Hello,
This is where we get to introduce ourselves briefly by way of welcoming you to our website!
Who are we? This website was set up and is maintained by ourselves, and so perhaps I should list our names below first of all:
- Kevin Eakins, ND LSM FCT HOM
- Simon Rees, ND LSM FCT HOM TCM
It does not matter whether you call us Kevin and Simon, or Simon and Kevin, as all aspects of our work, as represented on this website, are highly collaborative.
We are both located in Ireland, although not at the same end of the country! Kevin lives in Malahide, County Dublin, and sees patients under the name ‘The Health Works Clinic.’ Simon lives in Galway, and sees patients under the name ‘The Phoenix Healing Centre.’
But here on this website is where our efforts come together into a “team” or “community” resource. Initially, we decided to found this website as the home for a Big Idea – the grand new vision of medicine, science, life and the universe which has been forming in both of our minds for years, and gradually evolving in regular conversations together.
This vision incorporates themes relating to Living Systems, Information Fields and Field Control Therapy. But you can read about all that stuff on the rest of the site.
Our ideas, in turn, were inspired by Savely Yurkovsky, M.D., and our work with him in teaching his system of medicine, Field Control Therapy, to conventional and alternative doctors and other healthcare practitioners on two continents.
Once the core vision had taken shape in our minds, we felt the time was ripe to reach out and communicate more often with our community of friends, colleagues, students and patients, as well as newcomers. We then set up this website in November 2010 as the core hub of this intention, and decided to centre this new project around the Blog at this site. This blog is therefore not an afterthought to the website (as is so often the case on the worldwide web, it seems!) – but rather, the website is here primarily for the blog itself.
You will also find that this website now serves as our primary “springboard” to our various other websites on specific topics or issues. So we aim for this to become the main “one-step” site to enable you to stay in touch not only with our evolving ideas, news, activities and communications, via subscribing to our blog (to subscribe, click on then see either the ‘Register’ or ‘Subscribe’ buttons in the right column), but in addition, an easy place to start at which then branches out, via the links, to our other web resources.
Kevin and Simon first met while studying classical homeopathy together. We hit it off, sparking each other in regular conversation with our mutually inquisitive minds and, we like to think, discerning instincts about medicine, people and much else. Since that time, there has been a never-ending process of discussion or debate between us revolving around all aspects of health and medicine – and indeed our goal for the Blog is to continue that same conversation in a more public arena in future, by sharing here publically more of our thoughts on a wide range of subjects, so that others may also join in on our quest.
Later we undertook a study of Field Control Therapy (FCT) together with Savely Yurkovsky, M.D. Simon had already been a patient of Dr Yurkovsky’s with his partner Clover, and so they had known his work for some years, but in 2004 Clover, Simon and Kevin formalized their studies of Dr Yurkovsky’s system.
After this, on Kevin’s suggestion, Kevin and Simon undertook regular journeys to New York, USA, for clinical internships with Dr Yurkovsky, out of which we collaborated on a new extended curriculum to help others learn FCT. This evolved until we established The FCT Graduate Programme, which we continue to teach on a rotating basis, ever since 2005.
In line with this website, we then decided as of 2011 to make certain portions of The FCT Graduate Programme available in smaller study tracks or seminars to a wider audience, under the titles “The FCT Foundation Course” and “The Living Systems Medicine Diploma Course”, which can each stand alone as a course of study, while at the same time also being compulsory modules forming a part of the wider FCT Graduate Programme.
As this website and blog evolve, we hope you will stay in touch with us and let us know what you think of the new developments, including via sharing your comments after our ongoing blogs.
From the start, we have wanted this to become the most sociable website that we have created. On that note, we will also in the future be showcasing guest blogs from interesting writers, and other FCT practitioners are also invited to contribute their own blogs. Each blogger on this website has his or her own identity and head and shoulders photo, so readers can easily know who has written what.
Most exciting of all, our medical mentor, Dr Yurkovsky, has also offered to consider writing an occasional blog for this website when he can find the time in his busy schedule of clinical work and book-writing. At other times, when he is unable to find the time to contribute new blogs, we intend to also find other ways of keeping him involved, as he is central to everything we write about in our own blogs. One of these ways will be that Dr Yurkovsky will at times contribute to us, for exclusive use in blogs, excerpts of his existing or past work, including material which you may never have seen before even if you are a long-term student of his yourself. As such, we hope you will continue to follow our blogs, get involved and enjoy these resources.
And so, here’s to the vast and ever-fascinating present – and to the future of possibilities into which it is continually unfolding, even as we write this and as you read these words!
