If you’re interested in becoming a Whole Health Medicine Certified Practitioner and learning from Lissa Rankin, Martha Beck, Bernie Siegel, Christiane Northrup, Larry Dossey, Bruce Lipton, and more… Stay tuned! 

In 2014, we will be expanding the Whole Health Medicine Institute to include 3 tracks:

• Physicians (MD’s & DO’s only)
• Licensed Health Care Providers (RN’s, NP’s, CNM’s, PA’s, Naturopaths, Chiropractors, Acupunturists, etc…)
• Certified Life Coaches & Wellness Coaches

To be added to the waiting list so you can get priority access to the limited number of spots in the Class of 2014 Whole Health Medicine Institute programs, email info@WholeHealthMedicineInstitute.com and specify which program interests you.

We’ll soon be posting more details about the Class of 2014 programs, but until then, read the Class of 2013 Whole Health Medicine Institute MD Training Program invitation here…

By taking this step, you’ve already started to reclaim your rightful place as a healer so you can practice medicine in a whole new way, help heal health care, and gain new opportunities for growing your business and using your medical degree in an expanded way 

During this 9 month program, you will have the opportunity to:

• Expand the scope of your medical expertise in order to help patients achieve a wholly healthy body, mind, soul, and life
• Recommit to your true calling as a healer
• Utilize a revolutionary new wellness model to help patients expand their definition of health and play a more active role in their own healing process
• Learn how to escape the insurance-based health care system via a cash-based, fee-for-service medical practice that allows you to have up to an hour with each patient
• Empower your patients to tap into their intuition & help guide treatment decisions
• Help patients view illness as an opportunity for personal growth and spiritual awakening
• Develop more nurturing, fulfilling relationships with your patients
• Increase your job satisfaction
• Become a leader in revolutionizing how health care is delivered and received
• Gain tools for helping patients activate the body’s self-repair mechanisms in order to increase the chance of spontaneous remission
• Attract your tribe
• Discover how to leverage your natural gifts
• Heal yourself first so you can heal the world

Dear Visionary Physician, 

Bless you for reaching out and showing interest in the Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training program we’re offering to 15 physicians interested in being forces for change in the health care system. In this program, we’ll be teaching a six-step process for helping patients diagnose the real reason they’re sick, getting clear on what their bodies are trying to communicate with them, making life decisions aimed at improving the health of their minds, and learning how to use their intuition to combine Western medicine with self-healing mind-body medicine techniques aimed at decreasing the body’s “fight-or-flight” stress responses and activating the body’s innate natural self-repair mechanisms.

Although we teach patients how to heal themselves at the Whole Health Medicine Institute, we also emphasize the imperative of finding the right physician to facilitate the process.  Saying you can heal yourself is a bit of a misnomer. Although the body is equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms, the scientific data clearly demonstrates that the right physician is imperative to the healing process and that patient outcomes are dependent not only on a physician’s medical skill, but also on how nurturing, loving, and positive the physician is.

We already get dozens of emails every day from patients seeking referrals to physicians who share the Whole Health philosophy, and after Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself is published in May, 2013, we anticipate getting even more requests for referrals.  Currently, when patients ask where they can find physicians who share our philosophy, we tell patients we cannot recommend physicians we don’t know personally. But at the Whole Health Medicine Institute, we long to help unite like-minded physicians with the patients who are seeking them out.

That’s where you come in.  By completing this nine month training program, you will be offering the world a huge service and helping us amplify our vision for practicing a new kind of medicine, while educating yourself with the skills necessary to help patients in a revolutionary new way that will bring you back in touch with what drew you to medicine in the first place.

Although the skills you will learn in this 9 month program will certainly make you a better doctor should you decide to stay in a managed-care, insurance-based medical system, this program will also equip you with desirable skills patients value enough to pay for out-of-pocket. Such skills will give you the option of exiting the medical establishment and venturing out as a physician entrepreneur in a cash-based medical/coaching practice, should you desire such a practice.

At the end of the nine months, you will have learned how to practice a new type of medicine, gained business skills intended to help you succeed professionally, advanced your personal and spiritual growth, and have the option of becoming a certified trainer for other health care providers who want to adopt this way of practicing medicine.  Together, we can heal health care, but it will take a village committed to a grass roots effort. I need you at the helm to realize this vision. Are you the right physician to embark upon a program like this? If you’re at all intrigued, please keep reading.

Is the Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training right for you? 

Take this little pop quiz to find out.

