2001 Twin Cities
Men’s Health & Well-Being Symposium (2001 MHWS)
The Twin Cities Men's Center is coordinating and (co-) sponsoring a 1-day symposium dedicated to Men's Health and Well-Being. It will be held all day, Saturday, October 20th, in conjunction with a weekend celebration of the Men's Center's 25th anniversary (October 21st) as a non-profit organization. Save the date of October 20th!
The Symposium mission is:
"To educate and inspire men to improve their own health (self-care)."
Symposium Goals
- Provide a definition of health & well-being: defined broadly (integrative / holistic health; & body, mind, spirit), including physical health, emotional health, spiritual health, social health, intellectual health.
- Describe means to achieve greater health and well-being.
- Reinvigorate TCMC base of support: new involvement, energy, volunteers, members at the Men's Center.
- Be a simple-to-produce and economically sustaining event which modestly adds to the energy and resources of the Men's Center.
Peter Mitchell has stepped forward to be the chair of the all-important Program Task Group responsible for issuing a call for presentations to the community of health-care professionals. So far he is aided by: J.C. Hancock, Stephen Sewell, Dean Jurek and Ranslow Zuber. We will publish a collection of the 20 presentation abstracts in the August-September issue of Men Talk.
Call for Presentations
Interested professionals in all related fields of health and well-being are invited to submit proposals for a conference session. Please use this Call for Presentations.
Volunteers
A collection of 23 volunteers have been organized into 7 Task Groups to produce the Symposium:
Symposium Planning & Coordinating Task Group, Program Task Group, Facilities Task Group, Exhibits Task Group, Publicity Task Group, Fundraising Task Group, and Arrangements on October 20th Task Group.
If you'd like, join us, we can use extra hands! The next two Saturday planning meetings will be at the Men's Center on June 30th and July 28th at 9:30 a.m. I'd also like to hear from you as well! Please contact me: Andy Mickel, symposium co-chair: 612 / 331-8396 (home) or by E-mail: andym@mr.net.
Proposed Sessions
A series of "Introductions to..."
Acupuncture: Why Fine Tuning Helps.
Aging Well: Using Retirement and Leisure Time.
Bodywork: Acupressure, Chiropractic, Massage.
Circumcision.
Did You Say: Diabetes?
Fathering a Family: Social Health.
Feeling Lousy: Anxiety and Depression.
Friendships & Relationships: Support for Well-Being.
General Genital: Prostate and Testicular Health.
Healthy, Happy Heart.
Laughter.
Nutrition: Effectiveness Every Single Day.
Men in the Middle: Male Menopause.
Men and Meditation.
On the Rise: HIV today.
Personal Trainers: Providing Fitness Learning for Life.
Sexual Health.
Spirituality of Self-Care and Well-Being.
Stress Management and Wellness.
Twenty-Minute-Per-Day Actions to Improve Your Health.
Proposed Schedule of Events
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Introductory Session (everyone)
9:45-10:45 Session 1 (6 choices)
11:00-noon Session 2 (6 choices)
noon-1:15 Lunch on your own
1:15-2:15 Session 3 (6 choices)
2:30-3:30 Session 4 (6 choices)
3:45-4:00 Wrapup Session (everyone)
5:30-7:00 Dinner at the Men’s Center (optional)
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