Mind Body Medicine workshop 'Unstuck'
Prof. Dr James Gordon, founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicin in Washington D.C., psychiatrist

In this workshop dr Gordon will give practical tools to help us move through and beyond the ordinary daily impasses and challenges that confront us. We will learn and experience a wide range of scientifically based, yet playful mind-body techniques that are designed to help us get and stay unstuck and move ahead with our lives. These includes several kinds of meditation, (no one type is right for everyone), Guided imagery, movement and dance and nutrition. And possibly even experiments with drawing and dialogue. We will briefly discuss how to integrate this model and these techniques into our lives and our practises.

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Integrative family medicine
Dr Victoria Maizes, family practitioner and executive director of the Arizona Centre for Integrative Medicine, Tucson Arizona

Illness is never an experience of the body. Patients experience mental, emotional and spiritual reactions to their disease, ranging from mild worry to an existential crisis. Integrative family medicine is an evidence based approach that weaves together a range of therapeutic options from conventional and alternative healing systems. By learning to use this wider range of tools, we learn to recognise unarticulated distress, bring it out into the open and help the patients gain clarity inside and new coping skills. The perspective that we hold about illness and our own reflective process is critical to the practise of integrative medicine.

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Centre for Integrative Psychiatry; Selfhealing in daily practise.
Drs B. Hartogs, psychologist; W. Ligthart, fysiotherapist and bodyworker; A. Stoffers-Schaafsma, psychiatric nurse

Integrated psychiatry is about a development and empowerment of seflhealing capacity in the broadest sense. To accomplish this we use Western Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine. How do we use these medicines in daily practise? During this interactive workshop we will pay attention to the integral vision in daily practice. With practical exercises and vignettes, the different ways to stimulate self healing capacity will be demonstrated. [Dutch]

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More Selfhealing capacity with compassion?
F. Koster, mindfulness trainer, psychiatric nurse, meditation teacher and expert in Buddhist psychology; Drs E. van den Brink, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and mindfulnesstrainer.
Both connected to the Centre of Integrative Psychiatry of Lentis

In this experiential workshop the question of the self healing capacity of compassion is central. The main question is; Do we have enough empirical ground to give more space to the practise of compassion within community mental healthcare ? We will look for an answer at Buddhist psychology and recent developments in the Western Psychology like Mindfulness Based approaches (MBCT/MBSR) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) [Dutch]

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Past Reality Integration.
Drs I. Bosch, psychologist, founder of PRI, trainer, supervisor, therapist and author

The problems we encounter in our daily life are usually not what they seem, but illusions that motivate our behaviour in an unconscious way. PRI as demonstrated and introduced during this workshop is meant to change this. This method is based on Eastern as well as Western philosophies and therapeutic principles. [Dutch]

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Making peace with the environment.
Lama Gangchen Rinpoche, Tibetan Lama Healer; Lama Michel Rinpoche

During this workshop Lama Gangchen Rinpoche and Lama Michel Rinpoche will demonstrate and teach Ngalso Self Healing Meditation 'Making Peace with the environment'. It is about the interconnectedness of inner (bodily) and outer (earth and space) elements and how a balanced and pure environment is essential for physical and mental health. The deeper meaning and practical instructions are explained and participants will practice this meditation. [Tibetan/English]

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Selfhealing capacity in a private psychiatric practise.
Drs J.W. Louwerens, psychiatrist and director Noordland Kernzorg; P. Faber, holistic energetic therapist Noordland Kernzorg

Self healing capacity is at the base of each treatment. Integrated psychiatry is the best way to stimulate this capacity maximally. The treatment is based on both patient and practioner’s ideas in which knowledge and experience is involved. In this workshop this way of working will be illustrated with vignettes for which the involved patients themselves will be invited. [Dutch]

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Cancer and light on selfhealing capacity.
Drs I. Klijntunte, child psychiatrist and trainer coach; Drs G. Witvoet, psychologist, both working in Het Behouden Huys, psycho-oncological therapy centre

In Western Medicine the self healing capacity in relation to cancer is under evaluated. Within Het Behouden Huys, a centre for Psycho-oncological treatments, patients are supported to optimize their own self healing capacity. During this workshop, by testing ourselves, by doing practice and giving examples we will try to explain the methods which can be used to stimulate self healing capacity. [Dutch]

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The focus of psychotherapy, pathogenesis or salutogenesis ?
Dr E.H. Bos, senior researcher with Lentis and University Academic Medical Centre Groningen, freelance trainer of Cure & Care Development in giving lectures and workshops “Socratic Motivation”; Dr L. Batstra, psychologist. Has worked with University Academic Medical Centre Groningen and the last four years with Child- and Youth psychology

More and more therapists are interested, not only in diminishing problems (pathogenesis) but also in increasing strengths (saluto genesis) Increasing powerful functional and health stimulating factors. In this workshop we will look if this popularity is supported with scientific evidence. Also participants will be invited to comment on their own clinical experience and to practise with stimulating their own strengths. [Dutch]

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About Life and Resilience
M. de Jonge, staff empowerment Lentis and patient of the Centre of Integrative Psychiatry; Drs M. Tabesh, psychotherapist in training, Centre '45 and fugitive from Iran

How is it possible to survive a refuge camp, war, sexual abuse or domestic violence? How can we save our dignity and integrity ? Especially in these impossible circumstances people develop resiliency and survival strategies. If therapists want to stimulate self healing capacity and resilience they need to understand these principles. This is what this workshop is about. [Dutch]

Biofeedback and the plasticity of the human brain.
W.D. van der Zwaag, clinical psychologist and neurofeedback therapist

This workshop is about several ways to influence the functioning of the brain. These biofeedback methods can be an essential complement to Western Medicine. We will focus especially on neurofeedback. We will give an overview of recent treatment protocols and neurofeedback will be demonstrated live. [Dutch]

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Circular instead of hierarchical
Prof. Dr H. Walach, European University Viadrina, Institute of Transcultural Health Studies, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

We usually think that some kind of intervention or treatment is only evidence based when the efficacy is being demonstrated in a randomised clinical trial (RCT). This is supposed to be the highest form of evidence. But this method is not always suitable in integrated psychiatry. Sometimes we need a different model of scientific evidence. This circular methodology of scientific effect evaluation is explained during this workshop.

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Micronutrients for psychological and psychiatric disorders (1)
Prof. Dr B.J. Kaplan, professor Department of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada; Dr L. Kooistra, associate professor; Dr D.A. van Tijn, paediatrician

This workshop is about the relationship between vitamins, minerals and mood. Prof. Kaplan will present scientific evidence for this and she will also demonstrate a model that explains how these micronutrients work. Kooistra and van Tijn will present the results of a placebo controled N=1 RCT with a '36-ingredient-michronutrient-formula' that seems very effective in treating mood disorders. [Dutch/English]

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Micronutrients for psychological and psychiatric disorders (2)
Dr S. Shannon, psychiatrist and author. United States of America

This workshop is the practical continuation of workshop 13/1. Dr Shannon will explain the relationship between psychological and psychiatric disorders and nutrition, based on scientific evidence. This workshop is especially for therapists who want to give professional nutritional advise and who want to prescribe in an effective and safe way supplements and vitamins for mood disorders and other psychiatric disorders.

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