Freedom to Nurse 2024

The vocation of nursing is suffering in our time. Some even say that it is hardly possible to be a nurse nowadays. Experiencing pain and suffering calls us all into the present moment.

Dr Michael Evens MED is inviting all nurses to join this weekend seminar. He wishes to offer practical strategies and personal development exercises to apply in the work and will also be encouraged all participants to create their own. There will be opportunity to give and receive simple body therapies that can balance stress symptoms. These can be aids to self-care and contributions to nursing patients. Exercises will be offered that open new ways of meeting nature.

• What does a nurse bring into the present moment in response to the calls from others and in ourselves? 
• What more can the individual nurse bring? 
• What did Florence Nightingale’s patients experience that has become associated with her lamp? 
• How can the initiative to nurse thrive today?
• How can nursing thrive more freely in the current pressures where so much needs to be done by so few? 

The weekend will include:

• The current plight of nursing in the UK
• Sharing personal challenges and ways of coping
• Inquiring into underlying causes
• What is healing?
• Creative activities
• Inner development practices
• Steps to a more living relationship with nature
• Body therapies & self-care
• Ways forward

A path of schooling for nurses was born in May 1925, out of the collaboration between Rudolf Steiner and Dr Ita Wegman. This development would build upon nursing care and intervention, with a truly holistic approach to the vocation of the nurse as well as those in need of nursing care. Nurses were inspired with natural nursing treatments and methods of spiritual and social support for their work with patients. This weekend seminar aims to build upon this path of schooling, offering practical Insights and solutions toward a possible path forward for the needs of nursing today and into the future.