Seminars
Keynote Seminars 
Listen, learn from, and be inspired at the UK’s leading CAM conference
Every successful practice is built upon knowledge and camexpo is where 1000’s of CAM professionals converge to share learning and promote new ideas. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to see 22 of the CAM industry’s best known subject specialists in action, delivering 2 full days of inspirational sessions. This year’s top line-up of leading scientists, authors and practitioners includes, Dr Marilyn Glenville, Professor George Lewith, Jayney Goddard, Kush Kumar, Jan de Vries, Patrick Holford, Professor Paul Clayton, Dr Robert Verkerk, and the CNHC’s Maggie Dunn, plus many more, see below for full line up.
- To view this year’s line up see below or please click here to view the PDF.
- Seminars cannot be booked in advanced, it is therefore recommended that visitors get there early as seats are limited!
- CPD Certificates will be issues to redeem with your associations up to 28 days after the event.
The College of Medicine: A New Force in the UK for Patients, Scientists and Clinicians - Professor George Lewith
The College of Medicine: A New Force in the UK for Patients, Scientists and Clinicians
The College of Medicine brings together nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, students and patients as equal partners. The college combines scientific knowledge with both clinical expertise and the patient’s own expertise to enable clinicians and patients to learn from each other and work with each other. The College of Medicine’s strapline is: Service, Science and Healing. This session will also cover the educational and developmental programmes being planned by the college over the coming year.
Dopamine, Cortisol & Beyond: How to Improve Mood and Well-being by Balancing Hormones and Neurotransmitters Naturally - Antony Haynes
Even though hormonal imbalances are well known, they can be challenging to resolve. Neurotransmitter imbalances (dopamine, noradrenaline, GABA, serotonin and glutamate) are equally as common, but not well known at all. This session will focus on the connection between our major stress hormones and brain messengers, and explain how to identify an imbalance and bring balance to these vital natural chemicals via nutritional means.
Essentials for Therapy Success - Gill Tree
Today it is no longer enough to be a great therapist to be successful. In our world of snap decisions based on perception, we now need to be the most professional therapist and position ourselves to be the expert in our field. This session will provide you with the steps to achieve this, focusing on actions that are both time and cost effective.
Natural Solutions to the Menopause - Dr Marilyn Glenville
Women now are living 30 to 50 years past the menopause and want to spend those years enjoying a good quality of life, with, most crucially, good health. Come and hear about the natural remedies that help women to boost energy, improve health, eliminate night sweats and hot flushes, vaginal dryness, mood swings, headaches, aching joints, prevent osteoporosis and increase sex drive. Is soya good or bad? Find out the truth about ‘natural’ bio-identical hormones like progesterone; and discover the most important tests for women to have at this stage in their lives.
The Feel Good Factor - Patrick Holford
Do you suffer from low mood, a lack of motivation or depression? If so, The Feel Good Factor seminar will help you transform the way you feel and renew your enthusiasm for life right now. Learn the secrets of how to feel good naturally – without resorting to antidepressants or other prescription drugs.
Increasing Our Well-being with Five Element Acupuncture - John Hicks
Chinese medicine teaches that everyone has a Constitutional imbalance, which is described via the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Find out about the different elements, how they manifest and the results of treatment. Be prepared to consider your own Constitutional imbalance and learn how that may be manifesting in symptoms or your internal states. This session will also give examples of how you might change if your Constitutional element is treated.
Herbs in Real Life – Using Herbal Remedies for Those Issues That Don’t Go Away - Ali Cullen
Herbal remedies are simple to use and often stunningly effective in a short period of time. This session explores some of the most useful herbs for issues such as digestive mayhem and menopausal misery, with plenty of real life examples and case studies. Plus, find out more about A. Vogel’s new e-learning phytotherapy course, which provides free CPD for those who wish to learn more about how herbs work in practice.
Supporting Patients with Cancer - Liz Hawkins
Drawn from the evidence base, this session will give practitioners an overview about how it may be possible to work safely with cancer patients using massage, aromatherapy and reflexology. It will also explore current topics of interest, cancer related controversies, and also any further training that may be required.
The Art of Nutritional and Herbal Practice in the Minefield of European and UK Regulation - Dr Robert Verkerk
Never before have practitioners been so saturated with restrictive laws affecting what ingredients and products they can use, at specific dosages and with particular claims. Are you feeling more and more handicapped by the EU regulatory juggernaut, and is it affecting the quality of service that you can offer to your clients or patients? This informative session brings you the very latest on the status of relevant laws, as well as the workarounds. It will help you build your practice in spite of what’s being dished up by the EU and UK regulators.
CNHC and the New Agenda in Healthcare - Maggy Wallace & Margaret Coats
The changing face of professional regulation in healthcare is an issue that should be of interest to all CAM professionals. What is the difference between statutory (legislative) and voluntary regulation? Does it matter? Who regulates what? How does it affect you and your professional practice? Come and find out the answers today.
Maggy Wallace & Margaret Coats
Working with Pregnant Clients: Complementary Practitioners’ Interaction with the Conventional Maternity Services - Denise Tiran
This session considers the role and responsibilities of complementary practitioners working with pregnant and childbearing women. It will explore how to liaise with midwives so that you feel confident to work with pregnant clients, and how to integrate with the conventional maternity services.
