Become The Healing Bridge Between
Conventional Medicine And Mind-Body-Spirit Health
THE WHOLE HEALTH MEDICINE INSTITUTE
JOIN THE 2022 PROGRAM
March 14th - October 26th, 2022
Join your peers for a transformational program that will change your world.
- Revolutionize how you practice health care
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Restore meaning to your work in health care
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Make connections with other mystics in medicine
- Become a fierce warrior for a new health paradigm
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Move from self-neglect to prioritizing your healing journey
Doctors, Nurses, Health Care Providers, and Caregivers;
Are you questioning your role and impact in health care more than ever after two traumatic years?
Do you need help healing from the traumas of being a healthcare provider in times of crisis?
Do you feel unheard, abused, and forgotton by the system?
Are you thinking about what your future should look like?
Do you feel passionate about learning how to leverage the best of conventional medicine and Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM)- while avoiding the worst of both?
Are you interested in freeing yourself from the constraints of a dysfunctional system?
Are you seeking to bond with a community of health care providers and healers who are more like YOU?
"Never Before Has It Been So Obvious That We Need Both Conventional Medicine & Mind-Body-Spirit Healing!'
There Is More To Medicine
To Conscious Health Care Providers who know there’s more to medicine than the way we’re practicing it,
If you're a health care provider, therapist, complementary/alternative medicine practitioner, or wellness provider, then it's probably safe to assume that the past two years has made it 100% obvious to you that there's more to health, wellness, trauma recovery, and healing than we were taught in graduate schools or that we're practicing in our conventional medical and psychotherapy systems, as well as in more alternative health and wellness spaces. Never before have the "camps" of conventional medicine and natural/spiritual health been more polarized. Yet we need bridge-builders more now than ever. The Whole Health Medicine Institute trains those who care about a truly integrated Whole Health approach to physical, mental, spiritual and social health to practice the kind of cutting edge medicine we need now more than ever.
Every year, Lissa meets new people working at the cutting edge of Whole Health Medicine. These healers, visionaries, leaders and teachers at the forefront of Mind Body Medicine have all contributed to create the robust curriculum that you'll dive into as a student of the Whole Health Medicine Institute.
Join Preeminent WHMI Faculty & Contributors
For the complete bios of WHMI's renowned faculty and contributors click here.
What Is Whole Health Medicine?
Whole Health requires bringing all the tools in the medicine boxes of all departments and cultures together, and doing so with respect, reverence, and regard for the sacred medicines of all physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and energetic healing modalities.
Whole Health asks us to end the fragmentation that divides healing into different academic silos in the medical school, psychology department, divinity school, and biology & physics departments. Rather than doubling down on this harmful, destructive reductionism, Whole Health unifies and integrates all disciplines in service to healing and wholeness.
Whole Health invites unification of all of the aspects of what makes us whole as human beings, encompassing our:
- Relationships
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Mind, body, spirit, and energy
- Work
- Psychology
- Spirituality
- Creativity
- Sexuality
- Financial health
- Environment
- Culture & societal health
- And all other aspects of what makes us authentically expressed, integrated humans.
Many who are trained to treat one aspect of health get insufficient education in other aspects of Whole Health. Their focus is narrowly directed at specific aspects of a person rather than the complete picture of their life:
Body Focus: Doctors, Nutrition Coaches, Fitness Instructors, Bodyworkers, Herbalists, Naturopaths, Chiropractors
Mind Focus: Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Life Coaches
Spirit Focus: Energy healers, Priests, Rabbis, Ministers, Gurus, Spiritual Teachers, Chaplains
For example, body-focused practitioners tend to focus on traditional healthy behaviors, such as conventional medical approaches, diet, exercise, physical adjustments, or herbs and supplements, while neglecting psycho-spiritual and energetic root causes and treatments.
The Whole Health Medicine Institute seeks to fill in the gaps. We specialize in educating body-oriented practitioners who have been insufficiently educated in mental, emotional, spiritual, and trauma healing modalities that may help relieve symptoms and successfully treat otherwise “incurable,” “untreatable,” or “terminal” conditions.
