Salutogenesis
Modern medicine knows fairly much about what makes us sick. In many cultures which have survived "civilization" and industrialization, now threatened by globalization, healers and educators (shamans) are looking for the origins of health instead.
The word salutogenesis (lat. salus = health, genere = to create) was coined by sociologist and stress-researcher Aaron Antonowsky in the late seventies. Although it merely describes a simple and self-evident concept, it works fine as a lever to shift our metaphors. Promoting the expression can produce a powerful shift from the disease-metaphor to the vision of well-being.
Coherence again is the basic idea. This goes parallel with the postulation of the World Health Organization (WHO), which states that an essential ingredient to health is a highly developed spirituality. We strongly support this concept and add the essence from topic 1: the concepts of fields and information.
To promote this concept we currently are planning a five-year conference cycle in cooperation with the Art of Living Foundation.
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