The goal of this book is to begin to present the fundamental body of knowledge which informs current approaches in complimentary and alternative medicine and to explore the role of the new professions of integrative holistic health practitioner, consultant and administrator. This book is designed to compliment, enhance, deepen and broaden the reader’s existing expertise through an integrative approach which will improve his/her ability to consult, design programs and work in a variety of settings with various populations including those with medical and psychological conditions as well as those who wish to support their health and well-being. The book provides the necessary conceptual foundational frameworks for exploring how practitioners in a field of alternative medicine/holistic health know what they know in support of their work. These core ways of knowing gives them a foundation for evaluating their work, new advances in the field and affords them interrelated frames of knowledge for their continued research, expansion and integrative work in the field. Trained holistic health practitioners who may have applied one or more of these paradigms may now be able to expand their foundational and conceptual base thereby broadening their theory and techniques that are appropriate to their professional arenas. Section I is designed to explore general ways of knowing and meaning making in holistic health. Section II is designed to offer the reader/practitioner methodology regarding the creation and implementation of holistic health centers, programs and integrated consultation practices. Finally, Section III offers examples of integrative holistic health clinicians who combine and synthesize a variety of holistic health approaches and paradigms into their practices as practitioners, healers, therapists and consultants. Contents: Preface Section I: Ways of Knowing Chapter 1. Ways of Knowing: Paradigms in Holistic Health 2. Mindbody Medicine: Advances in Western Medicine and Science 3. The Biology of our Psychology: Understanding how Structure and Behavior Relate Christine Caldwell 4. The Observable Body: Understanding Body Posture and Movement as a Way of Knowing Health and Healing 5. Imagination, Intuition and the Personal and Collective Unconscious in Holistic Health, Healing an Transformation 6. Nutrition and Health Ed Bauman 7. Energy Medicine: Ways of Knowing through Chi, Chakras, and the Auric Fields 8. Spirituality, The Transpersonal and Era III Medicine 9. Spiritual Healing in Era III Medicine Charlotte Greene 10. Toward an Integrative Holistic Health Theoretical Model Section II: Integrative Programs in Holistic Health 11. Introduction: Creating, Implementing, Administrating, Participating, and Consulting to Integrative Holistic Health Programs 12. Hospital Affiliated Mindbody Programs 13. Solutions Center for Personal Growth, Inc.and The Imagination Process-Wendyne Limber 14. Saddlebrook: A Wellness Center Blueprint Nick Hall with Al Martinez-Fonts, Jr. 15. The Wellspace Model for Delivery of Complementary and Alternative Medical Services Olivia Cheever Section III: Integrative Holistic Health Practices 16. The Moving Cycle: A Model for Healing Christine Caldwell 17. Integrated Energy Medicine as a Healing Art Elaine McNulty 18. Mindbody and Soul in Health, Healing and Creative Transformation Penny Lewis 19. Epilogue Index |