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Workshops

 
Workshops and training days organised by Sue Pash and Richard Murphy in Somerset.
All SNHS course subjects can be catered for
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Meridian Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy & Past Life Therapy Workshops
and Training Days.

 
Workshops and training days in Colchester.
Conducted by : Antony J. Edwards DHyp DHP FRSH MIAH MBIH MAMT
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ACHRN: Alternative Complementary Health Research Network

Dear Members,

We are looking for speakers for the first two meetings, March and June. Please consider taking this opportunity to share your research with us. It doesn't matter what stage your research has reached. You may be about to gather data or looking back at your data gathering experience, writing up or thinking of publishing. Whatever your situation, we would love to hear what is going on in your specialty!

This is a great opportunity to hone your presentation skills, to receive supportive feedback and to focus your ideas - all very useful for either finishing your studies or 'moving on'. I am just looking for indications of interest at the moment, so you do not even need to make a firm commitment. But please do get in touch with me if you are interested, and I will be happy to answer any questions.

All the best,

Peggy Welch
Secretary

Email: achrn.net@googlemail.com

www.achrn.net



                                                                                                       British Holistic Medical Association (BHMA)

Dear Members,

The British Holistic Medical Association in partnership with Nutri Centre have created the Good Practice Awards 2008. These awards recognise the importance of the built environment in which healthcare happens.

We are seeking examples of surroundings that enable holistic healthcare to support personal or communal healing and wellbeing - whether a meditation space, group-work rooms, a community garden, an art room, exercise areas, a health library, even an entire multidisciplinary health centre.

If you work within an organisation that provides a healing space environment or know someone that does, please circulate details and provide them with an opportunity to submit an entry to the Good Practice Awards 2008 with the potential to win a  £2000 prize for large scale projects, such as a new practice centre, and a £500 prize for small scale projects, such as a treatment room.

Entry forms can be downloaded from www.bhma.org   Alternatively they can be obtained from Diana at the BHMA office on 01278 722000 or by email admin@bhma.org

All entrants to the Good Practice Awards will receive a free place for up to two delegates to the BHMA's 25th anniversary conference - Medicine as if people matter: Patients, Practitioners and Places.

Thank you for your consideration.

Helen

Helen McCarthy
Marketing Consultant
BHMA
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PO Box 371
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 9BG

 

BHMA Tel: 01278 722000
Helen Tel: 07979 815 411
Email: marketing@bhma.org
Web: www.bhma.org


The Practitioners Body

2nd & 3rd May 2008

A two day conference with workshops

This conference will be of interest to therapists from all schools who wish to deepen their knowledge of the functioning of their own body in the therapist-patient/client interaction.

How are the practitioner’s and patient’s bodies relationally responsive to each other?
We will be examining mirror neurons, the empathic nervous system, right-brain-to-right-brain interaction, the impact of relationship o­n the respiratory, nervous, cardiovascular and digestive systems, and the concept of interactive physiology.

What is the role of the therapist’s body as an instrument in the therapeutic process?
We will be considering the mechanisms of interactive somatic regulation in the context of transference and countertransference, the extent to which empathy involves bodily attunement, how the therapist’s anchoring in his or her own body and health allows the client/patient freedom to somatically communicate affective states.

How can practitioners protect their own health?
Implicit in the therapist’s somatic engagement with their patients, is the potential jeopardy to health. We will explore how this risk can be conceptualized and ameliorated, offer information o­n how the different systems of the body become engaged in therapeutic work and consider what practices can give therapists self-protection.

Speakers and topics include:

Dr Daniel Glaser: Mirror neurons and other findings. What can neurobiology tell us about how we relate to the movements of others?

Kim Upton: the therapist’s breathing

Elizabeth Wilde McCormick: The Therapist’s Heart

Babette Rothschild: The therapist’s body as an instrument of empathic attunement

Roz Carroll: The role of the therapist’s body in working with borderline clients; self-regulation and interactive regulation

Susie Orbach: The relational, intersubjective body

Howard Evans: Locating a place of wellness in the midst of trauma

Margaret Landale: Re-sourcing the therapist’s body: a mindful approach to self-regulation

Mike Ash: Collateral Damage: How psychological stress can cause immune based illness in therapists

Download the booking form here. For further details or to book online visit www.confer.uk.com

 



BHMA North West Regional Network Group

The BHMA North West Network Group is holding its next meeting o­n Monday 12th May 2008. Peter Mackereth,trustee of the BHMA, will facilitate the meetings.

