Syllabus ---->Evaluation Guides are here<----
This program will be more one of explorations and of generating questions than of pat answers, taking advantage of the rich variety of local health practitioners as we look at broad health care questions and policy. Some of the speakers are listed below. There will be a $25 fee to help reimburse speakers for time and travel.
In the 28 years since Betty first taught this sort of class, much has changed. We have an unprecedented range of health-related options, and much that was once considered folk medicine has become more broadly integrated. The NIH now has an Office of Complementary Medicine, established to help use the tools of science to explore the efficacy of a broader range of treatment approaches. Naturopathic medicine has gone from fighting for political survival to acceptance as one of the 3 primary care approaches in this state, which must be included in insurance reimbursement plans. Bastyr University of Natural Health Sciences operates King County’s precedent-setting public health clinic. The school’s founder, Joe Pizzorno, has served on the President’s Advisory Council on Natural Medicine and the National Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee and now does extensive consultation. Molecular biology has revolutionized our understanding of cancer and of many genetic disorders and we have made major strides in our ability to deal with cardiovascular disease and severe trauma. At the same time, AIDS, hepatitis C, bacteria resistant to available antibiotics, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, and widespread environmental sensitivities offer major challenges that are often beyond the capabilities of conventional medicine today, and we often deal very poorly with the final stages of life. We are also facing unprecedented choices and challenges related to financing the medical care system as it has been evolving, while many in our population have little access to even the most basic health-care resources. We need to take more personal initiative and look carefully at our own priorities, our concepts of “health”, the information we use to make choices and the distinctions between “healing” and “curing”. This program will include some who have been substantial players in these transitions from various viewpoints, a session on approaches to conflict resolution for these trying times, and a variety of practitioners of various healing arts and sciences, some of whom have undergone substantial evolution in their own approaches. Clearly, it would be easy to fill a program many times this length with interesting speakers on this topic.
The program’s primary aim is to support and encourage your own explorations and choices. In general, 2 credits implies a total of about 6 hours a week of work, only 2 1/2 of which you will be spending in class. On occasion, you will be given a short prepartory reading assignment. Instead of further extensive reading and writing assignments, you are to use the remaining time for your own health explorations. Keep a journal and write about what you are experiencing and learning about yourself, your needs, your resources. We will have a number of books on reserve in the library and also will hand out a list of suggested readings. Please give us the names, authors, publication date and a brief paragraph for books that you have found particularly useful on your own healing journey, helping to assemble an annotated bibliography to be posted on the web page. Each week in class, note on the “comment sheet” you will be given what sorts of things you are doing for self care and health knowledge – taking walks, practicing yoga, exploring a new practitioner or healing modality, reading relevant articles or books. In the 9 th week, you are to turn in a detailed self-evaluation guide that summarizes what you have undertaken this quarter as well as what you feel you have learned.
Overview
Attendance is essential, and all students are expected to arrive on time and stay throughout the presentation. If you must leave early, let instructors know by the start of class. Two absences and/or unexcused early departures will result in loss of one credit. Three or more absences and/or early, unexcused departures will result in loss of all credit. Special Expenses: There will be a $25 fee to help reimburse speakers for time and travel. Students will be responsible for applying 4 hours a week on exploring personal health goals, as this program’s primary aim is to support and encourage your own explorations and choices.- Each student will be required to keep a journal and write about what you are experiencing and learning about yourself, your needs, your resources. Each week, in class, you will receive a form to complete, drawing information from your journal to be submitted the following week upon arrival in class. Note on the “comment sheet” you will be given what sorts of things you are doing for self care and health knowledge – taking walks, practicing yoga, exploring a new practitioner or healing modality, reading relevant articles or books. Students are encouraged to challenge themselves to experience new and/or different dietary, exercise and health related practices. Examples can be, if you are a runner, try yoga as a complement to your current exercise regimen; think about making dietary changes and also try new foods or healthy ways to prepare old favorites.
- Everyone is required to read at least one new relevant book over the quarter, and note this reading in your journal and on the weekly class forms. We will have a number of books on reserve in the library and will also post a list of suggested readings on the class webpage. As you complete your reading, please share with us the title, authors, publication date and a brief paragraph about why you have found this book particularly helpful in your own health journey. This will help us in expanding resources for others.
- In the 9 th week, you are required to turn in a detailed self-evaluation to designated faculty via email. Failure to submit this evaluation by 5 pm Friday May 27 th will result in loss of credit. A guide to help you write this evaluation will be available on line May 9 th and the guide is to be returned with your evaluation.
