The California Homeopath
Journal of the California Homeopathic Medical Society

One Vision One Voice - Welcome 

Thank you for coming. 

Thank you for wanting to create a difference. We need a difference, we need change. Because we are not winning, not succeeding. People don’t understand what we do and our community doesn’t know how to tell them. As a profession we are facing complex resistance from many quarters that needs to be met with clarity, strength, method and management – a global strategy. 

This can only be borne of a global meeting of minds and meeting of interests. Because together, by combining skills, by combining resources we will be stronger. We need to look at things differently, to search, explore and probe, and we need to do it do it quickly, or there will not be a profession to hand on to future generations. That’s why we are here – to create a whole, a sum greater than its parts, a global community that maximises the use of limited resources to ensure a better, more just and fruitful future for homeopathy. A future where patients engage with us comfortably, and where external audiences and bodies understand and – dare I say it – appreciate what we do. So, lets briefly look at the parts that make up the whole this weekend. 

By Simon Taffler

Simon Taffler, PCH RSHom

I specialise in homeopathic healthcare, with a career that has encompassed training and clinical practice in England, Israel, Paraguay, Sri Lanka and North America and, teaching and research at colleges primarily in the UK and USA. 

Influenced by my father’s passion and expertise for plants and herbs and guided by my mother's experience of conventional and complementary medicine, I studied diet and nutrition, naturopathy, bodywork and homeopathy, integrating them into the homeopathic framework. I graduated in England from the School of Homeopathy and the Dynamis School for Advanced Homeopathic Studies.

I opened Life Works, a multi-disciplinary complementary medicine clinic in London in August 1985. After 20 successful years, in 2005 I moved my clinical practice to Oldbury Place, Marylebone, London W1.

My ongoing learning includes the completion of a PhD dissertation concerning the education of homeopathy. My research and published papers have concentrated on homeopathic philosophy, its affect on teaching curricula and the opportunities for transformative learning. Related consultancy and speeches have included exploration into the benefits of homeopathic and holistic principles in both business and conventional medical institutions. I have spoken for example, at the ‘Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Epilepsy’ conference at the School of Medicine, New York University, and was a keynote speaker at the American Holistic Medical Association conference on ''The Science and Spirit of Good Medicine'. 

The best part of what I do is witnessing the curative effect of homeopathy in action, of being there when health seems to be falling apart and then comes back together again.

More Featured Articles