Thoughts from your peers:
“I would encourage any colleague to take this course, for I consider guided imagery
to be one of the most useful tools with my patients. I have learned
to apply noninvasive, non-pharmacologic techniques to assist with pain management,
anxiety and stress relief, assisting the patient to help him/herself with the use of voice/stories.
We in nursing realize there has to be a ‘better way’ for much of what we do.
Healing can begin with this: ‘if not now when, if not me who’ to assist them.”
Nancy Taxman, RN, MSN, CWOCN
“Healing begins with an embodied vision of that very possibility.
Dr. Jost creates powerful images to help people who are facing the challenges of life.
Her empowering approach takes seriously the holistic premise that healing is an integrative process that
best happens when a person’s own creative power engages with his or her medical therapies.”
Valerie Yancey, RN PhD, HNC, RN, Professor
“Integrative medicine is a blend of allopathic & complementary medicine for the best of both worlds
and optimal medical wisdom. Dr. Jost created educationally interactive programs that allow access
to imagery treatment for all, assisting patients in awakening self-faith
and giving them powerful tools to create healthy bodymind reflections and healing.”
Bruce Schmidt, MA, LPC, ABMP, FAAIM
ONGOING thoughts from your peers:
Dr Jost OWNS her subject! Excellent presentation! I just LOVED her visuals and written materials.
She is amazing, enthusiastic, organized, & knowledgeable - an excellent teacher.
Excellent facilitator, great at explaining, very empathetic, AND has the knowledge and medical background.
Exceptional speaker. I almost cried a couple of times.
Sandy is both warm and very professional. Thank you!!
I was impressed by how well organized this class was. Good use of time.
Outstanding. So full of knowledge; She inspired hope in me that the medical system as we know it today will change with our vision.
Extremely generous and empowering.
Massive areas of knowledge for me to now incorporate & go out and present to my patients.
Very knowledgeable/compassionate and obviously wanting everyone to succeed with this work.
Well-researched workbook and beautifully presented.
Sandy has a gift for teaching this. Sandy has a passion in her heart that she easily shares.
Gives confidence in the work and is very empowering.
Sandy is an excellent & fun-filled instructor.
Sandy's enthusiasm and passion are contagious.
... about Guided Imagery ...
Guided imagery can be a powerful tool to complement other treatment options.
I wholeheartedly believe in the mindbody connection and regularly talk with patients about this.
The use of guided imagery can be a life-changing experience, and can help patients to reach their goals.
Guided imagery can help a patient have a more "complete" treatment - this is not just treating the body.
A modern method for relaxation, pain management, and spiritual growth,
guided imagery is a wonderful way to use your imagination to heal you body, mind, and spirit.
... about symposiums ...
Thank you for working hard to bring this information to our hospital and our department. It was more helpful than I even anticipated.
I am very appreciative that my boss was present too. It was well worth the time and money and will be useful in my work and life personally.
This was money well spent. You will find me to be a happier, more efficient, less stressed employee.
This was a very profitable use of my time; Our entire staff should go through this course!
Most valuable; I would like to utilize guided imagery with staff FOR STAFF!
The time spent here is worth every cent spent and ever second spent here.
The skills I learned here will be of great value to me personally and professionally.
ABSOLUTELY worthwhile!
This will make me a better holistic, caring nurse that can help our patients immensely!
I can't imagine learning guided imagery from anyone else.
Great variety of information that allowed me to enjoy interdisciplinary interaction.
It is applicable to a person from any religious affiliation. I was most concerned about this and my concerns were not founded.
Excellent opportunity to learn about science of the mindbody connection, to support my own strategy for helping patients to become more aware of it so that I might empower them.
I would recommend this for any provider in oncology. You can sure use this!
Exceptional. Must attend!
There are tools in this process I found I am already using, but now I understand them!
Wonderful insights into mind/body connection based on new scientific research;
If you ever get the chance to go to a class like this … DO!
It's wonderful. You let the patient help themselves. It's a life-changing experience.
It should be a required class in med school, nursing school, chiropractic school, etc.
This is a practicum that can feed you as well as your clients - make sure you do it! Highly recommended.
... about the subject ...
The science/physiology of the bodymind was exceptionally helpful to bring the guided imagery practice out of just an alternative therapy into a "medical" therapy.
While a person might be familiar with guided imagery, Dr. Jost takes that understanding of the bodymind to a deeper level.
This could improve the connection with our patients and our understanding of the needs and improve outcomes.
About the future vision for healthcare with this information available to more professionals:
My hope for the future is that this information can help us focus on individual wellness paths, rather than disease syndromes.
A patient focus on quick cures and "make me well now" thinking doesn't work in the long term.
I would like to see medical doctors open up to CAM and not fear it by attending symposiums such as this.
I would like to see a true integrative model for health care by incorporating these techniques with 24/7 availability.
I would like to see this kind of education help to eliminate medical and pharmaceutical prejudice against true "health" care.
Really … let's focus on what will truly be best to the patient - which is a unique combination of care from all different health care providers.
I have a wish for healthcare - that alternative and complimentary healthcare join other medical care - to feed and support one another.
When patients show up to be "fixed" vs. "supported," they need to "recover" from the experience of being hospitalized.
Better understanding of and greater acceptance of alternative therapies; with MD's recognition of mind/body energy, is the vision I hope to see in my lifetime.
I look forward to the day that "alternative" is a quaint old saying.
