“two days to focus on this vitally important stuff that is so often missed out”
for GPs, and other primary care professionals managing patients with complex and chronic health problems.
By approaching everything through an up-to-date understanding of the links between human cognition, emotion and physiology this course can meet many learning needs:
- Help with complex patients and chronic disease, including ways to guide patients to make positive change, and how to avoid medicalising their difficulties, with particular focus on depression and diabetes.
- Getting beyond ideas like resilience and wellbeing to understand clearly what people - including professionals - need to thrive.
- How things like exercise and social prescribing and even the placebo response link to our core expertise in biological sciences.
- Avoiding dysfunctional and time wasting consultations, finding the right words to make consultations more enjoyable and productive
- No-nonsense summaries of trendy yet important subject such as the sleep, the micro-biome, and chronic inflammation
- A chance to get beyond the low-carb vs vegan “diet wars” to appreciate the dietary approaches that we can confidently expect to support health.
Your Course Tutor: Dr Andrew Morrice BSc MBBS MD DipHGP
Andrew has 20 years experience as a full-time GP, 35 years interest in diet and health, 17 years experience using the Human Givens approach, and 15 years teaching Whole Person Care at Bristol University Medical School. His courses are led with his particular brand of enthusiasm and good humour.
Who is this for?
Devised primarily for GPs (at all stages of experience) it will also suit many nurse practitioners, particularly those dealing with chronic disease, senior community nurses, physiotherapists and primary care team leaders.
Amongst the many things you may learn are:
- Ways of cutting through the complexity of modern health care to focus on the things that will make the biggest difference across the board, genuinely empowering paients and avoiding medicalizing their difficulties.
- Simple rules and learnable techniques on how to use language to best effect, including how to put across key messages without raising patient’s resistance to them.
- How to spot and understand trauma, one of the most common drivers of ill-health – particularly in functional disorders.
- A basic toolkit to ensure conversations, meetings and consultations work well
- How to understand “exercise” from a whole new perspective, clarifying quite how helpful it can be, and why people find it hard to engage in “exercise”.
- How thinking, feeling, emotion and physiology are linked, understand the three main physiological emotional responses and their relevance to what we do all day, every day.
- How an unusual feature of our biology means that emotional arousal can always be managedand how to teach people to calm down, within normal consultations.
- Why CBT works, despite being based on an out-of-date theory of brain function, why sometimes patients find it hard work, and where Mindfulness fits in.
- Why it is so hard to think rationally about diet and health, along with what we might conclude if we were to achieve rational thought on food: The dietary patterns proven, or highly likely, to either prevent or reverse the majority of chronic diseases.
- How to spot the basic parameters that can distinguish helpful from unhelpful nutritionresearch, and how to spot nonsensical dietary concepts.
- The basic principles to demystify the whole “microbiome thing” and what this may mean for our practice in the future
- A guide to the trendy but potentially mystifying topic of 'chronic inflammation'.
- A whole new way of seeing obesity and diabetes, and chronic disease management generally.
- New insights into depression, and new (and more satisfying) ways to respond to and help depressed patients, including an understanding of the role of inflammation in depression. And why this needn’t be about prescribing drugs.
- And more … !
...You will need to bring only an open mind and relaxed attitude.
