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Teaching Tools

Classroom-ready and profession-facing resources gathered to help educators, students, and practitioners teach naturopathic principles, the Therapeutic Order, and the broader philosophy of naturopathic medicine.

How This Page Serves the Project

From codified knowledge to teachable form

Practical teaching tools gather here as slide decks, explanatory talks, and a documentary tie-in that helps contextualize naturopathic medicine within the larger history of medicine.

These materials give faculty and learners direct access to resources without losing the larger intellectual context that gives them meaning.

Teaching Library

Downloadable slide decks and classroom resources

These teaching decks support classroom use, professional education, and the communication of core naturopathic ideas.

Documentary Resource

History as a teaching tool

Dr. Rick Kirschner’s documentary, How Healthcare Became Sickcare: the True History of Medicine, helps frame the historical forces that shaped modern health care.

Ticket graphic for How Healthcare Became Sickcare A useful historical companion for teaching philosophy, profession, and context.

Video Library

Talks and interviews that support teaching

Three video resources extend the Academy’s teaching work through interviews, talks, and public-facing educational material.

Video Talk

Dr. Jane Guiltinan on the Therapeutic Order

A concise teaching-oriented talk centered on the Therapeutic Order as an organizing clinical concept.

Interview

Dr. Jolene Brighten on Functional Medicine and the Naturopathic Therapeutic Order

A conversation that helps bridge naturopathic teaching with contemporary functional medicine language and practice.

Lecture

Principles of Naturopathic Medicine with Dr. Mark Stengler

A public-facing video that reinforces the Academy’s commitment to principle-based professional education.

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