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"Caring Science" with Jean Watson
A Transformative Model for Restoring Heart and Soul of Nursing and Health Care
IONS President Marilyn Schlitz hosts this discussion with Dr Jean Watson. This session shares some of the latest research and science of the heart and how it underpins Caring Science as an ethic, philosophy and theory as guide to transforming nursing and health care from the inside out.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-05-19
- 01:01:02
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"Returning to the Center" with Elena Avila (part 1 of 2)
The mystery of healing in Curanderismo lies within the earth, the heavens, the stars, and the sacred four directions. Come and learn the fundamentals of Curanderismo, an ancient and culturally rich health care system that helps you to remember what you have lost and reconnect to your true nature.
- Audio Lectures
- 2009-06-21
- 01:11:00
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"Returning to the Center"with Elena Avila (part 2 of 2)
The mystery of healing in Curanderismo lies within the earth, the heavens, the stars, and the sacred four directions. Come and learn the fundamentals of Curanderismo, an ancient and culturally rich health care system that helps you to remember what you have lost and reconnect to your true nature.
- Audio Lectures
- 2009-06-21
- 00:28:51
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"The Power of Relationship in Medicine" with Tom Janisse
Tom Janisse, MD, recently completed nine years as Associate Medical Director of Northwest Permanente Medical Group in Portland, Oregon where he conducted relationship research on physicians with the highest patient satisfaction.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-03-29
- 01:02:54
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"Consciousness and Healing Panel" with Marilyn Schlitz, Elliott Dacher, and Janet Quinn
IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz leads a Consciousness and Healing panel with Elliott Dacher and Janet Quinn for the Next Evolution of Health Summit.
- Audio Lectures
- 2010-12-11
- 01:28:30
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Mindful Awareness of Breathing Meditation
This guided meditation was created by Cassandra Vieten as part of the Mindful Motherhood Project. It is one element of a three-part set of guided meditations intended especially for mothers and mothers soon to be, and readers of the book, Mindful Motherhood.
- Audio Experientials
- 2011-01-24
- 00:25:40
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"Natural Mindfulness" with John Astin
John Astin, co-director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group, talks with host Marilyn Schlitz about bringing attention to attention.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-02-20
- 01:07:07
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Essential Shifts Interview: Marilyn Schlitz
In this interview, Dr. Marilyn Schlitz explores an expanded vision of health for ourselves and our society. In this time of rapid acceleration, it is easy to fixate on answers rather than questions, and speed rather than quality. Real transformation, as borne out by IONS research and new scientific studies, is a process that often requires slowing down, appreciating relationships in a new way, and quite literally smelling the roses.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:19:22
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"Frontiers of the Heart" with Mitchell Krucoff
Dr. Mitchell Krucoff and host Marilyn Schlitz engage a thought-provoking discussion of noetic health care. After Dr. Krucoff's visit to a hospital in India, he was inspired to research the intangible. Why were the pediatric cardiology patients in India smiling? When children with severe heart problems didn't cry, he and his team wanted to know why.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-10-18
- 01:03:58
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Essential Shifts Interview: Arisika Razak
In this interview, professor, dancer, and midwife Arisika Razak shares her unique angle on the essential shifts our world now requires. She explores how we can each activate our "lineage of the heart," thereby linking us into the larger vision of what we are creating.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:44
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"Afterlife Encounters" with Dianne Arcangel
What happens when we die? Dianne Arcangel, a former hospice chaplain and author of Afterlife Encounters, has assembled the world’s largest database of over 10,000 case studies involving contact with “the other side." In this teleseminar with scientist Dean Radin, they explore the implications of this data, the relationship between seeing apparitions and personality types, and alternative explanations such as super-psi.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-09-13
- 01:03:56
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Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN
With passion and a persuasive eloquence, Barbara Dossey is expanding the domain of traditional nursing. As a pioneer in the holistic nursing movement, she works to advance the practice and philosophies of holistic care, both within the health professions and in the lives of lay people. Barbara articulates how healing is promoted by attending to the delicate interaction of body, mind, and spirit, and how centuries-old concepts can be successfully applied in the care of patients and in everyday living.
Barbara Dossey is the the author of many respected and award winning books. Her latest book, Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer, focuses on the philosophical and practical impact of Florence Nightingale's life and work on modern nursing and humankind. Other recent publications include ; Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice; AHNA Standards of Holistic Nursing; the AHNA Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing(editor); AACN Handbook of Critical Care Nursing; Rituals of Healing; andProfiles of Nurse Healers. Visit the books page for book covers and more information.
As an educator, consultant, researcher, and author, Barbara Dossey profoundly alters perceptions about holistic nursing. An inspired teacher, she effectively integrates non-traditional viewpoints with a high degree of scientific awareness in her lectures worldwide. Spanning the full range of current nursing and health information, her presentations provide challenging, practical, and innovative ways to combine holistic health care with high-level wellness. From nursing association gatherings to corporate meetings-all audiences respond enthusiastically to Barbara Dossey's penetrating insights and abiding compassion. -
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN
Dr. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Center Campus. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She previously served as Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and is a Past President of the National League for Nursing. Her latest activities include Founder and Director of a new non-profit foundation: Watson Caring Science Institute.
