What an exhilarating journey this has been!
When we first started our conference in 1988, Mind/Body Medicine was hardly on the map. And now, it has an undisputed presence.
It’s gratifying to see hospitals and universities in almost every state incorporating mind/ body medicine into their programs and curriculum. I’d like to think that NICABM has had a part in influencing this change.
Each year, we have laid some incredible groundwork, coming together as practitioners from all over the USA, laying roots to form a solid foundation. Now mind/body/spirit medicine has “the wings to fly.”
We are now at a compelling crossroads full of new direction and possibility.
Our community of practitioners has grown into one of global outreach. Each week, we consistently reach thousands of practitioners from more than 70 countries with our 6-week teleseminar programs.
While 2011 brings to a close this annual face-to-face event, it promises a new beginning – a stepping stone to more opportunities and venues.
We look ahead to embrace these new visions with the same creative, indomitable spirit that brought us to where we are today.
Meanwhile, let’s all gather one last time. We’ll celebrate and reminisce, reconnect and learn.
This will be such a large gathering with many practitioners returning to take part in this epic finale that we will take registrations on a first-come, first-served basis.
Alumni are already being invited to pre-register and spots are filling up quickly. Open enrollment for first-timers will begin July 19th (space permitting).
We advise getting your registration in early so you won’t be disappointed.
December awaits – let’s embrace that time together. Meanwhile, do you have a favorite story to share from a past conference?
2011? Why was this the last conference? Why are they showing all this information as if its current? Does the group even exist anymore. I’m so confused. I thought they had active yearly conferences. I get all these emails.
Unfortunately, I lost contact with wonderful NICBAM for about the last six years, since temporarily retiring and devoting myself to regaining my health post heart attack and onset of diabetes and more. I have missed our dear yearly sojourns in learning from one another at the Hilton Hotel on Hilton Head Island, where I last attended workshops with Ms. Donna Eden and Mr. David Feinstein, Dr. Bernie Siegle and many others. I will sorely miss our great, loving times with one another, and having in-between session time to browse through the superb bookstore to check-out all of the newest material there.
I will sorely miss the conferences for sure, but look forward to staying in touch though this online medium as long as we’re able to come together. If I seem sullen in my tone, it’s because I grieve our loss of the conferences. In light of Mr. Obama’s recent decision to let go of control of the internet to unknown others, my intuition tells me that the possibility to come together even online, may also become problematic. Sad. So very sad.
I send my love to each and every one of US, and I extend my deepest respect and admiration to all members and colleagues in the educational and healing professions. Blessings and peace, y’all.
Sincerely,
-Ron Kaussner
I am so impressed with everything NICABM has to offer and have purchased many of the Gold Series…that said, I am clamoring for a face to face conference like this. Just putting a wish into the universe that it may be revived someday! Thanks for all you do – Cherie Spehar
How does one register for the Dec conference and are there opportunities to do a scholarship?
Thank you.
Denise M. Carlin
You must try and not let your feelings of fear overtake you. You may have to be put on some medications to see how they work. If they help you, you wouldn’t have to go to a hospital. Why not ask the Lord to come into your heart? He loves you and wants to share your life with Him. God can help you lots !
Wow, and Well done, Ruth. Since I discovered NICABM several years ago, your online events and the descriptions of your yearly conferences helped me to build a mental image of myself walking among a growing crowd of practitioners who shared a common goal of learning to apply the latest in behavioral medicine and neuroscience. You and your staff were particularly helpful with tuition reduction when I was in the midst of travels to attempt to help a severely mentally ill friend. Tuning in to the online seminar while sitting in a small rented room far away from home made me feel as if my small sacrifice of my time and energy was being buoyed by the shared commitment of the NICABM Community to doing whatever we can to help those who suffer because the things that we know are not yet widely known by health care professionals — or the families of the sufferers — around the world.
