International Lectures
International Lectures

Continuing education

Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

Your trauma patients don't need relaxation. They need transformation. That difference — and everything that follows from it — is exactly what Sohial Farzam lays out across three days. Including the psychology of 50 acupuncture points, each with their own story, nature, and personality.

Starts
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 09:00
Ends
Sunday, 28 June 2026 at 17:00
Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

Most TCM practitioners avoid cardiovascular patients. Understandable — but unnecessary. Amos Ziv has dedicated over twenty years exclusively to heart disorders, and he teaches you how to treat them safely and effectively. Three weekends, three layers: the physical language of the heart, the emotional echoes beneath it, and the spiritual dialogue that connects everything. A course that touches you as a practitioner and as a human being.

Starts
Friday, 4 September 2026 at 10:00
Ends
Sunday, 11 April 2027 at 18:00

Some patients simply don't heal. Not because the diagnosis is wrong, but because something physical is in the way — scar tissue, fascial adhesions, muscles in energy crisis — that no filiform needle can reach. The Dāo knife needle removes that obstruction. And opens the path for everything else you do. Brian Bowen, for the first time in the Netherlands.

Starts
Friday, 18 September 2026 at 09:00
Ends
Sunday, 20 September 2026 at 17:00
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Why does distal needling actually work? Not 'it just does' — but the real reason. Jonathan Shubs exposes the shared logic behind Tan's Balance Method, Master Tung, Sa'am and six other systems. Those who understand that logic no longer need to memorise methods — and can develop their own style.

Starts
Saturday, 26 September 2026 at 12:00
Ends
Sunday, 27 September 2026 at 17:00

Pulse and tongue diagnosis tell the story of today. The face tells the story of a whole life — including the year a trauma began. Mieke Fraussen teaches you to read that age map: from early childhood to recent crises, visible in lines, asymmetry, and muscle tension. Indispensable for every patient — because trauma plays a role in far more people than you might expect, and you will see it the moment you know where to look.

Starts
Friday, 2 October 2026 at 13:00
Ends
Sunday, 4 October 2026 at 17:00
Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

What Chinese medicine has described for millennia in terms of Yin-Yang, Wu-Wei, and self-organization, Western science is now rediscovering through systems biology, quantum physics, and non-linear dynamics. Is it still justified, then, to speak of "alternative healthcare"?

Yan Schroën shows just how intertwined these two worlds are. And how, as a result, you learn a new language. You would not have expected what you can explain with it.

Starts
Friday, 30 October 2026 at 12:00
Ends
Friday, 30 October 2026 at 18:00
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Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

Three systems. Twelve patterns. Eight needles. That's not reduction — that's precision. Jonathan Shubs shows how the I Ching Ba Gua, Unified Acupuncture Theory, and the Balance Method merge into one coherent treatment framework for anxiety, insomnia, depression, and more. Elegant in theory. Surprisingly simple in practice.

Starts
Saturday, 31 October 2026 at 12:00
Ends
Sunday, 1 November 2026 at 17:00
Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

Bi-syndromes belong to classical Chinese medicine — and yet many experienced herbalists struggle with them as soon as the pathology becomes more complex.

Yan Schroën has over 35 years of clinical experience and reveals the complete differential diagnosis in this two-day program: from acute Wind-Bi to the deeply chronic forms that reach the organs.

The core? Juxtaposing what remains separate in most courses — dozens of classical formulas, with the question: what exactly makes the difference?

Starts
Friday, 6 November 2026 at 12:00
Ends
Saturday, 7 November 2026 at 18:00
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Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

Most of your patients with chronic complaints also use conventional medication. When you are unsure how that medication interacts with a formula you wish to prescribe, you can now request an interaction check at the pharmacy. That is good, but it is even better when you understand the logic behind it yourself.

Yan Schroën (biochemist, naturopath, herbalist) and Edwin Lipperts (pharmacist, herbalist) will teach you a basic method in one day that allows you to understand how pharmacological groups translate into TCM energetics and where they interfere with your Materia Medica.

This is indispensable, reassuring knowledge for both you and your patients.

Starts
Sunday, 8 November 2026 at 12:00
Ends
Sunday, 8 November 2026 at 18:00
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Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

Did you know that 78,000 patients in the Netherlands are waiting for mental healthcare? Some of them are knocking on your door. The 8 Extraordinary Vessels are the most powerful yet most neglected system within TCM for exactly these patients — deeply rooted in classical texts, but rarely taught in depth. Sohial Farzam does: four days, from birth trauma to the quantum physics of the soul.

