Article archive / April 1, 2015
Originally published: . Volume 6, No. 4. Source pages: 15.
The Red River Institute will host Dr. Patch Adams at its 2015 Spring Conference, to be held April 24 and 25 in Shreveport. The location is the First Methodist Church on 500 Common Street in Shreveport.
The conference offers a chance for healthcare professionals in different disciplines to learn together and exchange ideas.
The theme for the conference is “Healing the World, One Relationship at a Time.” The theme relates to the power of the mind, body and spirit to find and discover methods for healing, consistent with the Patch Adams legacy.
Presentations will address the politics, ethics, and practice in using the human relationship systems as a necessary element in healing, explain the organizers.
The program notes, “Patch Adams, internationally recognized activist, speaker, and author, is best known for the way he has brought healing to the world by ‘clowning’ his way into the hearts of his patients.
Patch Adams is the founder of The Gesundheit Institute, a non-profit healthcare organization that offers holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, the society, and the world. The mission of the Gesundheit Institute is to reframe and reclaim the concept of ‘hospital’.”The theme “focuses on human connectedness as a healing tool fundamental to all contemporary healing disciplines, medical and nonmedical.”
To register contact event organizers at (318) 202-9578 or visit www.redriverinstitute.org.
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