|  Ecologically
Sustainable Medicine: Personal Healing and the Web of Life
Joel Kreisberg
While we live in the web of life, sharing the same life force
with all other creatures, it is becoming increasingly difficult
to be healthy in an unhealthy environment. Ecologically sustainable
medicines—those medical practices that do no harm to
people or the environment—support the healing of all
life forms, both human and nonhuman. Yet these healing technologies
are not supported by the high-tech hospital-based system of
medicine that currently dominates our culture. One’s
choice in health care becomes, therefore, an opportunity to
not only address one’s personal illness, but to improve
the quality of life on our planet.
This workshop explores the environmental consequences of
personal healing and medical practices. The class format is
reflective, interactive, and instructive, focusing on the
health of the individual and the community, as well as the
life patterns within a global environment.
| Joel
Kreisberg, DC, is the founder and executive
director of the Teleosis Institute, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to educating health professionals
about the principles of ecologically sustainable
medicine. He is currently an adjunct faculty member
at John F. Kennedy University’s master’s
program in Holistic Health Education. Joel completed
his Bachelor of Arts at Wesleyan University, and
received his Doctor of Chiropractic at New York
Chiropractic College. He is an associate of the
Hahnemann College of Homeopathy and of the Bengal-Allen
Institute in Calcutta, India. Joel is currently
completing a master’s degree in Integral
Ecology at Prescott College. Author of several
books on homeopathy, he has been teaching for
more than 20 years. |
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