CLASSES
& EVENTS
CURRENT CLASSES
COLOR
COMPANION TO CHRONIC PAIN:
AWARENESS CREATING CONNECTING WELL-BEING
Kara
Wilde, MA , Suzette Payne, MA
In
this class we will explore how to companion your chronic pain, to support
yourself and your self-healing powers. Using creative expression of your
nature and the nature of pain. Research shows creative arts improve health
outcomes. No previous art experience is necessary and we use art in a
non-intimidating atmosphere within a healing field of community creativity.
See Blog:companiontochronicpain.blogspot.com
for work from previous
class.
Dates
and times:
Saturdays, January 16, 23, 30 & February 6, 2010
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost:
$100 before January 5th.
Place: Process Work Institute, 2049 NW Hoyt St, Portland, OR 97210
Contact: to register call Suzette at 503-973-5921
or email kara@creativehealing.org
or suzettepayne@live.com
Suzette Payne M.A. and Kara Wilde M.A .are graduates in process oriented
psychology and are interested in studying ways of exploring our health
challenges and experiences using all forms of art and creativity to help
us in our everyday lives. Suzette is an Open Studio Project facilitator.
OPEN FORUM
Date
and Time:
February 11th, 2010 7-9pm
Kaiser
Permanente Town Hall. 3704 N. Interstate Ave Portland, OR
On January
25th, 2009 we had an open forum you may read an article
We believe
in a just and equitable world. Social, racial, and health disparities
are societal ills that need our assistance and care. Community conflicts
are opportunities to learn and grow stronger together. They require awareness
of dynamics of rank and power, where we do not share equal privileges,
as well as awareness of the underlying humanity which we all share.
Health Disparity
Studies are suggesting that relative poverty and processes of social comparison
explain the high stress burden of individuals in countries with a big
gap between the rich and the poor. This high stress is the biological
pathway through which rank ot hierarchy factors influence health and cause
disease.
USA's Rank in Health Olympics:
* Life Expectancy:
29
* Teen Birth: 28
* Educational Opportunities: 21
* Child Poverty: 25
* Child Abuse Death Rates: 26
* Child Injury Death Rates: 23
IAPOP CONFERENCE
2ND INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROCESS ORIENTED PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE
(IAPOP)
Community
and Global Health
A 3-1/2 Day Process Work Conference
About Medicine, Aging, Palliative Care & Health Leadership
Dates:
February 24-27, 2010
Place: Portland State University Smith Memorial Union, Portland,
Oregon USA