Discussion Groups
The Discussion Groups are moderated by Elders in our field who have specific expertise. These are salons that give you the chance to share ideas, experience, and resources as well as to ask questions and get answers.
Working Group: Challenges / Opportunities for the Profession
Though many of us don't know it yet, there is language in the 'Big Beautiful Bill' that, if enacted as planned over the next 4 years, will cut off access to student loans for most acupuncture schools, which would not only decimate the number of students entering the profession, but also disrupt our familiar suppliers of herbs, needles, continuing education etc. There is no question this would also impact our professional standing, with dry needling by other designated health care professionals emerging over time as the dominant form of acupuncture.
In addition to the monthly online events, we anticipate adding 'courses' to this study group which are really free working groups, each of which provides a topic, focus, and one or more self-identified leaders, with space for live zooms and online discussion threads after the fact.
Book Club: Medical Cases from the Flower Charm Studio: A Poet and Her Practice by Gù Déhuá
Beginning April 27
Over the 7 scheduled sessions of the online book club, we will read the entire translated text of Medical Cases from the Flower Charm Studio by Gù Déhuá. The translator of the text, Lorraine Wilcox as well as the editor Marnae Ergil will be present at each meeting. They will facilitate some of the discussions while other WPC members will facilitate others. Each session will be open for participant discussion and questions. We look forward to having you join us for lively and exciting discussions to educate all of us!
Led by Lorraine Wilcox (the books translator) and Marnae Ergil
Translation Support Group
This group is a place for new and experienced translators to share their work and ask questions about translation. Please critique translations gently. Also, please post small sections of translation when asking for assistance, as long passages can be daunting. Stage the author, title, and dynasty or date of the document you are translating.
Beginner and experienced translators are all welcome in this group!
Herbs and Formulas
Questions, concerns, insights, great cases or translations here that relate to herbs and formulas. This can be about dosages, safety, classical or non-classical formulas. Please share your clinical conundrums and successes. This is also the perfect forum to post any questions or thoughts you have about White Pine Circle events, videos, or ebooks that relate to herbs and formulas.
Practice Support
A place for you to receive mentoring and support from your community. Please post a question about an herb, a formula or a diagnostic principle. Post questions you have about a difficult case you would like help with. Post about setting up a pharmacy, working with lack of confidence and self doubt, deciding what to charge, dealing with no-shows, PPP guidelines..... Let's see what our community has to offer.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Questions, concerns, insights, great cases or translations here that relate to women’s health. This can be related to menstrual illnesses, fertility, pregnancy, labor or postpartum. This is also the perfect forum to post any questions or thoughts you have about our women’s health track resources, ebooks and events. Please also feel free to respond to your colleagues posts as well.
Newer Practitioner Resource and Support
The New Practitioners Group is designed specifically for YOU, a burgeoning practitioner in your first 5 years of practice who is looking for support, encouragement and guidance in everything from challenging cases to marketing your business to managing your finances. When you join this group you connect with a network of senior practitioners and teachers who have walked the path and found their own way. Post questions about any and all of your challenges and White Pine Circle advisors will weigh in with helpful, experience tested advice.
Seasonal Alignment Study Group
This is a group for geeking out about the many, many ways in which the Great Turning of the earth around the sun plays out in our daily life experience and that of our patients.
Led by Sheri Lee and Claudia Citkovitz
Menopause Study Group
Join our study group as we explore the many faces of menopause – for our patients, and perhaps ourselves as well. The group started with an in-person retreat, and includes an inter-generational mix of everyone from longtime women’s health practitioners to students
Led by Lisa Taylor-Swanson, Caroline Radice and Claudia Citkovitz
Research Study Group
Research has a wide variety of practices: observational methods that seek to understand without intervening; qualitative methods that seek to learn from participants directly; and action research methods that seek to change the world by engaging stakeholders like us and our patients as researchers!
Join eminent acupuncture researcher Lisa Conboy and Claudia Citkovitz who will be bringing phenomenal live and recorded content.
Led by Lisa Conboy