Event description

A one-day seminar on the ins and outs of group treatment clinics with Charlotte Stone, Calum Thomson and Nik Tilling at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading.

Multi-bed acupuncture clinics challenge the established norms of private, highcost acupuncture provision, and offer an effective and exciting new way of bringing acupuncture to the wider community.

This seminar is intended for practitioners considering establishing a similar practice themselves. It details the experiences and perspectives of the founders of the Dragon Acupuncture Project in Brighton, Britain’s first independent multi-bed clinic.

Topics for the day

• The issue of increasing acupuncture’s accessibility
• Different models for multi-bed practice
• The practicalities of setting up and managing a multi-bed clinic
• Benefits, difficulties and issues arising for practitioners and patients working in this environment
• Different styles of practice – what works in a multi-bed clinic
• Who uses multi-bed clinics and why: the patient’s experience
• The implications of multi-bed practice for the acupuncture profession
• The energetics of group work

Charlotte Stone graduated from this College in 2006 and has been with the Dragon Project for three years. She has practised auricular acupuncture in a community charity in Brighton since 2004. She studied qi gong and tai chi with Master B K Frantzis for ten years and has taught qi gong in Brighton since graduating from his instructor training course in 2003.

Calum Thomson graduated from this College in 2001 and co-founded the Dragon Acupuncture Project with Nik in 2003. He is a NADA trained auricular acupuncturist and a student and certified instructor of the teachings of Lineage Master B K Frantzis.

Nik Tilling graduated from the University of Westminster in 1999 and first experienced multi-bed practice in Huangzhou, China on a clinical placement. He has volunteered at the Gateway clinic and co-founded the Dragon Acupuncture Project in 2003. Nik is specially interested in the treatment of musculo-skeletal problems.

Course fee

£55 Refunds cannot be made unless at least two weeks notice is given.

Parking and rail travel

Parking is available at the Oracle shopping centre nearby. There is no car parking available at the College. We are a short walk from Reading railway station, at 19 Castle Street. Click here for directions and a map.

Course administration

0118 950 8880