Finding Balance as a healer

For healthcare practitioners alone or with their significant others
Hui Ho'olana Retreat Center
Molokai, Hawaii
May 25th - May 31st, 2008

Program costs
$1,995 per person
Costs includes lodging, workshop and all meals. 
Programs are limited to 18 participants

Registration & Information
findingbalanceprograms.com,
1-800-769-0638

25 Category 1 CME/CE credits provided by Starfish Partners and the Collaborative Medical Education Institute

CME Credits
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance Essential Areas and Standards of the Institute for Medical Quality and the California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) through the sponsorship of Starfish Health Partners educational entity, the Collaborative Medical Education Institute, and Finding Balance Starfish Health Partners is accredited by the IMQ/CMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This activity has been designated a total number of 25 APA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity. All other healthcare practitioners whose professional organizations accept CME credit are welcome to attend this event for credit.

Disclosure
Consistent with the policy of our Education Sponsor, Starfish Health Partners, LLC, faculty for this activity will disclose any economic or other personal interests that create, or may be perceived as creating, a bias related to the material presented. Faculty will also disclose to you any product mentioned during their presentation that is not labeled for the use under discussion or is still investigational. This policy is intended to allow you to form your own judgments about content presented during this activity. Dr. Lipsenthal has indicated that he is on the advisory board of the HeartMath program. Ms. Gage has no significant relationships with any commercial entities.

Content Validity
Collaborative Medical Education Institute has reviewed this program to ensure it is scientifically-based, accurate, current, objectively presented, and independent of commercial influence; and that all suggestions on patient care are valid, conform to standards of care, and provide benefits that outweigh risks.

Refunds
All but $200 will be refunded if cancellation is received two months prior to the seminar. 50% will be refunded if cancellation is received one month prior to the seminar. Cancellations must be made in writing. No refunds will be made if cancellation is received within one month of, or after the seminar.

Please contact us if you have any need for auxiliary aids or special assistance services and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Program Facilitators
Lee Lipsenthal, MD, is a Board-certified internist with post-graduate training in cholesterol disorders and cardiac rehabilitation. He is the former Medical Director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute with Dr. Dean Ornish. He has served as the President of the American Board of Holistic Medicine. He also serves on the American Medical Association's "Physician Wellness Committee."

In addition to being a doctor, Lee is also married to a physician. The program is based on a foundation that consists of a wealth of personal and professional experience. He travels the world as a lecturer and consultant to hospitals and physicians groups. Lee's clients include, The Hill Physicians Medical Group, The Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser-Permanente (multiple regions), Physicians Associates and multiple state medical societies.

Lee & Nita developed this program to help health care practitioners reconnect with their sense of purpose in serving others, believing that healthy teachers make healthy patients.

"Lee Lipsenthal is an excellent teacher and guide for practitioners searching for a better way to deliver health care. In a time of health care crisis, this program can serve as a beacon in the storm for health care practitioners." — Dean Ornish, M.D., Founder and President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Nita Gage, MA, has worked in hospitals, clinics and health care corporations. Nita has over 25 years experience and training in health care, behavioral health, and spiritual healing. She has worked extensively in residential and inpatient settings with addiction, mental illness and with people in states of extreme spiritual emergency.

Nita currently lives and works in Maui as well as travels to facilitate transformational workshops. She brings a well developed ability to hold loving sacred space for the healer within each person to emerge for positive change and psycho-spiritual transformation. She is currently working on a book about women's transformational passages in midlife, titled "Women in Storage."

This is an invitation to take timeout and reconnect with you inner-self and core values. This weeklong retreat is designed as a learning vacation for clinicians and their families. There will be ample time to relax and enjoy the beautiful retreat center of Hui Ho'olana and the exquisite island of Molokai.

Come to where the Hawaiians sent their healers (Kahunas) for inspiration and training.

This program will provide tools to evaluate and understand the issues of our emotions in our work and home lives. It will combine discussions and experiental exercises designed to rejuvenate your mind, body and soul. You will leave with an understanding of the unique stresses that physicians, health care workers and medical families live with, and practical methods for changing the balance of your life and the lives of your patients.

This program includes:

• Stress management training based in meditation and emotional shifting
• Transformational breath work
• Visualization and perception shifting techniques
• Tools to evaluate your needs and behaviors
• Lots of downtime:We work in the mornings and play in the afternoons.

Program graduates will be able to

• Understand the relationship of stress and health
• Use tools to modify their stress responses
• Apply various communication techniques in their work and home lives
• Evaluate the aspects of their personalities that help hinder their progress, personal growth and patient care
• Adapt action planning tools to create changes in their lives

For full program details click here

Hui Ho'olana provides a retreat from your busy life. Their goal is to provide an environment for inspiration, a safe haven for the growth and nurturing of the creative spirit. Located on 100 acres on the island of Molokai, Hui Ho'olana sits at 1300' on a hill called Pu'u Kolea. Malama ka'aina (protecting the land) is at the heart of all they do.

Ho'olana means to encourage, to float, to bring into balance - as in righting a canoe. It is a word of hope and inspiration "the type of inspiration that floats up from within the heart."

The Hui also offers opportunities for massage and bodywork throughout your day Their highly skilled licensed massage therapists will schedule sessions to meet your exact needs. An experience no to be missed.

"The Finding Balance Retreat was so wonderful...We learned how to change our priorities, schedules, and yet become more effective as therapists and teachers." — Dan A. MD & Cheri E. PHD