Sustainable Health / Healing Social Systems SOS Report

September 20, 2006 at 7:58 pm (Education / Schooling, Fall 06 SOS Reports, Health & Healing, Uncategorized)

Fall 06 SOS Report 
TOPIC:Sustainable health/healing social systems
Conveners: Laurel Reinhardt/Charlotte Anthony                                            

Participants:Christina, Kathy, Rainer, Beth

Past History of this Topic (if applicable)

Laurel: From previous immersion in health care system as both consumer and provider, I have long been concerned about/interested in the need for a different  paradigm, one in which consumer and provider realize that, together, with their intentions/beliefs/expectations/emotions, they are creating a field which can be healing or can slow the healing process.

Charlotte: In the Design Science Lab, the education team decided to do aseembly programs and after school programs with community service based participation for the students. The DSL had specific programs (school gardens, green roofs, energy in a box) that it wanted to disseminate, but with the particular vantage point of the kids owning those programs for themselves.

Started seminars: Taking Responsibility for Your Health. Also, advocacy for people who were sick, and reminding them of their beingness.Key Discussion Points:

  1. Eight assembly days program using open space technology to focalize community service based action by students, using clubs and other existing structures, as well as addressing concerns of teachers/principles (i.e., how will this improve the students’ test scores). Sir Ken Robinson is talking to governors across the
    U.S. re: creativity being more important than test scores for corporations’ current and future needs. (Matthew Fox is also talking about after-school programs in which what is not taught during school can be learned.) The process would, hopefully, draw in parents who, upon seeing their children, might be intrigued and be able to begin thinking outside their boxes of how to do things. Mentioned one woman’s model for working with “learning disorder” labeled kids, and how they begin to do things no one, including them, thought they could do. Pilot program done in Buncombe County with youth going into prison system. Use internet to report on: intent, problems, solutions, outcome, recognize.
  2. Health—teaching/coaching people about personal responsibility and collaboration. As a healer/coach with “end stage cancer”,
    Charlotte began with people’s pain issues, then moved on to the whole issue of life/living..

Lawrence Le Shan/Turning Point: what is right about the patient, vs. what is wrong?

Cancer as blocked life force; how to unblock it.

The paradigm of Prepare for Surgery: relax and visualize a positive outcome. Get physicians involved in this on their end.Conclusions or Recommendations for Action:

Creating support teams (ala Barbara Scher) to support people in brainstorming/barnraising.

Once it’s in community space, it’s owned by the individual being supported

 Cannot make value judgments.
You commit to what you commite to; if you don’t do it, group asks what you need.

Aim for mainstream nursing association.

3 Comments

  1. Roberta Shoemaker-Beal said,

    June 27, 2007 at 4:44 pm

    Thanks, for your posting…………

    Being an art therapist for 35 years, I read the following quote below. from your SOS?World Press meeting minutes, with great interest.

    I am training an art therapists in your state, in our non-residential graduate art therapy training program. Since North Carolina is a sate where I have considered retiring in, I am very interested in your work. From 35 years of clinical work and art therapy education, and 7 years of work with adolescents around New Orleans, I wonder if I can share some of my work with you. Hope fully it would support your efforts….. and perhaps those reported from >>. I have worked with youth who had come to the attention of the juvenile justice system and find that many of them are arts oriented learners, when the arts are being removed from the schools. Then, their way of learning is not offered in school systems so they become “lost, mystery children” and young adults in the juvenile justice system. I have written a great deal of this which I am now researching. Perhaps, my work could be helpful to your region?

    Let me know if I can help?

    Congratulations on the inclusiveness of your health initiatives: I teach that “creativity is the highest form of functioning” supporting anyone’s interest for taking responsibility for their health, by tapping into the natural high of creativity dynamics………

    I was inspired by reading your posting….. Thanks.

    Roberta Shoemaker-Beal, MFA, ATR, PhD (honorary)

    >>

  2. Mesothelioma said,

    February 13, 2008 at 8:11 am

    nice informative report! thanks for sharing with us

  3. Egzzbwmk said,

    December 13, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    Thanks!,


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