12th Annual Energy Psychology Conference – November 5-7, 2010 – Novotel – Toronto, ON

EVENING SPECIAL EVENTS

Events are 7:30 -9:30pm and open to the public

 

Friday November 5 (Additional fee)

 

Frederic Luskin, PhD
The Art and Science of Forgiveness

This talk will highlight the physical and emotional health benefits of forgiveness and orient forgiveness at an intersection between science and spiritual practice. Forgiveness is part of all the major religious traditions of the world where these often esoteric doctrines claim that forgiveness can help heal relationships, soothe painful emotions, and serve as an example of the religious life. The importance of practicing forgiveness has been extolled for centuries, but only in the past fifteen years has research shown that forgiveness has a role in the creation and promotion of health. Dr. Luskin’s work has shown that forgiveness leads to increased hope, greater self-efficacy, increased appreciation of the spiritual aspects of life as well as reduce stress, hurt and anger. Dr. Luskin is one of the world’s leading teachers and researchers in forgiveness and his 9 steps to forgiveness have been used to help suffering people all over the world.

Frederic Luskin, Ph.D. is the Director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects, a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford and a Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Dr. Luskin’s research demonstrates that learning forgiveness leads to increased physical vitality, hope, greater self–efficacy, enhanced optimism and conflict resolution skills. His research also shows that forgiveness lessons the physical and emotional toll of stress, and decreases hurt, anger depression and blood pressure.
Dr. Luskin is the author of the San Francisco Bay Area best sellers Forgive for Good and Forgive for Love as well as Stress Free for Good. Dr. Luskin’s work has been featured in the recent PBS show This Emotional Life and PBS has made a pledge drive video of his teaching called Forgive for Good.

Saturday November 6 (Additional fee)

Larry Dossey, MD
The Future is Now: The Role of Premonitions and their Implications for Consciousness

Throughout recorded history, people have claimed the ability to sense the future, on occasion, through premonitions, instinct, intuition, hunches, or “gut feelings.” This ability has been dismissed as anecdotal, fanciful, and impossible by conventional science. Recently, however, this dialogue has changed. Computer-based laboratory experiments, now replicated worldwide, indicate an innate ability to sense future developments.

“Premonition” comes from words meaning “forewarning.” Biologists suggest that precognitive abilities may have become innate because they serve a survival function. This is consistent with surveys indicating that most premonitions warn individuals of threatening events, such as natural and manmade disasters and ominous health events. Because premonitions so often warn people of impending events that are injurious to their health, they can be viewed as a form of preventive medicine.

Dr. Dossey will emphasize reports from patients and physicians of health-related premonitions, and will discuss why these experiences deserve our attention. He will discuss the empirical research documenting our innate premonition sense, how to cultivate and enhance this ability, its impact on our lives, and the implications of these events for our understanding of the nature of human consciousness.

Dr. Larry Dossey is a former physician of internal medicine and former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital. He received his M. D. degree from Southwestern Medical School (Dallas), and trained in internal medicine at Parkland and the VA hospitals in Dallas. Dossey has lectured at medical schools and hospitals throughout the United States and abroad. In 1988 he delivered the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, India, the only physician ever invited to do so. He is the author of eleven books dealing with consciousness, spirituality, and healing, including the New York Times bestseller Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine, and most recently The Power of Premonitions: How knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives. Dr. Dossey is the former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health. He is the executive editor of the peer-reviewed journal EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. Dr. Dossey lectures around the world.  He lives in Santa Fe with his wife Barbara, a nurse-consultant and the author of several award-winning books.

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