Teaching as Freedom: Pedagogy, Debt, and the Acupuncture Profession (podcast)
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Teaching as Freedom: Pedagogy, Debt, and the Acupuncture Profession
With Michael McMahon and Bex Groebner
In this conversation, Michael and Bex talk about what it actually means to teach this medicine, flipped learning, backwards design, why safety and fun belong in every anatomy syllabus, and why the institutional status quo is often standing in the way of best educational practices. They also get into the financial realities of running a small business as a bodyworker, including debt, retirement, SEP IRAs, raising your rates every year, and what it means to be scared about your future in a profession that never teaches you to plan for it.
This one is for practitioners, educators, students, and anyone who has ever sat in a chair for four years and wondered if there was a better way.
Bex Groebner is a licensed acupuncturist (DAc, LAc) practicing in Oregon and Washington who has spent over a decade as an acupuncture educator (NUNM, OCOM, ARP), a clinician running her own practice, writer, podcaster, and has been a participant in the state association and regulatory rooms where the rules of this profession actually get written.
Her north star is simple: to support acupuncturists who want to practice with integrity, especially the rural, underserved-community provider, to have access to a quality education that helps them feel confident and empowered in the job.
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