February 15 - 18, 2025

9:30 am - 9:00 pm PST

Optional clinic day Tuesday February 19, 2025

18 CMEs Available

ReVisioning Medicine is a gathering like no other. We desperately need to change the current forms of healing in conventional medical and mental health practices. We convene in heartfelt ways to explore ways that Medicine and Healing may be restored. Over 21 years, we have met in small, safe communities, seeking open conversations, facing difficult questions and listening to the stories that confirm the magic of healing and each other's wisdom. After Covid and quarantine, we are grateful to be able to meet on the land again and receive the wisdom of the natural world and also to be joined on Zoom for those who cannot or no longer travel.

ReVisioning Medicine was launched at the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA) in 2004 in response to the physicians’ growing awareness of the decline of medical practice experienced by practitioners and patients alike while the need to intervene on behalf of our communities increases in the face of climate collapse and global violence of all sorts.

The growing difficulty in being the healers we originally envisioned results in part from interventions by insurance companies, increasing control from big pharma and corporate pharmacies and the cost-cutting frenzies by for-profit medical corporations and hospitals. Practitioner-patient relationships are limited while time spent charting and administering is increasing. Resources are diminishing as the numbers of physicians and health practitioners also decrease. Being in private practice is a financial and administrative challenge while the opportunities for primary physicians seem to be disappearing. As technology eclipses wisdom, the joy of healing is overcome by the despair of burnout.

All of us have had healing experiences that the dominant medical culture does not permit us to discuss, explore or follow. The opportunity to share these stories and contemplate their implications in the process of healing individuals, communities, and the Earth is essential. Paying attention to the reality of such events and recognizing the agency of inner knowing and spirit in healing as well as the wisdom of Indigenous teachings can restore the wisdom ways of medicine.

This is an urgent call to confront these issues together, to reinvent and practice healing medicine, to act with integrity, to gather in community, to protect what matters…

The first concerns of ReVisioning are still with us after 21 years:

We seek a Medicine which does no harm.
We are committed to helping medical people be medicine people.
We want to practice a Medicine that heals body, mind and soul.
We understand that climate dissolution, extinction, chaos and violence gravely affect our physical, emotional, spiritual and mental health and so are ours to meet.
We wish to practice medicine which is relational, caring, respectful, aligned with the natural world, and ethical.
We recognize this is a spiritual call.

ReVisioning 2025 invites us to articulate and share our deepest concerns for medicine and its restoration. We are honored to be involved in this work, and hope you will join us, invite your friends and colleagues, and become part of our ReVisioning community.

ReVisioning Medicine will meet both ON ZOOM and ON THE LAND in Topanga. There are many sacred sites on the land, as well as surrounding acres of land to wander in the adjacent Topanga State Park and we expect online participants will create their own sacred areas so we will be in alignment. (We expect comfortable weather but will be prepared to switch to Zoom only if Climate Change events prevent our gathering.)

Deena Metzger, PhD leads these Councils with a core group drawn from a team of physicians, psychologists and healers including Kjersten Gmeiner, MD, Muz Richenel Ansano, MA, Naz Motayar, PhD, Marc Weigensberg, MD, Tobi Fishel, PhD, Robert Martinez, MD, Cheryl Potts, Native Elder and teacher.

Please register early as we are, by design, a small, intimate group.

For questions, information, fees, accommodations and to register, please contact Kjersten Gmeiner, MD, Deena Metzger, or Robert Martinez, MD.

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