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The International Postgraduate Medical Training (IPMT): May 30th - June 6th, 2013, Penang, Malaysia.

Anthroposophic medicine, based on the spiritual scientific research of Anthroposophy was inaugurated by Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D. (1861-1925) with the cooperation of Ita Maria Wegman, M.D. (1876-1943). This medical approach integrates in a holistic way mainstream medical research and the dimension of anthroposophic spiritual research for understanding the nature of body, soul and spirit. There are currently anthroposophical medical practices in more than 60 countries worldwide.

The International Postgraduate Medical Training / IPMT has been organized since 2002 as a sequence of annual advanced medical training weeks in different countries worldwide. The IPMT offers a training opportunity for anthroposophic medicine or an international certificate of anthroposophic medicine. To achieve a critical therapeutic effect to the whole communities and society, the IPMT not only emphasizes on the anthroposophic medicine, pharmacy and nursing but also curative education, anthroposophic art therapy, biodynamic agriculture and the business or economics.

This programme occurs in a series of at least a week training every year for five years (five modules). 2013 will be the first module for IPMT Malaysia.

Malaysia IPMT hosts the following groups and the groups’ focuses in 2013.

Anthroposophic Medicine and Pharmacy: Rosalinda Maglana, Jake TanThis session is available only to those health professionals who have either qualified in a registered field of practice, or are on a specific path of training. For medical doctors this course serves as part of the pathway to certification as an Anthroposophic Physician.

Anthroposophic Nursing Care: Damarisa Ceriales, Paulita BacligThis session is open to those nursing or homecare professionals who have either qualified in a registered field practice, or are on a specific path of training.

Curative Education: Bernd KalwitzThis session is open to interested physician and those who are working in the field of curative education. Educator, therapist, social worker, art therapist, teacher, parent or those who have interest in this field of training are welcome.

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Anthroposophic Art Therapy: Hildrun Rolff This session is open to interested physician and those who are interested in the concept and effectivity of art therapy.  Educator, therapist, social worker, art therapist, teacher, parents or those who have interest in this field of training are welcome.

Biodynamic Agriculture: Jakes Jayakaran This session is open to agricultural professionals, farmers or those who have interest in this field of training.

Business: How to Develop Tools to Bring Business Life in “Service of Humanity”: Michaela GloecklerThis session is open to business professionals, entrepreneur those who have interest in this field of training.

Date: May 30th - June 6th 2013

Venue: Rainbow Paradise,527, Jalan Tanjung Bungah,11200 Tanjung Bungah,Penang, Malaysia.

Course Fees: (not includes accommodation and meals)• RM900 (for early bird - registration and full payment made before

28 Feb 2013)• RM1100 ( for registration after 28 Feb 2013)Registration closing date: 20th May 2013

Participants need to prepare their own stationery and notepad.

For further information or registration: Ooi Lay Koon, Email: cherylooi_0709@yahoo.com, phone: +60 4 8992471 and fax:  +60 4 8992514.

We aim to work together to create a healthier learning and living environment, shine forth light and love to those in need in our society.

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Lecturers Bibliography and Course DescriptionAnthroposophic Medicine and Pharmacy

Speakers: Rosalinda Maglana, Jake Tan

Joaquin G. TanHe pioneered Anthroposophic pharmaceutical and medicine in the Philippines in 1992. He wrote the book “Healing Ourselves from Medicine: How Anthroposophy Can Save your Life”(1995 & 2011). He produces the homeopathic part of Anthroposophic remedies for his patients, other  physicians and clinics; and trains practitioners of Alternative Health Programs in Rural Communities of the Philippines.  Mr. Tan has lectured in various places in Asia, Australia and the United States topics related to Anthroposophy, child development, health, nutrition and appropriate natural remedies.  He is currently the President of the Anthroposophical Group in the Philippines. 

Rosalinda MaglanaAnthroposophic Community Health Physician. Graduate of Biograpy Work and Art Theraphy Training Philippines. President - PAAHPI ( Philippine Association of Anthroposophic Health Practitioners), Executive Director: AKKAP( Integrative Primary Health Program, Kidapawan Philippines)

Course Description:

An overview of Anthroposophic Pharmaceuticals, principles of healing, kinds of substances, modes of application.

