Some days I feel as old as the hills & others like a new sprout just making its way up out of the earth, especially in relation to my professional knowledge.
It’s absolutely true I’ve been around the block a few (zillion) times, building up substantial knowledge and experience which fosters clinical practice and prescribing behaviours that can feel as familiar and comfortable as my favourite trackky dacks!
I am sure you can relate.
But then along comes new information from our clinical experiences or revelatory research about health presentations & their underlying causes, diagnostic understandings, the way our medicines work (and don’t) and it’s like a fresh strong breeze has blown through my mind, unsettling, challenging and above all re-inspiring me all over again about who we are and what we do.
I relearn, I adapt and I change how I practice and teach. And that’s what keeps me mentoring. If I was still saying all the same things I did 20 years ago when I taught so many of you as undergrads, or even 10 or 5 years ago, I’d be ready to hang my hat up. But every year this process of renewal, of removing the comfy trackky dacks for something far less comfortable (office like and appropriate!) is repeated. And never more so than in the last 12months. You see, last year our entire team undertook an intensely focussed 10 months gathering and reading all the very latest in nutritional science and, quite simply, it blew all of our minds! 🤯🤯🤯🤯 (that’s all 4 of us!)
That’s what’s behind our new ground-breaking & practice changing The Nutrient Prescriber’s Program, which we are offering as a supported mentoring program in the first half of 2025. If you have seen some of the first testimonials coming through from our alumni you’ll know this is not to be missed!
But if getting out of your prescribing trackky dacks right this second fills you with terror 😳 you can ease your way into this new thinking and approach to prescribing via our other mentoring offerings – especially our highly popular and celebrated: Cracking the Case. Check out Alison’s comment below about her experience this year of this entirely new format and the accelerated outcomes you get with this applied-based style of mentoring and support.
“Another fantastic course run by Rachel and her team. It always leaves me questionning what I am doing with my clients and how can I better help them with the evidence based research Rachel presents. I am so glad I have access to this information and find myself continually going back to the course for the evidence presented to help with client plans, especially those tricky cases. Thank you so much Rachel, I’m in awe of your brain and knowledge!”
Alison Bramley NZ Naturopath & Cracking the Case mentee
And while I may be getting old(er) I am delighted to still have so much to offer the lil’ chicks of the clinic – our emerging next gen leaders – fresh out of their training or returning to practice after a time away. What a privilege to foster such growth in these grads via our New Grads program.
We’re taking registrations right now for all 3 mentoring programs for 2025 – and I can’t wait to see you there.
Let’s all get out of those too-comfortable trackky dacks together ! Welcome challenge and then come out stronger on the other side – more competent and confident in the clinic than ever before!