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Sunday, 28 June 2009
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Hello, everyone.

If you have a minute, you might want to check out some newly posted speaking engagements on our calendar.  

For starters, I’ll be keynoting the annual conference of Healing Touch International, which is in Tucson this year, from Sept 3-6.  The theme is Creating Flow - Healing Globally and I’ll be speaking about using imagery to heal traumatic stress, as well as providing an experiential, large group workshop there.  Other featured speakers who will be there are Jan Phillips, Tony Redhouse and Stuart Hameroff. For more info, click here.

Then on October 9-11, it’s back to Chicago for a weekend workshop with The ConferenceWorks! on Gifts of the Imagination: Surviving and Thriving Beyond Cancer. This is about how to make maximum use of imagery for anyone touched by cancer - patients, survivors in remission, relatives, friends; and there are 9 continuing education hours for professional caregivers. The workshop offers numerous practice pointers and tips; and a generous sampler of guided imagery demo's for every aspect of dealing with cancer. Please ask about the special discount for anyone enrolled in our professional program. For more info or to register, click here,  email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   or call 800 .395.8445.

This same workshop will be offered again in Alexandria, VA on Nov 6-8.

I’ll be speaking in Providence at the annual meeting of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health which is held at the Westin from October 15-17.  My keynote will be on Breakthroughs in Healing Trauma: Success with Guided Imagery and the New Therapies and I’ll be giving a workshop on Keys to Healing Traumatic Stress: New Discoveries, New Tools, New Hope. For more info, click here or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

And finally, on December 10th, I’ll be keynoting the annual NICABM conference, aka 21st annual international conference on The Psychology of Health, Immunity & Disease, at Hilton Head, SC. by bringing everyone up to date on the extraordinary new things the Veteran’s Administration and the Dept of Defense are doing with guided imagery for our troops and their families.  Imagine This: Our Military is Reshaping Mental Health Care shares the exciting new research outcomes, techniques and strategies for the delivery of cutting edge services to our troops and their families – pre- and post-deployment and in theater as well. For more information, please click here.

All the Best,

 



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written by Cynde Collins-Clark, July 01, 2009
As an LPC who has found great success with Guided Imagery AND the mother of a 26 year old Iraqi War veteran who has suffered with severe PTSD for 4 years, I am curious what the VA and military are doing with Guided Imagery. Since going to the VA and military installations were often "triggers" for my son, we opted for civilian practitioners and a civilian treatment center that provided an array of complimentary therapies including Guided Imagery.

At neither our VA or the military installations that we have HAD to go to, has any alternative/complimentary therapy been suggested...usually just meds and CBT.

Perhaps a "hint" of some of the wonderful stuff going on would be helpful to share on this newsletter...maybe evening something I could encourage my son to explore.

Many thanks,
Cynde Collins-Clark, LPC
www.VeteransFamiliesUnited.org
mom of OIF veteran
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written by Belleruth, July 04, 2009
Hi, Cynde.
Believe me, I know whereof you speak! We are actually in at least 110 V.A.M.C.'s or Vet Centers (that we know of)around the country, but the system is so fragmented, distribution is kind of word-of-mouth, random and catch as catch can...
And this is not just from one V.A. to the next, but within each VA - one dept may be using guided imagery very intensively and enthusiastically, but the one next door has never heard of it.
We're doing everything we can to get to the powers that be, to make this more centralized, but it's not easy. We could use some help from people like you, who have a strong advocacy organization, to get to the top layers. We have plenty of validity through clinical trials:
Jennifer Strauss' powerful studies from Duke are posted here:
http://bit.ly/JwQ7b
and there's a description of what's going on at the Phoenix V.A. here: http://bit.ly/HzIw
We will keep plugging away, no matter what, but if you can help us out, we'd maybe get there faster!!
Thanks for writing, and I hope some of this info will be useful to your son. We all wish you and him the very best.
Belleruth
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written by susan, July 24, 2009
a friend was recently in a car wreck. Although he walked away from the scene and never received treatment of any kind about two weeks later he began having medical issues and has now received a dx of ALS. Several of us are encouraging him to seek alternative therapies for the trauma which he is. He is very depressed. which cd would you recommend for his situation?

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