Join the International Oriental College in developing Chinese Medicine, Sports, Spirituality and Culture studies in your own region. Be a Hub of knowledge and skills in your area.

Our educational program combines self practice studies, clinical studies, educational studies and so on by means of contact study, self study and e-learning, combining formal and informal teaching styles in a fully individualized program to help each student forward in developing his or her personal strong points in the career of choice.

Our program offers the full range of academic studies and applies both modern scientific values, as well as ancient Chinese academic and monastic values that both are essential in learning Chinese Medicine and Martial Arts. The content of the program is focused on:

• self experience and self practice
• research
• professional skills
• personal and career development
• International and multicultural environment

Our program is following United Nations Standards on Chinese medicine education, European directives on academic training and Dutch Educational Law. We keep track of modern developments and allow our students to choose the content and direction of the study field in relationship to what is available.

We offer the following programs so that you can enter at any level you feel comfortable with:

- BA-MA-PHD studies: in a graduated personalized program of about 4-6 years we offer academic and personal training in combination with developing professional skills. Entry level depends or pre-schooling. The degrees are offered in combination with the Intercultural Open University Degree Program and are part of our Global University research department (allows for VAT free clinical practice in the EU).

- Vocational degrees: your experience completed with some additional studies to help you put your experience and insights into the right format, combined with personal mentoring to help you achieve a degree of recognition for your expertise.

- Diplomas: professional training for Clinical Assistant, comparable in level and legally allowed constraints of the average school of Chinese Medicine in Europe and the north America’s. These diplomas can also be constructed from combination of:

- Instructor Certificates. Short courses of 3-5 months allow for development of basic skills in Wudang Zhenwu Sports, -Aesthetic medicine and –Dietics.

Application of past wisdom in future practice

By attempting to study Chinese Medicine,Martial Arts and Qigong as a (cultural and scientific) unity each student contributes to the diversity of future developments in all medicines. It also helps to find a continuous inspiration to come to deeper and deeper understanding as well as continuous improvement of skills.

Distance Education, Self-Cultivation and Contact Education

Because we have students from over the whole world and traveling and financing often is a problem we created all kinds of creative solutions to make the study work for our friends. Distance education can often be done in combination with virtual classrooms for theoretical subjects. Practice subjects require close contact teaching and frequent monitoring of progress. Of course some video monitoring can happen, but for superficial overview only. No one can really learn from video the intricate details of practice. Fortunately self-cultivation is a large part of our program too, so managing these difficulties to comport oneself are part of the program when they apply to you.

Self-Cultivation is the core of any study related to Chinese culture, like how it was common in the west before the 20th century. Self cultivation is a process of building oneself into ‘a person of substance’, health, insight and equanimity and supportiveness. Different great masters and inspirational leaders have produced teachings about this.

Self cultivation is to help one gain independence of outside influences so that life’s events do not interfere with ones mission. The Dao of Self-discipline, building a reliable network of likewise friends and supporting ones teachers, students, clients, colleagues and study friends is therefore at the heart of Chinese medicine and Martial Arts studies.

The Oriental College supports this process during ones study time and after in all our activities. Self cultivation is also the heart of understanding ones own body and mind as an explanatory model for Chinese medicine theory and practice beyond that of superstitious mechanized use as is proposed in modern literature and most schools. It is the main preparation to become a practitioner with excellence.