A Celebration of Change-Making Booking Page
Event Date:
5th October 2024
Event Time:
10:00 am
Event Location:
Penny Brohn UK
An invitation to a celebration of change-making
The BHMA is forty years old (1984-2024): where will healthcare go next?
Our Autumn celebration will bring together BHMA founders, today’s activists, creatives, innovators and the upcoming generation of change agents.
We will be
- Appreciating holistic developments and healthcare at its best
- Sharing concerns about current problems and the challenges ahead
- Seeing with new eyes: turbulent times as opportunities for creative change
- Considering how to act for ‘deep adaptation’ both personally and collectively
Knowing that health, social justice and climate justice are intertwined, a more sustainable and compassionate approach to health- and social care is possible. But first we need to tell new stories. Because everywhere, industrial medical systems face entwining crises of cash, care, cure and commitment. Burnout is widespread. It’s clear our ways of thinking about humankind, planetary health and healthcare need to change.
Obsolete narratives hold us in the past: redundant systems stagger on until better ones arise. Creativity and innovation are already transforming how we think about, teach and practice healthcare. The future – though it’s unevenly distributed – is already here.
Draft Programme – TBC
| Time | Event | Speaker |
| 930 | Arrive & refreshments | |
| 1000 | WELCOME | Dr Antonia Wrigley |
| 1005 | Morning keynote – BHMA origins and relevance today | Prof Peter Reason |
| 1035 | The struggle to innovate in the NHS | TBC |
| 1105 | Social Prescribing. The Frome project | Dr Tim Rigg |
| 1135 | Refreshments & movement | |
| 1200 | Developing holistic medical education & sustainability | Prof Trevor Thompson |
| 1230 | Integrative Medicine | Dr Elizabeth Thompson |
| 1300 | LUNCH – Soup & Salad | |
| 1400 | BREAKOUTS (experiential and practical) | |
| . Practical Resilience with meditation & chair yoga | Prof David Peters & Dr Thuli Whitehouse | |
| · Student session | Prof Louise Younie | |
| · TBC | ||
| Art display throughout | ||
| 1445 | The WEL project for chronic disease | Dr David Reilly |
| 1515 | Practitioners & students how can we start flourishing | Prof Louise Younie |
| 1545 | World Cafe – move around 7 tables with one presentation topic on each + refreshments | |
| 1715 | Plenary and takeaways | |
| 1735 | We need a new story & closing thoughts | Prof David Peters & Prof Paul Thomas |
| 1800 | End of conference | |
| 1810 | Short AGM with appointment of new trustees | BHMA Members |
| 1830 | Reception and fellowship awards | |
| 1900 | Dinner (with a short entertainment by our patron) | TBC |
| 2000 | Address | TBC |
| 2100 | End and networking |
*Please look at the FAQ below for more information on the conference, AGM, reception, dinner & accommodation.
*Also this is a hybrid event, i.e it will be live streamed. If you can’t make it in person we hope you can make it online either live or afterwards. Go to Livestream Booking
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Event FAQs
This event is for doctors, healthcare practitioners, students & educators. Most of our tickets will be by invite only as it is a cosy venue. We look forward to meeting you there.
Our annual AGM is for members only. During this short business meeting we will be welcoming new trustees and looking back on the financial year and forward to the year ahead.
All are welcome to attend the reception and awards ceremony though a ticket will be needed.
This informal dinner will be held in the dinning room. It will be a sit down meal of a main and dessert.
We hope to have our patron, actor Clarke Peters, entertain us a little and to have an address by someone of note.
Penny Brohn has 24 en-suite doubles which come with breakfast for one. If two are sharing a room then an additional breakfast can be purchased.
*This is only an option if a minimum number of rooms are booked so a full refund will be given in the event that this is not the case.