Class Schedule -Printable View- |
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Week |
Lecture |
Readings/Info |
Week 1 |
Peace Corp and Healing Path. Rain Delvin Rain was a student at Evergreen from 91-94 where began her work with healing through her studies of medicinal plants. She subsequently served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand where she worked with AIDS and Environmental education. During that time she apprenticed in Thai Massage and herbal medicine through the traditional healing center at the hospital in her village. She completed her massage studies at the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics, and her studies as a Clinical Herbalist with Michael Moore at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine. She has worked with several native Athabascan villages in Alaska, and spent six months doing conservation work in China last year as a World Wildlife Fund volunteer. She currently practices Swedish, Thai and other forms of massage full-time in Olympia at Get in Touch, 943 7739. |
While the main focus is on practice and on speakers, you are to chose at least one book related to your health explorations to read and write about this quarter. There are many possibilities on our reserve shelf in the library, and a long annotated list of suggestions is attached. |
Week 2 |
Yoga & Pilates. Beau vanden Dolder/ Erica Conner |
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Week 3 |
Laban Movement and Conflict Resolution. Ana Schofield -- Ana specializes in mediation, facilitation and training for groups of all sizes. She has an MA in Conflict Resolution from Antioch University and a BA with emphasis on psychology from Evergreen. She is also a certified massage therapist, Laban Movement Analyst, and Mediator. She conducts seminars and workshops for non-profit, private, state and federal agencies on such topics as Body Language in Mediation, Health Development (stress management, communication, conflict resolution and creative problem solving) and Effective Listening and Memory Development. She also does mediation for family disputes and other private problems. She has produced videos focused on stress management for 911 operators, dental hygienists, nurses and mediators, as well as two documentaries: Peace Please: Children and War (1991) and Tibet: The Chinese/Tibetan Situation (1989). |
-Bias in mediation <- Link to Word doc Creating Well-Being: 352-7511 (for mediation, polarity and massage therapy, conflict resolution training) |
Week 4 |
Midwifery: caring, collaboration and challenges – an international perspective. Marijke van Roojen, LM CPM There is an inherent perfection in childbearing and birth as a significant life process, one which does best without undue interference. Midwives believe that attempts to control the process inevitably alter it and may harm the delicate balance, and are seriously concerned about the growing extent of interference. They offer a different option that focuses on quietly facilitating the spontaneous process of pregnancy, labor and birth, utilizing interventions only as truly necessary for the safety and well-being of mother and child.
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Around the Circle Midwifery <- Link to Word doc. |
Week 5 |
A Systems Approach to Healing: Facilitating Physiological Function. |
Powerpoint Available on web --ask Gautam or Betty www.evergreen.edu/phage/a2h/2005_Pizzorno.ppt |
Week 6 |
Family Health: Dealing with Medical Challenges. Charlotte Clark Neitzel SeaMar Community Health Center MD --Family Practice Megan Hubbard MD Pediatrics -- Group Health Karyn Barnhart White ND private Family Practice, including home visits: Dr. Karyn White was born and raised in Olympia . She graduated from Evergreen in 1998 and received her doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland , OR in 2003. Her education included extensive internship hours with OB/GYN’s, Oncologist, Gastroenterologists, and Cardiologists in Portland area hospitals and clinics and with Robin Moore in Olympia . Karyn opened Olympia Natural Medicine, a full service family practice clinic, in 2004. While enjoying the diversity of family practice, Karyn’s particular interests are in gastrointestinal disorders, women’s health and chronic illness such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. On a more personal note, Karyn is an accomplished gluten-free chef, a skill much appreciated by her gluten-free husband. She is also an avid walker, a habit much appreciated by her hound dog Rostco |
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Week 7 |
Meet in the LonghouseDance as a healing and centering tool Amara Pagano has been teaching the dance and 5Rhythms internationally for the past eight years. Sara Pagano started dancing fourteen years ago, and has since been blessed with exploring and sharing this unfolding dance of life.
Discuss: Evaluation Guide – will be on line here, due May 27 |
The 5Rhythms is a physical and spiritual practice into which we can pour our dreams, our prayers, and our troubles, putting the pieces of who we are into motion, where the pieces can re-form, where we can heal. The 5Rhythms is not about enlightenment of the mind, but about embodiment of our selves, and connection to this profound world we live upon. We are awakening and re-claiming an aliveness and love of this one life we are given to live, in our dance, on the dance floor. And we are infusing our whole lives with our connection to our own unique dance. |
Week 8 |
Craniosacral Therapy. Heidi Gould |
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Week 9 |
Final Class: Sleep, Exercise, Diet and Stress. Cindy Beck, ND. (BS in nutrition and in exercise physiology)
(A-J initials: to Betty; K to end: to Cindy); these and your attendance form the basis for our evaluation of you.
No class May 30: Memorial Day |
www.evergreen.edu/phage -- see short article on phage as antibiotics, or chapter on phage therapy from Betty’s recent book, posted at www.evergreen.edu/phage/book. |