Faculty Notepad: Trip to Europe (1)
Amy Choi
Oct. 23, 2012
My arrival today at Montmelo, a small town near Barcelona, Spain with a population of only nine thousand, marked the official beginning of my almost month-long Europe trip.
After I got off the plane, the daughter of Juan Carlos, the organizer of the international conference, came to pick me up. I carpooled with Charles Krebs, the founder of LEAP, and a friend of his. He told me he was about to publish a book on Energy Kinesiology. I also shared with them the concepts of the Qigong Movement Balances as well as the content of the Five Animal Play Metaphor Balances within the series.
At the hotel, I had lunch and dinner with the members of the Board of Directors of the International Kinesiology College, Sandy, Toni, and Ger, as well as the secretary Julie. I also prepared for the speech I would give in a few days at the conference. Tomorrow, the first meeting – the Executive Board – will officially start.
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Oct. 24, 2012
Today was a day of IKC Executive Board meetings, starting from the group Touch for Health® self-balancing at 9:30 in the morning till 7:30 at night. It took place at a three-story high Kinesiology institute, Vida Kinesiologia, at Montmelo, Spain.
The current members of the Executive Board of the International Kinesiology College, registered in Australia, include: President Sandy Gannon (England), Chancellor Toni Lilley (Australia), Touch for Health® School Dean myself (China), Personal Development School Dean Ger Casey (Ireland), Professional School Dean Dominique Monette (Belgium), Public Relations & Research Matthew Thie (USA) and Legal Advisor Harry Simon (Australia).
Since the founding of the College in the 1990s, a group of Touch for Health® faculty and administrators have been gathering together every year in a corner of the world, through the Touch for Health® international conference, to discuss and establish policies related to Touch for Health® and Energy Kinesiology.
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Oct. 25, 2012
Today was a day of rest, and I spent the whole day practicing; I practiced the Ma Wang Dui Qigong exercises related to the 12 meridians, which would also be the topic of my speech in Spain this time.
In the afternoon, I helped a colleague balance; her mid-lower back was in great pain! I had known about this problem of hers since about two months ago. After I applied some medical balm that could warm up onto the sacrospinalis on both sides of her sacrum and back, I used a Gua Sha tool and scraped her mid-back and both sides of her sacrum several times; the areas reddened. Finally, I used a chopstick to gently and slowly scrap from the back of her calf, along the back of her thigh until the top of her hip, which was the last part of the bladder meridian. A lightening-shaped mark, green in the middle and red on the sides, appeared on her bladder meridian, and the “lightening mark” on the right was even wider and longer.
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Oct. 26, 2012
Today was the first day for me to conduct a face-to-face Touch for Health® School Board meeting since I became the Dean. In the past year, members on the Board, scattered around the world, had always had teleconferences through the internet and never had a chance to communicate face-to-face.
Taking advantage of this rare opportunity today, we discussed and passed some very important topics and agenda of reform, some of which would directly affect the China region. For example, the adding of the Touch for Health® Casework Training course into the international training standards of the new qualification “Touch for Health® Consultant” shall allow the general public to learn Touch for Health® through cases, and through casework training learn to apply it to their daily lives. In this aspect, I’m grateful for the valuable support in the past year from Conrad, the Touch for Health® China committee, and all our Touch for Health® instructors and sponsors. I believe that after this course is launched, together with the original Touch for Health® Synthesis and Touch for Health® Metaphor, Touch for Health® will be known and acknowledged by more people in China.
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Oct. 27, 2012
Today was a day of rest; I continued to prepare for my speech next week and did some errands. In the afternoon, I attended the annual AGM of the College’s Professional School as a guest. I raised the opinion that they could put more emphasis on Asia; within the next few years. In our region there should be someone qualified to become professional kinesiologists, as well as interested to design kinesiology institutes or schools according to the College’s international standards.
Tomorrow will be the retreat for all the faculty of the Touch for Health® School, which takes place every three years. Its aim is to facilitate exchange in terms of teaching and administration among the faculty. In order for everyone to benefit from this conference, I have been preparing since half a year ago, and collecting discussion topics from colleagues since three months ago. The topics to be discussed at this conference are now five pages long!
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Oct. 28, 2012
Today was the beginning of the three-day retreat for all Touch for Health® faculty that took place every three years. It reminded me of an incident that happened at the start of this year.
On 2nd January, 2012, my first day at work this year, I went to the office to organize and get ready for the new year. In a hidden corner of a seldom-opened drawer, I found a long-lost photo. It was taken with the founder of Touch for Health®, Dr. John Thie, when I first went to Malibu, California for a Touch for Health® course in 1997. At that time, besides Dr. Thie and other students, there was also Sandy Gannon from the United Kingdom. At that time, I couldn’t have imagined that in ten-plus years, because of Touch for Health®, I would become colleagues with this classmate at the College.
When I discovered the photo, I was extremely happy. I thought, could it be that the late teacher was telling me to help him do something in 2012? Thinking back, this year I did do something at the College, and I feel that I have sufficiently answered to teacher, haha…
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Oct. 29, 2012
Today’s meeting had two main points. The first concerned the textbooks and content of the Touch for Health® Synthesis and the Touch for Health® Metaphor Training Workshop, which were officially approved and passed by the School this year. The second part was the international minimum standard of the qualification for the Touch for Health® Consultant, which was also officially passed and would be launched all over the world according to the different needs and pace of each region.
At the retreat, I again emphasized the importance of the Touch for Health® Casework Training in terms of helping the people of the China region to learn to apply Touch for Health® in their daily lives; it would help more people to come to know and acknowledge Touch for Health®.
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Oct. 30, 2012
Today was the last day of the faculty retreat. We conducted some in-depth discussion regarding certain details of the content of the Touch for Health® Synthesis Course: for example, if muscles lock during a food test, should we add in a muscle tests with sedative muscle spindle cell devices or trace the Central Meridian, in order to assure that there is no excess of Qi or disorderly circuits; the testing method for gaits; the correct position of the lymphatic reflex point of peroneus; the relationship between unlocking quadriceps and knee problems, and so on. In addition, a faculty reported that a private university in Germany had included Touch for Health® and Brain Gym into the course of one of its Bachelor of Science degrees. Another faculty shared a better way to teach and set goals in the postural balancing of Touch for Health® Level IV, and there was someone who shared about some courses called “Touch for Learning” and “Touch for Health® In Depth.” I shared about the relationship between Ma Wang Dui Qigong exercises and the 12 meridians.
In general, the three-day retreat was carried out in an amicable atmosphere; there were laughter and tears, heated debates, as well as rational discussions and emotional sharing. When we formed the finish circle, everyone was filled with gratitude. After the meeting, we had our annual faculty dinner.