Starts
Friday, 20 November 2026 at 09:00
Ends
Monday, 23 November 2026 at 17:00
Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

You ask the 10+2 questions, you arrive at a diagnosis and initiate treatment — and at the next appointment, it turns out that your patient has changed. That is not a mistake, but information. In this two-day course, Yan Schroën teaches you why. In fact, he will teach you how to predict the change and treat it adequately before the system overflows.

This provides you with a diagnostic layer that does not replace your existing TCM knowledge but sharpens it.

Starts
Friday, 27 November 2026 at 12:00
Ends
Saturday, 28 November 2026 at 18:00
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Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

The Yi Jing contains 64 hexagrams. DNA contains 64 codons. Coincidence? Well, no. It is a structural correspondence that tells us a great deal about the architecture of life.

Yan Schroën explains it to you. He takes you through the molecular logic of DNA and the ordering principles of the Yi Jing, and then places them side by side. So that anyone who wants to understand what Qi truly is will never forget it.

How deeply do you really want to understand what Qi is?

Starts
Sunday, 29 November 2026 at 12:00
Ends
Sunday, 29 November 2026 at 18:00
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Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

Being a practitioner and an entrepreneur at the same time doesn't come naturally. Sohial Farzam has figured out how to make your practice flourish — and he speaks from experience: as a TCM physician, as advisor to million- and billion-dollar companies, and as the founder of four successful businesses. He understands pulse diagnosis and profit margins alike. A rare combination, taught nowhere else — and one that will make your practice thrive.

Starts
Friday, 11 December 2026 at 09:00
Ends
Sunday, 13 December 2026 at 17:00

Six needles or fewer. Fifty percent pain relief in the first session. That's not a promise — that's the design of the system. Sérgio Ferreira integrates Master Tung, the Balance Method, and bloodletting into one coherent architecture, including secret points from a 2,000-year-old Taiwanese family lineage rarely shared outside that circle. Distal needling at a level you will find nowhere else.

Starts
Friday, 8 January 2027 at 09:00
Ends
Sunday, 7 November 2027 at 17:00
Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

What if the connections between things are not secondary, but reality itself? Yan Schroën shows how everything is interconnected — like threads in a web that weaves itself. Quantum mechanics, Daoism, systems biology, classical Chinese medicine: these are not competing explanations. They are different languages ​​speaking about the same reality. And as quantum mechanics has shown: the observer never stands outside the system — he determines the reality of that system.

You learn to feel that your way of looking is just as systemic as that of the quantum physicist or the Daoist scholar. You recognize which observer you are within your own system. And you discover how you can move between realities as an observer — and what profound insights that yields.

Starts
Friday, 15 January 2027 at 12:00
Ends
Saturday, 22 May 2027 at 18:00
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Chronic migraines, sudden anxiety, brain fog, digestive issues — and somewhere in the history a fall, an accident, a blow to the head nobody took seriously. Half of all concussions go undiagnosed. Those patients are in your practice too. And yet neurological recovery assessment appears in no TCM curriculum — neither basic nor postgraduate. Dr. Ayla Wolf is one of the few practitioners worldwide who truly masters this field, and she is bringing it to the Netherlands. Don't miss this vital, indispensable knowledge.

Starts
Friday, 22 January 2027 at 09:00
Ends
Sunday, 24 January 2027 at 17:00
Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

The Shang Han Lun is two thousand years old and still clinically relevant — provided you understand it. The Six Divisions do not offer a simple list of symptoms, but a dynamic system that shows how pathology moves through the body, how divisions transition into one another, and which formula is the right one at any given moment.

This course is for herbalists who know the basics of the Six Divisions and want to go further: this is where true depth begins.

Starts
Friday, 29 January 2027 at 12:00
Ends
Saturday, 30 January 2027 at 18:00
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Stroke, MS, Parkinson's, neuro-pain — conditions where you as a practitioner often feel powerless. Jiao-style scalp acupuncture changes that. Restoring motor, sensory, speech, and balance function — sometimes within minutes of needle insertion. Not theory for later: Monday morning you apply it.

Starts
Saturday, 13 February 2027 at 09:00
Ends
Sunday, 14 February 2027 at 18:00
Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

From football injuries to active aging — become the orthopedic specialist who measurably restores function. Ian Armstrong brings North America's premier SMAC certification to Europe.

Starts
Friday, 2 April 2027 at 09:00
Ends
Monday, 13 November 2028 at 18:00
Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg

What more is there to understand about Yin and Yang than what you already know? Well, quite a lot. Have you ever considered them as fractals, as time mechanisms, or as an entry point to Wuji? Probably not, because that is never how it was taught to you. Yet, these are properties that make a world of difference to the way you can work with Yin and Yang in your practice.

This is the weekend where you will be explained why.

Starts
Friday, 16 April 2027 at 12:00
Ends
Saturday, 17 April 2027 at 18:00
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