• Do you find yourself getting reprimanded by your office staff because your patients are coming to you not just for medical advice, but for life guidance – and it’s making you late for all your appointments?
• Do others tell you that you feel too much and should just buck up and stop being so compassionate?
• Do you find yourself drawn to one or more of these things – spirituality, animals, alternative forms of healing, art, music, craft-making, or other creative pursuits?
• Are you tired of following someone else’s rules, finding yourself attracted to the idea of setting your own hours, making your own rules, and starting something entrepreneurial?
• Have you read Lissa Rankin’s writing or seen her speak and you feel this voice practically screaming “She’s talking right to ME! That’s what I believe too!”?
• Do you sense that something’s wrong with how we’re practicing medicine and you long to be part of the solution?
• Do you feel called – the way a priest is called to the priesthood – to help others heal, transform, connect, love, create, succeed, and thrive, but you feel like your hands are tied in our broken health care system?
• Have you had a wake-up call with a health issue of your own – or that of a loved one – that changed everything for you, and now you want to use what you’ve learned from that experience to help patients?
• Do you have a tendency to over-give at the expense of your own health, happiness, sanity, and relationships, believing that to have true value in the world, you have to give until you’re depleted? Would you like to learn how to fill yourself first so you can more effectively help others heal?
• Are you tired of resenting the very patients you long to heal because they demand too much without accepting enough personal responsibility for their health?
• Does managed care medicine make you crazy because your quality time with patients has interfered with the sacredness of the doctor-patient relationship?
• Are you fed up with practicing medicine the way you were taught to practice it? Are you ready to liberate yourself from the broken health care system and open doors to a lucrative, fulfilling, revolutionary way to use your gifts?
• Would you relish a way to be well paid while spending more quality time with your patients?
• Do you know – just know - that there’s often more to chronic illness than just genetics or biochemistry?
• Are you interested in learning how to heal – not hex – your patients simply by changing your attitude and the language you use?
• Do you feel in your gut that patients would achieve better outcomes if they were more personally invested in their healing journey and accepted more responsibility for why they’re sick and how they might get better?
• Do you believe the body can be a compass – delivering messages in the form of physical symptoms meant to alert patients to imbalances in their personal, professional, and spiritual lives?
• Are you tired of feeling like the weight of healing a patient rests solely on your shoulders?
• Do you consider yourself a leader, but the state of health care has left you feeling like a helpless follower?
• Are you committed to being a force for healing our broken health care system?
• Have you found yourself reading this invitation while feeling a strong, inexplicable pull to sign up for this program? (Seriously, MANY of our applicants report feeling this way. It doesn’t have to make sense. And no – you’re not crazy – unless we all are!)

If you answered at least one of these questions with a rousing “Hell yeah,” you’re part of The Team of visionary physicians who will help transform health care from the inside out.  It may not feel like it yet, but you’re definitely one of us, though perhaps your energy is getting drained by forces that feel beyond your control.

If you’re anything like those of us at the Whole Health Medicine Institute, you probably were called to medicine because you have the heart of a healer.  But our misguided system has threatened to rob you of your calling, interfering with the sacred contract between you and your patients.  Maybe you’re still in an insurance-based practice, feeling frustrated with having to see more and more patients just to barely cover your overhead costs, while you leave the office or hospital every day knowing you have so much more you could offer your patients, if only you had more time with them.

Or maybe you’ve escaped the system and hung out a shingle in a cash-based practice in order to have more quality time with your patients, but now you’re struggling to create a thriving practice amidst a stunted economy. Or perhaps you’ve even left medicine because you were tired of selling out your health, happiness, or integrity in exchange for rising demands on your time and energy combined with plummeting reimbursement.

But what’s a responsible doctor to do?

We know how frustrating it can be to walk the visionary healer’s path, especially in the world of conventional medicine.

You feel like:

• You were called to medicine, but you worry that it must have been a big, fat mistake, because clearly, the way modern medicine is structured is no way to help patients really heal in a sustainable way.
• You’re surrounded by doctors, but you feel like a total misfit that nobody understands.
• You’re feeling pressured to conform to a “doctor box” that feels way too constricting for someone with as expansive a vision as you have.
• You’d love to escape the insurance-based health care system. You’re even tempted to leave medicine altogether. But you worry how you’ll pay the bills and fear taking such a huge leap of faith with no safety net.
• You’d love to use your gifts as a healer to spend up to an hour with your patients while getting well paid for your time. Maybe you’d even love to write books or help others via public speaking. But you have no clue where to start.
• You’re so exhausted from overwork that you have no clue how you’d muster up the energy to transform your career into something that fulfills rather than drains you.
• Everyone will think you’re crazy if you even consider doing something radical – like starting your own cash-based medical practice.
• You’re trapped. You have a family, a mortgage, student loans, maybe even a medical malpractice tail you’d have to pay if you were to leave your current circumstances.
• Everyone resists the idea of you escaping from the status quo, or if you’ve already leaped, they think you’re nuts. Yet, deep down, you just know you’re meant for a different life other than the one you’ve been living.
• Health and spirituality have been divorced by our current health care system, but you sense that marrying the two would result in better health outcomes for your patients, as well as more peace for you as a doctor.
• You suspect that, with the right guidance, illness can be a vehicle for personal and spiritual awakening.
• You know, deep in your soul, that you were put here on this earth to help people remember that each human is imbued with a spark of divinity that makes us all precious and unique.
• You long to find your tribe of like-minded doctors who will remind you that you are never alone.
• You’re ready to expand how you practice medicine, and you’re looking for the right mentors to help you take a leap of faith.
• You know there’s more to life, and you’re ready to finally take a risk and claim a vital, fulfilling, abundant, joyful life for yourself.

