The Inner Development of the Practitioner

45-60 Minutes
Live 15th May 2025, then On-Demand Video

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Taking this course, you will

Understand the significance of intention (Yi) in effective medical practice.
Explore the concept of sheng ren and its role in practitioner development.
Identify key virtues essential for excellence in Chinese medicine.

Assess the balance between scientific knowledge and the art of healing.
Apply philosophical and practical approaches to holistic patient care.

Course Overview

‘Medicine is intention (yi). Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors.’
Sun Simiao

As practitioners of Chinese Medicine we are part of lineage that stretches back thousands of years. We are also part of a larger body of physicians who have endeavoured to heal the sick since time immemorial.

All students that graduate from colleges of Chinese medicine nowadays have good theoretical understanding and competent technique. But is that enough to become what the Nei Jing regards as an outstanding practitioner, a sheng ren, ‘One who through his power awakens and develops people’s higher nature.’ Do our colleges place as much emphasis on teaching their students how to excel in
the art of medicine as they do in the science of medicine?

It is not been fashionable in our culture for at least fifty years to think in terms of developing virtues in oneself. And yet Chinese, and especially Confucian, culture places a high priority on a person developing certain virtues. What are the virtues that a physician needs to develop in order to acquire some of the attributes of a sheng ren? Practitioners of Chinese medicine have written their thoughts on these issues, as have other physicians and thinkers from other cultures and traditions.

This course draws out the themes that Chinese and other practitioners of medicine have regarded as the most important in the practice, not so much of the science of medicine, as of its art.

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About the Teacher

Peter Mole

After finishing studying Modern History at Oxford University and living in India for over a year Peter started training to be an acupuncture practitioner in 1976. He studied and worked with JR Worsley until 1992, receiving his Master of Acupuncture qualification from him in 1984. Peter studied TCM in the 1980s. He has been teaching acupuncture since 1983, first in Leamington Spa at the College of Traditional Acupuncture and since 1993 at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading, where until 2003 he was the Dean. Peter is the author of a book for the general public, Acupuncture for Body, Mind and Spirit, and he is the co-author of the text book Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture. He has lectured on Five Element acupuncture in Europe, the U.S. and Israel. He was a founding council member and is a Fellow of the British Acupuncture Council.

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The Inner Development of the Practitioner