Health Professionals Invited to Holistic Health & Healing Institute

What: Holistic Health & Healing Institute
When: June 18 – 22, 2007
Where: Woodwinds Health Campus 1925 Woodwinds Drive Woodbury, MN
Cost: $975 – includes materials and graduate or continuing education credit
More Information: www.csh.umn.edu

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (Feb. 7, 2007) -  The University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality & Healing and University of Minnesota School of Nursing are offering a one-of-a-kind, professional development program designed to prepare nurses, nursing faculty and other health-care providers to teach and provide integrative/holistic health and healing to patients and families in a variety of clinical and community settings. Through didactic, online and experiential learning, participants will acquire the knowledge and skills to care for patients and provide leadership in environments that promote optimal healing. For more information about the program, application process, course requirements, fees and registration, please call 612.624.5166 or visit www.csh.umn.edu.

This five-day program is based at Woodwinds Health Campus (woodwinds.org), an extraordinary Minnesota health-care facility that serves as a national model in optimal healing environments. Faculty will include experts from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality & Healing and School of Nursing as well as Woodwinds Health Campus and other local and national leaders in integrative health and healing.

Upon completion of the program, participants will be able to:

• Compare and contrast the history, philosophy, principles and practices of holistic health and healing with conventional approaches to health care.
• Describe characteristics of optimal healing environments.
• Examine the evidence base underlying complementary therapies and cultural-based healing practices.
• Develop holistic practice guidelines and standards that can be applied to the care of clients in a variety of clinical settings.
• Develop a personal plan for health and well-being that incorporates holistic practices.

The Holistic Health & Healing Institute is collaboration between the Center for Spirituality & Healing and School of Nursing, Woodwinds Health Campus and North Hawaii Community Hospital.

The University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality & Healing is a national leader in education, outreach and research in complementary, alternative and culturally based healing practices. The University of Minnesota School of Nursing, a leader in improving health care through research, education, and service, educates 55 percent of the faculty in Minnesota's public and private nursing schools, advanced practice nurses, and nurses who can assume leadership positions. Both are part of the Academic Health Center, home to the University of Minnesota’s six health professional schools and colleges as well as several health-related centers and institutes. The AHC prepares health professionals to improve the health of communities, discover and deliver new treatment options and cures as well as strengthen the health of our economy.