If this sounds like you, you are SO not alone. Most of the teachers at the Whole Health Medicine Institute felt exactly the same way at one point in their careers. That’s why we’ve developed a 9 month training program just for physicians to teach you what pioneering mind-body medicine physicians like Bernie Siegel, MD, Christiane Northrup, MD, Larry Dossey, MD, and Lissa Rankin, MD have learned, as well as what gifted coaches and teachers like Martha Beck, PhD  have garnered from their risk-taking experiences.

Introducing the Whole Health Medicine Institute’s 2013 Physician Training

We designed this unique 9 month physician training program to offer you:

• The opportunity to learn a revolutionary new way to practice medicine so you can reclaim your calling, transform how you practice, have the option of leaving the conventional medical system to start your own entrepreneurial business, realign with your personal integrity, and free yourself
• A way to combine conventional medicine with health and life coaching, so you can customize your practice style to suit your unique gifts and the needs of your patients
• Insight, personal growth, and tools for bringing magic into your life and healing yourself so you can heal the world from NY Times bestselling author, O magazine columnist, and life coach Martha Beck, PhD and equine therapist Koelle Simpson
• A chance to learn from mind-body medicine pioneers like Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Bernie Siegel, and Dr. Larry Dossey
• Skills for using Dr. Lissa Rankin’s revolutionary new wellness model – the Whole Health Cairn – as a way to help patients radically heal not just their bodies, but their lives
• Tools you can use in your own clinical practice to help patients heal themselves
• Guidance with how to employ radical self-care - for yourself – so you can better serve your clients and serve as a model for them
• A way to attract new clients interested in the Mind Over Medicine approach to health via referrals from Lissa Rankin and her websites
• The chance to become a leader in the field of mind-body medicine
• The opportunity to train physicians and other health care providers in future Whole Health Medicine Institute programs
• Mentorship with those who have left conventional systems to blaze new trails in health care
• A like-minded tribe of other physicians committed to Whole Health Medicine, healing health care, and supporting each other in your visionary physician dreams
• The business skills you’ll need in order to build a thriving entrepreneurial practice that includes not just seeing clients one-on-one, but growing your practice online, mastering social media, writing books, public speaking, and creating virtual programs that generate passive revenue (so you can earn money while sipping green juice on the beach!)
• The opportunity to transform your medical practice into an opportunity for emotional, personal, physical, and spiritual awakening

You may have spent your whole life serving others at the expense of yourself, but now it is finally time to fill yourself first and fully step into your role as a healer so you can heal the world.  This is YOUR time. The world needs you to bring your vision to life NOW.

You have a choice about how you live the rest of your life.

You can keep doing what we were trained to do as a doctor -

or you can step fully into what YOU were called here to do on earth.

The Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training will accept 15 special physicians selected by application only.  If you are selected as one of the 15 doctors, your commitment to showing up bodily, mentally, energetically, and spiritually are integral to your success. This program is not for someone who does things half-assed. You’ll be asked to commit revolutionary acts of greatness – and that’s not always easy.

This program is a commitment, on the part of you and your teachers.  We are all entering into a sacred contract together that is capable of radically changing not just your medical practice, but your whole life.

But let’s be clear. It’s not going to be all roses and violets. We’re inviting you to step up to the plate as one of the leaders that will help transform our health care system – and with things as bad as they are in the health care system, the world needs you now. This means your mentors are dedicated to helping illuminate any limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors that might be holding you back from being the force of healing you know you’re meant to be.

Your mentors will hold you accountable so that, at the end of our nine months together, we’ll all look back at where we started and say “WOW! Look what we accomplished together!” We want you to be shocked by your personal and professional transformation, (even though we already see your potential as a visionary physician, and we know – without a doubt – that it’s just a matter of stepping into what’s already rightfully yours.)

In order to facilitate big change in our broken health care system – and in the way you interact with patients – we’re going to be asking big things of you – big, revolutionary things that may have felt too scary to embark upon alone or to achieve in the masculine culture of our medical establishment. We’ll be asking you to consider radical acts of courage that may leave you feeling tempted to run for the hills.

