Susan Gold

New board member Susan Gold is creator and editor of our brand new monthly e-mail newsletter.  Her first one is published and is first to announces our upcoming 4th annual conference speakers and topics.  Susan says each future issue will feature an interview with one of our speakers.  Other time sensitive information with hot links will be included such as notice when ImagiNews is available.

Registration for the conference will be announced soon.  Conference dates are October 5-7, 2012 at Mercy Center in Burlingame, California. We look forward to seeing you there.

If you wish to receive the newsletter you can send a request to signup@imageryinternational.com.

Susan Gold is a fiction writer, teacher, and hypnotherapist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an M.A. degree in creative writing and specializes in using hypnosis and guided imagery to help writers and artists overcome blocks, reconnect with their creativity, and develop discipline in their craft. Please visit her website: http://www.susangold.net

David Bresler, PhD

If you’ve ever thought about getting certified by the Academy for Guided Imagery, here’s an outstanding opportunity to join our 2012 class and save a bunch of money ($1000 off regular tuition with extended payments plan available).

To qualify for this special tuition discount, you must enroll in Certification training before February 29, 2012, and complete all requirements by 12/31/12.

If you’d like to become recognized as an expert in using guided imagery and enjoy all the benefits of Academy Certification, we encourage you to register right away, for space is limited and with this offer, we expect our 2012 class to fill quickly.

To find out more about this special opportunity, click here.

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Dr. David Bresler Will Teach Ten New Live Clinical Guided Imagery Workshops in LA Starting in February, 2012.

The Academy is pleased to announce that a series of ten new “hands-on” workshops will be taught by Dr. David Bresler, starting on February 24-25, 2012. This is a unique opportunity to learn advanced Interactive Guided Imagery(sm) techniques from one of the originators of this powerful mind/body approach.

These one day programs will focus on utilizing guided imagery for treating stress, anxiety disorders, acute and chronic pain, depression, smoking, weight control problems, trauma and PTSD. Two workshops will also focus on enhancing creativity and taming the Inner Critic, based largely on the imagery techniques Dr. Bresler developed during the five years he worked with the creative staff at Walt Disney Imagineering.

These workshops will be held every three to four weeks on Fridays and Saturdays at the Bresler Center in West Los Angeles. Participants must have completed at least Level I training through the Academy as a pre-requisite for enrolling in these advanced programs. If you are interested in attending, register quickly for each of the workshops will be limited to twelve students and we expect them to fill quickly.

For more information, a schedule, and an enrollment form, click here.

Leslie Davenport

Tapping into the heart’s wisdom through imagery is an ancient practice, but today guided imagery is enjoying a renaissance in a variety of medical, psychological, educational, artistic and spiritual practices. It is used in as part of treatment with medical conditions, post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, phobias, writer’s block, athletic performance, and deepening spiritual practice.  I hope to see you at one of these upcoming events

April 16: Guided Imagery to Support Grief Sutter Hospice
10:30AM – 12:30PM, San Mateo, California

April 22 – June 10: Integrative Healing for Cancer Care: An Educational Support Group
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
Fridays 1:30PM – 3:30PM,  Free  415-600-3081

May 7: Shout! A Healing Arts Day for Veterans San Francisco, California Free 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

May 14 & 15: Revive, Thrive & Restore to the Core Wellness Retreat Renaissance ClubSport, Walnut Creek, California.

June 25: Spirituality & Religion in Psychotherapy
JFK University, Berkeley, California. CE Credit.

August 20: Spirituality & Religion in Psychotherapy
in Campbell, California  CE Credit.

September 10: Clinical Application of Deep Imagination
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Institute for Health & Healing, San Francisco, CE Credits

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Leslie’s book Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery includes a self-facilitation worksheet with step-by-step instructions for unscripted guided imagery everyone can learn. It is available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions.

To find out more about Leslie Davenport, visit her website:

http://www.lesliedavenport.com/

Leslie Davenport, MFT

Healthcare is in need of healing — as is the environment, food production, finances, and education.  We human beings, with our evolving minds and emotions, have such a marvelous capacity for inventiveness. Yet it is tragically easy to recognize that most of our systems are radically out of balance.

