During our recent visit to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Macao we were delighted to meet old friends in the TCM and Qigong field, and to make new ones.
At a conference on Health and Longevity the Irish College of TCM’s Director Tom Shanahan received a special award for presenting an outstanding academic paper.
Senior college staff have been training in Medical Qigong with their Chinese Qigong Master Professor Song Xinhong since 2000 and are happy to announce that another Qigong weekend workshop will be running in the college in June.
Book your place now to get the early bird offer.
Professor Song Xinhong was one of the event organisers for this very successful international conference.
Irish College of TCM visits China again
The Irish College of TCM (ICTCM) first visited Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in 1999. We have returned to our sister University in Guangzhou, with whom we have had a formal Affiliation since 2002, almost every year since then.
Many ICTCM graduates have attended month-long specialist post-graduate courses. The photo above is from the first Medical Qigong visit in 2000 and the photo below shows the 2002 group.
Later this month ICTCM staff will be meeting University officials in Guangzhou to discuss possible advances in the cooperation between the two TCM teaching institutes.
Application for Acupuncture TCM Training
Soon another group of students who are training to be Acupuncture professionals at the Irish College of TCM in Dublin will be Graduating from the Lic.TCM course. Second year students, such as those shown here learning to locate Acupuncture Points on the back, will be going into the Teaching Clinic to do their practical training.
Would you like to be one of the new first year students studying to change career and become an Acupuncture TCM practitioner?
It takes a little under 3 academic years of exciting, sometime challenging and always interesting part time study.
We are now accepting applications for the October 2018 start date.
The Prospectus Pack is available online at.www.ictcm.ie.
Chinese New Year of the Dog
Happy Chinese New Year of the Earth Dog to all our students, teachers, friends and colleagues in Ireland and across the world.
We wish you all a prosperous and healthy New Year.
Tom Shanahan and Mary Plunkett
Irish College of TCM
http://www.chinesemedicine.ie
Happy Christmas from ICTCM
The Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine wishes a very Happy Christmas and a joyous, healthy and prosperous New Year 2018 to all our staff, students, friends and colleagues in Ireland and across the world.
Tom Shanahan
and Mary Plunkett
December 2017.
Successful start to the new academic year
The Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine enjoyed a sociable and yet profound start to the academic year when Tom Shanahan shared his 40+ years of experience as a TCM teacher, professor and clinician at the Shen Dao Seminar held in early September.
Acupuncture Training in Dublin October 2017
Would you like a new career as a self-employed practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)?
Follow the example of our recent graduates (shown here with staff during the 2017 Graduation) and join us on the next Professional Acupuncture training programme run at the Irish College of TCM in Dublin.
We are still accepting applications for the October start of this 3 year part-time course and are holding further interviews this month.
To apply please download the application form, fees and course information from www.ictcm.ie.
No prior knowledge of either Western Medicine or Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is required.
Qigong Conference in Italy
Professor Tom Shanahan and Registrar Mary Plunkett have each been invited to make a presentation at the Nei Dao Qigong Symposium being held in Rome in October 2017.
Each presentation will reflect our experience of practising Qigong as a Medical treatment option of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) within the wider and generally more well-known context of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine.
Tom and Mary have been practising and subsequently teaching Qigong for Health and Well-being and Medical Qigong since 2000 and regularly visit China presenting papers at conferences and supporting the promotion of authentic, traditional Medical Qigong as taught to us by our Qigong masters in China.
We look forward to meeting fellow Qigong Masters and Presenters from around the world at the Symposium in Rome.
Graduation of New TCM Practitioners
2017 ICTCM Graduates
A Graduation Ceremony has been held to present certificates to the 32nd group of graduates of the Lic.TCM Professional Acupuncture Training programme.
The First Secretary from the Chinese Embassy in Dublin presented the certificates.
College Staff, fellow students, family members and friends came to the graduation and joined together in wishing the new practitioners every success in their new careers.
The Irish College of TCM congratulates the graduates – who are setting up in practice as Chinese Medicine Practitioners in a number of parts of Ireland including Wicklow, Wexford, Cork, Meath, Kildare, County Dublin and various parts of Dublin City.
ACUPUNCTURE TCM FOR INFANTS
Acupuncture TCM is a treatment method of Traditional Chinese Medicine which can be effectively used to treat pregnant women and small infants.
The photograph shows one of the new graduates from the Licentiate in TCM Professional Acupuncture Training programme (on the left) and her recently born daughter who is helping students to learn how to make a TCM diagnosis on an infant.
This little child already has more than 9 months’ experience of Qigong practice as her mother conceived her while she was a student on the Certificate in Medical Qigong course.
Recruitment for both the Acupuncture TCM and Qigong programmes is currently on-going.
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