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Explore Your Health Narrative with Peris Gumz

Dive into your unique perspective of health and wholeness with Peris Gumz at the Teleosis Homeopathic Collaborative. Reflect on the homeopathic paradigm, historical context, and the concept of illness as part of a dynamic system. Cultivate your health narrative for personal growth and client care.

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Explore Your Health Narrative with Peris Gumz

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  1. Peris Gumz is a co-owner and core faculty at theaTeleosis 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

  2. Exploring Your Health Narrative An NCH webinar With Peris Gumz Thursday, January 17, 2013

  3. 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?

  4. 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.

  5. A fever can be a healing strategy. Sometimes we sleep so more of our vital energy can go to our healing. Nothing in nature goes in a straight line. It's normal to feel some dips in a recovery process. A couple of examples: • A fever can kill you. • I must be really sick, I only want to sleep. • OMG, my symptoms are returning, I'm relapsing, I'll never get better.

  6. 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

  7. Exploring Your Health Narrative GET READY!

  8. Teleosis Homeopathic Collaborative

  9. Teleosis Homeopathic Collaborative Exploring YOUR health narrative

  10. Probably like you... Field of Dreams by Emily Stauring

  11. 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

  12. In search of historical context Hippocratic triangle Observer /physician Illness Patient • Jacalyn Duffin • History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Intro • Lovers & Livers: Disease Concepts in History • Charles Rosenberg • The Cholera Years • Explaining Epidemics

  13. A homeopathic triangle Homeopath Remedy Client This is a very different dynamic. A new angle on the triangle Hippocratic triangle Observer /physician Illness Patient

  14. Many & varied skills

  15. Nested bowls

  16. Calling forth another vision Same data, informed by different point of view

  17. 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

  18. Homeopathic paradigm – a few key points • Wholeness • Energy • Individuality • Co-existing with prevailing paradigm, like an open secret A homeopathic triangle Homeopath Remedy Client Illness is NOT an independent entity What's right about what's wrong?

  19. 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

  20. Some of our best teachers might not be homeopaths • Homeo-dynamics (not homeo-stasis) • Balancing act between health and illness • Direct experience

  21. 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

  22. In summary • 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.

  23. So why shine a light on this?

  24. Before we close • What's useful • What's not • What would be helpful now • peris.gumz@gmail.com

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