Teaching acupuncturists
Heather's passion remains teaching.
In the early 1980's, Heather was instrumental in designing and writing the course that went on to become the major undergraduate acupuncture training programme in Brisbane. After interrupting her teaching with maternity, she returned to teach the third year students again in the early 1990's, also being asked to assist a competitor college with its course structural problems.
Heather was thus a foundation lecturer at Acupuncture Colleges Australia (Brisbane) which later changed its name to the Australian College of Natural Medicine - now Endeavour College. She was involved as a key staff member in the acupuncture course development, development of course materials, and the delivery of the program at all levels in the then three year course. Past her under-graduate teaching, since the mid '80's, Heather has also presented to practitising acupuncturists throughout Australasia and also internationally on many 'hopeless' cases - HIV/AIDS and Chinese medicine, Obstetric and Infertility Care, and Difficult Cases.
Since the late 1990's Heather has been presenting in national and NZ acupuncture conferences.During her more than three decades of clinical practice Heather has been involved, as organiser and presenter, in a large number of allied conferences and workshops - in areas as diverse as meditation, sacred sexuality, brain injury recovery along with the continuing education seminars and workshops.
Heather presented workshops and papers at the 2010 AACMA conference on Healing, Modern Birthing and Supporting Well Pregnancy, and at the NZRA conference on Treating the Whole Person in painful musculo-skeletal problems.
