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Peris Gumz is a co-owner and core faculty at the a Teleosis Homeopathic Collaborative Active learning community of students and alumni/practitioners Integrated clinic, cases taken & managed by students One-year acute course Three-year professional program Primarily Boston-based ACHENA accredited [email protected] Exploring Your Health Narrative An NCH webinar With Peris Gumz Thursday, January 17, 2013 A couple of key questions: First: what are we talking about? Health narrative – how you talk with yourself or others about health, illness, symptoms... And why shine a light on that? Why shine a light on that? In the absence of a narrative (or guiding questions or a practice of saying “Isn't that interesting?”), the default position is often somewhere between fear and panic. A couple of examples: a)A fever can kill you. b)I must be really sick, I only want to sleep. c)OMG, my symptoms are returning, I'm relapsing, I'll never get better. a)A fever can be a healing strategy. b)Sometimes we sleep so more of our vital energy can go to our healing. c)Nothing in nature goes in a straight line. It's normal to feel some dips in a recovery process. Tonight's program: (Assumption: There is value in consciously cultivating your own health narrative.) Consider our own personal resources Reflect on the homeopathic paradigm Images for your contemplation and practice Exploring Your Health Narrative GET READY! Teleosis Homeopathic Collaborative Exploring YOUR health narrative Teleosis Homeopathic Collaborative Probably like you... Field of Dreams by Emily Stauring We need to get personally comfortable With wholeness Vitality The role of illness EVEN IF that means simply being willing to be in uncertainty And actively live with the questions In search of historical context Jacalyn Duffin History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Intro Hippocratic triangle Lovers & Livers: Disease Concepts in History Observer /physician Charles Rosenberg The Cholera Years Explaining Epidemics Illness Patient A new angle on the triangle Hippocratic triangle A homeopathic triangle Homeopath Observer /physician Illness Patient Remedy Client This is a very different dynamic. Many & varied skills Case-taking Case-management Active listening Non-judgment Repertorization Effective inquiry Nested bowls Case-taking Case-management Active listening Non-judgment Attitudes Repertorization Effective inquiry Perceptions Guiding questions Calling forth another vision Same data, informed by different point of view What's right about what's wrong? Let's imagine every symptom has a function... Or if you're feeling a little more radical... a gift Homeopathic paradigm – a few key points A homeopathic triangle Wholeness Energy Individuality Homeopath Remedy Client Illness is NOT an independent entity Attitudes Perceptions Guiding questions Co-existing with prevailing paradigm, like an open secret What's right about what's wrong? Tonight's program: (Assumption: There is value in consciously cultivating your own health narrative.) Consider our own personal resources Reflect on the homeopathic paradigm Images for your contemplation and practice Some of our best teachers might not be homeopaths Homeo-dynamics (not homeo-stasis) Balancing act between health and illness Direct experience Ilya Prigogine Nobel prize in mathematics, worked with systems How systems change when info added At overwhelm, when system can no longer incorporate info coming in, system must disintegrate ** and re-establish / re-organize itself at higher level Consider emergency and emergence Consider the phoenix Consider a young being at puberty. Also cited by Margaret A. Newman in Health as Expanding Consciousness In summary Your personal experience of health and healing is the bedrock of your unique perspective of homeopathy and wholeness. Consciously cultivating your health narrative will support your practice, your clients, and your joy in life. The wholeness and connectedness paradigm is much broader than homeopathy, and you will find good teachers and inspirations in many other fields. If you lay down a track for healing and wholeness, you will begin to see it everywhere. So why shine a light on this? Before we close What's useful What's not What would be helpful now [email protected]
