CTA is one of Europe's most established acupuncture colleges. Founded in the 1960s by JR Worsley and having trained many of the practitioners teaching at other colleges, it now operates from a tranquil setting at Haseley Manor in Warwick in the UK, and offers a BA in Traditional Acupuncture, validated by Oxford Brookes University and accredited by the British Acupuncture Accreditation Board.
The college's approach to teaching and practice is inclusive and reflects a focus and foundation in five element acupuncture within a broad historical and clinical context. The college's faculty comprise practitioners from both the college's recent and more distant past as well as tutors trained at other colleges, both in the UK and overseas.
CTA's post-graduate programme offers an accessible and flexible modular MA in Traditional Acupuncture for acupuncturists who wish to explore some of the themes of mastery, from a western academic as well as a traditional medicines perspective. The MA offers the opportunity to develop specific areas of interest and expertise with certain patient groups as well as the more generic professional skills demanded of a traditional acupuncturist.
Today, CTA is playing its part as acupuncture has become a global medicine, participating in our wider debates about medicine, of healthcare access and individual empowerment.
For a fuller profile of both our faculty and the undergraduate curriculum, and for further details of the history, philosophy and clincal focus of Five Element Acupuncture, please follow the links below.