Skills Lab - Practical Skills for Caregivers

Welcome to Heart Based Medicine

A warm welcome to Heart Based Medicine from its founder Dr Jan Bonhoeffer

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What is Heart Based Medicine?

John Gray, HeartMath's Deborah Rozman and others share what it means to practise heart based medicine

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Why is Heart Based Medicine radically different?

Every medic knows what needs to change but only a few are prepared to take action. Will you?

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Resistance to Heart Based Medicine

Global thought leaders discuss examples of resistance to a heart-based approach and their solutions

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Breakthroughs in Heart Based Medicine

Discover how a heart-based approach to patients can lead to breakthroughs in medical care

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Advice to health professionals

Hard-won medical wisdom about how to take heart-based medicine into the mainstream

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Physical Rehab - Like Fighting with a Ghost

Anat Baniel discusses how communicating with the brain through movement can overcome physical damage

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An Interview with Master Chunyi Lin

Qi Gong Master Chunyi Lin shares his vision of a healer in every home in a world without suffering

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Against Medical Advice

Knowing when to trust your intuition and when to rely on medical wisdom is a delicate balance

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How Much Do We Really Know?

Exploring the landscape between what we are taught and what our senses and life experience tell us

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A Joyful Interview with Dr Patch Adams

Dr Patch Adams hasn't had a bad day in 50 years! How does he spread joy and get results in hospital?

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A Different Perspective on ADHD

Could we be over-diagnosing because society no longer celebrates the uniqueness of each person?

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It Takes Just a Moment to Transform a Day

Dr Jan Bonhoeffer reflects on a life-guiding memory which reminds him to show care and be present

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A Dignified Death

How compassionate care and a deep reverence for life can ease even the death of a young child

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Modeling Love

This story tells the importance of supporting patients to change their inner state.

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Mindfulness: Presence and your Practice

Remember the last time you felt fully awake, aware and engaged? How to practice mindfulness

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Life is More Intelligent than Medicine

The lessons I didn’t expect to learn from a teenager about medicine and the life force

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Reflection – A Daily Practice

Dr Jan Bonhoeffer shares a daily reflective practice he uses to learn from mistakes

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The Power of Reflection

How just 15 minutes of reflection a day can be enough to learn deeply from an experience

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How I let Rebecca down

Why medical training can numb our compassion and how we can practise a different way

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Learning by heart