An Experiential Workshop on Transpersonal Integrative Medicine for Adults and Children: Supporting the Human Spirit Allows the Body to Optimally Accept Contemporary Medicine
Health requires balance in body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Modern medicine is effective in addressing the body’s needs and psychology/psychiatry address many intellectual and emotional needs. Spirituality is a universal experience independent of theology or religion for many of our patients. We have developed an approach known as Transpersonal Integrative Medicine (TIM), which emphasizes supporting the human spirit to allow the body to optimally accept Western medical treatment. TIM may utilize mindfulness and traditional tools like drums, Native American flute, and rattle. This workshop uses lecture, demonstration, videoclips, and attendee experiential teaching. Duration is 105 minutes with four presenters.
November 12, 2024
Stanford University Medical Center
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Integrative Medicine and Palliative Care are natural partners in caring for children with incurable medical conditions. Utilizing approaches taken from complementary medicine and indigenous healing traditions, we have treated hospitalized children in a wide variety of settings. We will describe our approach and provide detailed examples of their use in supporting children and their families. Co-presenters will offer the attendees experiential opportunities with drumming and native American flute.
Click Here: National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Educational and Research
Workshop (February 17th 2022, 10:30am):
Addressing Spiritual Distress Through Transpersonal Interventions in Adults and Children Receiving Palliative Care Services: Addressing the Disparity of Curing the Body vs Healing the Human Spirit
David Steinhorn, MD, Capital Caring Kids, & Jana Din, BA, Tao Center for Healing
Virtual Presentation: Guiding Families to Mindfulness Supports Decision Making for Adults and Children
David Steinhorn, MD; Jana Din
A Healer Meets a Physician
David M. Steinhorn, M.D. is a nationally known specialist in pediatric critical care, palliative care and hospice medicine at The Elizabeth Hospice, Escondido, CA. Jana Din is a former Child Psychology teacher, Shamanic Healing Practitioner and Co-founder/Director of the Tao Center for Healing, Sacramento, CA. They are a modern day alchemy between Western medicine and indigenous/traditional shamanic healing. Their unique collaboration began in 2013 to provide shamanic healing support to patients and their family members at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA, and George Mark Children’s House, the first free-standing children’s hospice in the United States. Their collaboration and Transpersonal Medicine approach to healing continues nationwide, and was featured in a nationally broadcast television show, Healing Quest, in a segment titled "Shamans in the ICU."
Click Here for Full Interview: 328 A Healer Meets a Physician
May 21, Thursday – Guiding Families to Mindfulness Supports Decision Making for Adults & Children
David Steinhorn/Children's National Medical Center & Jana Din/Tao Center for Healing
Guiding Families to Mindfulness Supports Decision Making for Adults & Children
Western medicine uses a biomedical approach viewing the patient as a problem to be solved or something to be repaired. The psychosocial model of medicine views the patient in the context of relationships with others. As western trained clinicians, we find it challenging to work with the entire patient (body, psyche, soul/spirit), which requires a shift into the transpersonal realm. This webinar will highlight aspects of the transpersonal realm and demonstrate how working in that realm facilitates patients and their families finding new truths and personal growth.
The participants will learn about ways to guide families to a mindful state using both conventional MBSR approaches and indigenous approaches that rely upon a sonic drive such as drumming. The participants will see how these approaches have been applied in the hospital setting in work with critically ill and dying children. Additionally, the participants will have an opportunity to experience the approach to mindfulness that the presenters are championing in their clinic work.
The participants need to understand how to connect with our patients on the level body, psyche, and spirit. This webinar addresses ways to achieve that.
Presenters:
David M Steinhorn, MD Medical Director, Pediatric Palliative Care Children’s National Hospital
Jana Din Shamanic Healing Practitioner/Director Tao Center for Healing
A “transpersonal” approach to medicine that addresses the spiritual dimension, allowing clinicians and patients to experience health and illness as dynamic and transformative processes — for both doctor and patient — is the subject of the day-long October workshop “The Modern Alchemy of Western and Transpersonal Medicine,” that will explore bridging modern western medical traditions with age-old spiritual practices such as shamanism.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A 3 MINUTE VIDEO OF THE WORKSHOP
The Collective Soul Symposium
“Living the Integration of Spiritual Care in our Daily Practice… Touching the spirit and re-enchanting the soul in the body." Click here to view the Powerpoint presentation that Jana Din and David Steinhorn, MD delivered at the Houston, Texas conference.
