Courses:

1. Summer Course – Medicine 180: Integrative East-West Medicine for Wellness and Health (4 Units)
2. Mindfulness Meditation Classes: For more information, visit here . (1) Teen Retreat retreat will be held June 16-21, 2012. Registration starts in February, (2) UCLA Certification in Mindful Facilitation, (3) Summer Course – Mindfulness Practice and Theory (4 Units)
3. ExploreIM — The exploreIM webportal will re-launch with a more interactive and user-friendly interface in the upcoming months. http://www.exploreim.ucla.edu

Ongoing Lecture Series and Events:

1. Insight Lecture series on Integrative Oncology – More information is found at the Simms/Mann Center Website: http://www.simmsmanncenter.ucla.edu/ . A few upcoming events are listed below: February 7 on “Cancer and the Internet: Making the Most of the Web”, March 8 on “ A Cancer Prevention Plan: Five to Thrive”, March 14 on “Environmental Exposures and Cancer.
2. UCLArts and Healing offers events for the community that brings together art and public health. More information, visit UCLArts and Healing. A few upcoming events are listed below: Jan 28 -Dream Wisdom: An Art-based exploration, Feb 4 – Beats the Odd: Social and Emotional Skill Building delivered in a framework of drumming.

Conferences

1. Tuesday, January 31, 2012 – The Center for Excellence in Pancreatic Diseases is hosting the 8^th Annual Agi Hirshberg Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer. Reserve a space by January 27.  For more information, please visit here
2. Thursday, February 9, 2012 - The CNS annual symposium celebrating its 10^th year as one of the NIH funded Specialized Centers of Research on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women’s Health (SCOR Center) will be held on the UCLA Campus. For more information see the CNS website at uclaCNS.org.
3. May 2012 – The Simms/Mann – UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology will offer a spirituality and medicine conference in May 2012 entitled, When Cancer Strikes: Response Strategies for Pastoral Caregivers: The Intersection of Spirituality and Medicine. This conference will be open to the pastoral care/local clergy to facilitate discussion on how to best help congregants and leaders manage cancer.   It will be for free and will provide participants with information and practical tools about how to respond to cancer or other life threatening diagnoses within a community. http://www.simmsmanncenter.ucla.edu/

In celebration of the International Integrative Medicine Day, the Shirley Hui Memorial Fund has made scholarships available for the UCLA Summer Course – Medicine 180: Integrative East-West Medicine for Wellness and Health (June 25-August  3, 2012).

Medicine 180 is a course taught by renown faculty members from the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine (CCIM), along with other guest speakers. This 6-week course includes experiential session, a clinic visit, panel discussion in additional to lectures.  All students who have took this course last year agreed that this class has transformed their view on health and healing and has helped them learned about self-care and wellness.

The Shirley Hui Memorial Fund has been established to support educational programs in integrative East-West medicine. For information on how to apply for the scholarship, please send an email to cewm@mednet.ucla.edu

The National Student Conference on Integrative Medicine, 2011 UCLA endeavors to unite students across medical fields by exploring the latest evidence-based approaches to integrative medicine in a vibrant learning environment with prominent experts of today and aspiring leaders of tomorrow.

The National Student Conference on Integrative Medicine is held October 22-23, 2011 at UCLA.  Scholarship opportunities are available and is due by early registration on September 15.  For more information about the conference, visit www.caimucla.org

UCLArts and Healing will be hosting a two-part exploration of dreams- not with the intent to analyze them, but with the intent to develop curiosity about them in order for them to be tangibly helpful to us in our waking lives.

Workshop 1  - Sat. May 14 from 10 am – 4 pm

In Workshop 1, participants will use the art of collage to give voice to dream images. Dreams hold the power to bring awe, to surprise, to delight, to terrify, and to heal us. The process of collage invites discovery, and serves as a visual journal that can deepen and animate the essential nature of a dream. In this context, collage work can often give us access to material that initially seemed inaccessible. Making a collage for our dreams also externalizes the insights we have derived, so that we can integrate them into our daily lives.

Workshop 2  – Sat. May 21 from 1 – 5 pm

In Workshop 2, participants will engage in guided movement to elicit and explore dreams and other unconscious images through the five senses, followed by art-making and/or journaling to express the experience.  The body holds memories of everything, including traumatic and healing experiences, that can be released through movement.

Click here for location details, fees, registration instructions, CEU information, and a list of what to bring: http://uclartsandhealing.net/eventdetails.aspx?id=198