The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
"Are You Missing the Vital Connection Between Western Medicine and Mind Body Medicine?
If You Answered
YES!
Don't miss this opportunity to nourish your intellect, revive your spirit,
and earn 2 year's worth of continuing
education credits at the practitioner’s conference for
mind body medicine."
The 20th Annual Psychology of Health,
Immunity and Disease ConferenceHilton Head Island, South Carolina, December 8th - 14th 2008Open your practice to new ideas and challengesEarn Up to 40 Continuing Education Credits
From: Ruth Buczynski, PhD
President and Licensed Psychologist
The National Institute for
the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
Re: The Psychology of Health, Immunity and Disease Conference
Dear Colleague,
Never, ever before have we had the opportunity we have today.
Some major concepts are starting to gel in ways that translate into remarkably
powerful applications.
We are really just beginning to get the implications of neuroplasticity, inflammation,
sugar addiction, and insulin resistance; why they matter so much to our physical health.
And how they are linked to our mental health. On top of that, it’s now becoming
clear, that these and other processes can play a previously unexplored role in the treatment of trauma.
At the same time, it is obvious that mind–body medicine can take the lead in influencing these processes.
When we better understand these concepts, and some of the research that's being
done, we can have a remarkable impact. The tools we already know and have worked
so hard to hone can be repurposed for even greater success.
To do this, we need to see hypnosis, guided imagery, energy psychology, and mindfulness
meditation within a broader context, to expand our vision of what it is we could
do, and what our contributions might be.
This conference is where these ideas converge…where you and your specialty can take the lead.
Neuroplasticity
Learn how you can use neuroplasticity (the brain's ability to rewire and create
new neural circuits at any age) to create new possibilities for your patients.
Let me tell you about three sessions that shed new light on how our brains seem to take
control, especially when we feel threatened or upset.
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself— Joe Dispenza, DC will
show you how to utilize the extraordinary potential of our minds - how
to teach your clients to interrupt the circle of counter-productive
emotional habits and break the pattern of repetitive behavior that just
doesn't work.
"As a first timer, I was thrilled at what I have learned here. I
never thought I would walk away with such tangible skills that will be immediately
applicable to my patients. This is better than any medical conference I've
ever been to. Thank you so much!"
Our understanding of inflammation represents a far-reaching, giant leap forward
in disease prevention and treatment. Finding the right balance between the body's
intricate pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory forces might hold the key to health
and well-being. Although inflammation is our first line of defense against bacteria
and viruses, long-term or severe inflammation can cause serious health problems.
The simple truth is: the more researchers study inflammation and its influence on health,
the more we realize that mind/body interventions can play a key role in reducing
its impact on the onset of disease.
First, it's important to understand the basics of inflammation:
Hidden Inflammation: How it Undermines our Health— William
Meggs, MD will highlight the research and outline a practical and complete
program for controlling inflammation and restoring vibrancy and good health.
Then, you will want to master the interventions shown to be effective
in reducing the impact of inflammation:
While there is no evidence that hypnosis cures individuals facing various diseases,
it is proven that hypnosis can help to diminish symptoms of diseases, and as a result, can
relieve
pain, stress, and post-traumatic syndromes. Exciting new research also shows
that hypnosis can be an effective tool in reducing some inflammatory processes.
Hypnotic Methods to Produce Spontaneous Healing in Couples —
Michelle Ritterman, PhD will teach a noninvasive approach
to recognizing, tracking and transforming the troublesome trance states
that partners in conflict habitually trigger in each other.
Sugar Addiction, Inflammation, & Sleep
Deprivation: The Missing Link in the Insulin Resistance and Obesity Epidemic
The role of sleep deprivation, cortisol, and insulin resistance in
maintaining optimum weight leads us to the conclusion that, for some people, stress can be fattening
and the fat–free diet mentality
may be adding on pounds.
Beyond that, sugar addiction is implicated in many behaviors and emotional issues (i.e. depression,
anxiety, mood/eating disorders, obesity, diabetes, and other addictions). Acting
like a drug, sugar affects the same neurochemicals as heroin and amphetamine and
heightens the body's sensitivity to sugar.
The Link Between Inflammation, Insulin
Resistance, Sleep Deprivation, and Obesity — Karen Wolfe, MMBS,
MA will present cutting-edge research on how sleep deprivation increases
levels of a hunger hormone and decreases levels of a satiety hormone.
