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Annual Conference and AGM 2010
Inspirational Homeopathy

24th - 25th April 2010

The School of Pharmacy
Brunswick Square, London



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Join colleagues in London this Spring for an exciting conference weekend with a fascinating line up of speakers from the diverse world of homeopathy.

Following feedback from previous years, we are offering this excellent value-for-money conference package as a two-day nonresidential event, providing you with maximum flexibility for booking accommodation and meals independently.

There is also a chance to win a free place! All bookings will be entered into a free prize draw for the chance to win a free two-day conference place. Thanks to RADAR, a registered member will win a free place and not forgetting students, an additional free place is available courtesy of Weleda. The draw will take place during the complimentary drinks reception on Saturday evening.

The AGM will take place on Saturday afternoon after lunch and is free to Society members. This is an opportunity for you to become involved in the vital business of The Society and for Registered members to elect new directors. In addition to the presentation of 2009's activities, this is a chance to discuss the issues of the day.

For delegates looking for something different, a concurrent session will run with registered member Sarah Carter, on a theme of challenges and opportunities in working with patients with mental health problems.

A brand new exhibition facility at the School of Pharmacy provides a pleasant area for browsing trade stands from the world of book suppliers, homeopathic pharmacies, computer software, business coaching and various charities from the homeopathic community.

On Saturday evening, after the last presentation of the day, you will have the opportunity to join colleagues, speakers, Society personnel and board members for a complimentary drinks reception kindly sponsored by Helios Homeopathy. For a relaxing end to a busy day, musicians will entertain you as you network with friends and colleagues.

And to add to the conference experience, a Tai Chi session will provide a gentle warm up to the proceedings on the Sunday morning. A Tai Chi teacher, who is also a member of the Society, will lead the session.

Back by popular demand, the easy payment scheme will cushion the cost by providing the option to spread payments over several months. For your convenience, conference booking is
available on line here.

Many thanks to our main sponsor Nelsons
and also to Helios Homeopathics, RSA Group and
Lockton Companies International Limited, The
Homeopathic Book Company, RADAR and Weleda.


Speakers

Dr Brian Kaplan:
Provocative therapy as an aid in taking the case


This lecture will focus on a discussion of the principles and practice of provocative therapy, which has been described as “homeopathic psychotherapy” by its founder Frank Farrelly. Brian describes it as the cutting edge in the use of humour and reverse psychology in medicine. He will outline the “like treating like” similarities between homeopathy and provocative therapy; explain how this approach can be used as an aid in taking the history in difficult cases, and in the cases of psychotherapists and homeopaths.


Provocative therapists, with affection in the heart and a twinkle in the eye, ‘encourage’ patients to continue their self-defeating behavioural patterns. Paradoxically, in much the same way as homeopathy, this tends to provoke people into helping themselves by stating, owning and enacting the solutions to their problems. This lecture includes the possibility of a live demonstration of provocative therapy in action!

Dr Kaplan is a fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy, as well as being president of the British Institute of Provocative Therapy. He qualified as a medical doctor in South Africa, then trained in homeopathic medicine at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, becoming a faculty member in 1983. He has since studied counselling, nutritional dietetics, fitness, yoga, autogenic training and provocative therapy.

 

Dr Divya Chhabra:
Free association and the inner sensation


Flying in from India is the popular international teacher Dr Divya Chhabra to share her innovative method of getting to the deepest level of sensation.

Part of the world renowned group of Mumbai teachers, Dr Chhabra has developed her own method of case taking. She says: “As the world moves into ‘quantum concepts’ and the jumping electrons of Lanthanides emerge from the ‘hidden’ shadow, the path to the simillimum also takes a quantum leap to the source.


The case receiving leaps from peculiar symptoms to the innermost experience through food, fear, dreams, hobbies and acute illnesses to the point of confluence with the simillimum.”

Its ultimate success, she explains, lies in holding on to the weirdest and most peculiar, and moving to a space where there is no logical analysis to hold on to. It is only by leaping into that moment that one can reach the summit, the simillimum - the confluence of the peculiar symptom with the source.

The presentation will unfold this crystal clear method, where both patient and homeopath swirl in a perfectly tuned, energised, yet effortless dance to the simillimum. It will also emphasise the tools needed to explore materia medica.

Dr Chhabra has been practising classical homeopathy in Mumbai since 1992. She has lectured all over the world, and is also known for her provings, which include Thea, Citrus, Lac Felinum, Lac Rhesus, Tungsten, and Bat. She has also conducted a potency proving with two well-proved polycrest remedies and helped to remove the grey area in the understanding of potencies. She has published a book on the periodic table of elements and is working on two others, one on her provings and the other on her experience in practice.