But we ask that you trust the process and know that we will be here, holding sacred space for you, guiding your path, trusting your journey.  You will not be alone in your attempt to accomplish these big goals. As your mentors, we will be there to facilitate these changes in how you practice medicine – and how you operate in the world as a healer and a human.

If you’re not ready to commit revolutionary acts of greatness and put 1,000% of your energy and resources towards committing to your visionary physician dreams, opening your mind and your heart to new ways of thinking and being, mustering up the courage to take a stand in a medical system that strives to keep you in step with the status quo, being willing to break out of your comfort zone, and stepping fully into being the doctor we KNOW you can become, you might as well stop reading now.

The Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training Program is for Those Who are DONE…

We mean – DONE - with being stealth health care revolutionaries. This program is for those who are ready to lead the way NOW.

This program is right for you if you know there’s a spark within you – and you can see a similar spark within your patients, but you know how easily it gets clouded with fear, anxiety, and ultimately, illness. You know you have big work to do in this world, and you long to be part of the solution in health care, rather than grinding away, practicing medicine in a way you just know doesn’t optimize what you have to offer your patients.

But you also know you haven’t been able to achieve it alone. You need a team of mentors and a tribe of like-minded physicians to help you blaze new trails and link arms with you as you become the change you long to see in the world.

This program is for physicians who are READY – really ready – to step fully into the life they’re meant to create, in service to the people who are just waiting for you to show up and lead them to a better life.

*** We will only be accepting 15 visionary physicians *** 

Why did we decide to train 15 Visionary Physicians? 

Whole Health Medicine Institute Founder Lissa Rankin’s Story

When I took a leap of faith and left my stable, lucrative, and unfulfilling job as a full time physician in a busy managed care OB/GYN practice, I knew I was called to be a healer, but practicing medicine that way was sucking my soul dry. Seeing 40 patients a day – often double booked in 15 minute slots – just wasn’t what I was called to do. At the end of every day, I felt depleted, not just because I was exhausted from working 36 hour shifts every fourth night and 72 hour call shifts every few weekends, but because I knew I had so much more to offer my patients.  But I didn’t know how to navigate the restrictions of the system in order to serve in the way my heart longed to serve.

On top of all that, by the time I was 33, I was twice-divorced, I was taking seven pharmaceuticals that weren’t working for a host of chronic health conditions that plagued me, and I couldn’t remember the last time I had really laughed or felt vital. I fantasized about how “normal” people lived and dreamed of one day being happy – maybe after I retired at 65.

Then my Perfect Storm hit. I gave birth to my daughter by C-section, my dog died, my brother wound up in the ICU in full blown liver failure as a side effect from the Zithromax he was taking for a sinus infection, and my beloved father (also a physician) died from metastatic melanoma.

Six months later, when I was just starting to breathe again, my husband (husband #3, I’m embarrassed to say), who was the stay home daddy  for our newborn, cut two fingers off his hand with a table saw and couldn’t care for our daughter.

All hell broke loose. I wound up asking myself, “If I knew I had only three months left to live – the way my father did – would I be doing what I’m doing now?” My answer was a resounding “Hell no!” And this realization changed everything.

When I asked myself the first thing I would change, I was horrified to realize the first thing I would do if I found out I was dying was to quit my job. But I couldn’t do that! I had a newborn, an unemployed husband, two mortgages, and a boatload of debt. But when I searched my soul, I kept coming up with the same answer. I couldn’t keep selling out my happiness or professional integrity in exchange for the security my job provided. So I took a huge leap of faith and quit my job.

Leaving my conventional medical practice was a huge risk. We had to sell our house, liquidate our retirement account, and move to the country in order to afford to pay the medical malpractice tail I had to cough up  in order to buy my freedom. But what choice did I have? I couldn’t keep selling out my health or happiness. And I just wasn’t willing to keep slogging away for the next thirty years until one day, I could finally start living.

So I leaped. I spent two years painting, writing, and living off credit cards, during what I came to call my “waiting and becoming” years. It wasn’t easy. I was terrified most of the time, and the people who loved me thought I had officially lost it. I had to protect myself with a mostly artificial bubble of supposed “fearlessness.” But deep down, I was plagued with self-doubt, and the Gremlins of fear chattered away incessantly.

Yet, somehow, deep down, a seed of truth had taken root, and I knew I could never go back. The roots of my future had started digging into the soil, and I could only move forward, in spite of all evidence that the path I was blazing was more of a cautionary tale than an inspiration.

I almost bailed and ran back to the hospital, tail between my legs, dozens of times during this “waiting and becoming” time. I was falling deeper and deeper into debt, and the recruiters were calling incessantly like the devil, tempting me to betray my intuition and move to Podunk, Nowhere, in exchange for half a million dollars a year. But everything in my heart screamed, “No! There’s something else you’re supposed to do, if only you’ll trust.” I had to tap into something deep and quiet within, something essentially true, a voice I hadn’t heard clearly for years, one I ultimately came to call my “Inner Pilot Light.”

