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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Peris Gumz is a co-owner and core faculty at thea
Teleosis Homeopathic CollaborativeActive learning community of
students and alumni/practitioners
Integrated clinic, cases taken & managed by students
One-year acute courseThree-year professional program
Primarily Boston-basedACHENA accredited
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 questionsor a practice of saying “Isn't that interesting?”),
the default position is oftensomewhere 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 resourcesReflect 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 comfortableWith wholeness
VitalityThe role of illness
EVEN IF that means simply being willing to be in uncertaintyAnd actively live with the questions
In search of historical context Jacalyn Duffin
History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Intro
Lovers & Livers: Disease Concepts in History
Charles Rosenberg The Cholera Years Explaining Epidemics
Hippocratic triangle
Observer /physician
Illness Patient
A new angle on the triangle Hippocratic triangle
Observer /physician
Illness Patient
A homeopathic triangle
Homeopath
Remedy Client
This is a very different dynamic.
Many & varied skills
Non-judgment Effective inquiry
Case-taking Case-management Active listening Repertorization
Nested bowls
Attitudes Perceptions Guiding questions
Case-taking Case-management Active listening Repertorization
Non-judgment Effective inquiry
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
Wholeness Energy Individuality Co-existing
with prevailing paradigm, like an open secret
A homeopathic triangleHomeopath
Remedy Client
Illness is NOT an independent entity
What's right about what's wrong?
Attitudes Perceptions Guiding questions
Tonight's program:
(Assumption: There is value in consciously cultivating your own health narrative.)
Consider our own personal resourcesReflect 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 PrigogineNobel prize in mathematics, worked with systemsHow systems change when info addedAt 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 emergenceConsider the phoenixConsider 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?