Jackie Raw RSHom & Clare Walters RSHom:
A study in the homeopathic treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Since 2005, Jackie Raw and Clare Walters have worked within the NHS (Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) initially as part of a team delivering a pilot. This study, cofunded by Barnsley Hospital and Homeopathy Action Trust (HAT) concluded in 2007 and the results were published in 2008 at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) conference, more recently in Homeopathy Magazine (Apr, 09) and are receiving ongoing coverage online and in the British Medical Journal.

The interest generated by the favourable results of this pragmatic pilot study resulted in the provision of a low-cost Fibromyalgia Syndrome clinic at Barnsley Hospital and further funding by Homeopathy Action Trust to run a ‘service evaluation’ with homeopathy as the preferred intervention for this patient group. Jackie and Clare have also secured funding for a pilot study for the homeopathic treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) due to commence in 2010.

In this presentation, Jackie and Clare will share their experience of working within the NHS and the practical considerations of clinical practice within this environment.


Jackie’s background is in sports studies. She discovered homeopathy after receiving treatment for a back injury. During her final year at Sheffield College of Classical Homeopathy she made a speculative approach to the consultant of a recently opened Rheumatology suite at Barnsley Hospital …and the rest is history! Now eight years on, Jackie has been accepted to study a Graduate Certificate in Rheumatology Practice to start in October 2010.

Clare began her career as a research ecologist, qualifying from the Sheffield College of Classical Homeopathy in 1998. She has been involved in two service evaluations of homeopathy in primary care, joining Jackie as part of the research team at Barnsley Hospital in 2005. She spent some time as academic director at the Yorkshire School of Homeopathy and now has a consciousness coaching business that runs alongside her homeopathy practice.


Misha Norland:
Sharing my amazement

Presenting the final lecture on Sunday, Misha, a much admired and loved teacher, will talk about the case receiving process, giving a relaxed overview of what is central for all of us.

Despite practising homeopathy since the 1970s, Misha says he “continues to be amazed”, and will share that amazement through a video case, where stopping and considering, listening and reviewing, will enable him to share his thoughts and demonstrate how case receiving (attention in passive focus) and directed questioning are both led by an understanding of what it is that needs to be cured.


Misha comments: “This understanding informs every aspect of our interactions with patients, with remedies and with the cosmos. The highest ideal of cure, as Hahnemann teaches, is to heal the entire person from within to without on easily comprehensible principles. Astonishingly, this can be done, maybe not the first time, but in time, most of the time. This is what I have to share, the method and magnificence of homeopathy brought through an understanding of how to receive the case.”

Misha, a fellow and founder of The Society of Homeopaths, began his career as a filmmaker, but in 1971, fatherhood and homeopathy found him and he began a new path. He set up the School of Homeopathy in Devon in 1981, has written two books, and over the years has contributed to many journals in various countries. He continues to undertake and publish homeopathic provings with the School of Homeopathy and as well as his work with the school in the UK, regularly facilitates clinical workshops for the school’s international study program in North America.

 

Con-current session

Sarah Carter RSHom:
W orking with patients with mental health problems

This will be an interactive workshop to explore and examine the key issues that emerge when working with patients with mental health problems – from insomnia and panic attacks to self-harm and psychosis.

Through discussion, debate and extrapolation of case studies, specific scenarios and materia medica, a range of potential topics may be covered, including the stigma of

mental health, risk assessment, case taking, methodologies, working with medication, suicidal depression, miasmatic influences, ethical issues, strategies for measuring change, working with families, carers and mental health teams and protecting your own mental health.

The central aim of this workshop is to provide students and practitioners with a variety of practical tools and information that will help to support them in their everyday practice. It will highlight the importance of listening to/respecting the patient’s priorities, which may not always be aligned with our own.

As well as running her own practice, Sarah has worked for over three years at a supported housing scheme which accommodates people with mental health and drug/alcohol problems, many of them ex-offenders. She has treated numerous patients suffering from a wide range of mental health problems, many of who are on long-term medication. She also has extensive experience of working in prison environments with young offenders.

Sarah has researched the effects of homeopathy on the symptoms of schizophrenia and is conversant with the issues surrounding antipsychotic medication and anti-depressants. She supports the need for measurement and evaluation in building up an evidence base for homeopathy in the treatment of severe mental health conditions. To this end, Sarah is in the process of designing and developing a range of measurement tools.

The Annual General Meeting

This is your opportunity to become involved in the vital business of The Society and for Registered Members to elect new directors. In addition to the presentation of 2009’s activities, this is a chance to discuss the issues of the day. The Annual Review and Accounts will be presented.

Attending the AGM only is free if you are a current member but please let us know in advance by completing your application form or calling the office.

Notices and Minutes

The notice about who has been nominated, directors retiring, those seeking re-election and those continuing in office, will be sent to you by 3rd April 2010.

Sponsors

Many thanks to our main sponsor Nelsons and also to Helios Homeopathics, RSA Group and Lockton Companies International Limited, The Homeopathic Book Company, RADAR and Weleda.


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