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\n\t\tCouncil\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSEE NEXT COUNCIL EVENTS\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n

\n\t\t“To speak, and be heard, carries powerful potential for healing”.\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

Council is a practice of deep listening and authentic speaking that has parallels in wisdom-traditions all over the world.<\/p>\n

Integrative Medicine seeks to acknowledge and care for the whole person, including their physical\/emotional\/mental and spiritual self as well as their health in relation to others, to community and to the world.<\/p>\n

While it is not therapy (and shouldn’t be confused with “counseling”), Council is a powerful way to ease suffering and foster healing.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tMIND-BODY SUPPORT\n\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\twhere the unspeakable finds a place\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

I have facilitated the practice of council in situations of intense suffering: the barracks of Auschwitz, civil war-torn countries of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda, and prisons in California that house men sentenced to life without parole.<\/p>\n

The container of Council provides a space where what seems unspeakable finds a place, and where we hear the common threads of all our stories-spoken from people with whom we might think we have nothing in common.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSEE NEXT COUNCIL EVENTS\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

\n\t\tMIND-BODY SUPPORT\n\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\tHOW COUNCIL WORKS\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

I currently facilitate online council sessions through Center for Council<\/a>. These sessions are open to the public and may be attended by adults of any age.<\/p>\n

The benefits of Council are not easily translated and each person’s experience will be different. I highly encourage all of my patients to attend and experience the benefits of Council for themself.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSEE NEXT COUNCIL EVENTS\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

\n\t\tMIND-BODY SUPPORT\n\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\tA PLACE TO BE HEARD, AND SEEN\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

For me personally, this practice gave me the opportunity to listen to others in ways that the practice of medicine no longer values.<\/p>\n

This kind of listening hears the story that is told in words, in feelings, in body language, and in the “voice of the circle”, and is a listening that asks us to set aside our tendency to agree or disagree, or to form our answer before the speaker even finishes.<\/p>\n

To speak, and be heard, carries powerful potential for healing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSEE NEXT COUNCIL EVENTS\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t