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“Cultivation: What can Chinese Medicine Farmers and Practitioners Learn from Each Other?" with Sabine Wilms, Ph.D.

PLEASE JOIN US IN WELCOMING SABINE WILMS, PhD ON september 8TH, 2023 AT 10AM PT/11AM MT/12pm CT/1pm ET

For this event, we at the Lilium Initiative are invited to join together with her students, most of whom are practitioners, as part of The Imperial Tutor learning series called Tea Time. First, Dr. Wilms will present on the traditional Chinese medicine concept of cultivation as it relates to practitioners as well as farmers. The rest of the time will be open to discussion with everyone. Some questions relative to this discussion:

  • What does it look like, in concrete and abstract terms, to promote sustainability, restoration, transformation, and cultivation for practitioners as well as farmers?

  • The word "cultivation" with respect to land has, in China as well as in the West, meant "to till.” It is also a metaphor in both East and West for self-cultivation as a human being.

  • How do we define "cultivation" in modern times if we are regenerative farmers and don't till or till minimally?

  • Can we learn something from each other about "cultivation" from our new definitions? How does this influence "self-cultivation?”

  • How does "self-cultivation" influence how we cultivate farms and gardens?

  • How do self cultivation and cultivation of land, using our own definitions of "cultivation," influence how we are as practitioners/doctors?

  • Ultimately, how do each of our daily and yearly, personal and professional, practices serve to “harmonize heaven and earth” in the uniquely human role in the middle? Do we even want to be there?

Sabine Wilms, PhD is a former farmer currently living in Washington state, a translator of Classical Chinese medicine texts, and an independent teacher of Classical Chinese Medicine translation. Her online program, Imperial Tutor, has several different options to help practitioners and farmers go to the root of Chinese medicine cultivation. Learn more at her website Happy Goat Productions.

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Later Event: September 21
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