My Inner Pilot Light helped me keep repairing the chinks in my “fearless” bubble, and it encouraged me to trust that I was on the right path, even though I didn’t know where I was going.  During this scary, growth-filled, and wildly spiritual time, I rediscovered my calling and crystallized my vision – to help people heal, connect, and thrive, not just in their physical health, but in all aspects of their lives.

I also got clear on the message I wanted to help spread in the world. As a physician, I knew it wasn’t enough to treat only the biochemical elements of a healthy lifestyle. Sure, diet, exercise, a good night’s sleep, and taking your vitamins are key to a healthy life. But if you’re in an abusive marriage, you hate your job, you feel spiritually disconnected, you feel creatively thwarted, you can’t stand where you live, and you haven’t found your supportive community, no drug, surgery, supplement, or diet plan is going to save you. I came to believe that the body is a mirror of how we live our lives. By digging deep into the medical literature for proof of what I was coming to believe, I found evidence that our bodies sometimes have the power to enable spontaneous remissions from seemingly “incurable” diseases when we change our beliefs and how we think about our health while doing whatever it takes to bring our bodies into harmony with what is  true in our relationships, our professional lives, our creative lives, our sex lives, our environment, our financial lives, and more. This realization felt profoundly important to me – and I wanted the world to know it.

What ensued was a burning desire to create a revolution in health care, to change how we think about health and healing, and to start a grass roots campaign to shift the paradigm of modern medicine. I started spreading my ideas, first on my blog, then in two widely-viewed TEDx talks, and soon, in my upcoming book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself  (Hay House, May 1, 2013).

But here’s the kicker. As I was spreading these ideas, I started getting hundreds of emails from patients across the globe asking where they can find physicians who embrace similar ideas about health. But I haven’t known where to refer these patients. I know many wonderful functional medicine and integrative medicine doctors, but even still, these ways of practicing, while so much more holistic than managed care practice models, are still largely biochemically-based allopathic models. Even functional and integrative medicine philosophies, such as those taught in Dr. Andrew Weil’s Integrative Medicine fellowship, often focus primarily on supplements, herbal treatments, natural medicine, and alternative medicine treatments such as acupuncture or homeopathy. I support any treatment modality a patient believes will help, so I’m a big fan of all these modalities. But I think even the most alternative treatments are insufficient if the health care provider isn’t also addressing other factors that are just as important to your health – not just whether your hormones are in balance or whether you’re taking the right supplements, but whether you’re healthy in your relationships, your professional life, your spiritual life, and so forth.

I finally came to realize I needed to develop a training program to teach what I’ve learned so I can certify physicians to practice Whole Health Medicine and then refer patients to these physicians when I’m asked by the many patients who seek my guidance every day. In my book Mind Over Medicine, I make it very clear to readers that the body is equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms, but that these self-healing processes must be facilitated by someone trained to help the patient navigate the journey, while simultaneously utilizing the best of what modern medicine has to offer.

This is where you come in as a visionary physician. Not only do I need help caring for all the patients interested in being treated in this way. (I’m no longer seeing patients, so I need doctors I can refer to!) But I’m also on a mission to help heal health care, and it’s going to take a village to bring my dream into reality. I’m looking for the other physician leaders who have also realized what is missing from modern medicine and share my vision, longing to help health care reclaim its heart, return to a patient-centered approach, and expand what it means to be “healthy.”

Are you one of those doctors?

The Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training is by APPLICATION ONLY.

To be considered as one of the 15 physicians that will be selected for this 9 month program:

FIRST… please read this whole letter so you are clear as to whether this program is a good fit for you and HOW this process will benefit you. We know it’s long, but it is important.

THEN… simply request a Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training Application from melanie@owningpink.com, complete the application and email it back to melanie@owningpink.com

NOTE: You MUST email back your application by end of day Wednesday, February 27th to be considered for this opportunity!

While requesting an application does not commit you to this program, it does express your interest and ensure that you have the opportunity to be considered for acceptance.

We know that, as a physician, you’re supremely busy, so forgive us for asking you to take the time to go through this screening process. Please understand, it’s for a good reason. Not only do we want to ascertain your commitment to this program; we also want to make sure we’ll be meeting your individual needs with this program. It’s a way for all of us to ensure we’re a good fit for a program as intensive as this one.

Each application will be carefully reviewed, and if it looks like you may be a potential match, Melanie Bates, the Whole Health Medicine Institute’s program manager, will set up a personal interview on the telephone for you with Dr. Lissa Rankin, so she can get a feel for your needs and desires, you can ask her questions, and we can all make sure the program is what you really need in order to achieve the specific goals you desire.

