Events: Holistic Health

The Future of Health Care Conference – 2008

Integrating Social Intelligence into Health Care & Daily Life

Saturday, April 19
9:00am-5:00pm
(8:30am check-in)

Cesar Chavez Student Center
Jack Adams Hall
San Francisco State University
Main Campus
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Public Fee: $60
Students or Seniors: $30
SF State Students w/ID: $5 (Donation)

Presenters include:

Keynote I: The Love Code - The Neurobiology of Relationship and Implications for Health

Sue Carter, PhD, and Stephen W. Porges, PhD, are Professors of Psychiatry and Co-Directors of The Brain Body Center, University of Illinois, Chicago. Their research focuses on the neurobiology of social behavior, including stress issues, social bonding, and social support. They both have career-long histories of federal funding from NIH and NSF. Dr. Porges is former President of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Social Sciences and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Dr. Carter is past president of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. She has published over 200 papers and edited or co-edited five volumes dealing with the neurobiology of sexual and social behaviors, including the Integrative Neurobiology of Affliation (MIT Press, 1999) and Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis (MIT Press, 2005). www.psych.uic.edu/bbc/

Keynote II: The Bio-Social Roots of Love, Violence, and Creativity - The Imperative to Transform our Approach to Birth and Mother-Baby Care

Suzanne Arms has authored seven groundbreaking books about how the mother-baby system and our earliest experiences lay the foundation for lifelong patterns in the nervous system and brain. She weaves together the biological and social sciences with cross-cultural wisdom and integrative/holistic studies (ecological, spiritual, etc.) in a coherent and exciting way. Her 2nd book, Immaculate Deception was named a NY Times Best Book of the Year and inspired thousands of midwives, nurses, physicians, and parents. She is a founding member of the Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children and co-founder of The Birth Place, the country's first resource center for pregnancy, birth, doula training and new parenting studies. www.atlc.org and www.birthingthefuture.com

Keynote III: The Caring Revolution - Laying the Educational and Social Foundations for a Partnership Society

Partnership, a way of life based on harmony with one another and nature, is our lost human heritage. Social scientist, author and activist, Riane Eisler, will explore a partnership model of social relations, a way of structuring beliefs, institutions, and relationships that supports healthy, sustainable living and the realization of creative human capacities in education, economics and politics. Dr. Eisler, is co-founder of The Center for Partnership Studies and author of the international bestseller The Chalice and the Blade: Our History and Our Future, The Power of Partnership, and most recently, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. www.partnershipway.org

Expert Panel: Weaving Social Intelligence into Health Care and a Troubled World

Co-Hosts: The Institute for Holistic Health Studies (IHHS), Department of Health Education and California State Senator, and Senate Assistant President pro Tempore, Leland Yee, Ph.D.

For more information visit The Holistic Health Learning Center online or in HSS329.