Dates
May 30-31 and June 1, 2008
Location
Arts Building 116 & 117 - Googlemap
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
Registration
Preregistration - extended to May 29th
Registration
information and an accompanying form can be found under the
information section on the right. The student rate
is $75 for just day 1 and day 2, and $100 including day 3. The
non-student pre-registration rate for days 1 & 2 is $150, and
$200 dollars including day 3. Each registrant in a group of
5 or more will receive $10 off of the registration fee. Preregistration ends
May 29th.
To register by phone or ask questions, contact Anissa Hauser,
(907)-561-2880 or anaeh@uaa.alaska.edu.
BHRS is approved by the American Psychological Association to
sponsor continuing education for psychologists. BHRS
maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
New Accommodation Information
Accommodations are available. Single Suites are $50 per night
(single person). Double Suites are $60 per
night (two people, two beds in two bedrooms). Quad Suites are
$100 per night (four people, four beds in four bedrooms). To
reserve a room, you can fill out and turn in the
housing reservation form or
reserve a room online.
Conference
Description
We are at a moment in time when opportunities to
rearrange and expand our concepts of treatment and healing are very much at
hand. These opportunities are presenting themselves in a multitude of ways
in our centers of healing and treatment, research laboratories, institutions
of higher learning, and culturally-based communities. This is at least in
part, enhanced by a “crisis in care” that is caused by budgetary,
conceptual, and organizational considerations. These issues, among others,
are threatening to swamp our system of health care in a sea of red tape,
technology, diminishment of human relationships, litigation, and defensive
tactics.
Alaska is seeking to meet the challenges in health care
through the development of client- and community-driven research and
practices that are holistic; inclusive of mind, body, and spirit; and
respectful of the individual and communities in need of healing. We are
building solutions to the dilemma of dehumanized care systems, rising costs,
persistently high rates of recidivism, and excessive levels of physical,
emotional, and spiritual dysfunction. Many of these issues have been
particularly relevant and egregious among our indigenous populations.
The Healing from the Center Conference explores the manner in which Alaskan institutions of higher learning and
community-based health service programs are meeting this challenge of needed
change in our health care systems. Changes are on the way in these
institutions and program that are grounded in the enhancement of existing
services. They support the creation of new models of healing and paradigms
of research that partner traditional native healing practices, allopathic
healthcare, and alternative or complementary treatment and healing
strategies that are driven by the clients and communities they serve. The
result of these integrated efforts at collaborative partnership is an
evolving comprehensive and holistic service delivery plan tailored to each
client and each community in need of healing. This approach to treatment
and diagnoses should empower clients to become equal partners in the healing
process. The goal of the conference is to generate client-based models of
healing that reflect a true collaboration between client and practitioner.
Conference Goals
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Convey an approach to diagnoses, assessment, and treatment that
will empower clients to become equal partners in the healing
process.
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Present new models of healing and paradigms of research that
partner traditional native healing practices, allopathic
healthcare, and alternative or complementary treatment and
healing strategies that are driven by the clients and
communities they serve.
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Support the development of specific models of client- and
community-driven research and practices that are holistic and
tailored to participants’ individual work settings.
Complete conference goals can be found under the information
section on the right.
An end-product for the Healing from the
Center Conference will be the production and enhancement of strategies
and models of care that promote this concept of “Healing from the Center.”
These will be designed to encourage providers and clients to see healing as
a process that originates within the mind, body and spirit of the client. We
see this as supported and enhanced through the efforts of contemporary and
traditional health services working together as partners toward mutual
goals. We will attempt to realize our conference goals through discussions
and evaluations of some of the many efforts and programs now being
implemented to support necessary changes in healthcare prevention,
diagnosis, and treatment. Framed by keynotes and discussion groups, on Day
1 and Day 2 we will explore some examples of these efforts at the Education,
Training, and Service Delivery levels in our schools, clinics, and community
service programs. We’ll ask the questions – What is being done? – What do
these efforts suggest as developmental needs over the next decade and what
are the specific tasks that must be accomplished to realize these goals?
Day 3 will be devoted to task-centered interchange between conference staff
and attendees. The participants in this portion of the conference will be
encouraged to create a program solution for a selected need at their place
of study or practice. They will be asked to implement the model they have
created for their place of employment and return to the next yearly
scheduled ‘Healing from the Center’ conference as a presenter with the
results of their efforts as the discussion topic. Conference staff will be
available, with prior arrangement, to discuss attendees’ progress throughout
the year.
Documents for planners:
Conference Flyer A
Conference Flyer B
Gratitude goes to
Alaska Airlines
for their financial sponsorship of the conference.
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