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THE POWER OF PRESENCE
Becoming an Instrument of Healing
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Barbara Dossey explores the principle elements of contemporary nursing:
what is healing, what is a healer, what is the inner journey of healing.
Barbara's insights restore an understanding of the vital potential
relationship between nurse and patient. Asserting that nurses are in a
unique position to be present to offer guidance, Barbara shows how all
aspects of nursing—wellness instruction, crisis intervention, chronic
illness management, and the transition to peaceful death—provide avenues
for meaning to enter our lives.
RITUALS OF HEALING
The Physiology of Compassion
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At the core of healing is compassion. As a foundation of caring, the
merging of imagery, mind, medicine, and ritual is becoming recognized as
immensely effective. In this lecture, Barbara Dossey presents scientific
and intuitive data about transpersonal caring, healing, and the process of
creating personal rituals. She describes how health-care professionals can
utilize their knowledge of the psychophysiology of bodymind healing to
serve the healing process of their patients and to change the way they
themselves practice medicine, nursing, and other disciplines. This allows a
deep level of caring, commitment, and collaboration to emerge daily in
clinical practice and life.
WELLNESS vs ILLNESS
Creating Therapeutic Partnerships to Facilitate Healing
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As we approach the 21st century, two major challenges are looming in health
care. The first is to integrate technology, mind, and spirit into clinical
practice. The second is to create models of caring that inspire health-care
providers to become therapeutic partners with the patient/family. In this
informative lecture, Barbara talks about the benefits of therapeutic
partnerships; establishes a model for incorporating the AHNA Core
Curriculum for Holistic Nursing into clinical practice; and explains how to
blend artistic, scientific, and intuitive skills to support healing.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Mystic, Visionary, Healer
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History is one of the most important aspects of any profession. Modern
nursing finds a proud heritage in its founder, Florence Nightingale
(1820-1910), a mystic, visionary, reformer, healer, environmentalist, feminist,
practitioner, scientist, and politician. Her contributions to nursing
theory, research, statistics, public health, and health-care reform are
foundational and inspirational; her spiritual example prompts us to explore
our own healing journey. Barbara explores why so many people are
captivated by Nightingale and reflects upon the wisdom that is demonstrated
by all great mystics throughout history.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE TODAY
Healing, Leadership, Global Action
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Barbara Dossey presents an insightful portrait of Nightingale's life and work through the tenets of healing, leadership, and global action. This lecture will identify, analyze, and discuss the many ways that Nightingale's work- practical and visionary-can rejuvenate nurses, nursing, and health care worldwide in our time as it did in her own. It is grounded in 21st-century scholarship and perspectives.
CARE FOR THE CAREGIVER
Maximal Well-Being through Self-Care
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In this lecture, Barbara steps away from the application of holism in
direct medical care to describe the impact of holism on the self. She
describes how self-care–achieved through stress management, wellness work,
relaxation, and body-mind-spirit centering–is imperative for living at our
potential in a complex society. She outlines ways to achieve inner
well-being and develop personal healing rituals using imagery and
innovative techniques. She also draws upon her extensive experience as a
health-care practitioner and researcher to explain how and why these
techniques will work for you.
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