November 2007. Unity in Diversity: Exploring Various Styles & Methods of Practice (Vol. 12, #1), Featured Articles
Systems of Homeopathic Thinking: The Challenges of Teaching Homeopathy Today - Jo Daly
Thoughts on teaching homeopathy in the United States within the context of the continuum of homeopathic thought throughout the years by a homeopath and teacher of homeopathy of almost 20 years.
Having been teaching homeopathy and designing curricula for almost 20 years, I have had the valuable opportunity to work with and observe students in a number of schools in North America and the UK. One of my passions has been to understand the needs of homeopathic students and to adjust the content and style of curricula to meet their needs as prospective practitioners of the healing art. My own training in England in the early eighties was a classical one; indeed my first taste of anything other than the ‘old masters’ came with a dog-eared photo copy of lectures of George Vithoulkas’ dubiously named ‘Stolen Essences’ being passed around in my final year of school. I subsequently studied with Vithoulkas, then many other teachers on my homeopathic journey as student and practitioner to the present day where in my own practice for the past few years I have been using the system developed by Rajan Sankaran and the Bombay school. My passion has been continuously fuelled by the desire to learn from my failures and improve my results.
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Provings, Phenomena and Practice, the Evolution of Homeopathic Knowledge - Richard Pitt
An exploration of the evolution of our knowledge of Materia Medica, as it has grown over the past 100 years, and the way in which provings, an understanding of nature and new methods of understanding our relationship to the substances informs this evolution.


