NADA GB Conference 2024

The NADA GB Conference will take place on 26^th October 2024, between 0900-1700.

The admission fee will be £50 per delegate.

Tea/coffee and a hot lunch will be included in the price of the admission. Places are limited to 100 delegates.

The venue is:

The Sarah Fell Room,
Friends House,
173-177 Euston Road,
London NW1 2BJ

Tel 020 7663 1100

www.friendshouse.co.uk

This year's conference theme will be 'Unimagined Bridges' and the following speakers will be attending (please check this space for further speakers being added):

Gabriella Angus, NADA GB Trainer : Remarkable Stories - The Transformative Power of NADA Ear Acupuncture

An inspiring exploration of the NADA protocol and its profound impact on individuals facing a wide range of challenges. This session will delve into several poignant and unexpected narratives, highlighting how ear acupuncture has helped improve the quality of life for many.
The stories include a woman grappling with bereavement and chronic anxiety, a young girl battling debilitating eczema, grief, and emotional pain, and a young man overcoming corporate burnout, anxiety, and fatigue. These remarkable accounts reveal the incredible resilience and healing fostered by the NADA protocol.
We will also share experiences from families in crisis, staff at a domestic violence refuge coping with overwhelming stress, and individuals stuck in life who found peace and the ability to move forward. Through these remarkable accounts, we aim to provide a deeper understanding of the therapeutic benefits of NADA ear acupuncture and its potential to transform lives.
Whether you are a practitioner, a healthcare professional, or someone interested in alternative therapies, this session offers valuable insights into the power of ear acupuncture and its far-reaching effects.

Tarsem Degun, NADA Well-being Clinic at LIMC
Margaret Kinchin, NADA practitioner, worked in homeless shelters and World Medicine (Grenfell and Wapping): My 'Never-Imagined' Bridges

We are all on our own, personal life’s journey. Journeys inevitably cross bridges.
From my first introduction to NADA I have crossed so many - to say they were at one time ‘unimagined’ is a massive understatement. I have picked out a few of the most memorable and significant ones to share and to show the effect they have had on my NADA Journey.

Trish Cathcart, NADA trainer in Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Prisons

Trish Cathcart, Ballymena, N. Ireland, is a counselor and a NADA trainer. She works for SMART360 Recovery, an organization which delivers person-centered support services for people with a wide variety of needs. SMART360 operates in all the prisons in N. Ireland, and it also operates in the community.
Trish has taught the NADA protocol to workers in the prisons, and she has also taught acupressure to the prisoners themselves so they can treat others with the beads. She will tell us about her work both in the prisons and in the community where SMART360 continues support for the men leaving prison and for their family – helping them get back onto their feet, access housing, doctors and more.

Vanessa Topp, New Caledonia: NADA New Caledonia experience from 2012 till today

NADA has been used in public institutions in New Caledonia for more than 20 years, in addiction units and now in mental health units. My presentation will focus on using NADA for the promotion of global health and integrative care specifically in New Caledonia.

Jamie Dunn, NADA at Early Break Manchester
Lars Winblad, Founder of NADA in Denmark: NADA in hospice and pastoral care

The NADA protocol has been widely known for two decades in palliative care and hospice service in particular. Half of the hospices in Denmark use the NADA protocol and the demand of the protocol is increasing these years.
This is a short presentation of the use of the NADA protocol in palliative care from well known issues like anxiety, depression, fear, sleeping disturbances, nighmares and delirium to the protocol as a complementary tool to reduce for example medication and physical and mental pain.
It is particularly noteworthy that the NADA protocol effectively can support pastoral care in a direct, gentle and subtle way. The process of the NADA protocol reflects pastoral care in a non verbal form. Transformation lies within the protocol.

Sara Bursac & NADA Croatia Team: NADA emerging in the Balkans

NADA brings us together to heal from a shared history of unity and conflict. For the past 10 years, NADA has had a presence in Croatia – the seeds of its beginnings had been planted at the 2013 international NADA meeting in Graz, Austria. Since then, there have been a variety of applications of the NADA protocol in Croatia, from disaster-response settings after an earthquake, to a harm reduction program, to sharing beads with teachers at an elementary school. A community of providers has emerged oriented towards sharing these teachings with its neighbors. In the past year a training was held in Serbia, and most recently in Bosnia.