The relationship of the plant world to the three fold human being. Simple extraction of plant essences, the cold process. Descriptions of other

Anthroposophic Pharmaceutical processes using various degrees of warmth. Procedure of dynamization and potentization. Time and space considerations. Cultivating the mood of soul of the pharmacist.

Anthroposophic Nursing Care

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Speakers : Damarisa Ceriales, Paulita Baclig

Damarisa B. Ceriales A Registered Nurse in the Philippines practising Anthroposophical Nursing with Clinica Salutare: Integrative Medical Center for 15 years. She trained in Anthroposophical Nursing at Taruna College, New Zealand (2004-2005) and in IPMT Philippines (2003-2008). Prior to these trainings, attended a practicum-exposure at the Ita Wegman Klinik, Switzerland.

A certified Rhythmical Massage therapist trained under Frau Irmgard Marbach at the Margarethe Hauschka Schule in Bad Boll, Germany. 

A Certified Associate Medical Acupuncturist (PITAHC, Philippines)

Member of the Board of Directors of Clinica Salutare. 

Paulita BacligDr Paulita V. Baclig is a Certified Anthroposophic Physician, a Certified Anthroposophic Art and Biography Therapist and a Certified Medical Acupuncturist. She was the past president of the Philippine Association for Anthroposophic Health Practitioners, Inc (PAAHPI).    Dr. Baclig is a Fellow of the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians.  She is  a Clinical  Associate Professor at the State University,  the  University of the Philippines , College of Medicine.  She is the Head of the Integrative Medicine Unit of   the Department of Family and  Community Medicine – Philippine General Hospital, the biggest tertiary hospital of the country . She completed her Master’s Degree in Public Health, with a major in International Health,  at the University of Hawaii. She is the founder and currently the Medical Director and President of Clinica Salutare:  Center for Integration in Medicine located in Makati, Philippines.

Course Description:

three-fold and four-fold human being plant study

nursing procedures

Curative Education

Speakers: Bernd Kalwitz

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Bernd Kalwitz Physician and social therapist.  Eight years experience in the leadership of the Vogthof social therapy organization, a life-sharing and working community on the outskirts of Hamburg; five years as tutor and deputy principal at the Northern College of Anthroposophical Curative Education in Kiel.  Twelve years as school doctor in the Bergstedt Rudolf Steiner School.

Course Description:

I. Curative Education: Point and Circle – Healthy Development in the Balancing of Polarities

Polar opposite developmental one-sidednesses as the cause of illnesses and developmental disorders. Preparing phenomenological diagnostic elements through the process of the child study. Foundations of therapeutic perspectives and methods. Possibility of case reviews and consideration of individual curative educational ‘pictures’.

II. Curative Education: Ways of Caring for Adults and the Significance of Work in the Human Biography

When caring for adult people, what replaces education? How can competencies which have been attained at a curative educational school be maintained and further developed? Forms and conditions of social therapy. Work as an instrument of inclusion.

Anthroposophic Art Therapy

Speaker: Hildrun Rolff

Hildrun RolffProfessor of art therapy, head of further education art therapy, multidisciplinary medicine and psychology at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Cologne Area, Germany. Licensed art therapist, experienced in teaching, coaching and supervising individuals and groups – worked as an anthroposophic art therapist since 30 years in various clinical and social fields.

Course Description:

Elemantary basics of art therapy. This will include anamnestic, diagnostic as well as therapeutic aspects. Analogies of artistic picture language will be worked out as well as forms of expressions concerning physiological and psychological manifestations of human being and immanent natural power.

Artistic work:  painting and clay sculpture

Biodynamic Agriculture

Speakers: Jakes Jayakaran

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Jakes JayakaranAn Indian National based in the south Indian State of Tamil Nadu . He has been the founding President and active member of an environment action voluntary group called the Palni Hills Conservation Council based in Kodaikanal since 1985 . He started an Organic Fruit processing company in 1990 called Kurinji Organic Foods , and is an exporter of organic/ Demeter quality dried fruits and fruit purees . He has been trained in Biodynamics by Mr. Peter Procter , and has been practicing BD farming since 1994 . He is the President of the Biodynamic Association of India ( www.biodynamics.in ) , and does Biodynamic training programs and advisory works in India and China . He has recently founded a Community College in Tamil Nadu offering a 2year Diploma course in Biodynamic Farming .