With nearly seventy percent of Americans overweight or obese, these
findings could lead to a new direction for weight management.
Healing Sleep and Dreams: An Integrative Approach — Rubin Naiman, PhD presents
an integrative mind/body/spirit approach to the evaluation and treatment of major sleep and dream
disorders in adults. With a theoretical and pragmatic foundation for integrating sleep therapies into your practices, learn how to promote
better sleep health.
Is Stress Fattening?: An Integrated Lifestyle Approach to Move
from Stress to Strength — Karen Wolfe, MMBS, MA will introduce
specific lifestyle factors that can make the brain and body chemistry
work for you and your patients to create the vibrant health, energy,
and mind-body well-being they have always wanted. Going beyond traditional
diet, exercise and stress management advice, discover an integrated
lifestyle approach to healing that considers the body/body/spirit.
Weight Management and Digestive Issues
Weight Management is about our relationship with food, and fortunately, mind–body
medicine offers so many approaches to move that relationship into a journey from
low self-esteem and struggle to one of self-discovery and optimal health. Take a
look at some of these information-packed sessions:
Food, Mood, and Behavior— in this Pre-Conference Master Class,
Norm Shealy, MD will explore how deficiency of essential nutrients leads
to erratic serotonin production and imbalances in a wide variety of
neurochemicals.
Digestive Wellness–
The Systemic Consequences of Digestive Imbalance — Elizabeth Lipski, PhD will
discuss digestive imbalances that can lead to depression,
fatigue, arthritis, eczema, psoriasis, migraines, asthma, ADD, chronic fatigue syndrome,
and auto–immune illnesses. This workshop will focus on practical solutions associated with food sensitivities, celiac and gluten intolerance, probiotics, supplements, and'
how to recognize inflammatory vs. healing foods.
The Brain–Fog Effect
of Wheat Allergies: Understanding the Cognitive Complications of Gluten Sensitivity—
Thomas O’Bryan, DC. Research evidence suggests that the
body reacts as a whole system to allergens, toxins, and nutritional imbalances causing different mental and
physical symptoms in different individuals. Learn about recent findings on wheat and gluten sensitivity as a
case example of this increasingly important issue.
"This is undoubtedly the best conference I’ve ever attended,
which continues to bring me back year after year. The collegial relationships
have lasted over the years too!"
–Bunny B Czarnopys, MSW, LSCSW, LCMFT Hutchinson, KS
Trauma, the Freeze Response and its Clinical Syndromes
We used to describe stress as the fight/flight response. However, as we’ve come
understand more about PTSD, we are now thinking it is more correct to see stress
through the
lens of the fight/flight/freeze response. This represents a giant leap forward.
Beyond PTSD, trauma survivors often experience a wide variety of health problems. In considering the neurophysiology
traumatic stress, we find that the freeze response is implicated in many chronic diseases.
The Infinite Complexity of the Traumatic Experience: Implications for Diagnosis
and Healing — Robert Scaer, MD: Trauma may simplistically
be defined as stress in the face of helplessness. This simple,
relatively precise definition lends itself to a significant revision
of our concepts of trauma, and has implications for how we look at
the effects and symptoms of trauma. In this workshop, push the limits
in defining trauma to understand and treat its effect on the body and mind.
Healing the Pain of Trauma — In this post-conference master
class Maggie Phillips, PhD discusses how trauma can
create an internal straitjacket that restricts growth of body, mind, and spirit and generates
devastating emotional and physical pain. Explore the major mechanisms of pain, especially the
role of trauma as a “root cause” of persistent and chronic pain, as well as the pain dynamics
the central nervous system, the polyvagal system, and the role of brain chemistry in the experience
of pain.
Neurophysiology in Healing Complex PTSD — Mark Dworkin,
LCSW will focus on ways of reaching into the pain of the traumatized patient
and will demonstrate a process for healing ruptures of attunement that
threaten to disrupt a psychotherapeutic experience.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for PTSD and Trauma Related
Problems — ACT seeks to enhance life functioning by increasing
psychological flexibility. Victoria Follette, PhD will teach you how
to work with clients to enhance their ability to live a value-consistent
life in the face of uncomfortable private experiences.
Trauma, Dissociation and the Healing of Combat Stress —
Robert Scaer, MD discusses the epidemic of behavioral problems in our
Iraq veterans, an issue that goes beyond the definitions imposed by PTSD.