Part of the reason we careen down these dangerous paths is that most of us are not using our whole brains as we navigate decisions. As guided imagery enthusiasts and advocates, you are well aware that the area of human perception where images arise is underutilized and undervalued in our culture. Many of the subtle, intuitive, and soulful aspects of life which would provide life-affirming balance within our institutions are blind to the analytical lens we see through so much of the time.

The benefits of guided imagery in a hospital setting are multilayered, because imagery is not only powerful in helping people heal, but also in transforming healthcare.  Patients who are introduced to imagery experiences in the hospital are awakened to their natural but dormant imaginative domains. Becoming empowered through imagery goes home with them, and some people are intrigued enough to continue developing imagery skills for a range of life experiences beyond their medical concerns. In this way, imagery grows organically into their lives, and the excitement of this valuable discovery often spills over to their work, and circle of family and friends. Physicians and other hospitals staff also become educated to the power of imagery as patients spontaneously report the benefits of their sessions, such as reduced side effects, deceased anxiety and overcoming insomnia.

We are fortunate that the guided imagery services, which are part of the Institute for Health and Healing, are well integrated into all medical units at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. A team of twenty-four imagery practitioners provide imagery sessions in maternity, pediatrics, oncology, cardiology, transplant, surgery, palliative care and hospice. The imagery practitioners also participate in medical rounds, provide staff in-services, and facilitate imagery-based community support groups.

I began offering guided imagery in a hospital in 1989, and have since launched imagery programs at five hospitals. I would love to see more of these kinds of programs take root, and am excited to share what I have learned over the last twenty years.

You can visit the Institute for Health and Healing website to learn more about the Guided Imagery/Expressive Arts certification program. A student in the program has written about her experience here.

Glenda Cedarleaf, LICSW will be presenting on the topic:  “Guided Imagery and Depression” as

Glenda Cedarleaf

part of a panel at a meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Holistic Medical Association. To register for the event click here. To learn more about the Minnesota-Midwest Holistic Physicians visit their website here. __________________________________________________

About Glenda Cedarleaf: Glenda’s CD’s “Your Healing Journey” and “Healing Surgery” are now being provided to patients in the Cardiac Catheter Lab, Emergency Room and Surgical Center of an Integrative Hospital.  Glenda makes custom made CDs using your words and ideas.  You can hear samples of her CD recordings here.

Dr. Emmett Miller hosts

On the internet based OpenMindRadio.com Emmett Miller interviews a guest whose work complements his own.

September 2 his guest is Juanita Brown, PhD.  Dr. Brown and her partner David Isaacs, are the co-originator of The World Café, a pioneering approach to large scale dialogue and collaborative inquiry being used in corporate, community, government, education, and multi-stakeholder settings around the globe.

Hundreds of thousands of people on six continents have experienced the World Café to foster sustainable development, responsible business futures, conflict resolution, democratic leadership, and local community engagement around critical issues. Her award-winning book, The World Café: Shaping our Futures through Conversations that Matter, co-authored with her partner David Isaacs and the World Café Community has been translated into 10 languages, and has recently been released in mainland China.

Since 1974, Juanita has collaborated as a strategic thinking partner with senior corporate executives as well as non-profit leaders in the U.S., Latin America, Canada, Europe and the Pacific Rim, advising on large scale change intiatives and creating innovative forums for strategic dialogue around critical organizational and societal issues. Juanita is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and has served as a Senior Affiliate with both the MIT Center for Organizational Learning (now the Society for Organizational Learning) and the Institute for the Future. Her greatest joy, however, is when she finds herself alone in nature on the shores of Tomales Bay, California listening to the loons and seeing the white pelicans floating quietly through the mist.

