Certified Herbal Consultant (CHC) Certification Training Program Presented by Innovations Today • • • Steven Horne Steven Horne is a professional member and recent past president of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG) and a professional member of the International Iridology Practitioner’s Association (IIPA). He has also served on the board of directors of both organizations. He currently serves on the board for herbs for orphans, a non-profit organization whose goal is to supply herbal remedies and nutritional supplements to orphanages in third world countries. An herbalist, natural health teacher, author, and consultant, his work has taken him all over the United states and Canada and to several foreign countries, including Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, England and Mainland China to share this wealth of knowledge. He has spoken at Herb Fest, Whole Foods Expo, Clayton College’s annual conference, AHG’s annual symposium, and numerous conventions and conferences. He is a popular speaker and students find what he teaches is practical and easy to understand and apply. Steven is the founder of Tree of Light Publishing, an educational organization dedicated to helping people to heal themselves on all levels by incorporating physical, mental and emotional modalities. Tree of Light offers professional courses, charts, books, videos and other educational materials on natural health care. The Complete CHC Program Empowers you with an Integrated, Systematic and Effective Approach to Natural Healing Dr. Mom-Dr. Dad The ABC+D Approach Practical Iridology Practical Tools for Health Assessment Nature’s Pharmacy Herbal Preparations and Applications Secrets of Chinese Herbs Activating the Healing Response Business Coaching Program Dr. Mom-Dr. Dad • Section One: Reversing Pain and Injury • Section Two: Healing Acute Disease • Section Three: Natural healing for Chronic Illness Instruction Material include: A 172 page Dr. Mom- Dr. Dad Course Manuel Two DVDs-The Cold is the Cure and Pain Relief without Medication Two audio CDs- The Simple Secrets to Pain Relief without Medications and Heal it Yourself: Three Keys to Restoring and Maintaining Good Health Student Study Guide with test and homework assignments Certificate of Completion and credit towards CHC certification upon submission of completed and correct homework The ABC+D Approach In the ABC+D Approach you’ll learn: How to Activate a person’s capacity for self-healing How to Build good health by helping people improve their nutritional intake without overwhelming them or making them feel guilty. How to Cleanse the body to remove heavy metals and other environmental toxins that may be damaging their health How to identify the six biological terrain imbalances and the type of direct aids that will restore balance. Basics instructions on the consulting process, including legal and ethical guidelines. Continue • How to identify which of the eleven body systems require nutritional support and how to recognize the main imbalance in each body system. • Lists of proven single herbs and blends that work on each of the major imbalances in the body. • Instructions on how to work with a hiatal and how to do a gallbladder flush. • A table showing each major hormone in the body, which gland produces it and what herbs and supplements can help it. • A table of immune remedies showing their immune properties and which tissue states they are most helpful for. Instruction Materials Include • An ABC+D Approach Manual and Product Guide. • Two DVDs – The ABCS of Natural health and Selecting Direct Aids. • Twelve 30-40 minute audio training sessions of 6 audio CDs covering supplements for Activating, Building and Cleansing the Body and for each of the eleven body systems covered in the course. • Student Study Guide with test and homework assignments. • Certificate of Completion and credits towards CHC certification upon submission of completed and correct homework. Practical Tools for Health Assessment • Glandular Body Typing • Traditional Chinese and Western Constitutional Typing • Basic Tongue Assessment • Basic Pulse Assessment • Ph Testing • Muscle Response Testing Instruction Material Include • A 116 page Practical Tools for Health Assessment course material • Four DVDs- Introduction to Health Assessment, Traditional Health Assessment, Part 1, Traditional Health Assessment, Part 2, and Muscle response Testing. • Student Study Guide with test and homework assignments. • Certification of completion and credit towards CHC certification upon submission of completed and correct homework. Practical Iridology In Practical Iridology, you’ll learn: • The correct terms to describe all the anatomical structures of the iris. • How to use iridology charts correctly. • What the iris can and cannot tell you. • The most up-to-date terms for the various markings, signs and patterns that appear in the iris, and what they mean. • The various constitutional types from German iridology. • The basic elements of Rayrid iridology, a system of assessing personality issues using the iris. Instruction Material Include • A 84 page Practical Iridology course manual with 8 pages of full color iris photos. • Four DVDs • Student Study Guide with test and homework assignments. • Certificate of Completion and credit towards CHC certification upon submission of completed and correct homework. Nature’s Pharmacy • Helps you understand how herbs work by dividing them into twelve “energetic” categories based on taste, smell, major constituents