About The Contemporary College of Homeopathy
The Contemporary College of Homeopathy was founded in 1996. Our aim is to provide students with a comprehensive and stimulating professional homeopathic education.
About The Contemporary College of Homeopathy
The Contemporary College of Homeopathy was founded in 1996. Our aim is to provide students with a comprehensive and stimulating professional homeopathic education.
Our College
Mike Bridger, our Principal, is passionate about making homeopathy clear, accessible, and meaningful. His vision is that every student leaves the College able to communicate with patients about their health in a way that is both effective and easy to understand.
Our experienced teaching team share this ethos, offering an approach to homeopathy that brings inspiration, clarity, and simplicity. We believe learning should be engaging and enjoyable - and that this makes study more memorable and more rewarding.
By building a solid foundation in both theory and practice, you’ll gain the confidence and freedom to grow as a practitioner and develop a successful future in homeopathy.
Letter from the Principal
Thank you for showing an interest in our college. I wanted to write something personally about how the college came about. I have been practising and teaching homeopathy for over forty years. I became interested after reading a book about it. I was hooked and have been ever since. I have never lost my excitement for the subject. It is an extraordinary privilege to be able to listen to people’s stories, to have the tools to be able to work out exactly where they are stuck in their health, why they are sick and how to get them better.
To be a homeopath, you need to be fascinated by people. It is very humbling to realise just how extraordinary so many apparently ordinary people are. I am endlessly curious to know why people choose to do what they do as well as exploring why people get ill in the first place.
When I started the Contemporary College of Homeopathy in 1996, I wanted the learning and teaching to reflect the emphasis in homeopathy on the individual. This means that we teach a variety of approaches while strictly adhering to the foundations of traditional homeopathic thought. This enables students to make their own choice about their own way of practice. It is important that our students feel empowered in their experience of homeopathy and also that they do not think that homeopathy is the only valid system of medicine and healing.
The approach of the college to homeopathy is that it is part of a whole. Every branch of healing seems to consider itself as holistic, but a branch is only a part of a tree. Holistic health is not the prerogative of any one of these systems but the totality of them all. This ‘whole’ includes not only other useful therapies such as acupuncture, nutrition, osteopathy and other alternative disciplines, but also orthodox medicine too.
The other important belief underpinning our college is that a system of healing is of little use if kept in the bounds of the intellect, theorising and metaphysical speculations. Homeopathy is relevant to our patients or it is not relevant at all. Our studies are grounded in experience and observation; the teaching clinic makes sure that students do not drift off and become ‘so heavenly that they are of no earthly use whatsoever’- as a friend of mine once put it.
I am proud to say that the majority of students leave the college and become successful practitioners.
With best wishes
Mike Bridger
Mike Bridger, Founder & Principal