November 3, 2006 
Dear …

On May 16–18, 2007 The University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing and the Life Science Foundation are hosting Ways of Knowing:  Exploring Intuition’s Role in Health & Healing, an invitation-only symposium for health care professionals. 

The symposium’s co-creative design is based on participants’ (1) interest in deep dialogue about the topic, (2) willingness to share relevant questions and stories with colleagues, and (3) curiosity regarding how our conversations might begin to map a field or suggest directions for further exploration.

Researchers such as Kerstin Uvas-Moberg (Swedish author of The Oxytocin Factor), consciousness experts such as Stanley Krippner; and educators and clinicians who have focused on intuition will enrich our learning with their perspectives and experiences.   

Does the Ways of Knowing symposium call to you?  Are you willing to commit to some advance preparatory reading?  If so, please check out information on intuition posted on our website http://takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/therapies/intuition and complete the application survey and email it back to us by December 1, 2007.  Your responses will help give shape to the symposium’s agenda.

Your responses will help give shape to the symposium’s agenda. All our selected guests will receive housing and food at the Oakridge Conference & Destination Center in Chanhassen, MN. 

We believe that this is a unique, even historic, opportunity to expand our understanding of how information is exchanged in clinical settings.  If you know other interested health care professionals who should be invited, please provide us with their names and contact information. 

Thank you.

Mary Jo Kreitzer                                          Sharon Franquemont
Center for Spirituality & Healing              The Life Science Foundation

Ways of Knowing:  Exploring Intuition’s Role in Health & Healing
May 16-18, 2007

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1. What would draw you to a meeting on intuition?  Tell us about your interests, experiences and what you have read on this topic.
   
   
2. What questions about intuition need exploring? 
      
3. What experiences have you had with intuition personally or professionally?  Is there a story that you can tell us that describes an experience that you have had.
     
   
4. Have you had conversations about intuition with colleagues, friends, patients or family members?
   
   
5. What level of interest do you have in attending this meeting?
    
6. Is there anything else that you want to tell us about yourself?