It’s critical that you make sure this is the right program for you – and we also need to make sure you’re the right physician for this program.

How will we know if you’re right for this program?

We’ll give you some hints. The ideal applicant will demonstrate: 

• Shared interest in the mission to help heal health care
• An open mind willing to examine and question the paradigm of what we’ve been taught by the medical establishment
• A desire to integrate modern medicine with coaching techniques and an expanded definition of what it means to be “healthy”
• A feeling of being “called” to medicine
• A yearning to help medicine reclaim its heart
• A desire to do your own personal work and heal yourself first so you can more effectively help others
• An interest in expanding the scope of how you practice medicine
• A curiosity about teaching Whole Health Medicine to the general public – via books, blogging, public speaking, video, etc.
• A spark of interest about training other doctors – or even potentially nurses, alternative health care providers, and coaches – in the art of what you will learn in the Whole Health Medicine Institute
• Commitment to the time this program will require without undue stress
• Commitment to the financial investment necessary without undue stress

What we don’t expect:

• You do not have to be actively practicing as a physician, although we will be asking you for a medical license to ensure that you are, indeed, a physician.
• You do not have to live or practice in the United States. We anticipate receiving applications from physicians in other countries – we even encourage this! How wonderful if our group of 15 doctors come from diverse backgrounds, with wide-ranging life and professional experiences.
• Although you will be trained with skills that will give you the option of opening a cash-based practice, we don’t expect you to quit your stable hospital or office job.  What you learn in this program will make you a much better doctor, no matter how or where you ultimately practice.
• Training others after you complete this program will be completely optional.
• This program is designed to be primarily virtual – and at your own pace – so physicians working full time will still have time to participate in the required trainings at your convenience, even if you have a busy, full-time job.
• This program in no way dismisses or negates conventional medicine. We are not anti-drug, anti-surgery, or anti-hospital. The reason we are training physicians and not other health care providers for this program is because we believe we can best serve patients with a combined approach of conventional and integrative/functional medicine, along with mind-body approaches to optimal health.

Once you are selected as one of the 15 physicians, we’ll process your payment and get you all the details so you can get your travel arrangements made for the first of the two in-person retreats.

*** Remember, we’re only accepting a MAXIMUM of 15 physicians so each of you will get very personalized attention during this program *** 

Praise for Lissa Rankin, M.D., and Mind Over Medicine

“What a pleasure it is to see the next generation of physicians waking up to what I call real medicine – the kind that acknowledges our true power to heal and be well.”

Christiane Northrup, M.D., OB/GYN Physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

“Mind Over Medicine modernizes age old messages of wisdom and makes them easier to understand and apply to modern day lifestyles. This book contains much wisdom in easy-to-apply lessons we can all learn from.”

Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine & Miracles

“In this book, Lissa Rankin 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

We know you’re really investing in RESULTS 

You want to know that your medical practice, your business – and your life – will be transformed by this program, right? So how will the Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training change everything for you?

TAKE BACK MEDICINE, YOUR WAY

PROFESSIONAL RESULTS (How this program will grow your medical practice or visionary business)

PERSONAL & SPIRITUAL RESULTS (How this program will benefit your personal growth, your soul, and your relationships)

PHYSICAL HEALTH RESULTS (How this program will benefit your personal health)

MENTAL HEALTH RESULTS (How this program will leave you with a  happier, healthier mind)

The Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training Program is a 9 Month Commitment Beginning March 21, 2013

What Will The Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training Include?

The Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training Program

Is ONLY Right For You If:

• You’re seeking a MORE MEANINGFUL, more nurturing, more healing way to interact with others
• You’re not fully satisfied with how health care is being delivered and received, and you at least feel a nudge towards BEING A LEADER in the quest to revolutionize health care
• You’re curious about how you might CRAFT A UNIQUE CAREER PATH for yourself that opens doors, opens minds, generates financial abundance, and helps a whole lot of people
• You’re willing to be brave enough to do the same sort of PERSONAL GROWTH WORK you’ll be asking your patients to do
• You’re ready to commit to a radical way to combine MIND-BODY MEDICINE PRACTICES, COACHING & CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE
• You’re ready to be FIERCE about FOLLOWING YOUR INTUITION, TRUSTING YOUR HEALING SUPERPOWERS, AND TAKING ACTION towards achieving your visionary physician goals, even if the path you find yourself on may feel scary at times (in a giddy, butterflies-in-your-stomach, exciting way)
• You are willing to be DECISIVE, SEEK (AND SPEAK) YOUR TRUTH, and CLAIM what you want out of this one wild and precious life
• You’re willing and able to FULLY commit to your own professional and personal growth. You will not achieve the results we know are possible for you unless you show up fully, ask for support when you need it, and follow through on the actions steps you’ll help co-create.
• You’re willing to be OPEN-MINDED, OPEN-HEARTED, and TRY NEW IDEAS and experiences that will help you grow.
• You have a BIG DREAM for the kind of radically vital life you wish to manifest and you’re interested in helping others achieve the same sorts of big dreams.

