The next CME Training offered by the Benson-Henry Institute will be held March 5-8, 2012.
Building Resilience: The Mind Body Revolution in Health and Healing
This four-day advanced training for healthcare providers will take place Monday-Thursday, March 5-8, 2012 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School. Register nowThe course is directed by Herbert Benson, MD, Peg Baim, NP, and Ann Webster, PhD
Course overview:
Current understanding of homeostasis, stress, genomics, and elicitation of the relaxation response (RR) offers new insights into the causes and treatments of disease.
Through mechanisms and mediators within the stress system, emotional and physical stressors challenge the body. The magnitude and chronicity of these stressors can result in pathogenic processes that are both causal and contributory to many diseases and conditions.
Understanding the interface among stressors, pathogenic processes, and disease is critical to the prevention and treatment of many disease states, and to the promotion of well-being. This course will give you tools that will enable you to use mind body techniques to help your patients restore balance and enhance personal resilience.
Curriculum:
The course is designed to encourage participant interaction through a combination of multimedia presentations and skill development exercises, aimed to help participants:
-Integrate mind/body interventions into their practice
-Learn about cognitive strategies that work to ease profound suffering via evidence-based interventions
-Explore the relationship between nutrition and mood
-Review neuro-endocrine-immune physiology of positive emotions
-Cultivate of humor and laughter
-Learn ways to utilize therapeutic movement
Who should attend:
Health professionals who are seeking to learn strategies, skills, and support to enhance their practice and are committed to addressing patients' spiritual, physical and emotional needs are encouraged to attend. The course is designed to be helpful for different types of practitioners, including but not limited to:
-Physicians (all fields)
-Psychologists
-Nurses
-Social Workers
-Counselors
-Hospice Workers
-Clergy
-Coaches
-Any integrative medicine practitioner
More Information:
Please visit the course registration page to read additional details, download the course brochure, and register for the course.
Special pricing is available for residents and fellows who are currently in training, as well as for Partners HealthCare employees.