Regional/Local BHMA groups are a real opportunity for like-minded people in our area to discuss the benefits of a whole person approach to medicine; to share information; and, to share experiences.Meetings take the form of meeting o­ne evening every 6-8 weeks to share and support each other.Local network meetings are open to all, members and non-members alike, so please come along and bring someone you know.

Date: Monday 12 May 2008
Topic: 'Lightening Process' by Jan Williams
Venue: Christie Hospital Rehab Unit, Christie NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 4BX
Time: 6.00pm for 6.15pm - 8.00pm

For further information o­n joining the BHMA North West Regional Network Group please contact Peter Mackareth through the BHMA office o­n 01278 722000 or send an email with the subject heading 'North West Local Group' to admin@bhma.org

To download a pdf poster for cirulation via email or to display in your workplace please click the link here

 

3rd Annual Children's Complementary Therapy Network


CHILDHOOD CONDITIONS: Asthma, Eczema and Cerebral Palsy - 17th May 2008
 

The Children’s Complementary Therapy Network (CCTN) is a UK based national network, with over 250 members internationally, to facilitate a common platform for the purposes of learning, educational and research opportunities, for Medical and Complementary Therapy professionals in the field of integrated medicine and the use of complementary therapies for the benefit of children with health conditions.
 

Studies have shown that the use of complementary therapies is higher among children with chronic health conditions than those without. As the usage of complementary therapies has increased, medical teams (e.g. doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, etc) increasingly find themselves being asked about information and advice o­n such therapies. This exciting conference will provide an opportunity for medical professionals and complementary therapists to learn and share knowledge and experiences in the conventional and complementary therapy management of children with asthma, eczema and cerebral palsy.
 

Fees:CCTN members £45.00 (Early Bird discounted fee £40)
Non-members
£55.00 (Early Bird discounted fee £50)

For further details, call for papers click here

Click here to download the booking form or contact:

Post: Dr Pankaj Shah, Children’s Medical Officer, Freshwinds, Prospect Hall, 12 College Walk, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6LE

Tel: 0121 415 6670

E-mail:
cctn@freshwinds.org.uk
Web: www.freshwinds.org.uk/education/cctn.htm

 

Deborah Dean - SNHS Sponsored Runner - will be competing in 2008
Click here for details.
 

 
The Alliance of Natural Health
is fighting for your freedom of choice in health care!
 
Today the ANH has released its ground-breaking critique of the European Commission's proposal to impose EU-wide restrictions on maximum dosages of vitamins and minerals in food supplements and fortified foods. These methods are likely to form the basis for internationally agreed maximum levels for food/dietary supplements containing vitamins and minerals through Codex Alimentarius, so they have global relevance.

ANH PRESS RELEASE

EU COMMISSION’S PROPOSALS TO LIMIT VITAMIN AND MINERAL DOSES NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE

A group of scientists and doctors, led by Scientific Director of the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), Dr Robert Verkerk, and ANH’s Medical Director, Dr Damien Downing, is calling for the European Commission to review the methods it is contemplating using to set maximum permitted levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements and fortified foods. The scientists claim that the methods being considered are both “unscientific” and “flawed”.

Today the ANH unveils its position paper which explains its reasons for criticising the Commission’s proposals, which are planned to become law EU-wide within the next two years.  Robert Verkerk says, “The Commission claims that its methods are scientific but we have found that they do not stand up to scientific scrutiny”.

Under the Food Supplements Directive and Fortified Foods Regulation, the Commission is required to propose maximum and minimum levels of vitamins and minerals for both food supplements and fortified foods. It is expected that the levels will be finalised in 2009 and early indications are that Member States such as the UK, Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland, that have until now allowed relatively high levels, might have to face big reductions in dosages.

