Five Element Jam 2027 - 10 month course

The Five Element Jam is a brand new, embodied, interactive Five Element course with Charlotte Brydon and Rachel Peckham, that runs over the space of 10 months, with one session per month in college.

Five Element Jam is a playful and deeply practical journey into the Five Elements. It is primarily taught through the senses and through reflection. This in-person course is for practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of the Five Elements through direct experience.

Participants will be guided through Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water using movement, music, taste, smell, partner work, group exercises, observation, treatment planning and clinical reflection. Each day is designed as an immersive exploration of the Elements.

This is not a course in which the Five Elements are studied only as theory. Participants will explore how each Element lives in the body, voice, face, senses, emotions, relationships and clinical field through felt sense and observation. It is also an opportunity to learn how to treat solely in the Five Element style.
The final part of the course brings the learning into clinical application, with opportunities for patient encounters, observation, CF diagnosis, point selection, case studies, joint practice, supervision and exploration of the intersection with relational psychotherapeutic dynamic.

This is a course for practitioners who want to FEEL the Five Elements, not just think about them.

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Participants will learn to:

❤️ deepen their understanding of the Five Elements through direct sensory & embodied experience�
💛 observe Colour, Sound, Emotion and Odour with greater subtlety�
🤍 recognise how each Element appears in the body, voice, eyes, movement, relationship & clinical field
💙 use play, movement, music, taste and smell to develop diagnostic sensitivity & experience the Qi of specific elements
💚 explore their own relationship to Fire, Earth, Metal, Water & Wood�
connect Elemental observation with treatment planning & point selection
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❤️ practise Five Element observation with peer work & patient day
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💛 develop confidence in CF diagnosis�
🤍 work with case material through a Five Element lens�
💙 understand how psychology, boundaries, transference, counter-transference & the therapeutic field intersect with Five Element practice, specifically the Five Elements�
💚 take part in supervised clinical thinking & patient-based learning�
become more aware of themselves as the instrument of diagnosis & treatment
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📚 Five Element Jam - 10 months
🧑‍🏫 Charlotte Brydon & Rachel Peckham
📆 Starts Wednesday 3rd March 2027
🏫 In-person at CICM
💰 £1600
💳 Payment plans by monthly direct debit also available
🤲 Open to qualified acupuncturists
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Because this course is embodied, relational and experiential, we take great care with how the group is held. A dedicated wellbeing support person will be present throughout the course, helping to create a safe, steady and well-supported learning environment.

This course is open to qualified acupuncturists, TCM acupuncturists wanting to learn the five elements and how to treat using this system, and 3rd year acupuncture students with an interest in enhancing their Five Element practice, CSEO, embodied diagnosis and clinical treatment planning.
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Charlotte Brydon is the Five Element Skills Programme Leader at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine and has taught acupuncture students for many years across observation, diagnostic skills, clinical awareness and practitioner development. She is also an integrative psychotherapist and clinical supervisor.
Rachel Peckham is a highly experienced acupuncturist and has a foundation in Five Element acupuncture, trained with J.R. Worsley in 1994. She is a Director and Trainer for NADA GB and has also been involved in World Medicine, bringing acupuncture into community and humanitarian settings.
Together, Charlotte and Rachel offer a course that is playful, precise, clinically useful and rooted in deep respect for the Five Element tradition.
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See more information & course dates here - https://www.acupuncturecollege.org.uk/info/courses/post-graduate-courses/five-element-jam-2027/
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