Watch Lissa Rankin, MD share the intent & objectives of the Whole Health Medicine Institute.
How Does Whole Health Medicine Institute Certification Change The Way Our Students Practice Their Medicine?
If you’re in need of healing yourself, curious about how you might be a more healing presence in the lives of your patients and clients, interested to learn more evidence-based tools that can optimize health outcomes and improve the meaning, satisfaction, and impact of your work, or interested in how you might use your health care knowledge, experience and wisdom in creative ways to earn a living, we at the Whole Health Medicine Institute are here to help.
Mission Statement
JOIN THE WHOLE HEALTH MEDICINE INSTIUTE’S CLASS OF 2022 TO BECOME THE BRIDGE OUR PATIENTS AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM NEED
These past two years have highlighted how risky it is to focus in a lopsided way on one half of a two-sided paradox. Too many doctors, public health officials, alternative medicine practitioners, yoga teachers, and mind body medicine doctors focused only on one side of the paradox. This unbalanced, narrow-minded way of approaching a health care crisis highlighted the strengths and weakness of both the conventional medicine world and the holistic health world. Too many doctors, public health officials, mind body medicine doctors, alternative medicine practitioners, and yoga teachers focused only on one side of these paradoxes. This lopsided and narrow-minded way of approaching a health care crisis highlighted the strengths and weakness of both the conventional medicine world and the world of holistic health, wellness, yoga, and spirituality.
As such, many conventional medicine and public health officials doubled down on the life-saving interventions they do best- rushing to market new drugs, new vaccines, and a lot of ventilators, but why aren't they talking about how we can eat better, the supplements that have been proven to help with Covid, the importance of healing trauma to bolster our immune systems, the value of meditation, and other cost-effective holistic strategies that can help us improve our chances of surviving Covid?
Many energy medicine practitioners, naturopaths, acupuncturists, holistic healers, and mind body medicine doctors doubled down on eating well, taking supplements, bolstering your immune system, raising your vibe, choosing love over fear, and taking control of your "health sovereignty." But why are so many of them not they wearing masks, scoffing at public health guidelines and the advice of doctors, and willing to get vaccinated if it will save lives and get us out of sheltering in place? Do we really have to choose between the wisdom both offer at the expense of the other? Are we really that polarized across bridges that need to be straddled?
As an organization that supports straddling these often polarized camps, we at the Whole Health Medicine Institute have felt disheartened to see everyone doubling down without acknowledging and respecting what the other side offers.
How do we get out of polarization? We acknowledge the paradoxical nature of healing.
THE PARADOXES OF HEALING
- You can heal yourself AND you can’t do it alone.
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Pharmaceuticals and surgery can save lives. AND pharmaceuticals and surgery can cause side effects, maim you, and lead to death.
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Be firm in your intention to heal. AND surrender attachment to outcomes.
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Trust your intuition. AND follow the science and apply critical thinking.
- Believe in magic and miracles. AND avoid indulging in magical thinking and denial.
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Be proactive about taking back your power. AND go with the flow.
- Keep an open mind. AND don’t be so open your brains fall out.
- Stay available for hope and possibility. AND practice grounded hope, not blind hope.
- Conventional medicine saves lives. AND it’s the #3 cause of death in the US.
- Lead with your heart. AND use your head.
- Choose love. AND feel your legitimate survival fears so you can protect yourself and others.
- Manifest your reality. AND align with Divine Will.
- Germ theory helps us control infectious diseases. AND it’s important to attend to the terrain of the body to make the immune system more resilient when germs invade.
In the Whole Health Medicine Institute, we rumble with the “paradoxes of healing” with infinite nuance- honoring and acknowledging that seemingly conflicting ideas about healing (from both sides of the health care bridge) can be simultaneously true.
Whole Health Medicine Institute Testimonials
The presentation of the material was done well. Lissa is a wonderful presenter, even on Zoom. Her warm and caring personality still resonated over the Zoom waves. And, the team did a fantastic job keeping everything running smoothly. It was seamless. I loved when Lissa was outside in her backyard. Seeing nature all around her brought a peaceful energy.
