Big health, big medicine: for personal health, team health and community health – Soltane, Glenmoore Pennsylvania

Presenter: Dr. Pierre Morin

Our own physical, social and mental health, and the health of students and residents are

embedded in a communal field we create together. This field is influenced by personal,

community and social dynamics and the larger health and social service systems that

affect our experiences in day-to-day living.

In this workshop we will explore the power of internalized community values and

conceptions of health and medicine and their effect on personal, team and community

well-being. We will reflect on the various normative body, health and identity politics

and introduce skills that foster health of everyone involved. Through an approach called

big health and big medicine, we will explore new ways of relating to our own

body/social experiences and relating with health concerns of students, residents and

their family members.

The workshop format will include theory, stories, individual and group exercises, and as

time permits, fishbowl demonstrations with participants on specific questions/issues

from daily life at Soltane.

What you can expect

In this workshop you will:

• Gain heightened awareness for the mirroring effect of personal, social, team, and systems health using the approach of big health.
• Gain one inner work tool and one team interaction tool to use in your team, your life and your work at Soltane to nourish big health
• Experience big-health ideas and processes in action to enrich your personal and professional development and practice at SoltaneTopics

Topics

Depending on the direction of the group may include:

Health and normality; Three levels of awareness in health; Health disparities; Triple

barrier paradigm; Power, rank and health – includes the experience of low rank in the

health system often from childhood/birth; Interacting with medical professionals as a

person’s advocate; Body and identity politics; How is cultural competence and diversity

awareness important for health? Vertical and horizontal identities; Salutogenesis – a

health giving view of well-being and resilience; Supporter burnout; Caregiver/support

worker/team dynamics and ways to facilitate them; Dreambody – the mind/body

connection; Disability as a form of different health.