Dear colleagues, patients, and clients,

Dr. Emmett Miller

I will be presenting a new workshop series entitled, “Awakening Your Power To Heal, Transform, and Thrive” over the next 6 months. The first presentation will be on Feb 23, 2012, in Nevada City, CA. This may be the only presentation of this series in this area, and I believe you will find this workshop very valuable.  Please read the description below and seriously consider participating in one or all of the interactive evenings.

As a physician, therapist, and life coach, I have been leading groups and workshops since 1970. The “Awakening Your Power To Heal, Transform, and Thrive” workshop is a culmination of 40 years of my practice in healing transformations. My mission is to help people understand the power of their minds.  Overcoming the past and creating new pathways to health, love, success and happiness has always been my goal and is the goal of this workshop.

Through the use of guided imagery, cognitive restructuring, positive self-talk, and other mind-tools, I will offer methods of self-healing so that you can re-wire the internal messaging center of your brain, help you harness the energy of stress and use the wisdom of your awakened spirit to live authentically. If you are a health or helping professional of any kind, you will also find direct application to your work.

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Harpist Jeanne Martin

Juliet Rohde-Brown’s guest on her webtalk radio show is Jeanne Martin, PhD.  Jeanne is a gifted harpist and explains how different modes of music as practiced by the ancients affect emotional and physical well-being.  She often plays for the elderly in Hospice and offers heartwarming stories about the beneficial effects playing the harp for them in our latest podcast Music, Mythology and Medicine.

Jeanne Martin, PhD has her BA from Cornell and her MA/PhD. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a mythologist, harpist, lecturer, and conference speaker on topics in ancient mythology (Greco-Roman, Egyptian and Celtic) and psychological archetypes in music for the well-lived life. She has researched sacred sites in Egypt, Crete, Cyprus, the Yucatan, Athens, Rome, Pompeii, Glastonbury and Stonehenge.

Jeanne was a presenter at the Imagery International Conference.

Dr. Epstein discusses the ways he works with Dreams and Imagerywith Juliet Rohde-Brown.  In this fascinating discussion says that most of our difficulties are rooted in disturbed or disordered relationships of

Dr. Epstein

one sort or another.  As the the mind and body form a unity, the physical illnesses are expressions of these relational difficulties.  Working with imagery from dreams physical illness can be changed.  From a spiritual perspecting, information in dreams is from the Source and provides valuable information about healing.

His latest podcast is found here.

A cornerstone of Jerry’s teaching is the use of mental imagery – also called guided imagery or visualization. Imagery has been used for thousands of years by healers and wisdom keepers of many cultures to heal the sick, to benefit the community, and connect to the Divine. All my teachings aim to encourage and preserve your freedom.

Hello all you Imagery Lovers everywhere!!

Jann Fredrickson, LICSW

The deadline for proposals is coming up on May 6th.  Many of you have let me know that you are going to submit a proposal, so the time to do that is NOW.  Also, registration for the conference will be up within a couple of days on our website:

http://imageryinternational.org/annual-conference/

All the information about the conference will be there and also, how to submit a proposal.

I am really excited about our third annual conference: “Imagery: Hope and New Beginnings“  to be held on September 30-October 2 at the beautiful Mercy Center Retreat Center in Burlingame, California,  Last year’s conference was sold out, so get your regisration in EARLY.

Hoping to see you there!!

Jann Fredrickson Ramus
Conference Chair

Transforming Medicines

from the Permanente Journal, Summer 2007

By Charles Elder, MD, MPH, FACP; Cheryl Ritenbaugh, PhD, MPH

Whole Person

What will it take to transform our health care system? Anecdotal experience and qualitative data suggest that patients undergoing treatment within certain Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) systems (eg, ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and naturopathy) may experience and value nonspecific, whole-person, or transformational changes as essential components of the healing process. Conventional medicine’s limitations in appreciating such phenomena may represent an under-recognized root cause of chronic dissatisfaction with and within primary care. Meaningful progress, then, could require the transformation of our own practice toward selectively incorporating CAM paradigms. Clinical investigators and educators are already responding to this challenge.

To read the rest of the editorial click here.

May 25, May 26, November 6, February 5, 2011: Leslie Davenport, MFT teaches at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California

Leslie Davenport, MFT

Over the last 20 years, medical research has confirmed what certain spiritual and indigenous traditions have known for centuries: Our states of mind and emotions directly affect our physiology. What, then, is the true cost to our health of dark moods or incessant worry? Davenport, a pioneer in bringing mind-body approaches into the halls of contemporary medicine, speaks to the beneficial side of this link. She’ll also present tools to help enhance your everyday health and sense of well-being.

May 25: Take Charge of Your Health: The Mind-Body Connection

6:30 PM, Pharmaca, 7514 Redwood Blvd. #104, Novato, Ca. FREE

May 26: Take Charge of Your Health: The Mind-Body Connection

4:45 PM Reception, 5:15 Program. Commonwealth Club, San Francisco.

Click here to buy tickets.  
$12.00 to Members, $20.00 public.

November 6: Clinical Application of Deep Imagination, Part 1

10:00 am – 5:00 pm John F Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, California

Note: A continuing, more advanced workshop will be offered on February 5, 2011. This class is a prerequisite.
  6 hours of CE credits available for MFT’s, LCSW’s, RN’s.

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

http://www.lesliedavenport.com/