Most patients who are diagnosed with cancer do not know what else they can do besides standard treatment. This presentation will discuss supportive therapies aimed at enhancing the health of the patient. These therapies include diet, detoxification and immune system support.

Anyone can learn how to improve their health at this presentation; you do not need a diagnosis of cancer.

In this presentation you will learn:

• What to eat and what not to eat
• How to minimize the toxicity of chemotherapy and radiation
• How to support your immune system

Please pre-register by calling Alaska Center for Acupuncture at 745-8688. Space is limited, so call early!

About the presenter: Michael Ellenburg is a licensed Acupuncturist and Naturopathic Doctor. He also has a Masters degree in public health. Dr. Ellenburg sees patients of all ages but has a special focus on chronic diseases. He is a lifelong Alaskan and loves the outdoors. Dr. Ellenburg is passionate about educating people on their health!

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Worm-crazy Ellen will hold forth about worms & vermi-composting. Definitely try this at home! O boy O boy! How can you pass this up?

Wriggle into a seat and learn about:

• Worm bins purchased or home-made
• Setting up your bin
• What kind of worms will work?
• What to feed them?
• What to do if…
• How to harvest the castings/compost

Please pre-register by calling Alaska Center for Acupuncture at 745-8688. Space is limited, so call early!

About the presenter: Ellen Vande Visse, MS, was an Environmental Education Consultant in West Michigan for 20 school districts, and a developer of a nature center. In Alaska, she has played in the soil as an organic market gardener, both in her own Good Earth Gardens and then for the kitchens of the National Outdoor Leadership School, Alaska Branch. Ellen is especially fond of all things decaying, and is known in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley as The Compost Queen. She consults on compost/compost tea and eco-agriculture growing systems. Since 1987 she has been training folks how to farm and garden using organic methods

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Hormones, the communicators of the endocrine system, are integral to our overall health and well-being. The endocrine system, made up of glands including the thyroid, adrenal glands, reproductive organs, and pancreas, affect our rhythms, routines, sleep, appetite, weight, energy, reproduction, pleasure, relaxation, stress, metabolism, sugar utilization, bone health, digestive health and mood. The endocrine system is an integrated, complex system where each part plays a specific role and interacts as a wondrous whole.

In this presentation you will learn:

• An overview of the interplay and dance of hormones, organ systems and symptoms of health and disease.
• Why hormones are so important and so often misunderstood
• How our environment affects our hormones
• Some of the fallacies of "hormone" treatments
• Basic lifestyle habits for promoting healthy hormone balance

Please pre-register by calling Alaska Center for Acupuncture at 745-8688. Space is limited, so call early!

About the presenter: Dr Chadwick is a Naturopathic Doctor and yoga teacher in Palmer, Alaska. When not puzzling out the complexity and wonder of human physiology and the keys to optimal wellness, Dr Amy can be found cooking mindfully, exploring radical yoga poses, photographing the petals of a flower, playing with her enormous black dog or laughing with her husband or friends. Amy strives to live in the present, with vibrancy. She works with her patients to uncover and dissolve the stories and imbalances that cloud reality and limit health. Dr Amy is passionate about health and nutrition, and treasures being the holder of her patients’ stories as they walk their individual paths to wellness.

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Join us for a cross-cultural extravaganza! Peter Stortz, UAF faculty member will share an exciting presentation describing his recent experience chaperoning a U.S. youth leadership group in Mongolia this past summer. Twenty-nine American youth from eight western states along with seven chaperones were matched with host families in four regions of Mongolia. Peter will share highlights of culture, history, landscape, people and foods of both rural and urban locations through a slide presentation and open discussion. This will be standing room only event so please call early to reserve a seat!

In this presentation you will:

• Learn how youth make tremendous ambassadors in the world.
• Experience the sounds of the morin khuur, the Mongolian two-stringed, horse-head fiddle.
• Learn about a colorful Mongolian festival featuring wrestling, horseback racing and archery.
• Acquire a fresh perspective on world history, and the sweeping influence of Genghis Khan.
• Discover the unique food choices, cultural beliefs, politics and natural landscapes of Mongolia.

Please pre-register by calling Alaska Center for Acupuncture at 745-8688. Space is limited, so call early!

About the presenter: Peter is a Professor and Extension Natural Resource and Youth Development Specialist with Cooperative Extension Service. He continues to direct a school enrichment project established in 1991 in 10 Yukon River communicates to establish science/math literacy which has expanded to over 40 school districts and 70 communities across the state. He has extensive experience with programming in education, natural resources, youth and community development. Travel and experiencing different people’s ideas and cultures is a true passion.

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As we begin to think of our lives, a major theme develops and presents itself to us: Relationship. We were created in Relationship, we were born into Relationship, we move through-out our lives in Relationship and our ends affect Relationship. The question before us is with whom is it most important to have a relationship? Some respond with family or God and yet as we look at even these most important relationships we come to understand that these too are built upon only one person: Me.

In this discussion we will:

• Explore how and where we most easily come into contact with ourselves
• Gain insight into how hitting bottom can become the place where I need to be
• Begin a list of essentials for our lives and how to live within them for health
• Set in motion a positive process in which to examine our lives and move forward into love

Please pre-register by calling Alaska Center for Acupuncture at 745-8688. Space is limited, so call early!

About the presenters:The Reverend Christopher Stanton, MDiv. BCC, is an ordained Russian Orthodox priest and a Board Certified Chaplain specializing in the Mental Health and Addictions fields. Fr. Christopher has pastored parishes and worked in clinical settings for nearly a decade and a half. Currently Fr. Christopher serves at St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Anchorage and is the Behavioral Health Service Line Chaplain for Providence Health & Services (Alaska). Fr. Christopher is an annual presenter for ACA and has spoken to such varied groups as the Alaska Counseling Association, the Parish Nursing program for Providence and the Clinical Pastoral Education program at Providence Alaska Medical Center.

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To continue our conversation about building a Healthy Self-Relationship: often times in our lives we are faced with a show stopping question: why? Why am I important, why does it matter, why should I take the time for me? This esteem defeating process can keep us from even beginning. How do we stand up to this task and find ourselves equal to it?

In this discussion we will:

• Explore and reinterpret an old but golden saying
• Learn who we really are in an insightful and central way
• Discuss the difference between worth and esteem
• Set in motion a positive formula in which to live our lives genuinely

Please pre-register by calling Alaska Center for Acupuncture at 745-8688. Space is limited, so call early!

About the presenters:The Reverend Christopher Stanton, MDiv. BCC, is an ordained Russian Orthodox priest and a Board Certified Chaplain specializing in the Mental Health and Addictions fields. Fr. Christopher has pastored parishes and worked in clinical settings for nearly a decade and a half. Currently Fr. Christopher serves at St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Anchorage and is the Behavioral Health Service Line Chaplain for Providence Health & Services (Alaska). Fr. Christopher is an annual presenter for ACA and has spoken to such varied groups as the Alaska Counseling Association, the Parish Nursing program for Providence and the Clinical Pastoral Education program at Providence Alaska Medical Center.

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