You do NOT need to already have a clear idea of HOW to achieve what you desire, either personally or professionally. You merely have to know – just know - that you’re done settling for how most doctors spend their careers and lives. You have to have a strong desire to change the rules, make a difference, and help people transform not just their health, but their lives. You have to be ready to play bigger than you ever have so far.

This program is for visionary physicians who are tired of the status quo, are ready for change, are sick of playing small, and are 1,000% committed to bringing into the world what yearns to be born.

(Yes, we’re talking about you!)

If You Are Accepted As One Of The 15 Physicians In The Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training: 

Your Commitment Includes:

• Reading this invitation (all the way through!), requesting the application, filling out the application, and returning it no later than February 27, 2013. Remember, we will be offering interviews as soon as we get the first qualified application, and this program will be filled on a first come, first served basis. As soon as we have accepted 15 physicians into the program, we’ll have to say no to other applicants for this round of the program. So please, if you know this is right for you, get your application in right away!
• Being present at the two in-person workshops at the beginning and end of the program. Attendance at these live events is mandatory, so if you suspect you’ll be unable to attend, please save a spot for someone who will be able to be present.
• Participating in all teleclasses and webinars, either by joining us LIVE or by listening in after the calls have been recorded.
• Showing up for your fellow visionary physicians during this program and being willing to accept each other, unconditionally and without judgment.
• Maintaining confidentiality with your fellow visionary physicians, as we will be revealing personal experiences that are critical to our own personal, professional, and spiritual growth.
• Taking the initiative to schedule your one-on-one session with Lissa Rankin within the allotted time.
• Having a clear intention, topic or goal you hope to achieve for your one-on-one session.
• Refraining from multi-tasking during classes and workshops.
• Letting us know about any personal situations that may interfere with your training.
• Being accountable for your choices and actions.
• Being willing to take risks, try new things, and stretch beyond your current experience.
• Being responsible for your own results, which includes proactively asking for support, using your program benefits, and communicating along the way if you’re not achieving or experiencing what you hoped you would.
• Honoring your investment and the expectations you are making in yourself by handling any situations that may take you away from your experience, being patient with yourself, and resting when necessary to periodically “catch up.”
• Honoring your relationship with your teachers (when you tell us the truth and we tell you the truth, we can go deeper, heal quicker, and unleash your true potential.)
• Being gentle and compassionate with yourself. This program is not designed as an excuse for you to beat yourself up. You will have the opportunity to go at your own pace, do what you can, when you can, and learn what you’re here to learn in a way that allows you to experience ease and grace. (While you will be learning a lot about medicine, this is definitely NOT medical school. We will be maintaining a trauma-free zone!)

Our Commitment To You Includes: 

• Offering you the highest quality education, with the best mind-body medicine teachers on the planet.
• Doing whatever it takes to ensure that you understand and assimilate what you’re learning in order to apply it to patient care and/or your visionary business.
• Maintaining the highest level of confidentiality. You can honestly tell your teachers ANYTHING. We won’t even tell our pets.
• Passionately believing in you and your ability to achieve your visionary physician dreams.
• Showing up fully, in service to any needs of yours that might arise.
• Allowing you to be unapologetically authentic, in all aspects of your life.
• Holding you accountable to the wisdom and brilliance of your Inner Pilot Light, even when you may not feel the warmth of your own radiance.
• Being in integrity at all times.
• Holding high standards for you and helping you to resolve and move beyond whatever is not in alignment with your brilliance.
• Holding equally high standards for ourselves, so we can be the leaders you deserve.
• Being kind, patient, and loving with you and your progress so that you know you always have a safe place to express where you are, what you’re experiencing, and who you are.
• Providing accountability, the same way you will be providing accountability to your patients.
• Knowing that, no matter what, you are whole, perfect, healed, and connected to Source, and that anything is possible for you, no matter how many obstacles you may anticipate.
• Caring deeply about you, your success, your relationships, your health, and your life.
• Trusting that all is happening as it should for you, in divine timing, in accordance with the highest good.

Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training Tuition

The investment for this profound, life-altering program is $24,997, but you can save $6,000 by paying $18,997 in full upon acceptance into the program.

Payment Plan 1: $18,997 is due immediately upon acceptance.

Payment Plan 2 (Monthly payment): $6,997 non-refundable deposit immediately upon acceptance, then six monthly payments of $3,000 on the 10th of each month, starting March 10, 2013.

