The Graduate Institute

The Graduate Institute's
Master of Arts in Experiential Health & Healing (EHH)

Experiential Health and Healing is an exceptional, integrative graduate program designed to cultivate meaningful healer-patient relationships through mind-body approaches to health and wellness. By combining allopathic medical knowledge with theory and practice from complementary modalities, program participants develop a deep understanding of both the content and context for effective healing. The program explores the interaction of Western and Eastern medicine protocols and enables learners to create a new paradigm of healing that is comprehensive in scope and holistic in nature.

The Graduate Institute is dedicated to engaging and furthering the professional development needs of health care providers and related professionals who focus on health and wellness as their niche in creating a sustainable society. This program will benefit:

• Healthcare professionals who wish to integrate complementary and alternative treatment methods with allopathic medicine
• Natural health practitioners who seek to expand the scope of their practice and establish an intellectual and cultural foundation for their work
• Wellness educators, health coaches, organizational consultants, and others who strive to create situations of wellness in both personal and professional environments
• Individuals who wish to contribute to the emerging field of integrative medicine by acquiring new strategies for transformation in their lives, communities, and professions

Discover a supportive learning community designed to accommodate the needs of working professionals.

Embraced as both teachers and learners, participants in Experiential Health and Healing come together as colleagues to create a supportive cohort community. Each cohort community remains together throughout this engaging 22-month program. Learning is facilitated through dialogue, journaling, and reflection, and colleagues contribute to the selection of topics that are addressed in the classroom.

The program meets one weekend per month for 22 months. Each weekend session includes Friday evening from 5 to 9 pm, and Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm. Thus the program structure is convenient for working professionals and for long-distance commuters. Between monthly meetings, participants undertake research, construct writing reflections, and engage in pertinent readings from the field.

EHH Program Structure

In Experiential Health and Healing, course content is delivered in an integrated fashion throughout the 22 weekend sessions. By the end of the program, each participant will have completed the following courses:

• Realms of Natural Medicine and Traditions of Healing
• Psycho-neural Immunology: The Mind and Health
• Belief Systems and Life Experiences
• Physical Conditions of Health and Energy
• Medical Semiotics
• Eastern Medicine: Comparative Perspectives on Healing
• Water, Food, and Health
• Aspects of Energy Medicine
• Alternative Pharmaceuticals: Herbal and Chinese Medicine
• Spirituality and Health
• Natural Healing
• Assessing Peripheral Modalities
• Healer-Patient Relations: Flow and Values
• A Practitioner's Mentorship
• A Practitioner's Internship and Culminating Project

Enjoy dynamic mentorship and internship opportunities with renowned healers.

Program participants select two mentors to work with throughout the course of the program, and undertake one internship. The mentorships and internship complement the experiential aspect of classroom learning, and serve as an opportunity for extended study in a selected area of health and healing. Mentors and internships may be chosen from diverse fields, including Naturopathy, Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Reiki, Music and Animal Therapy, Dance and Movement, Life Coaching, Psychiatry, Massage, Consulting, Allopathic Medicine, and Hospital Administration.

Faculty is comprised of distinguished practitioners at the forefront of their field.

Experiential Health and Healing is offered under the academic direction of Dr. Bernie Siegel, venerable author and founder of Exceptional Cancer Patients, and Dr. Steven Horowitz, Chief of Cardiology and Director of Integrative Cardiology at Stamford Hospital.

EHH core faculty also include:

• Bhaswati Bhattacharya, MD (Ayurvedic Medicine)
• Gene Ang, Ph.D. (Energy Medicine)
• Richard Caskey, D.C. (Chiropractic and Diagnostic Insight)

A unique visiting faculty model enables learners to interact directly with practitioners and to participate in a network of leaders committed to integrative health care. Each weekend, a different practitioner presents the work of a specific healing modality to the cohort. Recent presentations include:

• Elliott Dacher, M.D.
  Integral Health: A Path to Human Flourishing
• Paul Epstein, N.D.
  Biography as Biology
• John Furlong, N.D.
  Naturopathic Diagnostics and Traditional Healing.
• Lauri Grossman, D.C., CCH, RSHOM
  Perspectives on Homeopathic Medicine
• Mary Guerrera, M.D.
  Perspectives on Integrative Medicine
• David Johnston, D.O.
  Osteopathy in Health and Healing
• Roberta Lee, M.D.
  Botanical Medicine
• Robert Lang, M.D.
  Integrative Medicine: An Endocrinologist's Working Model
• Seth Pearl, D.C., CCN, CNS
  Exploring the Mystery of Autism
• Abraham Shapiro, O.D.
  Behavioral Optometry
• C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.
  The Perennial Insights of an Extraordinary Healer
• Robert Silverstein, M.D.
  Macrobiotics, Wellness, and Preventive Medicine

About The Graduate Institute:

Founded in 1999, The Graduate Institute is a not-for-profit educational organization that is licensed, chartered, and accredited by the Connecticut Department of Higher Education to offer post-baccalaureate degrees and certificate programs. It specializes in programs that advance emerging fields of inquiry – realms of study that illuminate developing states of consciousness and generate new points of academic and intellectual "knowing." Its goal is to facilitate personal transformation as a basis for professional development among colleagues.

The Graduate Institute offers six Master of Arts degrees:

• Experiential Health and Healing
• Conscious Evolution
• Holistic Thinking
• Irenic (Peace) Studies
• Oral Traditions
• Organizational Leadership

How to Apply:

Candidates for Experiential Health and Healing must hold a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university of the United States (applicants who possess a Bachelor's degree from an institution outside of the US must have their transcripts evaluated for admission).

The Graduate Institute is located in Bethany, Connecticut, and additional cohorts of EHH are currently offered in Hartford and Stamford, CT (convenient to New York and Westchester County). The program begins new cohorts twice a year, in the fall and spring, and applications are generally due one month before the program start date.

Tuition and Student Loan Information:

Tuition and fees are commensurate with those charged in the Connecticut State University system, making this program one of the most affordable in New England. Tuition is established at $343 per credit, totaling $12,348. A quarterly payment plan is available to make tuition costs more manageable. Program participants may also apply for student loans through the Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority (CHESLA).

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