There are numerous wonderful things I could share about the 2020 program: seeing Rachel Remen in real time was a huge highlight; reviewing the updated Six Steps to Healing with Lissa; the God box meditation; participating as a mentor; introduction to new faculty and their amazing energies; having the check-in calls with Lissa; and meeting my fellow students, getting to know them and their stories.
But, really the biggest blessing and saving grace was to have Lissa and her WHMI program to help navigate living through the pandemic and the tremendous trauma we all experienced. I am actually crying as I write this because I realize how incredibly lucky I am to have been able to do this. I am forever grateful to you all. I will carry this experience with me tucked into that safe place that when I retrieve it will always bring me joy, comfort and a smile to my face. Georgia Ford
I had practiced integrative family medicine, and I loved my profession of medicine overall, however, personally, I was at a crossroads as to how I wanted to practice as a physician.
Mary Louder, DO
When I embarked on a quest to learn more about Lissa’s revolutionary approach to wellbeing, it was because I knew the health system was broken and that I was broken within it.
Christine Gibson, MD
Words simply cannot express what transformation I have undergone by being involved in the Whole Health Medicine Institute! I have found new meaning in my work.
Timea Belej-Rak, MD
This journey is not for the faint of heart, but ask yourself – “Am I more afraid of realizing my true potential or am I more afraid of staying stuck in a position not aligned with my inner purpose”? I invite you to go inward and ask the question that may ignite your life!
Kamilla (Kamie) Buddemeier M.D., F.A.C.C., F.S.C.A.I
Praise For The Whole Health Medicine Institute
“Medical training needs to provide not just medical information about disease and drugs, but a true education about caring for people and what they are experiencing. It also needs to prepare doctors for what they will experience when truly caring for people and not just treating a disease. There is a big difference between detached concern and rational caring. Dr. Lissa Rankin’s Whole Health Medicine Institute training program helps to provide doctors with what is needed in order to give up the delusion that we are medical deities so we can remember who we are as doctors.”
Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine & Miracles
“Lissa Rankin, MD clearly states what many health care providers (not to mention patients) already know: the way our society’s physicians are trained, pressured, and overworked is in many ways inimical to the process of healing. In her life, her work, and her words, Dr. Rankin demonstrates a new way to combine the brilliance of modern science with the wisdom of the heart. Anyone who will ever need a doctor, and certainly anyone who will ever be a doctor, will be enriched and enlightened by her ideas. Just reading MIND OVER MEDICINE is a genuinely healing experience.”
Martha Beck, Ph.D., author of Finding Your Way in A Wild New World
“Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which,’ Swinburne wisely said more than a century ago. But for most of the twentieth century, the body has hogged the show. Now consciousness, mind, and spirit are back in center stage in medicine. In Mind Over Medicine, Dr. Lissa Rankin shows why. This is a compelling, clear, and reader-friendly vision of where medicine and healing are headed, written by an expert medical insider who’s been there. Buy two copies—one for you and one for your doctor.”
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine, Healing Words and The One Mind
A Note From Whole Health Medicine Institute’s
Founder Lissa Rankin, MD
This is how the Whole Health Medicine Institute was born. We created a training program for health care providers who first experience healing for themselves and then learn how to facilitate healing for others. Our students receive a deep and direct understanding of the body-mind-spirit continuum, then they scale it in their own practices, infiltrate it into clinics, hospitals, and public health spaces, teach what they learn in their own unique way, and bring real healing to those who need it most.
We all know we need to put the “care” back in health care and integrate mind-body-spirit medicine and cutting edge healing methods with the impressive interventions and technologies conventional medicine offers., I invite you to join us in this health care revolution by learning how to practice Whole Health Medicine yourself, as a healer or in your own life.
Over the span of your immersion in the revolutionary curriculum we've developed, you’ll have the opportunity to experience your own deep healing, learn from pre-eminent teachers about the psycho-spiritual dimensions of healing, learn business skills in case you wish to pursue an entrepreneurial practice, be part of a community of other health care providers who share your curiosity and enthusiasm, and create a foundation for your own health care practice.