Optional Certification: This separate fee of $849 is paid at the time of actual certification if you so choose to become certified.)

Simply indicate on your contract the plan that works for you, and we will take care of the rest.

“BUT WOW! THAT’S A LOT OF MONEY AND I’VE ALREADY INVESTED SO MUCH!”

Yes. We know you’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on your medical education already. We also remember how scary it was to invest in a dream you can’t guarantee will come to fruition. Most of your teachers at the Whole Health Medicine Institute took huge personal, professional, and financial risks to get where we are professionally. Most of us also invested hundreds of thousands of dollars building our visionary physician businesses.

We also know that sometimes The Universe tests us to see whether we’re really, truly, 100% IN. If your Inner Pilot Light just knows this is the next step for you, taking a leap of faith like this can be your way of telling The Universe you’ll do whatever it takes to realize your vision, even if it feels like a huge stretch.

Keep in mind that because of the nature of what you will learn in this program, you can expect a return on your investment that has the possibility not only to lead to revenue generation for your business, but also to teach you tools to continue generating revenue beyond when this program ends so that your visionary physician business becomes a sustainable source of revenue generation.

Commitment and Termination 

The Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training program is a NINE MONTH commitment. If for any reason you choose not to continue – or you stop participating – you will continue to be liable for the fees of this program.

This kind of program is a powerful transformational process and at times, you may feel “up against a wall,” as if your visionary dreams are not happening or something isn’t working. This is often a perfect sign that you are releasing obstacles and overcoming limiting beliefs. Our request is that any and all concerns with regard to these kinds of feelings be addressed with your teachers so we can do our best to meet your needs. When brought to light, we can use these feelings as an opportunity to deal with any blocks that are coming to light so we can go deeper. Working together, we will make sure your needs are met.

This is your chance!

At the Whole Health Medicine Institute, we are passionate about YOU, the well-being of YOUR PATIENTS, your RADICAL, VITAL, VISIONARY LIFE, and YOUR professional success – no matter what!

What does the wisdom of your intuition tell you? Is this Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training opportunity right for you, your body, your mind, your heart, your soul, your spirit, and your business?

Only you know the answer, but I can promise you this. No other program combines this kind of education from the pioneers in the fields of mind-body medicine and life coaching into one comprehensive training program. There is also no other program that combines the life and professional experience of visionaries with the medical expertise of physicians, the knowledge of successful business men and women, and the guidance of experienced coaches who are ready to help you achieve REVOLUTIONARY VISIONARY SUCCESS as a doctor, so you can skyrocket to the stratosphere, in your own unique way, in both your personal and professional life.

THIS IS YOUR TIME!

Close your eyes, take a breath, and tap into the wisdom of your wise self. Ask yourself what is best for you, but be aware of how your fears start butting in with lies like “You’re not good enough,” “You don’t deserve this,” “You can’t afford it,” “You don’t have the time,” “This won’t work for you,” “People will think you’re crazy,” “You’re not ready for this yet,” “You’re not really a leader,” and other evil nothings. This is simply The Gremlin’s way of getting in your way and keeping you stuck, when the world is your oyster, we need you to step into your power, and this is the time.

Trust us, as visionaries, we know how scary choosing to do something like this can feel. It takes courage to GO FOR IT. We remember the quivering in our stomachs as we stood at the edge of that cliff and looked down into the abyss – then screaming “GERONIMO!” just as we discovered that not only were we not falling – we were FLYING!

**The Whole Health Medicine Institute Physician Training program is strictly limited to only 15 spots, and these spots will be filled quickly. **

We know it feels overwhelming to think that any of us could have the power to truly heal ourselves, much less to heal health care, when the system is so broken. But as Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

The world needs us to step up to the plate, and as Dr. Larry Dossey told me recently, “The time is now.”

If your inner knowing is whispering, “YES! THIS IS WHAT I NEED!” then the next step is easy. Just email melanie@owningpink.com to request an application,  complete, and sign the application now and fax it to 415-877-1711 or scan it in and email it to melanie@owningpink.com no later than February 27, 2013. Completed applications will be considered in the order in which they are received, on a first come, first served basis. The application process includes a screening interview, so once your application is reviewed and your screening interview is completed, we will choose the 15 visionary physicians in the order in which they qualify and complete the application process. (Note: If your schedule doesn’t permit a screening interview, but you’re 1000% in, we may opt to bypass this step depending on the contents of your application.)

(Note: To ensure the integrity of this process, not everyone who applies will be accepted. For the sake of everyone who participates, it is MISSION CRITICAL to ensure that every physician selected for this program is a good fit.)

The next 9 months have the power to change your life – and those of the patients you serve – forever, but only if you take the brave first step and request and complete your application today.

Is this right for you? Aren’t you ready?

With love and faith in your journey,