Course Description:

What is biodynamic agriculture? A comparative study of conventional (chemical), organic and biodynamic farming.

Study of the rhythms of the sun, moon and the other planets.

An introduction to the biodynamic preparations.

Compost making, solid and liquid. Practical work.

The social task of biodynamic agriculture.

An introduction to astronomy and the use of the planting and sowing calendar.

Business: How to Develop Tools to Bring Business Life in “Service of Humanity”

Speakers: Michaela Gloeckler

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Michaela GloecklerShe was born in Stuttgart in 1946 and attended the Waldorf School until graduation. Then she studied the German language and literature and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg. From 1972 to 1978 she studied medicine in Tübingen and Marburg. Her further training as paediatrician took place at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and at the Bochum University Paediatric Clinic. Until 1988 she was a colleague in the children’s outpatient’s clinic at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and served as school doctor for the Rudolf Steiner School in Witten/Germany. Since 1988 she has been Head of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland. Various publications.

Course description:

Business and economic life is a service to the needs of the society. It is the fundamental of the culture in the different countries. The moral state of the society is high or low, depending on the ethical standards in the economic and business life and the motivation and possibility of the people work.

The course wants to achieve answers to the following questions:

What are appropriate ethical standards of banking and business?

What is the role of money in business?

How can money be seen and handled, that it serves the healthy development of the society?

How can the needs of the people be identified, that the products are serving these needs.

How can the prices of the products be worked out, that the products are producible and affordable?

How can we develop new ways of handling business in the frame of today profit and money driven market?

Successful business is mostly based on (charismatic) individual initiative.

How can we create networks of ethical working individuals, who support one another?

Rudolf Steiner’s concept on national and world economy will be presented as well as his indications for self knowledge and self management.

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Concept and working modus of the IPMT Schooling of sense perception and active ways of thinking as a basis for new

diagnostic faculties. A practical introduction to diagnostics and therapy with anthroposophic

medicaments, artistic activities, eurythmy therapy and other modalities. Professional ethics and mediative schooling, as necessary for understanding

one’s own profession, for the setting therapeutic relationships and establishing therapeutic communities.

Schooling of sense perception and active ways of thinking

1. In the morning we will start with the new art of movement – eurythmy. This was developed before World War I by Rudolf Steiner, in collaboration with the movement and speech formation artist, Marie Steiner. All processes in nature, in the human being and in the arts, can be made visible with the help of movement. Therefore, eurythmy movements do not have a symbolic character, but rather correspond to the inner formative movements and shaping gestures, just as these correspond to the formative language of the realms of nature and of human speech. This is the archetypal alphabet of vowels and consonants which may be found in all languages. When we perform and practice these movements (Eurythmy as “visible speech”) we may develop a more subtle appreciation of formative and shaping processes in nature and in the human being, and hence for the processes of illness and healing.

In the course of the first training block, the basic vowels and consonants are taught, their movements practiced, and Rudolf Steiner's sketches for these forms are studied. In subsequent training weeks, gestures corresponding to the tones and intervals in music will be added, as well as the cosmic gestures found in the planetary movements and the gestures of the signs of the zodiac.

2. After then an introduction to the phenomenological method of working according to J.W.v. Goethe, we will divide into small groups in order to engage everyone through interactive learning. The processes, which we recognize as the aggregate states in the area of natural phenomena (or as the four elements in the sense of Aristotelian meteorology) – the solid state of matter (mechanics), the liquid state of matter (hydraulics), the aeriform state of matter (aerodynamics) and the pure state of matter no longer accessible to physical description, such as warmth (thermodynamics) – stand, according to Goethe, in direct connection to the inner experiences and possibilities of soul and spirit activity. Goethe described this fact throughout his life's work.

