Helpful Links




Arts and Healing Network-A resource celebrating the connection between art and healing.
www.artheals.org

The Fetzer Institute- An organization committed to explore how love and forgiveness can transform the world.
 www.fetzer.org

The International Community for Ecopsychology-Provides a public forum for diverse experiences of humanity and nature.
http://ecopsychology.org

International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine
An organization that explores the research and application of the energies of consciousness and studies systems and energies that interact with the human psyche and physiology.
www.issseem.org

Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) -The mission of the Institute of Noetic Sciences is to advance the science of consciousness and human experience to serve individual and collective transformation.
www.noetic.org

Mandala─The Official Publication of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, an international charitable organization founded over 30 years ago by Tibetan Masters Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. This site has a page titled “Nature the Great Healer” which explores the ability of nature to heal illness, even cancer, from a Buddhist perspective.
www.mandalamagazine.org

Southwestern College: Transforming Consciousness through Education. A graduate school with a holistic philosophy offering master’s degrees in counseling and art therapy as well as certificate programs in grief, loss and trauma, psychodrama, eco-psychology and cross cultural health and healing.
www.swc.edu

This site is provided by Brown University and contains a variety of assessments that measure issues such as attitudes of life, death and spirituality with people facing severe illness and end of life.
 http://as800.chcr.brown.edu/pcoc/spirit.htm

This site explores spirituality, medicine and ethics in medicine such as: religiosity, spirituality, taking a spiritual history and combining spirituality and medicine

http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/spirit.html

Professional Organizations

The American Art Therapy Organization
www.arttherapy.org

The American Counseling Association (ACA)
www.counseling.org

The Association for Death Education and Counseling
www.adec.org

The American Holistic Nurses Association(AHNA)
www.ahna.org

The American Nurses Association (ANA)
www.nursingworld.org

The Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC)
www.ASERVIC.org