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The tide moves in, reconnects with the ocean, is restored and refreshed, and then moves out again. Come to this highly experiential event and learn practices for your own moving in, restoring, and opening again. Using these easy-to-learn practices, you can feel more connected with the source of calm and quiet within, giving you the ability to experience being relaxed, peaceful, and grounded, as well as more creative. The day is designed to enhance self-awareness; when self-awareness is strong, the mind is clear and the body healthier. You are invited to join Anne for the day whether you are dealing with a hectic and pressured life or simply seeking a little more stillness.

Fee: $90.00/$75.00 – Early registration on or before November 6
CEUs: 6
Instructor(s): Anne Strozier Adams, LAc, MAc

Join author, acupuncturist and Tai Sophia Co-Founder and Chancellor, Dianne Connelly, PhD, for a festive evening as she reads excerpts from her fourth and newest book – Medicine Words: Language of Love for the Treatment Room of Life. Copies will be available at the event for purchase and for Dianne to sign.

Medicine Words will be published soon. Pre-order your copy at The Meeting Point Bookstore.

Instructor: Dianne Connelly, PhD

Join author, acupuncturist and Tai Sophia Co-Founder and Chancellor, Dianne Connelly, PhD, for a festive afternoon celebrating the release of her fourth and newest book – Medicine Words: Language of Love for the Treatment Room of Life. Copies will be available at the event for purchase and for Dianne to sign.

Medicine Words will be published soon. Pre-order your copy at The Meeting Point Bookstore.

Instructor: Dianne Connelly, PhD

This intensive program of the School Of Philosophy and Healing In Action® (SOPHIA®) teaches you valuable communications skills that will enable you to become more powerful and effective by choosing specific language and by engaging in mindful listening. Based on the cycles of nature, this week-long course introduces the philosophical underpinnings of the Institute and includes the experience of chi, the rhythms of nature, life skills, language, and theory.

Fee: $995
CEUs: 30
Instructor(s): Dianne M. Connelly, MAc (UK), PhD, Bob Duggan, MAc (UK), MA, and John G. Sullivan, J.C.D., Ph.D.

Learn two simple yet powerful practices – Making Clear Requests and Creating and Shifting Moods – that will unleash profound change in your work, your home, your relationships, and yourself. Participants in this course will gain practical tools to take effective action, let go of unnecessary suffering, find vast possibility in all situations, and create greater ease in relationships with work colleagues, friends, and family.

Join us for an evening class rooted in over 45 years of training and experience. Author, educator, and acupuncture practitioner Tom Balles, teaches in all three of Tai Sophia’s master’s degree programs and has practiced acupuncture for 25 years. Co-Program Manager for Tai Sophia’s Workplace and Organizational Wellness programs, Cheryl Walker has 20-plus years of experience as a business owner, educator, and leadership coach.

Instructors: Tom Balles, LAc (UK), MAc, DiplAc (NCCAOM), and Cheryl Walker, ML, MCC

Information about Tai Sophia’s Natural Care Center wellness clinic and the Transformative Leadership programs will be available at the end of the workshop.

Eating healthy doesn’t need to be expensive, time-consuming or boring. Come learn the basics of feel-good nutrition.

Learn:

• how to shop for and prepare simple meals for optimal performance at work
• how to identify healthy prepared meals
• which snacks and herbs can boost and sustain your energy instead of sugar and caffeine

You will walk away from this class with a plan that matches your unique health and lifestyle needs. Food and drink samples will be provided.

Instructor: Rebecca Snow, MS, RH (AHG)

Information about Tai Sophia’s Natural Care Center clinic, which offers nutrition counseling and herbal consultations, as well as information about the Institute’s Master of Science in Herbal Medicine and Graduate Certificates in Herbal Studies and Medical Herbalism, will be available at the end of the workshop.

Join us for an introductory discussion and demonstration of traditional acupuncture – based on over three decades of teaching and treatments – at Tai Sophia Institute, home of the first accredited acupuncture master’s degree program in the United States. Learn what “qi” is, how acupuncture works, what happens in the treatment room, and why millions have chosen this millennium-old method to heal, address pain, and maintain wellness.

Instructor: Kaiya Larson, MAc, LAc, Tai Sophia core faculty and Natural Care Center practitioner

Information about Tai Sophia’s Natural Care Center clinic and Master of Acupuncture program will be available at the end of the workshop.

Qi Gong (pronounced “chee gung”) is the Taoist health and longevity exercise practiced for thousands of years in China. Today, thousands of Americans are discovering its benefits, feeling more refreshed, relaxed, and reinvigorated.

Instructor: Chan Zhang

Chakra Energy Balancing is an ancient form of hands-on healing that uses a gentle, non-invasive touch to balance the subtle energy
field. The opening of the chakras and balancing of the energy flow gives the body access to all available resources for wellness. Join us for a free introduction to learn more about this four-level course that provides you with both practical skills and theory for self-development or to serve as a foundation for a practitioner-level training.

Instructor: Arlyn Kline, RN

Medical Qi Gong specifically focuses on improving physical health and wellness by eliminating blockages, rigidity, and disease through gentle physical movements and synchronized breathing. This form easily accommodates a beginner with limited flexibility, as well as an advanced student.

Instructor: Karl Ardo, MFA

Yoga is an ancient art based on a harmonizing system of development for the body, mind, and spirit.

Instructor: Ashley Litecky, BA, RYT® (Registered Yoga Teacher)

Promoting healthy behavior is a primary goal of health coaches and practitioners. However, it is often quite difficult for patients to develop and maintain new behaviors. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a person-centered, goal-oriented method of communication designed to elicit and strengthen intrinsic motivation for positive change. MI has been shown to be effective in helping individuals develop and maintain a wide variety of health behaviors.

During this two-day workshop you will: 1) become familiar with the spirit of Motivational interviewing; 2) experience and understand the basic principles of MI; and 3) practice MI for health behavior change. At the end of the weekend, you will have the basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to use Motivational Interviewing techniques to assist others in engaging in healthy behaviors.

Fee: $295, $195 Tai Sophia alumni and students
CEU’s: 12
Instructors: Stephen Wegener, PhD, and Arlene Dalcin, RD, LD

Tai Sophia’s signature program has the ability to influence the way you relate to others and to yourself. You will have at least 20 practical skills to use immediately when you leave this workshop. Based on ancient wisdom and anchored in the modern world, learn ways to set priorities in the context of partnership with others, without opposition and judgment. Redefine your fear with courage, your upsets, your relationships, your career, your life, your future as well as your health.

Redefining Health is a program that addresses life’s questions and puts the unknowing in a context that is at once simple and profound. Participants from around the nation and around the globe have reported that this program has influenced their lives by giving them an empowering, effective framework for daily living.

Click here to read more about Redefining Health in the Spring 2009 edition of The Report (article begins on page 4).

Fee: $175/ $165 - Early registration on or before January 20, 2010
CEUs: 12
Nursing Contact Hours: 12.5
Instructor(s): Dianne M. Connelly, MAc (UK), PhD, and Bob Duggan, MAc (UK), MA