| Keynote Presenters
 Rachel Remen MD
Embracing the Mystery: Cultivating an Awareness of Awe in Our Daily Work
Nursing occurs at the interface between science and Mystery but often we do not notice the holy moments that are intimately woven into our work. Yet these are the experiences that can renew us, inspire us, and reinvigorate our sense of calling and service. Dr. Remen is a master storyteller whose clinical stories will enable you to revisit your unanswered questions and strengthen your sense of aliveness, wonder and awe. Come prepared to be surprised by the Sacred Unknown in the midst of your daily routine and see yourself and your work differently.
Dr. Remen is one of the earliest pioneers of integrative medicine. She is Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine and director of the innovative UCSF course, The Healer’s Art, presently taught in 60 medical schools nationwide. She is Co-Founder and Medical Director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program featured in the groundbreaking Bill Moyers PBS series, Healing and the Mind. Dr. Remen has a 53-year personal history of Crohn’s disease and her work is a unique blend of the viewpoint of physician and patient. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Kitchen Table Wisdom and the national bestseller My Grandfather's Blessings, which have been published in 18 languages.
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Christopher Johns RN, PhD, PACT
Knowing the He[art] of Holistic Practice Through Reflection, Narrative and Performance
At its core, reflection is learning through everyday lived experience as a systematic form of inquiry presented through narrative and performance. Using narrative and performance I aim to reveal the way reflective practice can enable practitioners to live their visions of holism as a lived reality, and to critically appreciate those factors that might otherwise constrain such realization.
Christopher Johns is a complementary therapist working with people receiving cancer and palliative care currently in a hospice setting. He is also professor of nursing at the University of Bedfordshire where he teaches and researches through guided reflection. His scholarship is dedicated to the development of reflective practices through narrative and performance.
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 Carla Mariano RN, EdD, AHN-BC, FAAIM
The Paradox of Evolution: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities for the Future of Holistic Nursing
Explore the issues, challenges, and opportunities that evolution poses for humankind and the planet and why a reflective framework is imperative in this exploration. Holistic Nursing's healing role during rapid change, complexity, and ambiguity also will be discussed.
Dr. Carla Mariano developed and is immediate past Coordinator of the Advanced Practice Adult Holistic Nurse Practitioner Program in the College of Nursing at New York University. (The first of its kind in the country). She was integrally involved with the AHNA in developing the Scope and Standards of Practice for holistic nurses and the Advanced Practice Holistic Core Curriculum. Her publications in this area include Nursing and Holistic Ethics, Research in Holistic Nursing, Holistic Healing and the Advanced Practice Nurse, Complementary/ Alternative Therapies in End of Life Care, and a forthcoming book Education and Holistic Practice for Nursing and Medicine.
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