My deepest desire is that you too have the chance to contribute to the field of health care in ways that align with your authenticity, that get the healing you need from any moral injury you may have suffered, that you find the colleagues you can bond and connect with, that you remember the meaning of your work and are able to fulfill your deepest calling, and that you thrive in your life, your work, your body, your relationships, your creativity, and your society.
The Three Pillars Of The
Whole Health Medicine Institute
Heal the Healer
Core Curriculum
Business Development
For seven years, the Whole Health Medicine Institute has been training health care providers to facilitate with patients the “6 Steps To Healing Yourself,” as outlined in Lissa Rankin, MD’s Mind Over Medicine philosophy, as shared in her New York Times bestselling book, featured on two National Public Television specials, and communicated in four TEDx talks. The “6 Step” program has evolved over the years in response to Lissa’s seven years of research with shamans, energy healers, Qigong masters, Balinese healers, trauma therapists, energy psychologists, and indigenous healers from across the globe.
The 2022 core includes Lissa’s updated teachings of the revised 6 Steps To Healing Yourself, published in the revised edition of Mind Over Medicine. This year’s curriculum also includes some of the unpublished findings Lissa will include in Sacred Medicine, which will be published by Sounds True In April 2022. While Lissa’s 6 Steps are the “entrée” course of the Whole Health Medicine Institute, over 40 guest faculty also offer a smorgasbord of appetizers, exposing our students to everything we think well-trained mind-body-spirit practitioners should know about what conventional medicine and psychology tends to leave out of academic education.
Every student learns to facilitate the 6 Steps, but some students take their education deeper, choosing to study in more depth or become certified to practice another healing modality with one of our faculty after WHMI graduation. We trust that our students will be exposed to the tools in the medical toolbox that might help patients and clients optimize their chances for radical remission and will either learn to master a new set of tools or learn when to refer out to someone else who has mastered these tools.
Once we know all the potential tools in the world’s medical toolbox, we can become expert consultants to our patients and clients as merchants of hope to hopeless parts. We believe hope should never be allowed to die too far ahead of the patient, so we train our students to be merchants of grounded hope for those who have become hopeless because conventional medicine has failed to ease their suffering.
At WHMI, we are committed to making sure we are not one of those “aspirational” programs. You know the ones . . . the ones that charge you lots of money to learn a new skill, hooking you with the hope that you’ll be able to make a career out of your new skill, without making it clear that your new skill will never translate into a successful business unless you have excellent entrepreneurial business and marketing tools, a courageous, risk-taking, savvy, creative mindset, genuine feelings of worthiness that will allow you to charge what you’re worth and receive abundance, and an actionable model that will help you translate your new knowledge, awareness, tools, and wisdom into a practical, grounded, thriving business that actually pays the bills and allows you to bring your unique gifts into a world in need of your gifts.
The Business Development pillar includes tools to help you craft a realistic dream practice, recruit and magnetize your ideal patients, build an online presence, fill workshops, publish your book, teach teleclasses, develop and sell your own high end programs (like this one), or monetize some of your creative passions.
This pillar also includes classes with former WHMI graduates who share with you how they’ve taken this material and transformed it into a thriving business that leverages their unique gifts, interests, ethics, and passion.
"The all-powerful mind can control your reality, and all you have to do is learn to harness it."
—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine
What's Included In The Whole Health Medicine Institute Program?
For many years, health care providers and healers who wanted to participate in the Whole Health Medicine Institute but lived overseas or couldn’t take enough time away from their jobs or families have asked whether there’s a way to learn how to facilitate Whole Health Medicine without flying across the world twice in one year.
In response to countless requests, and the uncertain reality of travel during the pandemic we are offering WHMI again in 2022 as an online program as well as our WHMI Alumni Program (click here).
The Whole Health Medicine Institute's Class of 2022 Begins March 14th 2022.
Over the course of 7 months from March and ending October 2022 you will be guided through three modules.
Module 1
The first module is all about self-healing with transformational techniques and practices to explore and heal thereby creating the foundation for your transformational work.
Module 2
The second module continues with self-discovery but with an emphasis on facilitation and working with clients, patients, and loved ones.