Dr. Watson has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and psychiatric-mental health nursing and holds her PhD in educational psychology and counseling. She is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden. She holds eight (8) Honorary Doctoral Degrees, including 5 International Honorary Doctorates (Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, British Colombia and Quebec, Canada).
She has been Distinguished Lecturer and Endowed Lecturer at universities throughout the United States and been around the world several times. Clinical nurses and academic programs throughout the world use her published works on the philosophy and theory of human caring and the art and science of caring in nursing.
Dr. Watson’s caring philosophy is used to guide transformative models of caring and healing practices for nurses and patients alike, in diverse settings worldwide. Watson has been featured in numerous national videos on nursing theory and the art of nursing. She is the recipient of several national awards, including The Fetzer Institute Norman Cousins Award, in recognition of her commitment to developing; maintaining and exemplifying relationship-centered care practices.
At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Nursing; the highest honor accorded its faculty for scholarly work. In 1999 she assumed the Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science, the nation’s first endowed chair in Caring Science, based at the University of Colorado Denver & Health Sciences Center.
As author /co-author of over 14 books on caring, her latest books range from empirical measurements of caring, to new postmodern philosophies of caring and healing. Her books have been AJN books of the year awards, seek to bridge paradigms as well as point toward transformative models for the 21st century. A new revised edition of her first book, Nursing The Philosophy and Science of Caring is now available - (www.upcolorado.com) A new edition of Assessing and Measuring Caring was published in September, 2008 (Springer Publication, NY). Currently she is working on a new revised work on ‘Creating a Caring Science Curriculum for Caring Science’ (Springer in progress).
In 2008 Dr. Watson created a non-profit foundation: Watson Caring Science Institute, to further the work of Caring Science in the world.
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Education/CE Credits
Continuing Education Credits Many of IONS courses are offered for CE Credit. IONS is certified through the following agencies: Marriage Family Therapists and Licensed Clinical Social Workers – The California Board ... -
Janet Quinn, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Janet F. Quinn has dedicated over 25 years to the teaching, research, and practice of whole person healing. She is committed to the creation of a true caring and healing health care system, and believes that the cultivation of authentic spirituality and a life grounded in love and compassion are key elements of healing for health care practitioners and the people they serve.
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Education/Self-Study/Consciousness & Healing
Consciousness and Healing Self-Study Courses Explore the role of consciousness in healing through a series of one-hour, self-paced programs led by visionary leaders in the field of health care. Find ... -
Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN
As founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing, Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer brings more than 20 years of leadership and expertise to the field of integrative health and medicine. She was the principal investigator of a $1.6 million National Institutes of Health (NCCAM) education grant and a Fetzer Institute funded evaluation of the Inner Life of Healers Program and the co-PI of a five year $2.1 million NIH (NINR) clinical trial of mindfulness meditation with solid organ transplant patients. She is currently the co-PI of a clinical trial funded by BlueCross/Blue Shield Minnesota on the impact of an integrated residential treatment program on women with eating disorders, the co-PI of an NIH NCCAM R21 grant on mind/body interventions for caregivers of Alzheimers patients and is the co-investigator of a clinical trial comparing mindfulness meditation with pharmacotherapy for people with chronic insomnia. She is also the co-PI of a newly funded NCCAM R25 grant focused on integrating research in a CAM educational institution. In addition to her administrative responsibilities in the Center for Spirituality and Healing, Mary Jo teaches a course on optimal healing environments in the graduate minor in complementary therapies and healing practices and is a tenured professor in the School of Nursing where she is co-director of the doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) program in integrative health and healing. From 2004-2007, she served as the vice-chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine. In 2008, she was named by Minnesota Physician as one of the 100 most influential health care leaders in the state. In 2009, she testified at a US Senate hearing titled "Integrative Health: Pathway to Health Reform" as well as the Institute of Medicine Summit titled "Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public". Dr. Kreitzer earned her doctoral degree in health services research and her masters and bachelors degrees in nursing.
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Tom Janisse, MD
Tom Janisse, MD, recently completed nine years as Associate Medical Director of Northwest Permanente Medical Group in Portland, Oregon where he conducted relationship research on physicians with the highest patient satisfaction. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Permanente Journal - circulated to 30,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals - and Publisher of "Soul of the Healer: Art & Stories," a Permanente Press book. He sponsors Narrative Medicine writing workshops for doctors and nurses.
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Elena Avila, RN, MSN, Curandera
Elena Avila, RN, MSN, Curandera, is a first generation Chicana born in the barrios of El Paso, Texas. Her parents were born in Mexico and brought their medicine with them out of Mexico, medicine passed down through time. Elena's first language was Spanish, and her family's health care included Curanderismo as well as western medicine.