Thank you for bringing to the world the important practical knowledge of your presenters. As I write this I am also carefully breathing and focusing my mind because I almost felt like crying when I for the first time read your blog posting that announces that there will be a Last Conference and that after that you will no longer produce that yearly gathering at Hilton Head. I had set my intentions over a year ago to attend one, and then in the future at another Conference I hoped to make a presentation about one or both of two powerful approaches that I offer to my clients but that not enough practitioners know about. Now that the Conferences will be ending I have to let go of that as something to plan for. However, as I think a bit more about the possibilities, maybe at some time in the future I or the creators of these approaches would be able to present one of those information-packed and practical one-hour tele-seminars.
Whatever develops, I trust your way of being resilient and dynamic in moving forward for the NICABM community, Ruth. I am sure that others in the Community elsewhere in the world have previously been thinking about how they could plan for and afford to travel to one of the Conferences. Now we can all relax if we can’t make this Last Conference… because we won’t even have to make a choice between either missing the next one after that or attending it and spending all the money and time it would take to travel there.
Thank you for so skillfully using the media tools that the Internet makes available, and for succeeding at what your motto says, “Changing the Way Medicine is Practiced.” (Well done, we’re with you!!!)
Hi Ruth: I received your email that said “To find out all of the reasoning behind our decision, check out our blog.”
So I’ve read the blog but I don’t see the reasoning! I am sad to hear you are discontinuing the conference, but I am still in the dark as to why?
Best,
Barbara
Your post doesn’t have a date so you may already know this. The annual Con in HH stopped in my estimation due to financial fluctuations from 2008, on. The economic collapse was a shock to many. I was a work Scholar from 06-11, and attended, a post con in 05, to attend Donna Eden’s class. I completed her Advanced Practitioner 4 year training in 2011, & continue seeing into the energies with my clinical (LPC) background, Spiritual-Life Coach, Holistic Therapy.??? Blessings!
Your post doesn’t have a date so you may already know this. The annual Con in HH stopped in my estimation due to financial fluctuations from 2008, on. The economic collapse was a shock to many. I was a work Scholar from 06-11, and attended, a post con in 05, to attend Donna Eden’s class. I completed her Advanced Practitioner 4 year training in 2011, & continue seeing into the energies with my clinical (LPC) background, Spiritual-Life Coach, Holistic Therapy.??? Blessings!
I attended the NICABM conference in San Diego a couple of years before I was dx’d with ptss, tho’ the reality had been present for a long time. I hadn’t yet given up on traditional therapy but knew it wasn’t working anymore and was looking for new steps/paths and ‘answers to questions that bothered me so’. I was already reading, reading and NICABM opened doors and windows I never would have known about. For the last 17 years I have been following in your tracks, learning, recovering and healing after a ‘lifetime’ of complex pts. Am 62 yo now and having the best time of my life!
I am deeply grateful to all to the therapists and teachers and researchers and docs and authors, et al I have been learning from since I entered Al-Anon at 19yo.
Thank you Ruth, NICABM, and all your presenters over the years for continuing to look for those answers as well, to do the demanding research, and to share so clearly with all of us ‘regular folks’.
Thank you so much Ruth and NICABM for being so kind, so determined, and for persevering. Many blessings around you this day!
I’m SO proud of you Ruth – I know I’ve said this before – I will continue to say it – In 1988 I came back home to recuperate from all the pain – confusion – god-awful symptoms of PTSD. I had been helped through all the practioners of what was called at the time: “New Age” treatments – Baba Ram Dass – Deepak Chopra – Dr. John Gray – John Roberts – Liz Greene (A jungian therapist/astrologer)- I did nothing for about 7 years but read all their books and many many many many more – I never received the diagnosis of PTSD – it was too early – but then I had absolutely QUIT the idea of “therapy.”
And now you have/are introducing the whole concept – I’m amazed, delighted and oh, so hopeful for those in trouble who come after me. A GREAT BIG THANK YOU!!!
Love
Ronnie