Building Biochemical Bridges with Celloids - Daniel Baden
For many decades Celloid therapies have been the cornerstone of many clinics as they are safe, effective and very economical. Most importantly celloids address the biochemical imbalances at the very foundation of many diseases. This session will discuss how using these simple therapeutics can make an enormous clinical difference.
The Virtues of Vitamin D: It’s Time We Saw the Light - Neil E Levin
The European Food Safety Agency recognises the relationship between vitamin D and bone, muscle, reproductive, immune and cellular health; plus inflammatory response. Vitamin D’s benefits include calcium and phosphorus metabolism, immune competence, blood sugar metabolism, cardiovascular health, and healthy brain/mood. The rate of hip fractures related to poor bone mineralisation is about seven times higher in northern Europe than southern Europe, due to their relative amounts of sunlight exposure. Non-bone benefits require higher than minimal levels, while higher rates of certain medical issues are associated with low levels of vitamin D. Vitamin D-3 can be used to safely support optimal health.
Getting and Keeping Clients with Younger By The Day™ - Jayney Goddard
Learn how to incorporate the very latest, scientifically proven, natural anti-ageing approaches into your practice. It will revolutionise the way that you work – getting you more clients, retaining existing clients and attracting former clients back!
The camexpo CAM Clinic of the Year Award will be presented on stage by Jayney Goddard immediately after Jayney’s seminar.
What is the Role of the Complementary Practitioner Today? - Jan de Vries
Complementary medicine as a whole is not only under attack it is now time to prove that it all works. Whilst a lot of good and positive measures have been taken to protect the public from charlatans and the role of the complementary practitioner is becoming more and more accepted by orthodox medicine, we are more restricted than ever before. In these difficult times, especially with the restrictions on what practitioners can and cannot prescribe, there is a big question mark in the eyes of the public. However with united forces, the role of the complementary practitioner has come more and more to the fore. This session will unravel some of the problems faced today, so that we, as complementary practitioners, will understand our role better than before.
Food allergies/intolerances – can they cause weight gain? - Dr Marilyn Glenville
Come and find out the difference between a food allergy and intolerance. What is the controversy around IgG testing? Learn how a food allergy/intolerance can make a person gain weight, give them food cravings and increase fluid retention. Discover the connection between food allergies, inflammation and leaky gut and how beneficial bacteria can help control weight. The role of gut microflora in the development of insulin resistance, weight gain in pregnancy and weight loss post-partum will also be discussed.
The Innate Immune System is the Key to Infection Control, Allergy and Cancer - Professor Paul Clayton
The innate immune system provides a critically important defence against infection control, allergy and cancer, but requires natural CR-3 agonists to function effectively. The progressive removal of these compounds from the food chain has contributed to the alarming increases in allergy and cancer that has occurred since 1950; whereas their replacement in oral and IV forms has been shown to dramatically improve outcomes in patients with allergy and a range of cancers, and to reduce infection. This session will document the dietary shift involved, demonstrate the mechanism of action of the CR-3 receptor and its agonists, and summarise the ongoing pre-clinical and clinical research programmes.
Can Beauty Really Be Holistic? - Bharti Vyas
Come and hear a leading pioneer of holistic beauty in action. Listening, observation, knowledge and the practical application of years of study, underpin all of Bharti’s methods and therapies. Her own legacy of Eastern traditional philosophies combines with the latest in Western techniques to create innovative and inspiring holistic treatments.
Stress: Breaking the Cycle That’s Blocking Your Fertility - Nicola Moore
This session will explore the emotive issue of subfertility and demonstrate how stress can become an obstacle to becoming pregnant. It will look at the impact of busy lifestyles, work and family commitments on reproductive health and explain how nutritional therapy can be the key to unlocking this vicious circle.
Positive Touch for Children - Mary Atkinson
Life can be challenging for children growing up with the demands of the 21st Century. Research has shown that touch therapies can help young people cope better with anxiety and stress. This lively, interactive session will share some simple techniques and suggestions that have been ‘tried and tested’ by therapists, parents and, of course, children.
The camexpo CAM Outstanding Achievement Award will be presented on stage by 2010 Winner Mary Atkinson, immediately after Mary’s seminar.
Coping As a Therapist Within the Ever Changing Complementary Therapy Industry - Kush Kumar
Times are changing within the complementary therapy industry. Come and hear about the important issues affecting therapists now, including viability, qualifications, knowing your industry, professionalism and time Management. This session will also give therapists an opportunity to consider their role within the industry and how they can maintain it.
Therapeutic Massage: Post Surgical Treatment of Mastectomy and Implants - Paul Lewis
This session will look at rehabilitative treatment techniques based on the symptomatic presentation in order to support the clinical reasoning and rational for techniques, modalities, treatment positions and structures addressed. It will also cover the use of Dynamic Angular Petrissage (DAP), a treatment technique used to help augment the treatment while reducing stress on both the therapist and client. Self-monitoring – self care exercises for the client will also be demonstrated.