We will review the physiology of combat stress, look at gender issues,
the nature of combat, the role of training and the social implications
of exposure to warfare. Together we will examine Combat Operational
Stress and introduce therapeutic designs that address COS, and the need
for family and community reintegration.
Change is hard. Beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors often continue as if they
have a life of their own…and that’s why new approaches grounded in energy
psychology are so cutting–edge and timely.
Combining meridian–based treatments with the most recent discoveries from neuroscience,
powerful energy psychology approaches can initiate change. Though still controversial, they
are rapid, non–invasive techniques with few side effects.
Synchronicity
and Simultaneity of Thought — Norm Shealy, MD. Synchronicity, holographic thinking, the implicate order
and the morphogenic universe: all these concepts are part of the simultaneity of thought, an inherent
intuitive ability to instantly grasp and understand complex inter–relationships.
Cell-Level
Healing: Hands-on Practices — Joyce Hawkes, PhD. How do cells communicate? How do they create
the energy of life?
How do they produce the molecules that maintain the integrity of structure and healthy function? Using the tools of biophysics,
coupled with advanced imagery, experience the efficacy of cell–level healing, an adjunctive therapy that can enhance other
modalities of healing.
Living
on the Edge of Chaos...While Remaining Sane — Christine Page, MD explores the place between structure and chaos
as a powerful place of growth and transformation. This workshop will explore belief patterns and fears which anchor us to the past,
safe ways to enter unknown territory and finally ways to create a world which surpasses anything experienced before.
Epigenetic
Medicine — The Genie in Your Genes — Dawson Church, PhD will teach you how
to engage powerful epigenetic influences through the quality of emotions, thoughts
and intentions, and how the Epigenetic Health Cycle can be applied in your practice.
Pain Relief with EFT — Carol Look, LCSW presents
strategies to use EFT, to address limiting beliefs, expand comfort zones, release resistance, and enhance your client’s
psychological relief and comfort regardless of their diagnosis. Collaborate with the medical team
and offer your clients an empowering approach to healing pain and illness.
"This conference is like a wonderful buffet, where one can taste
and sample a variety of cutting–edge modalities to enrich their practices."
– Mary Rademacher, Psychology
Marshall, MN
Further Applications of Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness is a deceptively simple way of relating to experience that has been
successfully practiced for over 2500 years to alleviate human suffering.
It has been shown to be effective in reducing hypertension, and in treating anxiety and depression.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have also found it to have positive
effects upon the brain and to influence immune function.
So, much of treatment success points to the relationship between practitioner
and patient. By developing a personal mindfulness practice, we can learn to
connect deeply with awareness, compassion, inner attunement, patience, and
empathy to transform our therapeutic presence.
Bridging Divides: Integrating Mindfulness Meditation with Other Spiritual Practices—
Ronald Siegal, PsyD will explore ways in which mindfulness practices can be adapted to suit Christian,
Jewish, and other religious traditions, as well as some
of the ways in which they can run religious teachings. Learn how to introduce mindfulness practices to
people who might initially be wary of them, as well as ways to work therapeutically with differences
of belief and worldview.
When Self Meets No-Self: A Dialogue between Jung and Buddhism — Drawing from
diverse aspects of being human, both individuality and interdependence, Polly Young-Eisendrath,
PhD will present a new model for more confident and compassionate relationships
with applications that relate to psychotherapy, parenting and leadership.
This Very Moment: Mindfulness for the Therapeutic Relationship— Ronald Siegel, PsyD will present,
in this Master Class, how to develop a personal mindfulness practice and use this to transform your therapeutic presence.
We will explore common obstacles to being fully with our clients or patients, and how mindfulness practice
can help us to deal with the personal challenge of spending our days trying to connect deeply
with people in distress.
The New Signs of Love: Strong Bonds, Strong Partners — Susan Johnson, EdD.
This keynote will present the highlights of the new science of love as it recognizes
the importance of emotional bonds and the innate need for safe emotional connections
between couples. It will outline the emerging integration of social psychology, health
psychology, neuroscience and attachment theory.
Clearing A Space: A Brief
Practice for Finding Sanctuary in the Midst of illness, Crisis, or Change. — Joan Klagsbrun PhD.
Clearing a Space, a component of Gendlin’s Focusing work is an evidence–based brief method of
finding, and then setting aside, the usual collection of thoughts, opinions, and feelings we tend
to carry inside ourselves. This method has been shown in recent studies to increase emotional and functional
well–being in people with cancer, trauma, and other painful conditions.
