Transition Mar Vista (in the Los Angeles area) held a sustainable health care event on Saturday the 20th of March.
In anticipation of this event, the March issue of L.A. Yoga Magazine was about sustainable health care, and featured a front page, content-rich article with resources by Anneke Campbell, one of the TMV event organizers.
After the TMV event, Anneke wrote:
We invited people involved in the health care field, practitioners of alternative healing modalities and health care advocates, among them acupuncturists, ayurvedic, yoga practitioners, and homeopaths.
We started with people presenting to each other the connection to health care of each person in the room and also what gave people joy in their lives. After introductions, we brainstormed, speaking out loud our burning questions, passionate issues, great ideas.
Looking at all of our input, we decided that there were three main areas to discuss:
These three breakout sessions met for an hour and 10 minutes and then presented their work to the group as a whole.
After this presentation, those people attending the last part of Saturday's program listed the following priorities:
We also discussed making sure that our meetings have a healing energy in themselves, (in the nature of a healing circle) so that we are being the change we want to see.
The Transition Los Angeles City Hub coordinates communication between the many budding Transition Initiatives and mullers throughout the greater Los Angeles area.