This workshop is second in the series and invites participants to investigate: various cultural expectations about what happens to consciousness after death; religious beliefs about survival beyond death and their relevance for the living.
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Presenter
Dr Natalie Tobert is a British Medical Anthropologist, who qualified ten years after gaining a doctorate in Anthropology and Archaeology. She conducted research in Darfur Sudan, undertook two projects in India, and later in London UK, with new migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. She also conducted research in UK on spiritual and religious experiences. Decades ago, she trained in neo-shamanic practice. She has facilitated in person workshops in UK, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA, as well as offering a 15-week training course online to global participants during the first UK lockdown, under the title: “Clash of Beliefs”. For the last 16 years she has offered training courses for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year medical students at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Tobert N 2016, Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing: Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers