Pre-registration for the conference is now closed.

You may still attend the conference, check-in at the door between 8 – 9 AM. Please click here for Driving & Parking Directions – important!

It is too late to order lunch, but you are very welcome to attend the lunch-time networking.  Please bring your lunch.

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CANCER AS A TURNING POINT
From Surviving to Thriving™

A FREE conference designed to
educate, inspire, connect, and celebrate

Saturday and Sunday, June 5 & 6, 2010

Abbott  Center
University of Virginia Darden School
Charlottesville, Virginia

Approved for 10 Continuing Education Credits for
RN, MFT, and LCSW

PURPOSE

The purpose of this conference is to educate, inspire, connect, and celebrate all whose lives have been touched by cancer or any life-altering illness.

• Cancer or any life-altering illness can be viewed as both devastating and rewarding.
• When viewing illness in the context of the whole person (body, mind, emotions, and spirit), its transformative  potential as an awakening for the soul and spirit is realized.
• Only then can we see it as an opportunity and utilize its gifts.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Women and men touched by cancer or any life-altering illness
• Healthcare providers
• People supporting friends or family touched by cancer or other illness

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

• Differentiate between curing the body and healing the person
• Explore illness as an awakening with transformative potential
• Rediscover the healing capacity of the human spirit
• Facilitate healing from within as an essential component of total health
• Experience the physical and emotional benefits of group support
• Discover the impact of psycho-social and spiritual beliefs on the immune system
• Facilitate networking among people and organizations with common goals and concerns

LOCATION

Abbott Center
University of Virginia Darden School
Charlottesville, VA

DATES AND TIMES

Saturday, June 5, 2010
Check-in will begin at 8:00 a.m.
9:00 – 5:00

Sunday, June 6, 2010
9:00 - 12:30

There is a non-denominational Christian worship service at 8 a.m. (optional).

COST

• There is no charge for attending this conference.

• There is a charge for lunch (or you may bring your own).

• There is a charge for Continuing Education credits for health professionals.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

• The Mary Semmes Scripps Fund for Integrative Medicine

• The Charlottesville Women’s 4-Miler

LUNCH

Saturday lunch will be networking time and we encourage everyone to participate in this important activity. You can order lunch or bring your own lunch. Our cost for lunch is $20. Lunch must be ordered by May 29 and no refunds for lunch can be made after May 29. Sunday lunch will be a boxed lunch to go.

OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS

Housing at University of Virginia

Housing is available at University Housing near Darden.  The suite style rooms include a living room area and kitchen, but do not include pots, pans, or utensils.  Free parking is available in front of the rooms on Saturday and Sunday.

The nightly rates of $52.50 single occupancy and $38 double occupancy include basic dormitory sheets for a twin bed, a pillow case, one towel, one wash cloth, one bath mat.  Please bring blankets with you! The bathrooms are shared and do not include any toiletries or amenities that you may find in a hotel.

Reservations can be made at www.uvaconferenceservices.com.
For questions, please call (434) 924-4479  M-F, 8-5.

Hotel Accommodations

A block of rooms is being held at the Holiday Inn University located at 1901 Emmet Street, approximately 2 miles from the conference.  Shuttle service is available.  Please mention the UVA conference when you make your reservations to receive the discounted room rate of $89.00 plus 11% tax per night.  Call
(434) 220-2136.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Healing Journeys is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. CEP 10808 and by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider No. PCE 953. The Virginia boards accept California approval.

• Saturday only: 7 CE credits – $80

• Sunday only: 3 CE credits – $35

• Entire conference: 10 CE credits – $100

CANCELLATIONS

Cancellations of Continuing Education credits received in writing or online before May 31 will receive a refund less a $15 administrative fee. We regret that there will be no refunds after May 31.

REGISTRATION

Please fill out a separate registration form for each person.

• Online
• Mail or fax – Click here for the printable form.
  Healing Journeys
  PO Box 221417
  Sacramento, CA 95822
  FAX:  (916) 391-1004
• Phone: (800) 423-9882 or (916) 391-0549

MORE INFORMATION

If you need brochures or you have any questions, please call
(800) 423-9882 or (916) 391-0549.