Module 3
In the third module we learn how to ground the experience in the real world of business mastery. How to find your vision, mission, purpose and develop your plan of action.
2022 Program
Live Online Events
- 3 Three-Day Live Online Weekend Retreats With Lissa Rankin, MD & Faculty
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17 Live 90-Minute Online Workshops With Lissa Rankin, MD & Faculty
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8 Bi-Monthly Online Peer-To-Peer Mentoring Calls With WHMI graduates
Core Curriculum
- The “Best of The Whole Health Medicine Institute” - Core Curriculum Audio Classes Taught By Lissa Rankin & WHMI Faculty"
Over 30 WHMI CORE CURRICULUM TELECLASSES
with Lissa Rankin, MD, and WHMI Faculty (each 75 mintues long)
We’ve selected the BEST teleclasses from the last six years of the Whole Health Medicine Institute to offer you the full breadth of wisdom, knowledge, and love that has wafted through WHMI since its inception so you can benefit from how WHMI has been tracking the evolution of consciousness in medicine, while staying right at the cutting edge with new faculty, brought to you live just for this year’s class.
The teleclasses in “The Best of WHMI” were all previously recorded live and are available for you to listen at your own pace.
Plus New Faculty & Classes for 2022
In addition to the "Best of WHMI", we are engaging new pre-eminent faculty members who working on the cutting edge of healing and who will present live teleclasses throughout the course.
Included Additonal Training Programs
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6-Steps For Radical Self-Healing - Video Seminar With Lissa, teaching the revised 6 Steps from the new Mind Over Medicine- and audio recordings about how to facilitate these 6 steps with patients/clients
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Medicine For The Soul - with Lissa Rankin & Rachel Naomi Remen ($197 value)
- Visionary Ignition Switch - 14 teleclasses for visionary entrepreneurs ($2000 value)
Additional Features
- Ethics & Trauma Safety Course-mandatory for anyone without a professional license in medicine or psychology, optional for board-certified, licensed practitioners
- Private Whole Health Medicine Institute Facebook Group
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Peer-To-Peer Mentoring With Former Graduates Of WHMI
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WHMI Mastermind program
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Whole Health Medicine Institute Book Club
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WHMI Certification (Optional)
Tuition
PAYMENT IN FULL
Program participation in the 2022 WHMI program is only $4,997
PAYMENT PLAN
You will be charged $1,997 and then 4 monthly consecutive payments of $825 for a total of $5,297. You will be able to select the payment plan option at Step #2.
PAYMENT PLAN
You will be charged $1,997 and then 4 monthly consecutive payments of $825 for a total of $5,297. You will be able to select the payment plan option at Step #2.
Enrolling in Whole Health Medicine Institute is by APPLICATION ONLY.
To be considered as a WHMI student:
- In order to qualify as a Whole Health Medicine Institute student, you must qualify for licensure in your field as a health care provider or therapist. You may have retired or taken a leave of absence, so you do not have to be actively licensed or currently practicing. But you must be a health care provider or therapist in a field of health care that offers licensure. This list does not include all qualifying degrees, but for example, health care providers and therapists who qualify for licensure include MD’s, DO’s, ND’s, DC’s, DOM, DAOM, PA’s, CNM’s, NP’s, CNS, RD, MSW’s, MFT’s, and PhD’s in psychology, whereas life coaches and health coaches without other degrees do not qualify for certification.
- Complete your application. While completing an application does not commit you to participating in this program, it does express your interest and allow us to better understand whether this is the right fit for you and us. Each application will be carefully reviewed and screened. Don’t worry! This is not a medical school application! You can’t do this wrong. Trust that the interview process just helps us select the Divinely-aligned perfect students for this year’s class. So please trust the process and be gentle with any nervous or perfectionist parts that might get triggered by the application or interview process.
- Qualified applicants will be notified and if it looks like a potential match, you will be scheduled for a personal phone interview with Lissa. So please have your application complete your application as soon as possible so we can get you on the interview schedule.
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If accepted into the program, we will guide you through payment options and next steps.
