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Defeating Dis-Ease Seminar
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overcoming lingering illnesss

Dis-Ease = anything that robs you of ease, or joy, in life

Next seminar October 27th & 28th, 2006 in the Gathering Room of our clinic

About Defeating Dis-Ease

Defeating Dis-Ease is a holistic educational and motivational program, based on the Four Pillars, to help you achieve excellent health and productivity. Anyone wishing peak vitality and health can benefit, but you will particularly benefit if you, or someone you care for, have any of the following:
  • Fibromyalgia;
  • Chronic pain;
  • Chronic fatigue, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome;
  • Multiple chemical sensitivities and allergies;
  • Depression or Bipolar Disorder;
  • Anxiety or phobias;
  • Burnout;
  • Relational difficulties (recurring relational failure or conflict);
  • Eating disorders (overeating, anorexia, bulimia);
  • Irritable bowel syndrome or inflammatory bowel disease;
  • Addictions (chemical, sexual or behaviours);
  • Childhood disorders such as Attention Deficit Disorder

People in the helping professions such as physicians, psychologists, addictions workers, counsellors, teachers, corrections workers or clergy can also benefit and may wish to incorporate the program into the rehabilitation plans for their clients.

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Program Overview

Defeating Dis-Ease is regularly offered in the Gathering Room at Wholeness Family Clinic and is available as a live weekend seminar for groups, as well as on a number of media formats for individual or group study. The program is divided into five sections.  Section One is foundational in understanding the roots of dis-ease. Here we examine the mind-body connection and how the emotional state of our brain (represented by the balance in the diagram) affects our physiology (stickman) and behaviour (will box).
Dis-Ease-Cycle

Specifically, we see how unresourceful emotions such as fear, anger, guilt, loneliness, hopelessness and shame (balance to the left) depress our immune system, intensify pain, and cause dysfunction in our hormone systems.  Then, using a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model (the Four Pillars), Sections Two to Five cover the practical steps anyone can take to replace these debilitating emotions with health promoting ones (tipping the balance to the right). The topics covered are:
  • Cleaning Your Environment - lifestyle such as exercise, diet, etc.
  • Don’t Ignore the Spiritual - purpose, vision, values and meaning in life
  • Deal with Your Past - rich inner life by being free of past hurts
  • Improve Your Relationships - intimacy and interdependence

Educational material is liberally illustrated with PowerPoint slides, and enhanced with real life stories and  motivating material.

Evidence Based

Defeating Dis-Ease is evidence based, meaning that we stay away from treatments for which there are no solid scientific evidences that they work.  No products or unproven fads are promoted.  The program supports a healthy balance between ethical medical science and alternative medicine.

What participants have said

“I very much enjoyed the weekend and have heard several people comment on how it was a life-changing event.”
Counsellor
Truro, N.S.

“Excellent – gave me hope.”
Seminar Participant
Belleville, Ontario

“I just wanted to say thank you for the wonderful workshop this past weekend. It certainly expanded not only my knowledge base, but left me with a desire to promote the spiritual aspect of health and healing.”
Nurse
Charlottetown, P.E.I.

“I was very pleased with the information I got from the seminar.  I have rheumatoid arthritis and I learned that you have to learn to deal with your dis-ease both mentally and spiritually. I also learned a lot about the effects of medication.  I would advise anyone to attend such a seminar.”
Seminar Participant
Crapaud

“I doubt that I could ever put into words the effect the material in the seminar has had on me. I know that it has added something deep and meaningful to my own journey toward recovery.”
Seminar participant
Crapaud