Providence POCAfest Recap: Yes…It Was The Best Ever. Really.

Another POCAfest is in the books and sure-it was the best ever. And if you are rolling your eyes at that claim since I say it after every POCAfest then sit down and let me tell you why. 

Its really quite simple to anyone who is very involved with POCA and know something of its history even if that knowledge is just going to many of the POCAfests. As we members get more experience in working in our clinics and as we spend year after year sharing our knowledge, we've gone past discussing the basic CA 101 rules and are getting into some real depth on what we are doing and why. Some could say that together we are radicalizing each other. When Alexa Hulsey's keynote gets posted in a couple of days you shoud see this deepening. Also the Closing ceremony will get posted with what we are calling the Expanded Pie List (what we want to see happen) will get posted and it is an early answer to the questions that Alexa posed. 

But this depth went much further into the breakout sessions and the millions of informal conversations that took place. As I walked around the camp I felt this air of relaxed concentration pervading the camp. It was a quiet and deeply satisfying weekend. Two breakout sessions I attended exemplified this: Social Business and Trauma Informed Care. Together they were two halves of the Whole that is POCA:

– In the Social Business breakout 

Author: Skip Van Meter

Skip is Lead Acupuncturist and Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.workingclassacupuncture.org/" target="_blank">Working Class Acupuncture</a> in Portland, Oregon. With the earlier part of his life spent acquiring knowledge about geology, urban planning and teaching high school, he has now been an acupuncturist for 19 years, using about a 1,750,000 needles poking his patients. He likes all things soccer, has three fabulous sons, the best wife in the world, and a great dog and two cool cats.