Leadership In Green Health Care
A Course in Sustainable Medicine
Registration Opens for “Leadership In Green Health Care” Course
Online Course Educates Health Care Professionals in new discipline of “Sustainable Medicine.”
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What is Leadership in Green Health Care?
Leadership In Green Health Care prepares health professionals to become leaders in the emerging discipline of Sustainable Medicine. Sustainable medicine recognizes the link between the environment, medicine and human health and seeks to provide better health care while protecting our limited environmental and medical resources.
The Leadership in Green Health Care course reviews the most up-to-date theory and research behind sustainable medicine and introduces participants to the best practices for initiating green health care— from greening their offices, to offering affordable and renewable medical treatments, and promoting community and environmental health.
Participants collaborate online to exchange strategies and pioneer ideas for affecting change within their communities and medical practices. The online, interactive dialogue among like-minded professionals creates a supportive and inspiring learning environment.
Program as an Integral Process
Leadership in Green Health Care is a first-of-its kind integral process course for health care professionals. An Integral Process creates a shift in thinking, feeling, and acting. To accomplish this, our process considers not only the problem at hand, but also one’s personal feelings that are evoked. In using this approach, participants not only learn about a topic but also develop new insight and awareness, which leads to creative ideas and solutions.
As the presenter of the course, Teleosis recognizes that health care involves a complex interplay of medical, physical, psychological, and social influences and that Sustainable Medicine requires a different way of thinking, feeling and acting. Using an integral process, Leadership in Green Health Care explores participant’s values, beliefs, experiences and expectations about medicine and health care as a means of introducing new, more effective ways of evaluating medical action that colleagues and patients can more easily embrace.
Throughout the program, medical practitioners discuss links between themselves, their patients, their communities, and the environment. The many different disciplines presented in the course and those represented by the participants offer a unique forum for positive, integral actions for improving health and the environment.
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Green Health Care Professional Benefits
Green Health Care Professionals can expect to reap immediate and ongoing program benefits including:
- An understanding of the many solutions that Sustainable Medicine offers,
- Strategies and resources for helping patients live healthier lives,
- Opportunities for health care providers and patients to save money,
- A safer and healthier clinical environment for clients, staff and oneself, and
- Knowledge that new solutions exist and that one’s actions impact health care and the environment.
Most importantly, many participants report renewed inspiration for improving health care.
Other benefits include collaborative opportunities with other Green Health Care professionals to serve the growing market of people committed to green living and public recognition through Teleosis promotional activities, events and news stories.
Session Topics
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Week 1: Leadership and Green Health Care
Week 2: Integral Theory and Medicine
Week 3: Ecological Literacy
Week 4: Sustainability
Week 5: Creating a Sustainable Medicine
Week 6: Precautionary Principle and Wellness
Week 7: Biological Systems and Stressors
Week 8: Green Pharmacy
Course Format and Commitment
This is an 8-week course uses a blend of audio lectures, weekly readings, and online discussions. New topics, readings and assignments are introduced each week. Participants typically dedicate 3-4 hours a week to each module.
In addition to web-based learning and discussion, Teleosis staff will host a total of 5 conference calls during the duration of the course. There will be an opening and closing call, as well as 3 calls with guest speakers who are experts in different disciplines of sustainable medicine.
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Target Audience
Leadership in Green Health Care is designed for visionary health care professionals committed to a healthy environment and sustainable medicine. Common participants include the following:
- Primary Care Providers
- Medical Doctors, Nurses, and Nurse Practitioners
- Complementary Medicine Providers
- Mental Health Providers
- Health Educators
- Health Care Administration
Faculty
Joel Kreisberg, DC, MA - is the founder and Executive Director of the Teleosis Institute. Currently adjunct faculty member for John F. Kennedy University's Masters Program in Holistic Health Education and an instructor at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medical College. Dr. Kreisberg completed his Doctor of Chiropractic from New York Chiropractic College and a Master of Arts in Integral Ecology from Prescott College. Dr. Kreisberg serves as the chair of Sustainable Berkeley. He has been teaching and lecturing worldwide over twenty years.
Calista Hunter, MD - is board certified in both endocrinology and internal medicine. She attended medical school at Temple University and has practiced in the Diablo Valley since 1985. She has specialized in women's health issues, eating disorders, osteoporosis, thyroid disorders, weight management, PMS and menopause. She has also obtained a MA in Culture and Spirituality and has training in cranio-sacral work.
Niyati Desai, MA - is Program Director at Teleosis Institute, where she manages the Green Health Care Program, Green Pharmacy Program and Symbiosis: The Journal of Ecologically Sustainable Medicine. In addition, Niyati is adjunct faculty and Internship Coordinator at California Institute of Integral Studies. Finally, she is an integrative nutrition educator for female inmates at San Francisco County Jail, a program offered through NextCourse.
Green Health Care Workplace Audit
As a bonus, participants receive the Green Health Care Clinic Audit as a first step toward improving the environment for their patients, staff and themselves.
Using the Green Health Care Clinic Audit, participants reduce resource usage and waste by evaluating the efficiency of utilities and operation in the following areas:
- Solid Waste
- Energy
- Water Conservation
- Pollution Prevention
- Healthy People
- Medical Technology
For San Francisco area residents, successful completion of this audit qualifies you for certification as a Bay Area Green Business and a listing in the Bay Area Green Business Directory.
Fees and Program Dates
Each class is limited to 30 students.
2008 course dates are:
January 14 – March 7
April 25 - June 20
August 22 - October 17
September 26 - November 21
The program tuition for the 8-week leadership course and Green Health Care Office Audit is:
$495* for non-members * Cost includes Teleosis membership
$445 for members of the Teleosis Institute
$250 for students in the health care field
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For more information contact
nina@teleosis.org or by phone 510-558-7285
Scholarships
The Luisa Kreisberg Family Foundation is proud to offer full and partial scholarships to interested participants who demonstrate need for financial assistance for Leadership In Green Health Care.
For more information on eligibility requirements:
Click to download "Course Scholarship Application"
Program Brochure & Executive Summary
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“The Green Health Care Program is a practical, effective way of implementing environmentally responsible actions in the medical environment. This program should be followed in every office, clinic, and hospital across the land.”
— Larry Dossey, MD
Author and Teleosis Advisory Board Member
Course Overview
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“The Green Health Care program is a chance for practitioners to make our little drop in the ocean, to remind ourselves that we are all in this together creating possibilities for our patients, communities and for the world to sustain human family into the future."
— Michael Anne Conley, MFT
Integrative Health Educator & Somatic Psychotherapist
“Green Health Care means bringing in all aspects of the practice in line with the primary values of decreasing our footprint and increasing sustainability.”
— Selena Lee
Director of the McKinnon Institute
“The Green Health Care Program has given me a spark, a new purpose in life. It significantly has contributed to the principles of my organization."
— John Vito Moraglia
Director of Body, Mind & Spirit Therapy Center
“I am so grateful to Teleosis for organizing the GHC Program. Their program has provided me with the opportunity to truly reflect and validate the work I am doing to create a healthier planet, and to recognize and create a strong force of healthcare providers that are working towards that same goal.”
— Cory Reddish, ND
Naturopathic Doctor & Educator
“GHC revives some outside interests I have had for many years, and helps me see a way to weave my concerns about the whole environment with my medical practice. It gives a big dose of hope because it really resonates with my heart”
— Pamela Pappas, MD
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