WHMI graduates, we love you! We trust you. And we’d be thrilled to have you back. Applications and interviews are waived for WHMI graduates since you’ve already been prescreened and we know you. All you have to do to secure your spot is enroll here, then we’ll give you instructions on what will be expected of you with new students. If you’re considering auditing but not sure whether you’re a full yes, just email support@LissaRankin.com and we’ll send you more specific details about what this program includes.
CUTTING EDGE WHMI FACULTY “CORE CURRICULUM” TELECLASSES
6 Step Practicum: Students will have the opportunity to pair up with a practice partner in order to facilitate the 6 Steps with a WHMI graduate as mentor. Mentors will receive case study supervision directly with Lissa.
The Three Pillars of Whole Health Medicine Institute Curriculum
Heal the Healer
We can help others heal and heal our health care system. But to be effective healers, we must heal ourselves first. The Healer aspect of WHMI is one of the most radically transformational aspects of the program. You will be asked to dive into your own psycho-spiritual healing journey because we can’t effectively heal others if we are operating from our own wounds.
Core Master Programs
The 2020 core curriculum will include Lissa’s updated teachings of the revised 6 Steps To Healing Yourself. In addition with over 40 experts in energy medicine, mind-body-spirit integration, research, practice, and business building in more than 31 recorded and live modules we offer everything we think well-trained mind-body-spirit practitioners should know about what conventional medicine and psychology tend to leave out.
Business Development
We want you to successfully integrate your insights and understanding into the professional world and as part of the program, we help you develop a visionary and successful business by helping you translate your new knowledge, awareness, and tools into a practical, grounded, thriving business that actually pays the bills and allows you to bring your unique contributions into a world in need of your gifts.
“The mind-body-spirit link has been advocated by medical pioneers for decades. Yet, in spite of this, it has failed to shoulder its way into the mainstream medical community.”
—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine
“The mind-body-spirit link has been advocated by medical pioneers for decades. Yet, in spite of this, it has failed to shoulder its way into the mainstream medical community.”
—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine
Who Is Eligible for WHMI?
Professional Health Care Providers
Whether you are an allopathic physician, a functional medicine doctor, an integrative health care specialist, a naturopath, homeopath, alternative, complementary medicine, or similar or are following a distinct and robust beckoning to serve in the field of healing, and this is your calling.
People Interested in Participating in Their Healing or the Healing of Loved Ones
To serve others on a fundamental level in healing, one first has to heal oneself. This program offers a direct experience that will facilitate a significant shift in your breakthrough healing.
Is This Course Right for Me?
At the Whole Health Medicine Institute, we are passionate about you, the well-being of your clients, your radical, vital, visionary life, and your professional success! This program is right for you if:
- If you are a professional who feels severely limited in your practice by the current state of health care and you aspire to take your current or future work to the next level, this is for you.
- If you crave a profound experience of self-healing, personal growth, and transformation this course is designed for you.
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If your vision of health includes addressing mental, emotional and spiritual transformation, these are the skills you require.
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If you need to grow a successful practice integrating Whole Body Medicine - we have the training you need.
What does the wisdom of your intuition tell you? Is the Whole Health Medicine Institute right for you, your body, your mind, your heart, your soul, your spirit, and your business? If you're a full-body yes to the program we look forward to you joining us this year!
Do you need help deciding if the Whole Health Medicine Institure it the right decision? Fill out this confidential questionnaire and our admissions team will review it. If needed we will reach out to you to schedule a 20-minute discovery call. Please click here:
BONUS #1
VISIONARY IGNITION SWITCH
Fire Up Your Message, Money & Meaning in the World with Lissa Rankin & Amy Ahlers (a $1,497 value)
You'll get access to this comprehensive business development program as a part of the Business Development pillar of the WHMI program. This 8-week webinar will help guide you in:
- Bringing your vision and message online
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Writing and publishing your book
- Scaling your one-on-one practice beyond the limitations of the conventional “dollars for hours” model
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Growing a blog and social media platform that can help you attract cash-based clients
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Filling workshops and teleclasses
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Positioning yourself as a paid public speaker
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Transforming your one-on-one business into platinum offerings that will fulfill you on a deep level, while also bringing in some serious income
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Changing your mindset so you can be open to receiving Divine abundance, without sabotaging or blocking your ability to charge what you’re worth
This program inluces expert interviews with Firestarters Danielle LaPorte & Linda Sivertsen, President of Hay House Reid Tracy, Tribal Author Jonathan Fields, Crazy Sexy Kris Carr, Author & Speaker Arielle Ford, Expert Speaker Lisa Nichols, EFT Guru Nick Ortner, Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Ryan Lee, Facebook Expert Rosh Khan, Master Coach Alexis Neely, and Financial Whiz Barbara Stanny.
