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Completed Interview - John Hicks

John is the joint principal and co-founder of the College of Integrated Medicine in Reading, UK. In practice since 1975 after training with J. R. Worsley, he went on to become Dean of the College of Traditional Acupuncture in Leamington. John is also an experienced practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine and an associate trainer with the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

The author of The Principles of Chinese Herbal Medicine, and co-author of Healing your Emotions, he also co-wrote the textbook Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture with Angela Hicks and Peter Mole.

Here we present an in-depth and enlightening 60 minute interview with John Hicks, including:

• The early history of Five Element acupuncture in the UK
• The merits of Five Element acupuncture versus TCM style acupuncture
• The importance of community and support
• Formative experiences in China
• Rapport and non-verbal information in Chinese medicine
• The importance of the “quality” of the practitioner
• Spirit and intention
• Common confusions for new practitioners
• The heart of the patient-practitioner relationship
• How to use rapport

Once your order is completed, you will be sent a download link that you can access for 2 hours from the time you complete your order.

This interview is 57MB in mp3 format, so is probably not suitable for download via a dial-up connection.