 This four-week residential elective will provide the opportunity
to delve more deeply into our relationship with ourselves as healers
and our interconnectedness with the Earth.
It will be a time for spiritual development and personal exploration
of our commitment to our lives in community with all living things.
We will look at how we can help bring balance into our own lives
to help support our work as physicians. We will examine how we can
create and sustain the environment around us that nurtures and facilitates
healing. We will bring science and spirit together “where the
two worlds touch”** and begin to understand the common threads
that weave it all together. Throughout the course we will create
a model of an integrative approach to medicine. There will be an
exploration of cross-cultural healing disciplines from the perspective
of traditional philosophies of healing as they are currently practiced
and as they relate to walking in balance with the Earth. Nature will
be our honored teacher as we also learn from gifted physicians, practitioners,
and one another about the deeper places where healing lives and is
manifest.
**"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell,
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want,
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
Where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep."
~ Rumi
"The Sacred Contract" :
The Inner Journey of the Healer
Intention, commitment,
and personal transformation
Science & Spirituality,
"
...where the two worlds touch" **
Exploring the nature of healing
Environmental Illness, Awareness & Consciousness
Evidence-based information, preventive medicine, and public health
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
in Healing & the
Planetary Community
Creating cross-cultural understanding through healing practicies
How Medicine Impacts the Environment -
Practicing Conscious Healthcare From harvesting
pharmaceutical materials to hospital waste - Our roles and responsibilities
to the web of life
Nutrition - Diet for a Healthy Person and a Healthy Planet - Conscious
Cooking
The impact of what we eat - on ourselves and on the environment
Herbal Medicine - Our interrelationship with herbs, Nature's original
healers New evidence, new explorations of ancient medicine
 Sacred Space / Healing Space - Creating Innter and Outer Environments
that consciously support and stimulate a healing response.
Spiritual Dimensions & Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Death & Dying
Nature as the model of life, death and transformation
Dying as a spiritual journey
The Body in Balance - Hands-on Healing & Bodywork
Including massage, hydrotherapy, Breema, and energy healing
The Music of Our Souls - On-going creative expression that connects
us more deeply to ourselves, to one another, and reflects the celebration
of life - journaling, stories, poetry, music, movement, art, prayer
beads, chanting, etc.
Date: |
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April 1 - April 28, 2007 |
Location: |
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The Institute of Noetic Sciences, a two
hundred acre rural retreat site in Northern California |
Cost: |
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$695 per person, towards room and board |
Accreditation: |
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University of Florida College of Medicine |
Application Deadline: |
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Oct. 1, 2006 or as space is available. Limited
to 20 students. (Apply early!) |
Notification of Acceptance: |
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On a rolling basis
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