BONUS #2
MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL
with Rachel Naomi Remen & Lissa Rankin (a $197 value)
Co-taught by WHMI founder Lissa Rankin, MD and Rachel Remen, MD, author of New York Times bestselling books, Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessings which have sold more than a million copies and been translated into 23 languages. Dr. Remen is also Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine and the Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal.
The Medicine For The Soul teleclass series picks up where Western medicine leaves off, offering you the kind of soul medicine shamans practice. The program teaches tools and practices that you can apply to yourself and share with your clients.
Designed to diagnose and treat what the shamans call “soul loss,” this program is meant to heal you by helping your soul take over as the guiding force of your life.
Since healing the healer is a core pillar of the Whole Health Medicine Institute this program will be an essential part of your own personal and spiritual healing, and teach you how to facilitate the same sort of transformation in the lives of your clients.
About WHMI Founder Lissa Rankin, MD
Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine and six other books, is a former OB/GYN physician, founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute training program for doctors and therapists, radical remission researcher, and founder of the non-profit Heal At Last. After leaving her job in conventional medicine in 2007, Lissa began experimenting in her integrative medicine practice with what really helps resolve symptoms in people with chronic illness who have failed to improve with either conventional medicine or alternative medicine. All roads led to the same conclusion: People who are not responding to other treatments often have untreated, unhealed trauma, and treating that trauma can sometimes lead to seemingly miraculous radical remissions.
Upon realizing this epiphany, Lissa became a passionate ambassador for raising awareness about the importance of treating trauma as both preventive medicine and medical treatment for hard-to-treat mental and physical illnesses. As someone who was taking seven drugs for a variety of medical ailments by the time she was 33, and as someone who had managed to get off all of them after leaving the hospital, she began to question everything she had been so certain of after studying in the ivory towers of her medical training at Duke University, the University of South Florida, and Northwestern University. No matter what path she explored regarding the next health fad du jour, all roads continued to take her to the same disruptive and unconventional conclusion: When other treatments fail to help, assume the patient needs trauma treatment.
Because old school psychoanalysis (talk therapy) does not effectively treat trauma, and because medication, surgeries, and even most alternative medicine or spiritual healing techniques, such as acupuncture, meditation, or energy healing, only treat the symptoms of trauma, Lissa became a devoted student of many forms of trauma therapy, including Asha Clinton, Ph.D.’s Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT,) Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.’s Internal Family Systems (IFS), Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing, and Gary Craig's Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), among others. She is currently co-writing a book about Advanced Integrative Therapy with AIT founder Asha Clinton and has been co-teaching with IFS founder Richard Schwartz about IFS as Medical Treatment.
For over a decade now, Lissa has been a staunch and vocal public advocate for the importance of looking beyond only drugs, surgeries, or even food, exercise, meditation, alternative health, and good health habits when it comes to treating recalcitrant physical and mental illnesses. She took the internet by storm with her 2011 TEDx talk "The Shocking Truth About Your Health," which has been viewed 2.5 million times. Her 2012 TEDx talk "Is There Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself?" also got 2.5 million views. She debuted these ideas in 2013 with Mind Over Medicine, which was made into a successful National Public Television special Heal Yourself: Mind Over Medicine. Her next book, The Fear Cure, was also made into a National Public Television special, also titled The Fear Cure.
Because Lissa had closed her integrative medical practice in 2010 to focus on her role in educating the public about the ways in which doctors don't typically support optimal patient wellbeing, demand among patients was rising for doctors who share Lissa's medical point of view and style of practice. To train medical doctors and therapists about what she had learned, Lissa founded the Whole Health Medicine Institute in 2012, a hybrid in-person/ online learning program that includes a team of luminary faculty physicians, therapists, and scientists and involves trauma healing for the students themselves, because so many health care providers are trauma survivors themselves.
