John Hicks
Joint principal and co-founder
John is joint principal and co-founder of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine. He is also a module leader for skills and techniques. He has a PhD from the University of London and has been in practice since 1975. He trained at the College of Traditional Acupuncture and has a Dr Ac from that college. He went on to become dean, lecturer and clinical supervisor there from 1978 to 1985. He created the acupuncture skills course which teaches the basic diagnostic skills of Five Element constitutional diagnosis. He has undertaken clinical training in China at Nanjing College of TCM. He has completed Ted Kaptchuk’s course in Chinese herbal medicine and uses herbs as well as acupuncture in his practice. In 1988 he co-founded Acupuncture Training Courses, a postgraduate course teaching TCM theory to Five Element acupuncturists. The clinical component of the course enables practitioners to integrate their knowledge of TCM into their practice. John is an associate trainer with the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He practises qi gong. The author of The Principles of Chinese Herbal Medicine, and co-author of Healing your Emotions, he also co-wrote the textbook Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture with Angela Hicks and Peter Mole.