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Combined Sections Meeting 2006

CSM 2006
February 1-5, 2006
San Diego, CA
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  1. PreConference Course Feb 1: "Activating the Feminine in Healthcare to Enhance Health and Healing"
  2. SOWH Programming, Abstracts & Handouts
 
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SoWH Programming and Handouts
SoWH Preconference Course

"Activating the Feminine in Healthcare to Enhance Health and Healing"
by Jo Lynne Robins RN, PhD, C-ANP, CHTP
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This 8 hour workshop focuses on exploring the forgotten feminine aspects of health and healing and to learn how to incorporate these therapies into practice to create a more balanced healthcare model for care of ourselves and our clients. Feminine aspects of health and healing include: a) creating therapeutic relationship/partnership; b) being fully present; c) holding sacred space; d) appreciating a holistic view of individuals (body, mind, spirit); e) recognizing the body has an innate ability to maintain balance and health; f)
acknowledging intuition and aesthetics as valid ways of knowing; g) listening; h) nurturing; i) storytelling and j) honoring life cycles.

Expanding our current model of health care by incorporating complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a sound and effective way to reintegrate the feminine into healthcare because the philosophical and theoretical bases of these therapies includes an emphasis on the feminine aspects of health and healing. Our ultimate goal is an “integrative” model combining allopathic medicine and CAM. This model
recognizes that masculine (more aggressive intervention, linear, mechanistic) and feminine aspects are equally important and necessary in order to provide the best possible care for complex human issues.
The day will include lecture, discussion, Q&A, storytelling, experiential learning including therapeutic breathwork, guided imagery, tai chi, yoga, music therapy, and art therapy.

Handouts will include power point lecture and an extensive reference list of peer-reviewed journal articles, books, audiobooks, video/DVD recordings, organizations.

About the Speaker

Dr. Robins is a nurse practitioner and assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has practiced as a nurse for over 20 years in a variety of settings. Currently she owns and operates Integrating Wellness Inc., a private consulting service working with individuals to develop holistic wellness plans. She works with individuals, with and without medical diagnoses, who are trying to develop healthier, more balanced lives. She has extensive knowledge working with menopause, fibromyalgia, digestive disorders, and cancer, among others. Her current research focus is psychoneuroimmunology, the study of the effects of stress on the immune system. She has presented nationally on many topic related to complementary and alternative medicine for 10 years.

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The Journal of the Section on Women's Health is a quarterly publication focused on the clinical interests of physical therapists practicing in women's health as well as those of other health care providers in the practice of women's health.

 

 

 
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