Thinking Outside the Box – Part C
Course Outline
| Thinking Outside the Box – Part C | |
| 1. Awarding Institution / Body: | An American University |
| 2. Teaching Institution: | Da Vinci Institute of Holistic Medicine |
| 3. Programme Accredited by: | American University |
| 4. Final Award | Credits towards the degree |
| 5. Programme title: | Thinking Outside the Box – Part A |
| 6. Course Code and level: | ND8012 |
| 7. Duration of programme: | One trimester or 12 weeks |
| 8. Total number of study hours: | About 90 study hours |
| 9. Enrolment requirements: | None |
| 10. Enrolment date: | Anytime |
| 11. Fees: | Full payment: €380 Euros; Instalment plan: €133 per month for 3 monthly payments (5% extra). |
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This course consists of 4 lessons, with videos and transcripts.
The 4 lessons are:
Episode 1
The Mind–Body Connection: Faith, Mindset, and Healing
Episode 9 explores the relationship between the mind, emotions, faith, belief, stress, and physical healing. Students will examine how mindset and emotional state may influence resilience, recovery, immune function, and the healing journey.
The lesson includes testimony and practitioner discussion around hope, prayer, positive thinking, trauma, limiting beliefs, spiritual perspective, and the importance of not becoming trapped in fear or despair during illness.
This episode encourages students to understand healing as more than a physical process. It invites them to consider how emotional support, spiritual grounding, gratitude, belief, and self-awareness may influence the body’s ability to recover and adapt.
Episode 2
Longevity Foundations: Natural Strategies for a Longer Healthspan
Episode 10 focuses on the principles of healthy ageing, vitality, and long-term healthspan. Students will explore holistic approaches to longevity, including detoxification, gut health, stem cell discussions, upper cervical chiropractic, EMF awareness, blood sugar balance, nutrition, and lifestyle regulation.
The lesson presents longevity not simply as living longer, but as maintaining energy, clarity, mobility, resilience, and quality of life over time.
Students are encouraged to think about how small daily choices can influence ageing, including food quality, sleep, movement, environmental exposure, nervous system function, and the body’s regenerative capacity.
Episode 3
Ancient Healing Tools for Modern Wellness
Episode 11 introduces students to traditional and natural healing methods that have been used across cultures for generations. Topics include herbal medicine, homeopathy, natural first aid, sunlight, circadian rhythm, detoxification, urine therapy, and the role of ancient health practices in modern wellness.
The episode encourages students to explore why many traditional remedies have been overlooked, dismissed, or forgotten in modern healthcare settings. It also introduces practical natural first-aid tools such as aloe, arnica, ginger, peppermint, activated charcoal, raw honey, iodine, cayenne, and flower essences.
This lesson is designed to help students appreciate the historical depth of natural medicine while also thinking carefully about safety, context, and appropriate use.
Episode 4
Environmental Toxicity: Food, Water, and Everyday Exposure
The final episode focuses on environmental toxicity and the ways food, water, air, agriculture, chemicals, pesticides, and modern technologies may affect health.
Students will explore discussions around glyphosate, food supply concerns, pesticides, GMO foods, imported produce, food coatings, environmental contamination, and toxic burden. The episode also considers how chronic exposure to environmental stressors may influence the gut, immune system, nervous system, metabolism, and long-term health.
This lesson encourages students to become more aware of everyday exposures and to think practically about reducing toxic burden through food choices, clean water, environmental awareness, and lifestyle changes.
By the end of this episode, students should understand why environmental medicine is an important part of modern naturopathic and holistic health education.
There are also 3 clinical interviews that cover other interesting topics, all with transcripts to make it easy to follow. There are 10 assignment questions for each of these interviews.
There are 10 timed assignment questions for each lesson, to be answered online, along with a final exam.






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