Soul Searching

A lot of very exciting things have happened since GAHP’s pilot field trip to Bali, Indonesia nearly one year ago. During that last trip, in a span of twenty-five days, a team of five GAHP practitioners provided care to over 2,400 individuals in seven remote outreach sites with acupuncture, TuiNa and Chinese herbs. Patients [...]

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Here are some action shots of the practitioners who came to Bali. Everyone took the GAHP continuing education classes, raised funds for their own airfare, solicited donations for supplies, and put in a whole-hearted effort to bring their compassionate care to the people of Bali:

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We are learning more background information to our situation. We have recieved great support from the Yayasan members. We have had amazing meetings with brilliant people, all trying to help us meet our mission. While this trip will not bring us back into the field, we are growing stronger as an organization. [...]

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Back to Sanur for a lunch time meeting. An appeal is being made on our behalf by our yayasan. We are hopeful that we might be able to start up again. If we can, we will go out as one group and try to maximize our time. We are planning a day of re-organizing of [...]

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So while we are here working on paperwork, I have a little time to write about the model we are using here in Bali as our treatment delivery. Which is a formal way of saying: how in the world can we treat 200+ people in a day effectively, compassionately and efficiently with 2-4 practitioners!

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Frank, Dan and I are holed up at Candidasa (pronounced Chandidasa) trying to figure our our options. It is the weekend so no paperwork can go through. We have been told that Jakarta is notoriously slow with such things and that our chances of expediting our paperwork through is slim. Team members are disappointed, but [...]

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Half our bags got taken at the airport. Ugh. Hopefully we can either get them released in to Bali or get them back when we ar returning to the US.

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We’ve hit a bit of a snag and had to halt operations to file a bit more paperwork. What we’ve done so far - the systems, paperwork, organization, team structures - has been extremely effective and is definitely a reproducible model. More info to follow.

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Got our first bag held hostage at customs. Argh. The rest have gotten through okay.

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It’s been a while since I’ve traveled through Beijing – 4 or 5 years – and while the city is fundamentally the same it seems to have grown even more polluted and crowded. There are many more “foreigners” here than there were before. By “foreigners” I’m not referring to Westerners but to Chinese from other [...]

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