Welcome to Healthy Medicine Academy On-Line
The Healthy Medicine Academy online courses will offer both one time presentations as well as ongoing education for both professionals and the general public.
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In ancient Greece, the word Academy embodied not just the learning of information and data, however important these are, but also wisdom and skill.
With today’s 24/7 bombardment of thoughts and beliefs and sales information, we are constantly being asked to think and reason in a certain way, often in a way that someone else or some company or institution wants us to think. It not uncommonly becomes a difficult process for both lay and professional people to wake up. Most of us become comfortable with our thinking, a thinking that is often fear-based. We develop a resistance to change that often accompanies deeply ingrained habits. For healing to occur, we need to learn how to change ourselves from these habitual lifestyle patterns. The HMA programs are designed to support this transformative process in all participants.
In health care, as in education and most other areas of human life today, a cold data-based thinking has become the norm, with an emphasis upon getting more information. This is often accompanied by a bottom-line no nonsense approach, that can and does, as we have seen in the health care industry, acquire a certain ruthlessness and insensitivity to human suffering.
The HMA’s educational formats are designed to offer each individual - lay or professional - a way to learn how to combine a cool head and a warm heart. This means a capacity to learn the necessary information and data, and to be able to discern the truthfulness in these facts, then to warm this data/information acquisitiveness with a warmth of heart, a feeling for how our volumes of data, guided by our skills in discerning, can be used with empathy and compassion in the service of ourselves and others.
As many seasoned practitioners have learned in the course of their lives, the skill at being able to accompany a patient on his or her journey of healing requires such qualities as flexible thinking, an open and compassionate heart, and a sustained and persistent effort. It is these skills that the Healthy Medicine Academy will help practitioners develop, in addition to acquiring and learning how to integrate into daily practice, the volumes of data and information that all of us, patients and practitioners, have access to today.
The seasoned practitioner, at some time in life, becomes adept at building into a cohesive whole, with integrity, the capacities of intellect and data gathering, integrated with an intuitive sense of what will work best with each patient. This sense is gleaned from a combination of experience, a devotion to truth, and a capacity to be both externally and internally quiet so as to listen and observe. The practitioner also comes to the understanding that to do this service to its fullest expression requires a concomitant equanimity in daily life, a rhythm of inner work and relationship with the divine, as well as a strengthening of life practices and supportive and nurturing relationships that support an intimacy with all life.
The Healthy Medicine Academy is bringing together teachers and practitioners who have been working in their practices and in their lives to walk this talk. These individuals can help all of us, professionals and lay people, to be more flexible and discerning in our thinking, and more capable of integrating and making sense of the mountains of data. This is a thinking that is at once intuitive, common sense, and imbued with heart. It is a contemplative intelligence that helps the practitioner to perceive the essence of the individuality of each patient and what is behind the phenomenon of illness.
There are indeed many good sources of ongoing integrative health education in North America, from conferences to online classes. The Academy is part of this growing educational evolution.
Courses for Healthcare Professionals
Beginning Practitioner
Experienced Practitioner
Courses for Everyone