In 2014, Lissa became interested in addressing the trauma of loneliness as a public health issue in collaboration with Kitchen Table Wisdom author and The Healer's Art founder Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. In 2016, she delivered another TEDx talk about the health impacts of loneliness- "The #1 Public Health Issue Your Doctor Isn't Talking About." But after it got a lukewarm response (160,000 views), she realized that people felt shame about admitting their loneliness.
This public health concern, in addition to Lissa's social justice concerns that effective trauma healing tends to elude the oppressed and marginalized who need it most, led Lissa to spearhead her latest project, Heal At Last, a non-profit organization modeled after 12 Step programs, which aims to eliminate the public health epidemic of loneliness while bringing effective trauma healing methods and other "Sacred Medicines" out of their current status as luxury goods mostly for privileged elites, offering these trauma treatments to anyone who needs them, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, or gender identity. Heal At Last, is currently in its pilot start-up phase.
In addition to her public health advocacy and health care reform activism, Lissa sometimes leads workshops, both online and at retreat centers like Esalen, 1440, Omega, and Kripalu. Lissa is currently in collaboration with Esalen Institute to bring trauma healing and recovery to front-line Covid doctors and nurses after the ravages of the pandemic. Along with trained therapists, Lissa will be developing and leading programs at Esalen (and online through Esalen) to service these acutely traumatized heroes, bring trauma healing and other Sacred Medicine methods to a population in great need of healing.
During the pandemic, Lissa played a public role in debunking "Conspirituality," the Covid denialism, anti-vaccination propaganda, and conspiracy theories promoted by many wellness, yoga, mind-body medicine, alternative medicine, and spirituality influencers who got "red-pilled" during 2020. This shakeout anchored her platform as a physician influencer to trust who is grounded in science, open to the mystical, spiritually aware, and trauma-informed. Lissa was featured on the popular 2020-2021 podcast Conspirituality.
“The body isn’t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.”
—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How do I contact customer service at Whole Health Medicine Institute?
Please contact us by sending an email to support@lissarankin.com
I’m looking to expand my education and potentially start a practice outside the insurance-based system. How should I decide what to do?
If you are looking to study a specific healing modality or body-oriented practice then there are many highly recommended schools that provide this type of focused study.
If you are seeking to understand and practice the psychological and spiritual healing and transformation that is the critical element across all practices – whether they are allopathic, integrative, or alternative – then WHMI is for you. WHMI training focuses very specifically on root cause work and personal transformation
How much of a time commitment will this be? Will this interfere with my full-time job, the attention I give my children and my partner, or my self-care?
Whether you are a busy professional, in transition, ready to restart, the program is designed to adjust to your professional needs and availability. You are able to choose all modules or just the areas you want to focus on. Here some examples of different intentions.
For Self-healing:
Estimated number of hours invested: 65 hours (2.5 hours per week over 6 months)
For a career-boost:
Estimated number of hours invested: 105 hours (3.75 hours per week over 6 months)
As a fast-track to revenue:
Estimated number of hours invested: 145 hours (5.25 hours per week over 6 months)
What inspires people to sign up for this program?
People enroll in WHMI for different reasons, including
- Wanting to stay on the cutting edge of how best to help patients and clients heal in a Whole Health-informed way.
- Craving a like-minded community of practice, purpose, and belonging.
- Being personally sick, on disability, and seeking healing from a chronic illness or a health crisis and they want to use the tools in this program personally.
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Having left a conventional medical job and being scared, and desperate for a career change that will allow them to pay the bills while still using their gifts and serving their calling.
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A passion for healing health care and a hope to do so from inside the system.
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Seeking new career opportunities in Whole Health medicine.
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Their ntuition simply saying “This is the medicine I need now!”
WHMI 2022
PAYMENT IN FULL
You will be charged $4,997.
PAYMENT PLAN
You will be charged $1,997 and then 4 monthly payments of $825 for a total of $5,297.
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