The Embryo in Us:
Understanding Ourselves as Embryo
with Jaap van der Wal MD PhD, Netherlands
JULY 11–15, 2012, Portland, Oregon
For more detailed course information or registration, click here.
This workshop explores human prenatal development and how the shaping of the body (morphogenesis) expresses essential attributes of the development of the human as a being of spirit and matter, of body and mind. The scientific method of phenomenology is used to create a synthesis between modern embryology and anthropology and a holistic view of the human being. Approached in this way, the human embryo reveals not only who we are but also what we are meant to be, challenging our modern reductionistic view of humans as ‘walking brains’.
Health care practitioners benefit from comprehending embryological forces in this holistic approach, because the same forces that formed the body are continuously at work throughout life, carrying the blueprint of health into manifestation: the Embryo in us.
Topics will include:
- Creative principles and forces that work through the human being.
- Understanding prenatal development using a Goethean (phenomenological) approach.
- Gestures of growth and development as human behavior and expression.
- Dynamics of conception, incarnation, embodiment and individuation.
- Dynamics of Birth – Where do we come from? The gesture of Development.
- The organization of the human body in space (body axes and planes).
- Phases of embryonic development as ways of being.
- The macrocosm in the microcosm of bodily organization.
- The human body as equilibrium of polarities and as manifestation of threefoldness.
- Man and animal: Humans as adult embryos. The whole body as psychosomatic entity (not only your brain).
Lectures and discussions will be alternated with practical exercises such as form drawing and body movement.
Course notes with diagrams will be available as well as reprints of some articles.
Location: Warner Pacific College, East Portland Campus,
2219 SE 68th Avenue, Egvedt Room 203, Portland, OR 97215.
Public Lecture: A public lecture preceding the workshop titled –
Mind and body in the womb – How do we exist as Embryo?
at 7 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, is facultative for course participants.
Public lecture is included with the workshop fee.
Schedule: 9.00 am until 5.30 pm each day with additional evening sessions from 7.30 until 9.00 pm on Friday and Saturday included and finishing 1:00 pm on the last day (followed by lunch).
Cost: $475.00 if postmarked before May 1st, 2012, or $525.00 if is postmarked after this date. Public lecture is included with the workshop fee.
Checks are payable to Dr. Robert Kellum, at 3046 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR 97212.
Workstudy Opportunities: A limited number of $225.00 workstudy grants are available. Please describe your need, reason for attending, AND your availability just before and after the workshop. Email to healthbridge@integra.net.
Class size is limited to 45 people. THIS IS A POPULAR COURSE!! Apply EARLY to assure your place!!
Continuing Education: This workshop has approval from OBNE for 26.5 Naturopathic General AND OB CEU’s.
For further details and registration, contact Dr. Bob Kellum at healthbridge@integra.net or 503-331-7393. See detailed course information and registration form here.