Peris Gumz is a co-owner and core faculty at the
a
Teleosis Homeopathic Collaborative
Active learning community of
students and
alumni/practitioners
Integrated clinic, cases taken &
managed by students
One-year acute course
Three-year professional program
Primarily Boston-based
ACHENA accredited
teleosisschool@gmail.com
Exploring Your Health Narrative
An NCH webinar
With Peris Gumz
Thursday, January 17, 2013
A couple of key questions:
First: what are we talking about?
Health narrative – how you talk with yourself or
others about health, illness, symptoms...
And why shine a light on that?
Why shine a light on that?
In the absence of a narrative
(or guiding questions
or a practice of saying “Isn't that interesting?”),
the default position is often
somewhere between fear and panic.
A couple of examples:
a)A fever can kill you.
b)I must be really sick, I only
want to sleep.
c)OMG, my symptoms are
returning, I'm relapsing, I'll
never get better.
a)A fever can be a healing
strategy.
b)Sometimes we sleep so
more of our vital energy can
go to our healing.
c)Nothing in nature goes in a
straight line. It's normal to
feel some dips in a recovery
process.
Tonight's program:
(Assumption: There is value in consciously
cultivating your own health narrative.)
Consider our own personal resources
Reflect on the homeopathic paradigm
Images for your contemplation and practice
Exploring Your Health Narrative
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Exploring YOUR health narrative
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Probably like you...
Field of Dreams by Emily Stauring
We need to get personally comfortable
With wholeness
Vitality
The role of illness
EVEN IF that means simply
being willing to be in uncertainty
And actively live with the questions
In search of historical context
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Jacalyn Duffin
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History of Medicine: A
Scandalously Short Intro
Hippocratic triangle
Lovers & Livers: Disease
Concepts in History
Observer /physician
Charles Rosenberg
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The Cholera Years
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Explaining Epidemics
Illness
Patient
A new angle on the triangle
Hippocratic triangle
A homeopathic triangle
Homeopath
Observer /physician
Illness
Patient
Remedy
Client
This is a very different dynamic.
Many & varied skills
Case-taking
Case-management
Active listening
Non-judgment
Repertorization
Effective inquiry
Nested bowls
Case-taking
Case-management
Active listening
Non-judgment
Attitudes
Repertorization
Effective inquiry
Perceptions Guiding questions
Calling forth another vision
Same data, informed by
different point of view
What's right about what's wrong?
Let's imagine every symptom
has a function...
Or if you're feeling a little more
radical... a gift
Homeopathic paradigm – a few key points
A homeopathic triangle
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Wholeness
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Energy
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Individuality
Homeopath
Remedy
Client
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Illness is NOT an independent
entity
Attitudes Perceptions Guiding questions
Co-existing
with prevailing
paradigm, like
an open
secret
What's right about what's wrong?
Tonight's program:
(Assumption: There is value in consciously
cultivating your own health narrative.)
Consider our own personal resources
Reflect on the homeopathic paradigm
Images for your contemplation and practice
Some of our best teachers might not be
homeopaths
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Homeo-dynamics (not
homeo-stasis)
Balancing act between
health and illness
Direct experience
Ilya Prigogine
Nobel prize in mathematics, worked with systems
How systems change when info added
At overwhelm, when system can no longer incorporate
info coming in, system must disintegrate
** and re-establish / re-organize itself at higher level
Consider emergency and emergence
Consider the phoenix
Consider a young being at puberty.
Also cited by Margaret A. Newman in Health as
Expanding Consciousness
In summary
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Your personal experience of health and healing is the
bedrock of your unique perspective of homeopathy
and wholeness.
Consciously cultivating your health narrative will
support your practice, your clients, and your joy in life.
The wholeness and connectedness paradigm is much
broader than homeopathy, and you will find good
teachers and inspirations in many other fields.
If you lay down a track for healing and wholeness, you
will begin to see it everywhere.
So why shine a light on this?
Before we close
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What's useful
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What's not
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What would be helpful now
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peris.gumz@gmail.com