Beyond Trauma: EMDR for Everyday Issues — Deany Laliotis, LCSW
The Eight–Phase Model of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) emphasizes how
present triggers can activate earlier associations that inform our feelings, thoughts, and
behaviors. Participants will gain an appreciation of EMDR as a comprehensive treatment approach and learn how
it can be applied to a broad range of clinical issues with lasting results.
Talk to Your Client's Eyes — Not Just Their Ears! — Danie Beaulieu PhD.
Studies of multiple intelligences and multisensory learning have shown that new insights, understandings
and behaviors are acquired more rapidly when more of
the senses participate in the process. Impact Therapy uses many different sensory techniques to
trigger and recruit the client's powerful multisensory learning systems to promote the therapeutic
process. In this workshop, participants will discover creative new tools and techniques to recruit
the client's powerful multisensory learning systems to promote the therapeutic process
The New Signs of Love: Strong Bonds, Strong Partners — Susan Johnson, EdD.
This keynote will present the highlights of the new science of love as it recognizes
the importance of emotional bonds and the innate need for safe emotional connections
between couples. It will outline the emerging integration of social psychology, health
psychology, neuroscience and attachment theory.
Emotional Intelligence in Relationships: Advanced Strategies for Teaching your Clients to
Rewire Outmoded Emotional Habits — Brent Atkinson, PhD.
In recent years, researchers have zeroed in on the habits of people who
are highly successful in their relationships. And, neurobiologists are beginning to unravel
the secrets of why relationship habits are so hard to change, and how the brain can be rewired
for greater flexibility. In this course, he presents step–by–step methods for helping clients
get more respect, cooperation and understanding from others.
Lessons of Loss: Grief and Narrative Disruption — Robert Neimeyer, PhD.
Participants will learn ways to listen beneath the story that clients tell
themselves and others about their loss, to metaphorically help clients explore more deeply
their felt experience and find the seeds for future growth.
The Crucial Role of Anger in the
Process of Healthy Boundary-Setting — Brent Atkinson, PhD.
Decades of relationship research have uncovered why simple assertiveness techniques often fail,
and have identified how people who are good about setting boundaries in relationships actually go
about doing it. In this workshop, participants will learn how to help clients combine the expression of anger with
other effective means to set boundaries in their relationships, when needed.
Better Than Prozac: Translating the New Brain Science into Greater Clinical Results — Bill O’Hanlon,
LMFT. New research shows the critical contribution movement, especially regular aerobic exercise,
plays in helping people decrease depression and anxiety levels and increase cognitive functioning
and the ability to take in new learning. This workshop will give you a clear and compelling overview
of this exciting new research that will help you jumpstart stuck clients.
Hold Me Tight: Strengthening the Bonds of Love —
Susan Johnson, EdD. This workshop offers participants the wisdom gained from our new scientific understanding of love
and from 25 years of research and clinical practice in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
(EFT).
Unstuck: The Seven Stage Journey from Confusion and Depression to Clarity and Delight —
James Gordon, MD shows how depression and other forms of physical,
emotional, and spiritual stuckness can be the beginning of a journey
toward health and wholeness rather than the end point of a disease
process. The seven stage journey will lead to an understanding of the role clinicians
can play as guides on the road to well–being.
Hypnotic Methods to Produce Spontaneous Healing in Couples —
Michele Ritterman, PhD. Through use of metaphor and the subtle utilization of naturally occurring
trance phenomena, you'll learn how to interrupt rigid patterns and repetitive dialogues without arousing
resistance or confrontation.
Mind–Body Medicine interventions are particularly effective in treating both chronic pain
and in helping to restore quality of life to those who are enduring pain on a daily basis.
Healing Pain:
An Innovative Breakthrough Plan to Overcome Pain and Suffering — Ann
Berger, MSN, MD will review the connection between physical pain and suffering:
learn how to help patients describe their pain, how to perform a comprehensive and
accurate assessment of their pain, and provide information on different medications
and complementary therapies like acupuncture, reiki, mind body modalities and others
used for pain treatment.
Pain Relief with EFT: Helping Your Clients to Release the Emotional Contributors
to Pain and Illness — Carol Look, LCSW presents strategies to use cutting-edge
energy therapy technique, EFT, to address limiting beliefs, expand comfort zones,
release resistance, and enhance your client's physiological relief and comfort regardless
of their diagnosis. Collaborate with the medical team and offer your clients an
empowering approach to healing pain and illness.
