Teaching

I have taught quite a few seminars in advanced veterinary homeopathy in Massachusetts, Florida, and North Carolina. It is said that you never learn so well as when you teach. I have found this to be profoundly true.

I have been a mentor for a few veterinary homeopaths, and have helped others by answering questions and addressing issues posted to the AVH E-mail Forum and the AVH Mentor Forum. The serious teaching though, takes place in the seminars.

In my seminars, I emphasize case taking by having a new live patient each day. It is one thing to tell someone how to take a case, and quite another to show them how. These are real clients with real patients, where the rubber meets the road, so to speak.

I also study and prepare one 'featured' remedy to teach in great depth, a new remedy for each seminar. This has been tremendously beneficial to me (and my patients!), as I have gained much greater insight into the remedies that I have studied, as well as many others remedies related to them.

I delve into the finer points of homeopathic philosophy, primarily from Hahnemann's Organon and Kent's Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy. I present a variety of tools that I have found useful in enhancing pattern recognition and a gaining a deeper understanding of remedies. I share clinical techniques, tricks of the trade, you might say, that I have learned from my teachers or developed on my own. Basically, I try to convey that which I have found to be of value in my own evolution as a homeopathic healer.

I have been blessed with great teachers who taught me not only the nuts and bolts, but also the creative side of homeopathy. Not just the science, but the art as well. The vital force is dynamic, and disease is dynamic, so healing must also be dynamic. Having received this great gift, I feel that I have a responsibility to share what I have learned with others, that they may heal their patients more effectively. It is, I believe, an example of what Hahnemann refers to in the Organon as a healer's highest calling.