Can We Build Health And Wellbeing In A More Sustainable Way?

Posted: Monday 1st August 2011

Wellpark College are very proud to announce Principal Phil Cottingham will be presenting a short course at the UK's Schumacher College: 26-30 September.
 
Sustainable Health Care: The Challenges and Opportunities is course is designed for all who are interested in promoting health and wellbeing in the community: practitioners from conventional and complementary traditions keen to integrate their skills, members of the public who want to take charge of their own health, and those involved in academic delivery of integrated health programmes.

The course is presented by Wellpak College Principal Phil Cottingham and acclaimed herbalist Simon Mills.  Cambridge educated, past President of the British Herbal Medicine Association, Simon is recognised by both British and European governments as an essential advisor on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Simon also established and lead the first accredited Masters of Science Degree Program in herbal medicine in the USA. The author or co-author of a number of required texts on phytotherapy and herbal medicine for Wellpark students, Simon Mills most recent is The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety.

There is increasing interest in approaches that build Health and Wellbeing in a more sustainable way. A more sustainable health care will offer people the choices and the ability to take charge of their own health. However, there are challenges to face, not the least on how to assure that different approaches are as reliable, effective and safe as possible.

The course offers real pathways to meet these opportunities and challenges. It helps us understand where we have come from and where we may be going, and offers a framework for sustainable health care as an integral part of the system in the future.

Topics covered will include:
•Health and wellbeing in the context of the holistic model of science
•The development of health, wellbeing and resilience as medical outcomes and the importance of self-care and personal autonomy
•The benefits and risks of wellbeing and self-care approaches in public health
•The new real-world research agenda
•The new facilitative therapeutic relationship

To learn more about the course and the college visit – www.schumachercollege.org.uk and
search ‘courses’.

To find out more about this course - email: admin@schumachercollege.org.uk
Visit http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/sustainable-health-care-the-challenges-and-opportunities
Tel:+44 (0)1803 865934

Schumacher College is the perfect space for reflecting, sharing ideas and engaging in change for the individual, community and the environment.

The College was named after author E.F. Schumacher of ‘Small is Beautiful’ which has become one ofthe most well respected texts on economics and ecological concerns, and coincided with the birth of environmentalism.

Schumacher College courses reflect the vast range of approaches to education and global issues and its international crosssection of students are encouraged to develop ideas and solutions which serve the short and long term wellbeing of the planet, its people and its ecology