Treating
the Muscles to Relieve Chronic Back Pain— Norman
Marcus, MD will discuss how muscles play a role in producing common
pain problems. Utilizing a new model to identify pain muscles, this structured approach can assess and treat
pain.
Ten Reasons Why People in Pain Don't Heal and How They Can — Maggie Phillips,
PhD will present several brief interventions designed to address and remove ten
obstacles to successful treatment of emotional and physical pain conditions. Topics
include: ways to reverse and regulate the emotional and physical impact of traumatic
experiences; the necessity of medicine for the "mind" as well as the body; how to
utilize the polyvagal nervous system in planning treatment strategy; how to help
pain patients create healing connections and how to teach people in pain to build on success.
Effective Pharmaceutical Treatment for Chronic Pain — Robert Cochran, MD discusses
the pharmaceutical treatment of chronic pain that has for many years entailed the
use of a combination of drugs, a practice known as polypharmacy. With increasing
awareness that pain is often an expression of the bipolar spectrum, learn how it
is now possible to customize drug and drug combinations for individual patients.
"Even though I’ve been holistic in my approach as an MD,
I found it to be a remarkable, wonderful conference which could and should
help to revolutionize our way of practicing medicine."
– Carolyn E. Shettler, MD
Birmingham, Michigan
Positive Psychology
Happy people enjoy countless benefits - not just feeling good, but enhanced
productivity and creativity, more fulfilling relationships, superior
physical health, and even longer life.
The How of Happiness: Boosting Well-Being through Gratitude, Kindness, and Optimism —
Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD. Until recently, many scientists were pessimistic about the very notion that happiness
can be lastingly increased. Dr. Lyubomirsky will discuss the critical factors that bolster our likelihood of success,
as well as how to understand and overcome the many obstacles to happiness. Much of our health and happiness is within
our control.
Better Than Prozac: Translating the New Brain Science into Greater Clinical Results —
Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT will discuss the critical contribution movement, especially regular aerobic exercise,
plays in helping people decrease depression and anxiety levels and increase cognitive functioning
and the ability to take in new learning. This workshop will give you a clear and compelling overview
of this exciting new research that will help you jumpstart stuck clients. You will also get some simple
strategies to get your patients started in their exercise routines.
Unstuck: The Seven Stage Journey from Confusion and Depression to Clarity and Delight —
James Gordon, MD shows how depression and other forms of physical,
emotional, and spiritual stuckness can be the beginning of a journey
toward health and wholeness rather than the end point of a disease
process. The seven stage journey will lead to an understanding of the role clinicians
can play as guides on the road to well–being.
At the Heart of Caregiving: Healthcare as a Ministry — Verna Benner Carson, PhD.
With increased technology, insurance procedures, requirements for documentation, as well as our commitment to see more patients, complete
more tasks, do more with
fewer resources while staying current with health–related knowledge, is it any wonder
that we’re overwhelmed and exhausted? By mapping the strategies for our own personal and
spiritual health, let us rediscover the joy that brought us to the profession and transform our place
in today’s health care system.
"Outstanding array of top experts in a variety of established and
cutting edge fields...Truly inspirational and invigorating...the friendliest
conference I have ever attended."
-Kenneth S. Nickerson, PhD Psychologist
Chattanooga, TN
Power Boost Your Career
Six optional lunch–time sessions to build your practice and give you more
opportunities.
Harnessing the Power of the Media
— Michelle May, MD. PR is the most effective way to build credibility and market your business, service or product.
During this session, you will receive a step–by–step process for becoming media worthy and savvy.
How to Get Published — Kathleen Brehony, PhD.
Gain insight into what it takes to get yourself published and learn tips on how to get started.
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Websites
— Joe Bavonese, PhD. A website can help build your practice and generate
lots of referrals. We’ll look at web pages you really need to discuss and how to increase the number of visitors
to your site and how to play the search engine game. You’ll receive access to a webpage
created exclusively for this workshop, with numerous online links and resources to help you once
you’ve returned home.
Personal Coaching — Kathleen Brehony, PhD.
From definition to marketing to strategy – design and build your professional skills to become
a personal or executive coach.
All You Need to Know About Self–Publishing.
— Dawson Church, PhD. There’s no single best way to get a book into print. Learn the various
forms of self–publishing, and for which type of book each form is
best. This session with
the publisher of Energy Psychology Press focuses on marketing, and the specific
techniques that
the savviest self–publishers of today are using to promote their books successfully.