and their effects on the human body. • Explain the “doctrine of signatures” that is, how a plant’s taste, smell, shape, color, texture, form, and habitat provide clues to its “medicine power”. • The basics of plant chemistry explained in layman’s terms. • Detain profiles of 54 herbs to illustrate the different energetic categories of herbs. • Key herbs for each of the major body systems. • The language of herbalism-the terms used to describe the healing actions of herbs and examples of herbs that have each action. • A guide to 264 major herbs in modern herbal commerce, including the 168 herbs that professional herbalists in America rated the most important herbs to know Instruction Material Include • A 314 page Nature’s Pharmacy course manual • Two DVDs- Herbal Energetics and Basic Plant Chemistry • Two audio CDs- Plants as Teachers and the Language of nature. • Herb sample kit with packets of herbs representing different energetics classifications of herbs. • Student Study Guide with test and homework assignments. • Certification of completion and credits towards CHC certification upon submission of completed and correct homework. Herbal Preparations and Applications • A Herbal Preparations and Applications course manual. • Four DVDs. • Student Study Guide with test and homework assignments. • Certificate of Completion and credit towards CHC certification upon submission of completed and correct homework. • • • • • • • • • The Business Coaching Program The business coaching program consists of seven 2-hour teleseminars covering various aspects of setting up and running a successful business. Downloadable notes and handouts are provided for each session, along with practical guidelines and action-based assignments that help you implement what you have learned. Students who enroll in the coaching program can participate in future coaching teleseminars at no additional charge. The business coaching program allows students to interact personally with Steven and ask questions about how to start their businesses. The coaching program is $247 purchased separately and is included free with the CHC program. Main Session #1: Nothing is Impossible, So What Do YOU want?— Setting and Achieving Your Business and Personal Goals This session will teach you how to set and achieve goals, including how to get past the self-doubts and negative attitudes that keep you from pursuing what you want in life. Optional Bonus Session #1: The Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Business—A Step by Step Guide to Setting Up a New Small Business This is a new bonus session for anyone who is just getting started in setting up their business. It will cover, step by step, the things you will need to do to set up your business and manage it. Main Session #2: You Are a Genius—Unleashing Your Talents and Providing Value Continue • In order to create prosperity, we must provide value to others. This session covers how to find your talents and abilities and define what value you have to offer to the world in exchange for what you desire. • Main Session #3: How Many Cookies Do You Want?—The Power of Delayed Gratification • Trading your time for money is not the way to create prosperity in your life. We’ll cover the different ways to generate income and how to make the principle of delayed gratification work for you. • Main Session #4: Don’t Be Afraid to Toot Your Own Horn—An Introduction to Marketing and Self-Promotion • This class is an introduction to the principles of marketing—how to promote yourself and your business. • Optional Bonus Session #2: No Man (or Woman) is an Island— Leadership Skills in Professional and Personal Life • This is a new bonus session is aimed at people who already have businesses and want to develop more leadership skills so they can help those underneath them to succeed, too. • Main Session #5: Protecting Your Most Valued Asset—Developing and Maintaining a Customer Base • Customers are the most valuable asset your business has. This session will talk about the fastest way to get your business to grow, which is taking good care of existing customers and having them help you find new ones. Secrets of Chinese Herbs • The nervous and glandular systems are the control systems of the body. They help regulate all the other processes of the body through three types of chemical messengers endocrine hormones, paracrine hormones (which include neurotransmitters) and autocrine hormones. This course discusses how these chemical messengers work and how to balance them using herbs, nutrition and other natural means. Includes: 6 Audio CDs & a 66 page manual Activating the Healing Response • Discover the 2,500 year-old healing secrets of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in this new NHC course, Coauthored by Steven Horne and Karta Purkh Singh Kalsa, this course introduces NSP’s Chinese herbs and herbal formulas. It covers concepts such as the eight principles of Chinese medicine, the three Chinese humors (blood, chi, and fluid), the Chinese five phases, yin and yang, pernicious influences and Chinese methods of herbal treatment. Specific emphasis is placed on using Chinese methods of health assessment to become a better herbalist. These TCM healing principles are just as effective today as they were centuries ago. Includes: 6 Audio CDs and 143 page manual. The Complete CHC Program Empowers You with an Integrated, Systematic and Effective Approach to Natural Healing Payment Plan for the total Certification Program Down Payment of $500.00 4 Payments of $250.00