• Jeanne Achterberg, PhD
• Michael Lerner, PhD
• Sista Monica Parker

• Laura Pole
• Marty Rossman, MD
• Jonna Tamases

Jeanne Achterberg, PhD, is a scientist who has received international recognition for her pioneering research in medicine and psychology. She is currently a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. She has authored over 100 papers and five books, including Imagery in Healing, Woman as Healer, and Rituals of Healing, a primer on the use of creative therapies for health and medicine. Lightning at the Gate is the story of her personal healing journey. In April of 2001, she was featured in TIME magazine as one of the six innovators of alternative and complementary medicine for the coming century. She is currently senior editor for the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Her most recent research was on the effect of distant healing and prayer on brain function. In spring of 2008, Sounds True, Inc. published her CD series entitled Intentional Healing.

Michael Lerner, PhD, is president and founder of Commonweal, a health, environmental and educational center in Bolinas, California, and of Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C. He is co-founder with Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, a week-long retreat for people with cancer featured by Bill Moyers in his award winning PBS series “Healing and the Mind.” Smith Farm Center offers a four-day Cancer Help Program. Lerner is the author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, (MIT Press). Please consult http://www.commonweal.org and www.smithfarm.com.

Sista Monica Parker is a blues and gospel singer, a songwriter, record producer, speaker, and musical minister reaching out to nursing homes, cancer survivors, and spiritual communities. Sista Monica is a Soul Survivor! She captivates with her remarkable story and songs of surviving a rare life threatening cancer, Synovial Sarcoma, in 2003. Now seven years later, she is determined to sing and live out her purpose. Sista Monica gives a renewed meaning to blues as healing music. Surviving cancer has given new power and freedom to her lyrics. Her inspirational Sweet Inspirations CD was released in September 2008. Her 9th CD Soul, Blues and Ballads earned her a 2010 nomination for the “Best Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year Award” by the Blues Foundation (“Grammy” of the Blues world).  On her Mo Muscle Records, she releases her 10th CD Singin’ In The Spirit in March 2010. Please visit  www.sistamonica.com.

Laura Pole, President of Eating for a Lifetime, is a Health Supportive Gourmet Chef, an Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Certified Nia Fitness Instructor, and a professional musician with over 30 years experience in health care, health education and entertaining people. Laura first learned the art of good cooking in Louisiana at the apron strings of incredible Cajun and Creole home cooks. Laura blends her passions for food, entertaining and health into a career of nurturing people through nourishment. Laura is considered an authority in shaping the field of health supportive cooking for people with serious illness.

Martin L. Rossman, MD, Dipl.Ac is a physician, author, speaker, and a nationally Board-Certified acupuncturist who has practiced traditional Chinese acupuncture since 1972. A graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School in 1969, he has had a long-standing interest in the practical importance of attitudes, beliefs, emotions, and mind/body practices in medicine and health. Dr. Rossman is the author of Fighting Cancer From Within (Holt, NY, 2003) and the award winning self-help book, Guided Imagery for Self-Healing (New World Library, Oct 2000). He is also the creator of dozens of guided imagery audios and home study courses for both public and professionals. He created www.thehealingmind.org to make these invaluable self-care resources widely and inexpensively available. He is also the Founder and Director of the Collaborative Medicine Center, Greenbrae, California; Co-Founder, Academy for Guided Imagery, Malibu, CA; and a member of the Clinical Faculty at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. Please visit www.thehealingmind.org.

Jonna Tamases is an actress and 3-time cancer survivor (Hodgkin’s Disease, Large-Cell Lymphoma, Breast Cancer). She has turned her experience into a highly acclaimed one-woman show, Jonna’s Body, please hold. The show has gotten rave reviews and was nominated for two Ovation Awards: Best World Premiere Play and Best Lead Actress. The recently released movie version has won 6 national film festival awards, including Audience Award for Best Comedy Short (Asheville Film Fest.), Best Short Comedy and Best in Show (MAGA Film Fest.), and Best Actress (2009 Show of Your Shorts Fest.). For more information visit http://www.jonnasbody.com and www.jonnasbodymovie.com.