NATIONAL NURSES WEEK
During National Nurses Week, Jana Din offered mindfulness sessions, featuring soft, rhythmic, relaxing drumming at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA. She helped the nurses to experience a sense of inner peace and calm -- a special thank-you for nurses devoted to providing the highest level of care for their patients.
Pedi-Hope 9th annual conference
This session will introduce the use of Shamanic healing for children with complex medical conditions. For several years Din, Co-Founder/ Director of the Tao Center for Healing in Sacramento, California, has provided shamanic healing services in collaboration with PICU and palliative care physician Dr. Steinhorn for his critically ill, terminally ill or injured pediatric patients. Their collaboration was featured in the nationally broadcast show “Healing Quest” in a segment titled “Shamans in the ICU.”
For more information click here: 22nd International Congress on Palliative Care
To get to their main website Click here: palliativecare
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David Steinhorn 1,2, Jana Din 3
1. Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
2. George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States
3. Tao Center for Healing, Sacramento, CA, United States
Participants will learn and experience how traditional, indigenous methods can help a family member move into a quiet, mindful state in which new insights can be gained regarding critical decisions.
Indigenous Wisdom & Shamanism - "Within, Between & Beyond Worlds"
October 5th & 6th, 2018
Sonoma State University
It is the mission of David Steinhorn, MD, ICU and hospice physician, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., to highlight the importance for the Western healthcare system of caring for the human spirit. It is this intention that led him to collaborate for the past five years with Jana Din, a Shamanic Healing Practitioner and Co-founder/Director of the Tao Center for Healing in Sacramento, CA. Their unique collaboration and approach to integrating shamanic healing support into hospital/hospice settings, while maintaining the spiritual integrity of shamanism, was featured in a nationally broadcast television show, Healing Quest, in a segment titled, “Shamans in the ICU.” Their purpose in melding Western medicine with shamanic healing is to help patients, families and healthcare providers discover the spiritual meaning in the challenges and experiences a person faces when seriously ill.
4th Global Gathering – The Maruzza Congress on Paediatric Palliative Care
Rome, 24th- 27th October 2018
Date: Thursday 25th October 2018
Title of talk: "Galenic Medicine and Traditional Remedies Used in PPC - David Steinhorn"
About Us
Dr. David Steinhorn is an academic pediatrician who practices intensive care and hospice medicine for children. He has developed palliative care programs at Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and Northwestern University in Chicago and served as medical director of George Mark Children’s House in California. He is currently medical and fellowship director in palliative care at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Dr. Steinhorn has additional training in energy medicine, yoga, meditation, and shamanism, studying with teachers from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, the Four Winds Society, and Dr. Carl Greer. He and Ms Din have developed symposia on supporting the human spirit through the alchemy of transpersonal medicine. His passion is to find ways of alleviating suffering wherever it may occur and to help patients, families and healthcare providers discover meaning in all of life’s experiences.
Jana Din, BA, is a retired child psychology teacher, shamanic healer, and director of the Tao Center for Healing. She has provided over 100 volunteer shamanic healing services for parents coping with the loss of their infants, and critically ill children and their families, in a unique collaboration with David Steinhorn, MD, ICU and hospice physician. It is Ms. Din’s privilege to provide shamanic healing in hospitals, hospices and across the nation, and to help parents find peace when losing their newborn or child. It is also her privilege to assist patients and families to discover the spiritual meaning in the challenges faced when seriously or terminally ill, or when losing a loved one. Ms. Din inspires audiences nationwide with her poignant, often heart rending stories of healing the human spirit in the midst of working with patients and families who are often facing the most agonizing times of loss in their lives.