Arts Crossing Borders: Spirituality and Health Focus for Calgary Conference

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Spirituality and Health Focus for Calgary Conference

5th International Multidisciplinary Conference

on Spirituality and Health

Faculty of Medicine/ University of Calgary

Working Together for Optimal Health

Thursday, September 24 – Saturday, September 26, 2009
MacEwan Student Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

The University of Calgary in conjunction with The Canadian Research Institute of Spirituality and Healing will be hosting the 5th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Spirituality and Health.

Conference Objective: The conference aims to provide a diverse, multidisciplinary, multi-faith forum in order to address spirituality from a broad health focus.

Keynote speakers include:

Arthur Frank PhD, Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary and author of At the Will of the Body; The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics; and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live.
Erminia Guarneri MD FACC, Founder and Medical Director of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, Scripps Health in La Jolla, California and author of The Heart Speaks.
Lewis E. Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine and author of Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native America; Coyote Healing: Miracles from Native America; Coyote Wisdom: The Healing Power of Story; and Narrative Medicine: A Storied Approach to Health and Healing.

This 2 day conferences aims to provide a diverse multidisciplinary, multi-faith forum in order to address spirituality form a broad health focus. Session Topics Include: Christian Science, Palliative Care, HIV/AIDS, Yoga, Aboriginal Counselling, Public Health Spiritual Healing, Photography, Music & the Arts, Meditation, Depression, Cancer, Psycho-spirituality, Resiliency, and Mental Illnesses.

see PDF flyer

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: spirit@ucalgary.ca

Full text from keynote address, Acadia University, School of Education, July 2014, Navigating the Tides of Challenge and Change with Creative Arts in Research, C.L. McLean

http://ccahtecrossingborders.blogspot.ca/2014/07/navigating-tides-of-challenge-and.html

Read our most recent book reviews for the book Creative Arts in Humane Medicine from physicians and health educators here!

First looks at the book here!

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Read excerpts from C. McLean keynote, Living Stories of Hope and Change, Alberta Psychiatric Association Conference, March 2014

http://ccahtecrossingborders.blogspot.ca/2014/04/arts-and-psychiatry-meeting-challenge.html

Inquire about keynotes CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP Advisory Board

George Belliveau, Ph.D.
Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of British Columbia

Lace Marie Brogden Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina

Dr. Michael Hutcheon MD, FRCP
Deputy Physician in Chief for Education, Toronto University Health Network

Robert W. Kelly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary

Pia C. Kontos, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Nick Nissley, Ed.D.
Dean of Business, Cincinatti State, formerly Executive Director, Leadership Development, Banff Centre for the Arts

Lubomir Popov. Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences, Interior Design,
Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Johnny Saldaña, MFA
Professor of Theatre, Herberger College of the Arts, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University (ASU)

Subrata Sankar Bagchi, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa

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