Senior Health Lectures
Rollins College Hamilton Holt School will present a series of free lectures designed to provide local residents 50 and older with helpful information on healthy living.
Seminar 1
January 31, 3:30–5:30 p.m.
Storytelling to Improve Health
Anne Stone, Ph.D.
The importance of telling and listening to stories in medicine has been acknowledged by health-care providers and patients alike. This seminar will discuss some of the research on narrative medicine, give participants an opportunity to tell their stories, and will offer suggestions for incorporating our narratives into interactions with friends, family, and medical professionals to improve our health.
Seminar 2
February 7, 3:30–5:30 p.m.
Becoming a Self-Advocate: Participating Actively in Your Health Care
Nick Curtis, Ph.D. and Stacey Passalacqua, Ph.D.
Learn about the importance of being a self-advocate and participating actively in your health care and receive tips about how to do so. This seminar will highlight how new genetic technologies are changing our ability to personalize medicine to the individual. From routine care to serious decision-making, information-gathering and communication skills will assist you in achieving higher levels of satisfaction and influence with your health-care providers and your care experience.
Seminar 3
February 19, 10 a.m. –12 p.m.
Psychoneuroimmunology: Why Does a Placebo Pill Work?
Rich Morris, Ed.D.
Can we think ourselves healthier? Research shows we certainly think ourselves sicker. A positive change in personal perspective can improve immune response. Our culture, the media, and pharmaceutical companies all work to convince us we are sick. We can convince ourselves otherwise. Take a mental journey to a place where decisions are made to be happy and healthier rather than to avoid illness.
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Seminar 4
February 28, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Get Fit Using Movement & Imagination
Robert Sherry, J.D. and Robin Wilson, B.A.
Beginning with the premise “there is no wrong movement,” this seminar is a practical movement session wherein participants will be encouraged to explore movement motivated by imagination. Our "imagination" is our ability to form an image out of something not yet fully formed around us. The session begins seated in chairs, to provide stability, and then progresses to standing movement emerging uniquely and creatively from each participant’s mind and body.
Seminar 5
March 21, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Living Symbiotically
Joe Siry, Ph.D.
The environment within is the reflection of the external conditions of existence. How did the Earth's physical environments of our ancestors foster the traits of adaptive humans today? In this seminar, we will explore the creative capacities we possess for sugar metabolism, respiration, and mental agility that arise from our active engagement with, embracing, and yes, even devotion to, a love of the natural wonders of the outdoors.
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Seminar 6
April 30, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Heal Your Life, Save the World: Part I
Matilde Mesavage, Ph.D.
This seminar will be an exploration of health and happiness, the state of health in the U.S and its costs, obstacles to understanding nutrition, The China Study, diseases of affluence, animal versus plant protein and plant-based nutrition.
Seminar 7
May 7, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Heal Your Life, Save the World: Part II
Matilde Mesavage, Ph.D.
In the second part of this series, we will discuss food safety, our health and the FDA, osteoporosis and calcium intake, factory farms, eating animals, the root of environmental degradation, the transformation of consciousness, and a new way of life.
All seminars are made possible through a grant from the Winter Park Health Foundation. Seminars are offered at no cost but have limited seating. Attendees will be registered on a first-come, first-served basis. Free parking is available in the parking garage directly across from the Hamilton Holt School located at 203 E. Lyman, Winter Park, FL 32789 (parking passes will be stamped). Sessions will be held in the Holt Auditorium, second floor. An elevator is available for room access. Any questions, please contact Bob McKinlay, rmckinlay@rollins.edu.
