Disease Can Make You Well!
 
We think of disease as a bad thing, a problem to be beaten. But well over two hundred years ago Samuel Hahnemann, the founding father of homeopathic medicine, suggested that symptoms were the language of a body working to find balance.
 
Dr. Kim Jobst, whose work is guided always by the directives of Spirit, sees disease as even more than this: if we understand an illness as a search for meaning in our lives, we can 'hear' our symptoms as a call to a different relationship with ourselves and our environment. All our major sicknesses, then, and larger events such as community violence or planetary devastation, are thus "diseases of meaning" which can ultimately lead to greater strength and understanding.
 
Kim will discuss the creative drive that is inherent in the disease process itself to generate positive individual and social attitudes; this understanding would alter our entire thinking around illness and health, shifting us from a mind-set that sees disease as the enemy to one that sees it as a creative process of "aspirational or inspirational health".
 
Kim A. Jobst, DM is a Physician dedicated to Healing and Holistic Healthcare. He qualified in Internal Medicine & Homoeopathy in Oxford, London, and Glasgow, before training in Traditional Chinese acupuncture, and Jungian psychotherapy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the leading science journal in integrated medicine, the Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, and was visiting Professor in Healthcare and Integrated Medicine in oxford. As the Clinical Director of an Oxford-University based project, he led major research into Memory and Aging.
 
Kim also runs his own consultancy (Functional Shift Consulting Ltd), with his clinical practice in London and Hereford. He was a founding member of The Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Healthcare, and is a founding member of The National Care Farm Initiative UK (www.ncfi.org.uk), a new, innovative and effective movement engaging with the farming community, farmlands and nature for the healing of individuals in distress. He also finds time to serve on a number of Scientific Advisory Boards for emerging energy medicine technologies, in Texas and in India to name but two! Dr. Jobst is married with four children and lives in Herefordshire.