone their skills. Implementing the appropriate language of empowerment when speaking with clients can be a challenge. Listen and learn how to work with clients and offer recommendations without falling into the easy trap of sounding diagnostic or prescriptive. Then take the opportunity to practice it, while receiving feedback from Susie.

The Yoga of Eating

Charles Eisenstein

From raw foods to macrobiotics, from veganism to nourishing traditions, from body ecology to metabolic typing, each popular dietary philosophy has its own compelling logic — and each contradicts the others. What to do? To avoid this dilemma, put aside all these external authorities and trust instead the internal authority of your own body. For many of us, years of self-denial, self-rejection, and relying on external authority has silenced the messages from our own bodies. This workshop demonstrates ways to access the body's wisdom, to regain sensitivity to and trust in our authentic appetites, and to distinguish food cravings from nutritional urges. Healers can apply these concepts and techniques with clients as a way of being that opens the fundamental universal energy of nourishment.

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