Who am I? My name is François Beyens.

When I was 14 years old I decided to become an acupuncturist. First seven years to study western medicine, then three years in the Far East, Hong Kong and Taiwan, to study acupuncture with several masters.

Since then I have been practicing it (for nearly four decades) and I love it. Teaching it for a long time, from A to Z, like the masters I had, transmiting all my  knowledge, experience, beliefs and doubts. So the students learn acupuncture from and with me.

I teach what I do and I do what I teach, writing acupuncture books for practitioners and students ( but they actually can be read by everyone).

I have been for 26 years the General Secretary of an international association of doctors practicing acupuncture in the world. It is called ICMART, which stands for "International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques".

More than ten times a year I participate in national or international congresses and seminars, often giving lectures and workshops.

• At the end of May last year it was in Thessaloniki, Greece, for our World Congress, attended by more than 500 physician acupuncturists.
• August in Athens for our Board meeting.
• Mid October in Istanbul to give a seminar on "Why and How to simplify the acupuncture treatment for functional disorders" (amongst other topics).
• At the end of October in Barcelona for a joint British and Spanish symposium... ·At the end of November I will be in Lille (France) for the french annual congress, and of course I will also speak there (in french, it is my mother tongue...).
• Last year I was in the US, Germany, Holland, Brazil, Taiwan, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Puerto Rico and Latvia. All the time for acupuncture...

But I always feel that I can learn more than what I know, and this is a stimulating feeling driving me forward. I hope that it will never stop.

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