Dr Robert Verkerk added: “You know something is wrong when they are thinking of limiting the dose of beta-carotene to the amount you’d find in just two carrots, and restricting selenium to the amount present in less than two brazil nuts. There seems to have been no attempt to test the models against real data. If the Commission really believed these doses might be the highest safe doses, why aren’t they screaming for warning labels to be put on bags of carrots and brazil nuts?”

Dr Damien Downing, also President of the British Society of Ecological Medicine and Editor of the peer reviewed scientific journal, Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, added: “The methods are simply not fit for purpose. It is the multiple use of safety or uncertainty factors that further compounds the reduction of levels from so-called Safe Upper Levels, that are often overly cautious to begin with. The resulting maximum levels, should these be implemented in law, would prevent many consumers from ingesting the levels of vitamins and minerals needed for optimal health and would also greatly interfere with consumer choice.”

Jill Bell, President of the Irish Association of Health Stores, stated: “The fact that the setting of maximum dosages for vitamins and minerals is being based on such poor science makes a mockery of the EU’s attempts to regulate this area.”

The ANH is meeting today in Dublin with Green Party Health Spokesperson Senator Deirdre de Burca, as well as with the heads of other key organizations, Nutritional Therapists of Ireland, the Irish Association of Nutritional Therapy, the Irish Association of Health Stores and the Irish Health Trade Association.

The ANH’s position paper includes a consideration of features that would be required for the development of a new, scientifically valid and proportionate risk management model.  Verkerk added: “We believe a new model should be developed within an independent, academic setting rather than being subject to the often conflicting pressures of industrial stakeholders and political processes.  We are hoping that concerns about the European Commission’s proposed approach will help it to drastically alter its proposed approach to the determination of maximum levels, which would otherwise be disproportionate in its effect and may in turn be subject to legal challenge.”


CONTACT

Dr Robert Verkerk
Executive & Scientific Director
Alliance for Natural Health
The Atrium, Curtis Road
Dorking, Surrey RH4 1XA
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)1306 646 600
Fax +44 (0)1306 646 552
Email  info@anhcampaign.org


NOTES FOR EDITORS

About the European Commission’s proposal

European Commission

Discussion Paper, June 2006: http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/labellingnutrition/supplements/discus_paper_amount_vitamins.pdf

Consultation Responses to Discussion Paper: http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/labellingnutrition/supplements/resp_discus_paper_amount_vitamins.htm
 

Alliance for Natural Health

ANH Position Paper on Maximum Permitted Levels (released 24 October 2007):
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_290.pdf

ANH consultation response (September 2006): http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/labellingnutrition/supplements/documents/anh_en.pdf


About the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH)

The ANH was founded in 2002 and is a UK-based, internationally-active, non-governmental organization, working to help positively shape the regulatory and scientific framework affecting natural health. As an alliance, the ANH brings together, globally, scientists, medical doctors, integrative practitioners, lawyers and consumers, as well as suppliers of food supplements and other health foods, as a means of working towards the development of sustainable approaches to healthcare. The ANH has been involved in extensive consultations with the World Health Organisation, the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority and a range of EU Member State governments. The ANH brought a legal challenge to the Food Supplements Directive in 2003 which was heard in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in 2004-5 where it received important clarification.

www.anhcampaign.org

The ANH is supported solely by donations. Please help us to help you by to fund our unique and vital work. Thank you.

For further information contact:

The National Health Federation

P.O. Box 688
Monrovia, California 91017
USA

Phone:
+1-(626) 357-2181
 Fax:
+1-(626) 303-0642
Email:
contact-us@thenhf.com

Alliance for Natural Health

The Atrium, Curtis Road
Dorking, Surrey RH4 1XA
United Kingdom 

Phone:
+44-1306-646-600
Fax:
+44-1306-646-552
Email:
mel@anhcampaign.org


 

Petitions to the Prime Minister

The British government now has a website where UK citizens can create and sign online petitions to the Prime Mister. 
This is your chance to have your say.  Democracy in action at last? 
View all petitions Create your own petition
 
 

 

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