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The Foundation for Transformational Education and Medicine is a non-profit educational and research organization, part of the National Heritage Foundation, founded to support development, knowledge and use and integration of transformational education and medical processes.
Transformational medicine generates healing which consciously responds to pain and difficulties such that the “healee” experiences profound positive changes at physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of being. (Healed = whole) Similarly, transformational education refers to a process which generates for the learner new ways of seeing life and being themselves.
Transformation medicine allows for a greater definition of healing then getting rid of the pain or symptoms, and engages a deeper, more self-responsible process which acknowledges that illness and or pain are a signal to make a change in which one sees or acts in the world.
Transformational learning includes natural psychological and spiritual development. It sits in contradistinction to language/information-based learning in which the person has new knowledge but is not changed in any significant way in their behavior, feelings or perceptions.
My personal mission in this work started many years ago at a monastery in Texas. It received additional empowerment with the reception of 23 monarch butterflies from October 2000 through June, 2001 in conjunction with the founding of the Healing Arts Institute. The Foundation was initiated on August 7, 2001. I chose a butterfly logo to symbolize a possibility for profound change. Symbolically speaking, a metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly is possible for humans.
Current research projects include:
- Documenting a mind-body therapy treatment for mild traumatic brain injury;
- generating an integrated mind-body treatment approach for allergies;
- generating an integrated mind-body treatment approach for addiction
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