Learn how mind–body medicine is playing a vital role in disaster response
teams and how you might get involved.
Using Mind–Body Medicine to Heal the Wounds of Wars James Gordon, MD. Techniques of mind-body medicine will be shared including meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback,
and yoga. Also exercises in self-expression, through words, drawings, and music in a meditative
and educational small group format will serve as resources that may help populations traumatized
by war and natural disasters.
Therapist as a Global Change Agent— Laurie Leitch, PhD. Is it too
lofty an idea to imagine that therapists can help change the world?
When each day we are deluged with stories of disaster, violence and brutality
around the world, is it unrealistic or even arrogant to think that we could play
an active part in changing the world? Come and hear how therapists are playing this
vital role on disaster response teams.
So what does the conference look like?
To maximize your learning, this week has been specially
created with a variety of training formats. The program is designed for you to customize
an educational experience that's just right for you.
Monday through Wednesday, you'll choose from among these in-depth training workshops:
Then, beginning Wednesday evening through Saturday morning, you'll experience a
combination of keynote presentations and 90-minute concurrent sessions on a wide
range of topics. Choose workshops from among 8 different tracks and discover practical
applications that you can use right away.
"A well-balanced conference that combines intensive, knowledge packed
lectures and lovely day time breaks for rejuvenation. I am so glad
I came... it has helped me get a power boost personally and professionally.
Thank you!!"
-Wendy H. Davis, MS
Jacksonville, FL
The Psychology of Health, Immunity, and Disease Conference stands out ...quite simply, because it's a conference that can make a difference.
So, what are the benefits?
We've designed the conference with an emphasis on you, the practitioner, so that
you will gain "take home" ideas that work!
Comprehensive Workbook (a $250 value) — This one-of-a-kind reference
guide is filled with models, summaries, checklists, diagrams, resources
and samples from all the main conference sessions.
Case Material — We encourage you to bring questions and case
material representing your most perplexing clinical practice situations
to get direct advice from our experts.
Take Home Ideas that Work — You'll leave inspired and refreshed
with up-to-the-minute information and skills about what is being done around
the world.
Networking Made Easy — Every aspect of this program is designed
to help you build your professional network of colleagues, resources and
even referral possibilities. You’ll be our guest for 3 continental
breakfasts so that you can meet the practitioners who will be most
helpful to your practice.
Distinguished Faculty — Don't miss this opportunity to tap into
the knowledge of these carefully selected cutting-edge practitioners.
Power Boost Your Career — Six optimal lunch–time sessions to build your
practice and give you more options.
Conference Bookstore — As a convenience to you, we will be offering
a wide selection of books and recordings by conference presenters and other
authors.
NICABM Recording — Can't attend 2 workshops at once? Make your
choice and be assured that you can purchase recordings of those you missed.
A Multi-Disciplinary Focus — Broaden the scope of your practice
and improve the quality of your care by networking with other specialists.
Practitioners Respond to War and Natural Disaster — Learn how mind–body medicine
is playing a vital role on disaster response teams and how you might get involved.
Hilton Head Island — Enjoy 12 miles of beach–front, perfect for walking
or biking, a multitude of day and evening activities and a variety of shops
and restaurants.
So many concepts with cutting–edge implications. So many leading experts. So
many ideas for your practice. So much you won't want to miss.
"This is a one of a kind conference! It has cutting–edge
speakers, hands–techniques and provides a whole new paradigm for health
and wellness."
– Adrienne Ressler, MA, LMSW, Counselor
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Every year at NICABM, we provide a rich, vibrant, emotionally sustaining experience– more like a convergence of think–tank ideas among
a gathering of like–minded colleagues and friends...A conference where you can relax, network, and feel supported in your practice.
Come to Hilton Head this December, renew your sense of what it means to be a caregiver,
reconnect with others like yourself, and leave feeling more skilled, better informed, and
thoroughly nurtured than when you came.
There is no doubt – these are stressful times. It is not surprising
that patients are seeking mind-body medicine solutions like never before, giving
practitioners tremendous opportunity. But to take full advantage, we must be
prepared with effective applications.
Only by being exceptional, can we fully serve those who need our help. Each year, we convene with
one common goal: to make a difference in the way health care is being practiced.
And that makes for a most magical week. See for yourself, take this opportunity and join us this December at
the Psychology of Health, Immunity, and Disease Conference.
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