Mothers and fathers are the first line of care for most children’s health issues. It is up to parents to decide when to call the doctor, and what to do at home. Homeopathy is well suited to home care as it is safe, easy to use, inexpensive, and environmentally sound. It is used extensively in Europe and India, where it is practiced by MDs. Clinical trials have shown homeopathy to be very effective in treating a wide range of conditions. Children respond quickly to homeopathic care even with difficult to treat conditions such as tracheal malacia, RSV, allergies, nightmares, and behavior issues (though these should be treated by a professional homeopath.
In this class you will learn the basic principles of homeopathy: what it is, how it works, and how you can safely treat many of your family’s short-term health problems such as bee stings, fevers, colds, coughs, headaches, bruises, indigestion, poison-ivy, and more with the use of inexpensive homeopathic remedies.You will also learn when such conditions should be referred to a pediatrician or other health care professional.
Saturday, February 21st12-4 pm$40
Thetford Center, Vermont (see directions page)
To sign up or for more information call (802) 785-2503
This online course and discussion group will look at how health care in small communities differs in nature from large-scale health care. It is designed for health care practitioners who are currently working in, or planning to work in small, rural towns, or other small communities, and who would like to share ideas and ask questions.
The discussion will include topics such as
boundaries
affordable workspaces
in-home vs. private offices
bartering
advertising
small-town social dynamics
patient privacy vs. building support networks
housecalls
sliding scales
Didi Pershouse is a homeopath and acupuncturist who founded a successful multidisciplinary clinic in a town with less than 3000 residents, where she has worked for nearly 15 years. Her philosophy of fertile rather than sterile relationships between practitioners and clients has served her, and her patients, well. To read more about her work, visit www.sustainablemedicine.org
The class will take place over a 6-week period. The class is being offered on a sliding scale of $120 to $360, and is limited to 12 participants. For more information or to sign up, contact Didi Pershouse through the contact page, or call (802) 785-2503.
Reevaluation Counseling Class with Jesse Tichenor and Didi Pershousestarting in January 2009. Thetford VT. Sliding scale. For more information about the class, please contact Didi Pershouse at (802)785-2503.
Re-evaluation counseling, or “Co-counseling” has changed my life in a profound way, and helped me to understand and change some of my deepest patterns that years of therapy never touched, and I am very pleased to be assisting Jesse, one of my teachers, in this upcoming class. Jesse runs the Deep Community program at Dartmouth College.
Co-counseling–also called Re-evaluation Counseling–is a truly sustainable way to take care of your mental health, and create social change in the process. Instead of paying someone a lot of money to listen to you, co-counseling trains people to counsel each other, for free. Once you have taken the class, then you are part of this world-wide community of delightful intelligent people–and can go anywhere in the world and have a community of caring people willing to hold your hand, look deep into your eyes and really listen. Here’s how they explain it on their website: (www.rc.org)
“Re-evaluation Counseling is a process whereby people of all ages and of all backgrounds can learn how to exchange effective help with each other in order to free themselves from the effects of past distress experiences.
Re-evaluation Counseling theory provides a model of what a human being can be like in the area of his/her interaction with other human beings and his/her environment. The theory assumes that everyone is born with tremendous intellectual potential, natural zest, and lovingness, but that these qualities have become blocked and obscured in adults as the result of accumulated distress experiences (fear, hurt, loss, pain, anger, embarrassment, etc.) which begin early in our lives.
Any young person would recover from such distress spontaneously by use of the natural process of emotional discharge (crying, trembling, raging, laughing, etc.). However, this natural process is usually interfered with by well-meaning people (”Don’t cry,” “Be a big boy,” etc.) who erroneously equate the emotional discharge (the healing of the hurt) with the hurt itself.
When adequate emotional discharge can take place, the person is freed from the rigid pattern of behavior and feeling left by the hurt. The basic loving, cooperative, intelligent, and zestful nature is then free to operate. Such a person will tend to be more effective in looking out for his or her own interests and the interests of others, and will be more capable of acting successfully against injustice.
In recovering and using the natural discharge process, two people take turns counseling and being counseled. The one acting as the counselor listens, draws the other out and permits, encourages, and assists emotional discharge. The one acting as client talks and discharges and re-evaluates. With experience and increased confidence and trust in each other, the process works better and better.”