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About Dr. Miller, MD: he is a physician, author, poet, musician, and master storyteller whose multicultural heritage has given him a unique social, medical, and spiritual perspective. One of the pioneers of Mind/Body Medicine, HEALING TIMES with Dr. Emmett Miller explores Mind/Body Health and how to reclaim our inherent personal wisdom integrating scientific knowledge and techniques of modern medicine. Author of Deep Healing and Our Culture on the Couch: Seven Steps to Global Healing, Dr. Miller’s mission is to help us heal ourselves so that we can in turn, heal our planet. Check out his website for more information on CDs, Books, Workshops and Radio programs and get a catalogue

Integrative Oncology – How Medicine and Healing Can Work Together for YOU

with Martin Rossman, MD

Martin Rossman, MD is the author of “Fighting Cancer From Within”, and has produced a whole series of CD’s for those who are going through treatment for Cancer.  He’ll be speaking on how medicine and the Integrative Healing modalities can work together for you.  He will address how evidence of effectiveness and safety is evaluated, how you can best make decisions about what to incorporate in your personal plan, and how these modalities might fit into different stages of your journey through cancer treatment. While Imagery and Acupuncture will be stand-alone topics later in this series, he will certainly speak about them, as well as the area of Mind-Body medicine as it relates to Integrative Oncology.  Dr. Rossman has been a featured speaker all over the world, and we think you will find his talk a wonderful beginning for this exploration of Integrative Oncology.

Marin General Hospital and the Marin Cancer Institute present a New Integrative Speakers Series for the general public. Download a flyer 2010 Speaker Series Flyer.  This is the schedule for 2010:

Tuesday July 27
Martin Rossman, MD Tuesday,
“Integrative Oncology: How Medicine And Healing can Work Together for You”

Wednesday, August 25
David Gullion, MD
“Integrative Oncology: How to Talk about It with Your Oncologist”

Tuesday, September 21
Vicki Dello Joio & Denise Aubin
“Chi Gong: Cultivating Energy for Life”

Tuesday, October 19
Francine Halberg, MD & Regan Fedric
“Fitness: How It Fits Into Your Personal Plan for Survivorship”

Wednesday, November 10
Sharon Meyer, CN
“Nutrition for Survivorship”

Wednesday, December 8
Kathleen Colloton, RN, & Susan Ezra, RN
“The Magic of Imagery”

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Susan Ezra, RN, HN-BC

Co-Director of Beyond Ordinary Nursing
http://www.integrativeimagery.com

Sue was honored at our conference as one of the  Imagery Persons of the Year 2009 recipients.

About Integrative Guided Imagery

Using the power of the imagination as an adjunct in health care is becoming more and more common place. Guided imagery is being incorporated into stress management classes, surgery preparation, cardiac rehab and in the full spectrum of cancer care, just to name a few. It is a vital way patients can take an active role in their own well-being and healing.

Yet there are few formal guided imagery training sources. One that has been training and certifying healthcare professionals since 1996 is Beyond Ordinary Nursing‘s Certificate Program in Integrative Imagery.

Phase I begins October 9-11, in Redwood City,  California, very close to the San Francisco airport. Registration is due September 1st and a tuition reduction for the full program is $600 for this tract only.

Highlights:

1. Open to all licensed healthcare professionals
2. 20.4 contact hours for phase I for RNs, LCSWs and MFTs
3. Phase I is 3 full days – Friday, Saturday and Sunday
4. Phase 2-4 to follow in 2010 at Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA
5. Program endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association

This exciting, innovative 4-phase, 108 hour certificate program offers in-depth training and direct experience in Integrative Imagery, an evidence-based mind/body modality that teaches you how to harness and utilize the power and science of the imagination for health and healing.

This transformative process is a powerful tool for your clinical practice and invaluable for self-care. To learn more go to our website.

To hear an actual guided imagery session click here.

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Guided Imagery and Beyond – Stories of Healing and Transformation by Susan Ezra, RN, HN-BC and Terry Reed, RN, MS, HN-BC

“In this book you will find a wide array of fascinating stories, showing the width and depth of what can be accomplished with guided imagery. Whether it is to heal, achieve optimal performance or to live a life rich in joy and love, mental imagery is the key; through reading these stories you will gain invaluable insight concerning ways to enhance and enrich your own life experience.”
- Emmett Miller, MD
Author, Deep Healing

To purchase Guided Imagery and Beyond click here.