Advanced Training for Serving Those Who Served

CAM Specialist Training through Institute for CAM Studies​

Description:
The CAM Specialist Training Program serving veterans and their families is offered through Akamai University Division of Continuing Education and the Institute for CAM Studies. The program is designed for those interested in a professional training certificate for clinical practice and / or clinical teaching in working with veterans and their families to help them heal, become empowered and integrate back into life.

Goal:
Become a Board-Certified in Integrative Health Serving Veterans & their Families (BCIH – Serving Veterans & Families) Continuing Education Units: The CAM Specialist Program “Serving Veterans & Families” consists of 18 CEU’s (Continuing Education Units) or a minimum of 180 - 200 contact hours of study, reflection, training, practice and mentorship that lead to a BCIH - Serving Veterans & Families.

Curriculum:
Part I – Foundational Energy Based Training 9 CEU’s = 90 to 100 contact hour minimum (Can transfer completed certificate training from an approved energy modality such as Healing Touch, Transform Your Life through Energy Medicine, Touch For Health, Reiki, Etc.

• *Certificate Program in Integrative Health: CAM Specialist Training Serving Veterans & Their Families “I Serve Those Who Served”
•  Introductory seminar = 3 contact hours
• Initial Energy Healing Based Training* = 60 contact hours o Initial Practical Supervised Application = 30 contact hours

Part II – Preparation for Specialist Training (9 CEU’s = 90 to 100 contact hours) o Specialist Development, & Interventions = 16 contact hrs (2 days)  

• Specialist Practicum 16 hours minimum outlining previous training (2 days)
  
•  Mentorship = 20 contact hours’ minimum + project 20 contact hours after practicum

Part III – Certificate through the CAM Academy Affiliated with Institute of CAM Studies of Akamai University– Documentation of your Specialist Training as verified by a professional project or paper outlining your specialty 10 contact hours & Professional Ethics Course 1 CEU = 10 contact hours

*Initial energy based training is foundational to specialist track. A student either comes into the program with this training or takes it as Part I foundational energetic care. It could be the Healing Touch Program, Transform Your Life through Energy Medicine, Reiki, Yoga, Touch For Health, Optimal Health, Integrative Medicine, Donna Eden Energy Medicine, Barbara Brennan or Rosalyn Buyere to mention a few.

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Bringing Humanitarian Work to Our Communities
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Jeff Garton of Veteran Empowerment Training recently interviewed IANDS President Diane Corcoran about her Combat NDE Project, reviewing her military career as a nurse and her work on near-death experiences (NDEs) and with IANDS.
Dr. Corcoran launched the Combat NDE Project to develop education materials and videos to reach out to veterans in military or VA facilities—to get the word out to veterans about NDEs to help them understand their own NDE and the aftereffects they may be experiencing.
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The Veteran Empowerment Training is a job and career readiness training for veterans.
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Medical Chow Qigong Training
Organized by Dr. Effie Chow, RN, Acupuncture
​Dr. Chow, passed in 2023.  Her foundational work made an outstand contribution to vets.

International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS) - Veterans Empowerment Training Initiative

ABOUT
Eleven years of conflict have made a lasting devastating mark, especially for those in the military community for who make it home. Of late, our veterans have been returning to their homes with their inner demons, battling with PTSD and mental distress, and with seemingly insufficient response or resources to help them. Shockingly, in the years since 9/11, about 3,000 military members have already lost their lives to suicide. And the number still climbs. This is almost as many military members killed in action due to IEDs in war.

This is why Dr. Effie Chow and East West Academy of Healing Arts have partnered with organizations, veterans and individuals such as yourself to provide a program for veterans and families with Chow Medical Qigong. We believe that through Chow Qigong, a system that creates and sustains a positive mental attitude and a more grounded sense of well being, veterans can find healing and resist self-destructive habits.

Our goal is to provide free support to veterans through our Chow Qigong programs, while putting them on a journey to better themselves and the world around them. We specialize in and have remarkable, fast results with situations where other options, including medicine, have failed, such as the sufferings of veterans. Veterans will learn to heal both themselves and others at the same time, creating a viable career for themselves in healing. Veterans can sign up for our existing classes on a possible free scholarship. We are developing a serious cadre of veteran healers to heal the wounds of the world, beginning with themselves, in order to offset the horrors of war. We utilize the tremendous strengths veterans have developed/gained in their service to our country. We want to give them the good life they deserve for their bravery in defending our freedom. This is a serious invitation to anyone interested in being part of the program or in helping.

On January 18th, 2014 Dr. Chow launched the first of our Chow Qigong training programs for veterans in Columbia, Missouri. This hugely successful event, sponsored by veterans organizations such as the Truman VA Hospital and the MU Veterans Center, took place in the Harry S Truman VA Hospital and attracted over 100 attendees! Given its success, we subsequently created two additional training programs for veterans in Columbia: A Basic Chow Qigong weekend class and a Level 1 Chow Medical Qigong intensive training program. We had many great successes in treating symptoms of PTSD and helping the veterans in the area become catalysts for healing!