Programs & Workshops - Overview

In 2009, ISHI is pursuing the following program initiatives and activities:

» Listing of 2009 Workshops/Retreats

Continuing Education Programs for Health Professionals

When you bring your whole heart into your work, you tap into a lineage of healing that dates back to the time of Hippocrates and invite mysteries and graces that often cannot be explained. The small room with the patient waiting on the examining table is its own kind of universe—a place where fears and hopes intersect with the precision of medical science. This can be a place of contraction or expansion; a place of aloneness or connection, a place of routine or discovery. What really matters is having the courage to be fully present to what is happening in that moment. In our 2008 workshops and trainings we invite you to join us on a journey of rediscovery into the heart of your work and its personal meaning for you. Through various experiential processes, such as small group discussion, poetry, storytelling, journal writing, symbols and imagery—each of our workshops creates a solid structure of support for you to explore the joys and challenges of a life of service. Click here for more information.

The Healer's Art

Since 1992, The Healer's Art, ISHI's elective medical school course, has been offered annually to the students at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. The course gives the medical students an opportunity to explore the human dimension of medicine and is now being replicated at 58 medical schools nationwide.

Learn more about The Healer's Art.
Learn more about our Healer's Art Faculty Development Workshop.

The Finding Meaning in Medicine Program

ISHI's outreach program for physicians, medical students and other health care professionals is a way to create supportive collegial communities and to explore the deeper meaning of our work. Many new FMM groups are starting every month in all parts of the US and Canada and in a number of other countries. We provide materials, resources and support to physicians, medical students, nurses and others who are interested in starting groups. Our online FMM program and discussions are growing, too. To learn more about this program and our Finding Meaning in Medicine website, click here.

ISHI Outreach

ISHI offers workshops and presentations to medical organizations and physician groups throughout the United States. The ISHI Director, Dr. Remen, and several ISHI graduate physicians will continue to be available in 2009 to give presentations and workshops to groups of physicians and other health professionals in all regions of the country. Contact us for more information.

The ISHI Store

ISHI has made available a series of audio and video tapes of professional quality that enable health professionals to more effectively address the needs of their patients and to address their own professional growth and commitment to service. These tapes and a few books make education in relationship-centered medicine available to professionals across the country. Order directly from our ISHI Store.