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Psychology of Dragon Rises Red Bird Flies

Improve your diagnostic capability through a deeper understanding of psycho-emotional behavioural patterns.

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Join Dr Karen Bilton, PhD for a deep exploration of Dr Leon Hammer's model of developmental ontological psychology.

The evolution of being is examined according to the energetic cycle of the five phases which are an expression of the “great turning” or the cycle of yin and yang of Daoist cosmology.

 

  • Birth in depths of Water,

  • Growth and negative assertion of Wood,

  • Full realisation of self and positive assertion of Fire,

  • Individuation and transformation of bonds in Metal

  • Return to Water or Shao Yin for the final journey.

  • Our survival is always supported by the Earth phase that nurtures and develops both the bonds that connect us, and the boundaries that protect us. 

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Interferences to the normal evolution and expression of these phases results in attempts by the organism to restore balance. 

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Rather than personality pathologies, these “adaptive strategies” that are employed by the individual depend on what resources are available “to maintain contact to stay intact.” 

If anger, joy, compassion, fear, and sadness are acceptable analogues of energy transformations, why not judgement, planning, will, warmth, and precision? Why not pretence, denial, projection, repression, reaction-formation, reversal, and sublimation?

We can and must consider the entire range of behaviour, personality, and intention as a province of energetics.

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Formulated through biweekly 2022 meetings with Dr Hammer discussing the psychology of Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies. The course integrates a classical focus connecting this model to the Neijing and the formulas of the Shang Han Lun, developed by Brandt Stickley a fellow long term student of Dr Hammer’s and Associate Professor at National University of Natural Medicine, College of Classical Chinese Medicine in Portland, OR.

AFTER THIS CLASS YOU WILL UNDERSTAND:

  • Development of the “self” and the evolution of being through a five element lens.

  • Initiation of diverse psycho-emotional behaviours and related energetic imbalance

  • Use of psycho-emotional symptoms to diagnose and treat your patients more effectively. As you do with physical symptoms.

 

Diagnosis and treatment approaches discussed include acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and pulse diagnosis.

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WHY LEARN WITH KAREN

Karen is a long-term student of Dr Leon Hammer, MD, 
 

BIOGRAPHY

Karen has been practising acupuncture and Chinese medicine for 28 years and is licensed to practise in Australia and the USA. Having worked in the USA for 15 years she has been studying with Dr Leon Hammer, MD since 1997. She completed doctoral studies evaluating the reliability of practitioners applying Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis clinically. Karen is one of a handful of people who inherited this pulse method and developmental psychological model directly from Dr Hammer.
 

She is co-author of a Handbook of Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis; lectured at schools in USA and Australia; presented at conferences in China, USA, Australia, and New Zealand and has published in peer review journals. Currently she is in clinical practice in Sydney, Australia, and continues her exploration of acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine in relation to Daoist cosmology.  She endeavours to share her knowledge teaching classes in pulse diagnosis and the psychology of Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies.

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COURSE DETAILS

This class is presented in online lecture format during four 3-hour meetings:

Session 1: Mon March 20th 4pm - 7pm

  • Introduction to the life and work of Dr. Hammer, a basic outline of the text, and a discussion of central aspects of the model, including pulse diagnosis and the therapeutic relationship. 

  • Classical Focus. 

  • Preliminary distinctions: the 5 Phases as expressions of the evolution of being, and a novel approach to Yin/Yang

Session 2: Mon March 27th

  • Water: Natural Functions, Yin/Yang, cognitive style, anxiety, depression, love, sex, and psychosis. Shaoyin Formulas.

  • Wood: Natural Functions, Yin/Yang, cognitive style, anxiety, depression, love, sex, and psychosis. Jueyin/Shaoyang.

Session 3: Mon April 3rd

  • Fire: Natural Functions, Yin/Yang, cognitive style, anxiety, depression, love, sex, and psychosis. Taiyang Formulas.

  • Earth: Natural Functions, Yin/Yang, cognitive style, anxiety, depression, love, sex, and psychosis. Schizophrenia. Taiyin/Yangming/Taiyang Formulas.

Session 4: Mon April 17th 

  • Metal: Natural Functions, Yin/Yang, cognitive style, anxiety, depression, love, sex, and psychosis. Taiyang Formulas. 

  • Conclusion: Integrating and Applying the Concepts taught in the Course. Case Studies.

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for review.

PDA: 

  • ACCMA PDA course ceritication in progress
    Quiz: In the case you cannot attend a session live completion of a quiz related to the recording will be required to be awarded PDAs

Investment:

Early Bird Special: $600 + GST (Until March 11th)

Full Price: $750 + GST

Dates:

4-7pm AEST Monday, March 20,

4-7pm AEST Monday, March 27,

4-7pm AEST Monday, April 3,

4-7pm AEST Monday, April 17,

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