Cancer as a Turning Point Free Conference
Saturday, September 8, 2018
9:30am – 5:00pm
Elks Lodge #6
6446 Riverside Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95831
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| Presenters in alphabetical order Saturday, September 8th, 9:30am — 5:00pm: |
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When Jan Adrian, MSW, was diagnosed with cancer, she wanted to focus on healing the whole person instead of curing the body only. Not finding resources available for this, she founded Healing Journeys, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and created the Cancer as a Turning Point, From Surviving To Thriving™ conference. During Jan’s 28 years of living with cancer, she has had three primary cancers, numerous local recurrences, and currently is living with breast cancer metastasized to the lungs. She is the Executive Director of Healing Journeys and was previously the co-director of the Center for Health Awareness in San Jose, CA. www.healingjourneys.org
People know they can count on Donna Apidone, our Emcee for the conference. She is a popular public radio host and respected interviewer who has built a reputation for being truthful, reliable and funny. Donna has hosted Morning Edition since 2001. She was on midday classical for more than 10 years. She has interviewed authors for CapRadio Reads events since 2013. She is often onstage as emcee for concerts and arts events. Donna is the principle coach in a research project that explores the role of purpose and empathy in improving physical health. She is a certified life coach and interfaith minister. Her first book, TransForMission, outlines a five-step path to finding one’s purpose (available on Amazon). A second book on a related topic is in the works. Donna volunteers with the board of directors for a national animal rescue organization.
Amikaeyla Gaston, is the Founder and Executive Director of the International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute (ICAHSI). She has appeared internationally on numerous radio and television programs performing and speaking about her “Music As Medicine – Healing with an Artful Purpose” programming, a multi-faceted therapeutic approach through music, movement, & theater.
In 1992, Amikaeyla survived a hate crime that killed her, and luckily, she came back to life. Targeted and intentionally run over by a truck, she spent a year and a half in the ICU and burn ward healing herself and alleviating her pain by discovering the power of music. She has since worked in the health arena for 20 years, traveling the world as a cultural arts ambassador for the state department, bringing together artists and healers of all forms and from all specialties to promote healing and wellness through the arts & activism. She was invited to perform in India at the invitation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Inaugural Festival of Sacred Chanting and Singing for the commemoration of the Golden Buddha. http://icahsi.org/
Susan Mazer, Ph.D. and Dallas Smith, internationally known concert artists and composers, pioneered music as environmental design in creating healing healthcare environments. Harpist Susan Mazer and woodwinds performer Dallas Smith are most known for their extraordinary sound, which merges the aesthetics of jazz, classical, and world music into an experience that feeds both the intellect and the spirit. They are the founders of Healing HealthCare Systems®, who produces The C.A.R.E.™ Channel, the only 24-hour relaxation programming available now to over 1,000 hospitals nationally. With a catalogue of over 25 recordings and three decades of their musical partnership, they will share their music with us. www.healinghealth.com
Eric Rememnsperger has been a “big law” practicing lawyer for over 30 years, but for the last 20 years his passion has been all things relating to wellness. Prior to moving from New York to Los Angeles in 1995 he went from a work-hard play-hard cigarette smoking wall street lawyer to a gym-rat and then a serious biohacker. The transition started in earnest in 1997 after he became the investor partner in a holistic center with a doctor of Chinese medicine. His passion continued and he was, or so he thought, the healthiest 59-year old on the planet.
That all changed in June of 2016 when he was diagnosed with a very aggressive advanced stage prostate cancer. This pushed him even deeper into his passion for health and wellness, and he did an incredible dive into all things relating to cancer, from the root causes, to lifestyle changes, therapies and interventions. His ability to take a big picture perspective of a complex disease and filter out the signal from all the noise is amazing. While he does not like to use the word “cure” (since, in his view it is more a matter of getting into a healing state, which he will speak about), he was declared to be into remission 7 months after first being diagnosed. https://www.questtocurecancer.com/
Sacramento Taiko Dan is a community based non-profit organization, formed in 1989 by a group of people who wanted to study the art of Taiko. The multi-cultural group, comprised of members ranging in age from 9 years old to over 70, is directed by Tiffany Tamaribuchi, a former performing member and current guest artist of the prestigious San Francisco Taiko Dojo. The word TAIKO means “big drum.” It is the word commonly used to describe the art of Japanese drumming, used for healing and religious ceremonies and once an integral part of Japanese life. www.sactaiko.org
Terri Tate, RN, MS, is a nationally recognized speaker, author and humorist. She had a 2% chance of surviving disfiguring oral cancer, which was first diagnosed in 1991. Since Terri regained her voice, she has inspired audiences around the country with her spirited stories, using lessons from her own struggle to support those facing life challenges. In 2007, with the help of the Lloyd Symington Foundation, she produced a DVD of her hilarious one-woman show, Shopping as a Spiritual Path, which was distributed to cancer agencies that reach the underserved.
Terri chronicles finding her own internal wisdom and crafting her healing path in her new memoir, A Crooked Smile, with an introduction by Anne Lamott, which was published in November, 2016 by Sounds True. www.acrookedsmile.com and www.territate.com
As an Organizational Psychologist, Amy D. Webb, Ph.D., coached and trained thousands of leaders to deepen their capacity to understand and transform their life stories. From decades of this intensive individual, group and team development work, she adapted lessons to guide her through her experience of breast cancer. Now an 11-year survivor, she continues to discover the extraordinary in the ordinary, and to write about becoming more awake along the way. Her first book, Stones at the Crossing: Aiming True on My Journey from Scared to Sacred, was published last fall. In it she gives witness to her own transformation, and invites readers to open fully to the elements of their own resilience. She and her husband reside in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. www.dramywebb.com
Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO, L.Ac, Dipl.OM, is the visionary and CEO of Optimal Terrain™. She works to educate clients, doctors, and researchers worldwide on how to apply integrative oncology philosophically and therapeutically. Passionate about nourishing, quality food and its implications in healing or poisoning the body while targeting many of the processes that drive cancer, she co-wrote The Metabolic Approach to Cancer with Jess Kelley, MNT.
Dr. Winters was diagnosed with Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer when she was 19 years old. Twenty-six years later she is lecturing and attending oncology-centric conferences worldwide. She will speak about what she believes were the major factors that have contributed to her thriving. http://OptimalTerrainConsulting.com/