HEALTH
& WELLBEING: THE SELF, THE COMMUNITY,
THE PLANET
1995
Autumn season of forums at the ecoversity
ITF's
sixth series of sustainability forums,
facilitated by Dianne Lacroix
and Daryl Taylor
from Nursing The Environment and Kerry
Press from Wild Rice Centre. Presented
by Imagine The Future in association
with the Australian Conservation Foundation,
Wild Rice Centre, and Nursing the
Environment.
1.
April 27 1995
EXPLORING
BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
with Rhonda Galbally,
CEO, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation;
Helen Lucas a registered nurse and
national secretary of Nursing the
Environment (Australian Nursing Federation);
Steven Sommer, general
practitioner, senior lecturer in Department
of Community Medicines, Monash University
and president of the recently formed
non- profit education organisation
the Whole Health Institute.
2.
May 4 1995
GLOBAL
INTER-RELATIONSHIPS
with Peter Kinrade,
sustainable cities and industries
campaign coordinator with the Australian
Conservation Foundation and NGO adviser
on the Australian delegations to the
Climate Change Treaty negotiations
in Berlin; Amanda Melville,
International Conflict Resolution
Centre at Melbourne University and
member of Psychologists for the Prevention
of War; and Denis Altman,
professor of politics at La Trobe
University and author of Power
and Community: Organisational and
Cultural Responses to AIDS, and
The Comfort of Men.
3.
May 11 1995
WESTERN
TECHNOLOGIES
with Annie Dugdale,
from the History and Philosophy of
Science Department at Melbourne University;
Nicholas Tonti-Philipini,
an independent consultant ethicist
and former director St Vincents Bioethics
Centre at St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne;
and Ian McDonald,
cardiologist and director of the Centre
for the Study of Clinical Practice
at St Vincents Hospital.
4.
May 18 1995
COMMUNITY
ECOLOGY
with Ian Anderson,
general practitioner and chief executive
officer of the Victorian Aboriginal
Health Services; Olga Kanitsaka,
registered nurse and midwife, and
head of the Centre for Social and
Environmental Health Nursing in the
School of Nursing at La Trobe University;
and Eric Bottomley
from the community based Centre for
Education and Research in Environmental
Strategies (CERES) in Brunswick.
5.
May 25 1995
DOMESTIC
ECOLOGY
With Mike Beale,
industrial hygienist and convener
of the Occupational and Environmental
Health Program at Springvale Community
Health Centre; and Claire
Milan-Khan, psychiatric nurse,
family therapist and co-director of
Systems Co-ordinated Counselling and
Training Centre. Architect Margaret
Smith, whose work focuses
on ethical architecture and health
impacts of the built environment,
was scheduled to speak but had to
withdraw at the last moment for family
reasons.
6.
June 1 1995
THE
SPIRIT THE SELF
with Yorta Yorta elders Leah
Andrews and Margaret
Wirripunda and students from
Worawa College; Sue
Dawson, registered nurse,
midwife, holistic therapies educator
and practitioner in kinesiology, guided
imagery and creative visualisation;
and Peter Zahnow,
registered nurse and lecturer in Psychology
and Health Sciences at Victoria University
and co-developer of Australia's first
Graduate Diploma in Healing Therapy
course at Victoria University.
Re-posted
March 2004.
