Past Speakers and Collaborations

Ways of Knowing: Exploring Culturally Based Healing Traditions and Practices
2008 Symposium Proceedings

The Symposium provided an opportunity for health care professionals from various cultures and those dedicated to transforming society to come together respectfully to enrich our lives with each other’s insights, wisdom, and laughter. 

Ways of Knowing: Intuition’s Role in Health & Healing
2007 Symposium Proceedings

The Symposium focused on intuition’s presence in health care settings from scientific, philosophical, psychological, spiritual, and phenomenological perspectives. The conversations among health care professionals and researchers ranged from healing methodologies of Indigenous traditions to technological and scientific understandings of the heart.  

Dr. Marja Verhoef, PhD
November 19, 2007
Whole Systems Research: What it is and why it is important

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Dr. Esther Sternberg, MD
September 17, 2007
Brain Immune Interactions

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Dr. Richard Davidson, PhD.
September 29, 2005
Buddha's Brain

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Dr. Matthieu Ricard, PhD
April 18, 2008
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain:  Cultivating Inner Conditions for Genuine Happiness

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Dr. James Lynch, PhD
May 7, 2007
The Medical Consequences of Loneliness

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Dr. Mimi Guarneri, MD
April 25, 2006
Integrative Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease

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Blair Sadler, JD
April 2, 2009
The Compelling and Strategic Business Case for Building Optimum Healing Environments

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Dr. Eve Edelstein, Phd, F-AAA, Assoc. AIA
May 13, 2008

Creating Healing Spaces:  Neuroscience & Architecture

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Dr. Susan B. Frampton, PhD
March 1, 2007
The Planetree Model: Best Practices in Creating Optimal Healing Environments

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Mr. Russell Targ
October 6, 2006
The Scientific Implications of the Non-Local Mind

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Dr. Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, HNC, FAAN
April 24, 2006
Healing Environments? What do we mean?

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
April 16, 2009

A Workshop for Healthcare Professionals:  Understanding Meditation in Healthcare Begins with You

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A Public Discussion:  The Joy of Living: Meditation as a Path to Happiness

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Van Jones
Whole Systems Healing Lecture
March 5, 2009
Green Jobs: Rx  for a Healthy Economy and Healthy Environment

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View the youtube video of Van Jone's presentation to the Youth Rally at the MN Legislature.

Mr. Richard Leider and Mr. Richard Bolles, MDiv
June 5, 2007
Great Conversations

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Mr. Thomas Moore
October 17, 2006
Healing Through Illness: Celebrating art and life

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Thomas Moore's Twenty Actions to Lead a Stress Free Life

Mr. Alex Stark
Fall 2005
Designing Healing Spaces

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