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Courses, seminars, advisory
service.
I offer lectures, courses and
seminars on several subjects in the fields of health science,
complementary therapy and philosophy, usually hired by an organization
(e.g. therapists' or patient organizations, schools or companies). I also
sometimes offer advisory or coaching services, particularly on the design
of research and development projects and their interactions with society,
interests, bodies and finances. Courses and consultations can be in
English as well as Danish.
1) Recent: a course in "understanding
science".
A double-weekend course, delivered twice, in 2006 and 2007. The course was
requested by and developed for the Danish NLP Association, but can
be adapted to other therapists' organizations or similar groups who
wish to strengthen competences in communicating and acting in a cross
field of therapy, research, development and documentation. During the
course, solid introductions to resarch methods and communication
strategies are given, we work thoroughly with examples involving the
therapy form in question, and the understanding of science is trained as
an active competence through problems solved individually and in small
groups. More
on the course - currently in Danish only
2) One-day seminar for medical doctors, on
complementary therapies.
Whole-day event, delivered twice in 2007 to groups of young G.P.'s in
Copenhagen. I present overviews of the field, the forms therapy in
widespred use, the typical course of a consultation, and the ways
governments and other authorities handle the area. I also give overviews
and open discussions on research and evidence on complementary therapies,
and the problems raised by research in the field. Several times during the
day, we stop to collect and discuss the participants' own experiences -
positive as well as frustrating - of communicating with patients about
their use of complementary therapies. We end up with a common discussion
on how physicians - individually and as a profession - can meet the
challenges posed by patients' use of complementary therapy, and I suggest
some useful resources for doing so.
3) Weekend course on the nature of time and
change.
A weekend seminar - a true
philosophical exploration - a different experience for, e.g. a staff team
or a group of therapists. We read a few (short but great) classical texts
on the grand questions of time's nature, but the main content of the
course is exploratory lectures and discussions. The purpose is to reach
insights into religious, artistic and scientific dimensions of time -
insights which are in themselves deeply fascinating, but also give
concrete, useful perspectives on real life - of indivuduals as well as
common enterprises.
Advisory service and coaching
Help for self-help in getting an overview of existing
fields of research, presenting them in a clear and useful way, or
developing strong research projects with high methodological quality and
well-directed momentum to change things in real life.
Lectures
I lecture on a range of subjects within the philosophy
of science, health science, research in complementary / alternative
medicine, and different philosophical topics. Titles of recent lectures
include:
- Acupuncture and evidence
- What is mind-body medicine
- Research in complementary therapies:
status, problems and possibilities
- A brief introduction to time
- Philosophy of meditation: -
classical buddhist philosophies and recent western
philosophies with meditative themes
- The radical thought of German Idealism (Hegel,
Schelling, and others): a world of self-development and
self-expression
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