Carl Hammerschlag
HIGHLIGHTS:
-Internationally recognized speaker, author, physician, healer
-Expert in rapidly changing cultures
-The only M.D. ever awarded the highest honor in the speaking profession: the CPAE "Speaker Hall of Fame Award"
-Recipient of the 1998 National Caring Award
-Leading authority on mind/body/spirit medicine
OVERVIEW:
Dr. Carl Hammerschlag is a distinguished, Yale-trained psychiatrist, healer, best-selling author, columnist, and faculty member at the University of Arizona Medical School. He is one of the early pioneer leaders in mind-body-spirit medicine (or psychoneuroimmunology) and an expert in integrating its practical applications.
Dr. H has worked for over 20-years with Native American communities, most as Chief of Psychiatry at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center. He has authored three critically acclaimed books, in which he describes his journey from doctor to healer: "The Dancing Healers," "The Theft of the Spirit," and "Healing Ceremonies." He has also written two children's books. In 1998, the Caring Institute selected him, from more than a quarter million nominations, as “one of the 10 most caring adults in America.”
In these rapidly changing times, from healthcare accessibility, globalizations’ impact on national economies, an ‘Age of Terror’ with escalating fear, Dr. H. helps people and organizations thrive.
Dr. Carl Hammerschlag is an expert in dealing with rapid change and the vulnerability it creates.
Dr. H has been called “a voice in the darkness.” He is a spellbinding speaker, who combines the language of science, with the drama of a compelling storyteller. Along with Colin Powell, Ronald Reagan, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, he holds the highest honor in professional speaking, the CPAE Speakers Hall of Fame Award. This award has been given to less than 200 individuals since 1977, and he is the only physician to be so honored.
A bridge builder, pathfinder, and visionary, Dr. H guides audiences on a journey that allows them to see beyond their limitations to a place of hope and healing. He is that extraordinary combination of doctor, healer, and visionary, who inspires people to reawaken their spirit, and celebrate their choices, changes, and sustaining connections.
MOST REQUESTED PROGRAMS:
The Way It Was, Is Not The Way It Is
To meet today's demands means not being crippled by preconceptions. Your old ways of thinking can stifle creativity. The task in this electronic marketplace is to unlearn old judgmentalisms that inhibit vision. Not since the advent of the printing press has the world seen such rapid change in the way information is shared, war is waged and how business gets done. To maintain the competitive advantage in today's explosively changing environment means more than having access to information or being able to transmit it quickly. Success has to do with how you process that information and come up with new ideas.
The Quest for Vision
Change is the biological order of the universe. How you come to those changes is more important than the challenges they represent. It's hard for us to change, as a species we seem to want to maintain the status quo. We are comfortable with the familiar even if it keeps us from achieving greater success by doing things differently. Sometime in our lives we will face difficult and serious challenges. If we can balance our fear of change with our hopes for the future then we can transform threats into opportunities. In his inimitable style with humor and poignancy, this storyteller, doctor, healer, grandfather, sculptor and fly fishermen will guide you on a transformative experience of discovery that will allow you to become the hero of your own life's journey.
The Future of Medicine
This is a time in which the trajectories of culture, economics and technology are colliding to threaten the care of patients. When the tail of cost control wags the dog of healthcare delivery, then the profession becomes just another industry. The economics of healthcare is causing a crisis of faith between providers and patients and it threatens to steal our healing spirit. The future of medicine must move from expensive interventional care to prevention. Dr. H. is a practicing psychiatrist, whose unique experiences with groups and cultures provide the framework for the survival of quality healthcare in the future.
The Last Mask of the Authentic Healer
Only when we shed the masks that inhibit growth and learn to explore our preconceptions and face our fears can we take the risk to become great leaders. In this age of public scrutiny and accountability, Dr. H discusses leadership in terms of pursuing authenticity; creating environments that encourage risk-taking; appreciating the power of the unconscious, intuitive mind; and transmitting the clearest sense of mission and values.
Facing Serious Illness
Sooner or later, we all get to face our mortality. Things happen to us (by accident, illness, trauma, loss), and some of us become immobilized by these happenings while others find a way through them. It turns out that it’s not the events in our lives that paralyze us, it’s the choices we make about how we come to them. In this presentation, Dr. H. explores the ways we face fear and the difference between curing and healing. He blends the findings from the science of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), or mind-body- spirit medicine, with examples and stories that weave a tale about the journey of possibilities.
The Dancing Healers
This is a personal story about the journey from doctor to healer. After completing medical school and internship in the mid-sixties, Dr. H. came to Indian country to serve his military obligation as an alternative to going to Vietnam. There he met an Indian medicine man who taught him how to dance. Like most Western trained physicians, he was an expert in the disease model – one that emphasized the identification and treatment of pathology. Over the next 30 years, he learned from Native American medicine men and women how to expand that disease model to a healing paradigm. This is a story about the importance of harmony between thoughts, actions and feelings - the foundation of the new science of psychoneuroimmunology (mind-body-spirit medicine). This is a confirmation of ancient wisdom that will inspire you to become the principal agent on your own healing journey.
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