July
Newsletter:
Mind-Body Medicine
in
Action:
Trauma Relief

In this issue:
New Orleans Hope

Working in Jails

After the Floods in Iowa

Special Price for our Mind-Body Skills Kit

Professional Trainings Coming 2008-2009

Greetings from James S. Gordon, MD, Founder & Director

The Center’s model of mind-body medicine is used around the world in hospitals, medical schools, private practices and community clinics to reduce stress, improve mood and prevent and treat chronic illness. The Center’s pioneering small group model has proved to be remarkably effective in healing psychological trauma in whole populations. Read about our program in New Orleans, our hopes for helping trauma healing in Iowa, and our faculty member Stephanie Whiting’s use of our model in a jail in Wisconsin. Enjoy!

Dr. Gordon’s new book Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression shows how you can use the Center’s model on your own to heal yourself. To read more about the book, click here.

Catch Dr. Gordon’s interview on NPR ‘Science Friday’ – Click here
Read Dr. Gordon’s interview in Newsweek – Click here

New Orleans Hope – The Center is creating a leadership team in New Orleans to help with continuing post-Katrina health and mental health challenges. To date, we have trained 82 health professionals, and it’s starting to make a difference. To read more about this remarkable program, click here.

Behind Bars – Stephanie Whiting, MS is facilitating mind-body skills groups in her local county jail. A licensed professional counselor and psychotherapist in Stevens Point, WI and a member of the Center’s Mind-Body Medicine faculty, Stephanie recently completed a group for incarcerated women. To read her account of her work in jails, click here.

Read the research – To read the published research on the Center’s trauma model, click here.

After the Flood – The June 2008 flood is the worst natural disaster in the history of Iowa, affecting nearly 40,000 residents. In mind-July, a Center team led by Dr. Gordon visited to assess how we might be able to help with the resulting trauma. To read about their findings, click here.

Photo by Peter M. Schulmeyer, USGS

Summer Special: A really cool price on the Center’s Mind-Body Stress Kit - $100 off!

Best of Stress Management is a multimedia course for developing your own relaxation program featuring Dr. James S. Gordon. It is based on our professional training program in mind-body medicine, which has been taught to health professionals, medical schools, and medical centers around the world for more than a decade. To read more and to order, click here.

2008 – 2009 Professional Trainings – We hope you’ll join us for one of our professional trainings coming up. Click on the name for further information on any program. Partial scholarships are available for healthcare professionals working with underserved communities. If we haven’t seen you in awhile, we’d love to welcome you back. If we haven’t met you before, we’d like to!

Mind-Body Medicine
October 25 – 29, 2008, Minneapolis, MN
Special scholarships available for military healthcare professionals

Food As Medicine
January 8 - 11, 2009, San Francisco, CA

Advanced Mind-Body Medicine
January 31 – February 4, 2009, Minneapolis, MN