Course Overview

This course is Part 1 of a 10-Part Program that uses Traditional Chinese Medicine to successfully treat addictions. In Part 1: Foundations, we establish clear communication between practitioner and client by defining common addiction terms and removing any preconceived notions. This provides a solid and necessary structure to build clear goals and achieve long-term success. Like most of the 10 Parts of the Program, this course contains 5 Lessons with each of the Lessons consisting of: 1) An PDF Workbook 2) Three videos guiding you step-by-step through the Workbook 3) A guided Medicine Journey video 4) A guided Medicine Writes video 5) Q&A audio 6) Checklist: 3 Big Things (a summary for clients) 7) Alchemist’s Notebook for Practitioners This Program is a holistic approach to comprehensively treat addictions. It does not offer “magic points” that somehow change thoughts, beliefs, feelings and behaviors. It does offer an in-depth emersion into: 1) Addressing every aspect of the whole person: mental, spiritual, emotional and physical 2) Exploring every Phase of the Cycle of Addiction, identifying its weak points and breaking it there once and for all 3) Repairing the damage done to every close relationship Like every Part of the 10-Part Program, Part 1: Foundations offers a wealth of material that can be immediately implemented in your treatments or assigned as homework to keep clients engaged and quickly coming back.

Course Objectives

• Receive a clear definition, diagnosis and treatment plan for addiction
• Acquire a TCM understanding of addiction that incorporates Western psychology & modern treatment
• Create the foundation upon which to build long-term sobriety
• Learn a language to collaborate with medical & mental health professionals
• Integrate your unique skills into this non-denominational, plain-English approach.

Course Outline

0 hrs - 1 hrsLesson 1: Definitions: Alcoholic, Addict, Addicted Using the industry-standard definitions, we explore and clarify a client's perception of these terms to remove any barriers to treatment.

1 hrs - 2 hrsLesson 2: Definitions: Addiction Breaking down the Alchemist Recovery's definition of addiction, we go into detail as to how this directly relates to and draws from TCM.

2 hrs - 3 hrsLesson 3: Definitions: Medicine We identify your client’s needs through their exploration of Medicine. Do they want a mental, spiritual, emotional or physical approach?

3 hrs - 4 hrsLesson 5: Definitions: Success We build upon the Foundation we’ve established in the first four Lessons by clarifying immediate and long-term goals. We then explain how TCM can help them achieve these, as well as all ongoing Success.

4 hrs - 5 hrsLesson 4: Definitions: Medicine-Part 2 We explore the ways to deliver the kind of Medicine our client wants for their addiction. How does TCM provide specific mental, spiritual, emotional and physical answers that our clients can understand?

Course Overview

Course 2 contains Lessons 6-11 of the Alchemist Recovery Program. It builds upon the foundation laid down in Course 1 where we established clear definitions and an agreed upon language to use with our clients. With this understanding, Course 2 digs into the roots and explores the deep, underlying causes for an addiction. We follow this path: Lesson 6: The 4 Stages of Recovery Lesson 7: Belief - Where the Wound Is Lesson 8: How Did I Get This Way? Lesson 9: The Yin Yang of Addiction Lesson 10: The Voice of TAHL - Your Limiting Core Belief Lesson 11: Truth vs Lies The work we perform here in Course 2 will not only reveal the underlying causes for one’s addiction but it will also explain how this occurs from a TCM perspective.

Course Objectives

• Learn about the origins of addiction
• Use Yin Yang theory to simply explain the characteristics and mechanisms that form the basis for an addiction
• Learn a TCM view of trauma
• Learn tools to immediately apply into practice

Course Outline

0 hrs - 1 hrsLesson 6: The 4 Stages of Recovery. Practitioners can use this model to track a client’s progress through recovery. TCM tools are implemented at each Stage.

1 hrs - 2 hrsLesson 7: Belief - Where the Wound Is. An in depth examination of a client’s Belief is performed here. We safely begin to look at trauma, abuse, heartbreak and loss and how these forms of Fright contribute to addiction.

2 hrs - 3 hrsLesson 8: How Did I Get This Way? Using the information gather in Lesson 7, we go deeper into the mechanisms that form the origins of addiction.

3 hrs - 5 hrsLesson 9: The Yin Yang of Addiction. We use the 8 Principle Theory of Yin Yang to explain basic factors of addition.

5 hrs - 7 hrsLessons 10 & 11: Truth vs Lies. We explore how the TCM concept of Zhi relates to the modern psychological term of a Limiting Core Belief. This is the Seed that is planted in Water (to use introduce the 5 Element Model) of the Cycle of Addiction.