Kajsa Landgren, Lund University, Sweden: How to bridge NADA into public funded care - evidence, visions, and experiences

Anxiety, depression, addiction, stress and sleeping problems are common and affect all dimensions of life. The effect of medication is modest with severe side effects. It is essential to find a safe and effective treatment that reduces suffering. Complementary methods like NADA should be interesting options for decisionmakers. I will speak about evidence and clinical experiences. I argue that ear acupuncture is a safe, effective and cost-effective intervention, highly appreciated by patients in recovery. Therefore, I argue that it is reasonable to implement ear acupuncture in publicly funded care so that more people can benefit from it.
I will discuss what I think is needed for a further implementation of ear acupuncture in psychiatric care and addiction treatment.

Suzanne Reid – Ukraine
Farrah Idris: World Medicine & JRS - Training the Community to Treat the Community

A pilot project developed by World Medicine to provide fully supported training in the NADA protocol to Refugee Friends and key workers. The aim of the pilot was to create a sustainable volunteer base to help maintain the clinic at the Jesuit Refugee Service in Wapping, to support the Refugee Friends who use the service, by training them in a practical skills-based programme. This enables them to positively contribute to the WM programme and the healing within their own communities.

Roz Yates
John Tindall
Beverley de Valois, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, UK: Safe practice of acupuncture in cancer care

NADA is being used increasingly in integrative oncology, thus, awareness of the recently published recommendations for safe practice is important. These are intended to inform and empower acupuncture practitioners to offer acupuncture as a safe adjunct to routine cancer treatment and care. The result of a two-year collaboration of 15 international experts in integrative oncology and/or acupuncture, these are the first international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed recommendations for the safe practice of acupuncture in integrative oncology. They are available at https://rdcu.be/dNWSm

Camilla Denmark: Unimagined Bridges

We are living in a society that in many ways is in a paradigm shifting era. This shows in our ways of polarizing our thoughts, words – our mindset. This is also happening within the trauma therapy field. A lot of therapeutic methods were developed within a heteronormative mindset. And today the call for paradigm inclusion not separation within trauma methods is necessary. This talk addresses how NADA can be the unimagined bridge to inclusion of mindset within therapeutic methods – and will particularly focus on trauma therapies: the poly vagal theory versus response-based practice.
Camilla Ottesen is a certified Midwife and an Experience-Oriented Psychotherapist with a master’s degree in organizational psychology and leadership. In her therapeutic clinic she is working with trauma and victims of violence and abuse. She has been a NADA practitioner since 2012 and a NADA instructor since 2022.

Phoenix Medical will have a trade stand at the Conference.

How to Book: To book your place, please contact info@nadagbacupuncture.co.uk.

Conference accommodation

We have secured an allocation of double rooms for the 25th and 26th October at the Tavistock Hotel at the special rate of £185 per room per night.

The Tavistock Hotel (48-55 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9EU) is a welcoming place to stay overlooking leafy Tavistock Square Gardens and a 10-15 minute walk away from Euston and Kings Cross St Pancras and a 2 minute walk from Russell Square Underground Station on the Piccadilly line. The Hotel is a 6 minute walk from our Nada GB conference venue.

Double bedded room for sole use £185 per night
Rates include English Breakfast & VAT at the prevailing rate
Option to book for just one night or two
Full card details (card number, expiry date, card holder’s name) will be required to guarantee the booking, payment is on arrival. The hotels are cashless, AmEx & Diners are not accepted
Cancellation policy is 24 hours prior to 11am on the day of arrival
“No shows” - one-night charge will apply

To make a booking, attendees need to contact the hotel's Central Reservation Office on 0207 278 7871, quoting the reference "NADA Allocation".

The first NADA GB Annual Conference was held in October 2022 in London. If you missed it, you can catch our 2022 Annual Conference speakers on video here.