We can reduce it to a short saying: "Like recognizes like." Just as the eye forms itself from the light to perceive light, the bones of the foot can only develop fully through walking. Every organ develops its skilled activity through its own doing; so too the human being can only perceive and understand what they themselves have experienced, felt and thought in some form or other. In addition, Goethe also formulated his ethical-religious way of life: "One only learns to understand what one loves." Developing love as force of cognition and thus creating a spiritual empathy is the goal of our work. As Goethe said: “Make the kind of observing dependent upon the kind of object to be observed.”

3. The third step following movement and inner dialogue with nature by Goetheanistic observation is the schooling of thinking. For this purpose we will use chapters from the book Fundamentals of Therapy written jointly by Steiner and Wegman. After a short introduction, the work takes place in the same small groups as for the Goetheanistic studies. Using this text, a path of schooling in thought is taken that has four stages: Last updated:

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a) Reading of the text, numbering the paragraphs, working through what has been said, in writing. Connections that remain incomprehensible or give rise to questions are written down for further dialogues if they cannot immediately be satisfactorilyanswered.

b) The train of thought will be followed from the first paragraph through to the last: How does one thought join with the next? Where does the train of thought apparently break off, in order to be taken up again at another place? Where do new thoughts start and -perhaps with apparently no connection- stand next to the first and second thoughts? What is the thread running through? Are we in a position to be able to reproduce the train of thought, developed by Steiner, ourselves? And what about the inner evidence of these thoughts?

c) While the first and second steps have more to do with the way in which the content is brought as thought forms, in the third step the emphasis lies in comprehending the composition of the chapter as a whole: How are the beginning and end related to each other? In the course of the paragraphs, do various important points reveal themselves or does the whole move towards a climax which is all important? Does one thought develop out of another in a more sculptural style or is it a more inspirational style where one thought does not directly join onto the next, but rather is in a loose illuminating association, i.e., a complementing form? In this third step, which has to do with a deeper, artistic grasping of the way in which the inner and outer structure of the chapter is built up, the possibility arises of unlocking the text in a much more intimate way as a work of art, a composition. Through this itmay then be possible to come to a further, deeper understanding of the content in the text and thought relationships.

d) The highest stage of grasping in thought and understanding is the attempt to penetrate to its essential nature, which means „the being” of what is written. Rudolf Steiner's spiritual-scientific research rests upon supersensible experiences, which he was able to translate into clear concepts and thought connections. In that he could also put them into words, he was able to make them reproducible and comprehensible for present-day people. We want to take the reverse path: Going from the written text, to the effectiveness of the thought; from there to the artistic revelation and, in the end, to the being of what is recognized and said.

Diagnostics, Therapy and Pharmaceutical Experiments

First, we will work on the diagnosis of the members of the human being and the therapy arising from this, using either a characteristic case-study from the book Fundamentals of Therapy by Steiner/Wegman or an actual one from everyday practice. Some of these will take place over two consecutive afternoons. On the first, the diagnostic method is in the foreground. Then the possibilities of the night are made use of in practice. If I have taken in a picture of a case, a concrete patient situation with as many details as possible, the question arises: What does it reveal to me as possible therapy, for my therapeutic goal? I take this question into sleep and observe what other aspects reveal themselves when I take these ideas regarding the state of illness and health of a patient to a higher wisdom. "Morning is wiser that the evening" is an old folk saying. Looking at the night from a spiritual-scientific point of view shows that just as we look at everything during daytime from the aspect of the material-physical with the help of our senses, during the night we look at the same things and processes in a social-moral way, from a soul-spiritual aspect. Therefore, some of the case studies are placed in such a way that the night lies between the discussion of diagnosis and that of therapy. We can thus learn to take note of how particular thoughts or points of view can transform themselves solely because we have taken them consciously into the night.

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Professional Ethics, Meditation and Self-development

In close connection with the review and preview of the day as well as the specific questions of participants, the basic elements of the anthroposophic path of inner meditative schooling and self-development will be built up. It will be shown and achieve inner evidence that the ethical-moral development is also the most powerful salutogenic resource. It may become fact that – as Paracelsus said – in the end there is only one true healing power: love.

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