THEME: Developing Solid Foundations for Successful Homeopathic Practice

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Juliet Austin: Basic Business Skills for the Successful Private Practice

In this presentation, Marketing Coach & Copywriter, Juliet Austin, will provide an overview on how to develop a successful homeopathic practice.  Juliet will show you the nuts and bolts of getting started with the business side of your practice, including a financial plan and marketing strategy.  She will then discuss several methods for getting the word out about your practice, concluding with current trends in marketing including blogging and other forms of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, & LinkedIn.  With the right information and a commitment to follow through, a successful homeopathic practice can be in your future!

Sonya McLeod: Not Too Hot to Handle; homeopathic remedies for radiation exposure

There are numerous references throughout homeopathic literature that recommend or suggest remedies to be considered when treating cases involving radiation exposure.  Whether the source is a dental X-ray, radiation therapy, or fallout from a nuclear disaster, homeopaths will provide more effective treatment when they are armed with the remedies discussed.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Peter Fraser

Saturday Conference workshop: Seeing the Proving in the Patient

The process of the homeopathic prescription is one that involves three distinct sides.  In fact Hahnemann divides the Organon into three parts, each one dealing with one aspect of the process.  The process involves understanding the disease as it is expressed in the patient; understanding the nature of the remedy as it has been expressed in a proving; and being able to match the two.  Every homeopath has their strengths and weaknesses; some of us are more at home with one aspect, while others feel more comfortable with another.  We need to work to our strengths and to stress those parts of the process that we do best. However, there is always a danger of letting another aspect become neglected.  At the present time the process of case taking has been centre stage and the proving process is also being looked at in detail by many homeopaths.  The third part is not so well understood but it is as, if not more, important as the other two.

Sunday Post-conference seminar: Finding the Proving in the Case; how proving symptoms can enhance analysis and case management

Homeopathic provings are an invaluable way for homeopaths to gain insight into the homeopathic process.  This one-day seminar will demonstrate how the wisdom revealed in a proving becomes evident in the taking of and management of a number of cases.

Discover how the proving is an expression of the remedy, just as the illness is an expression of the disease.  Both have been expressed through the medium of a person - the prover and the patient respectively - and there is a skill in discerning the nature of the disease and of the remedy.  Often we rely on experts to do this for us and use secondary or tertiary materia medica to understand the remedy and compare it to the patient.  But using the primary provings can be much more effective, not only in matching remedy to patient but in understanding the pattern of cure and the ways of interacting with and managing that pattern of cure.