Michael Lerner (environmentalist)

See also: Michael Lerner

Michael Lerner is co-founder of Commonweal Wellness, a health and environmental research institute,^[1] and of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C.^[2][3][4] He is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Cancer Society.^[5]

Smith Center for Healing and the Arts

Smith Center for Healing and the Arts is a nonprofit health, education and creative arts organization that serves individuals, families and communities affected by cancer and other serious illnesses. The organization's work is grounded in the idea that each person has tremendous innate abilities to heal in the face of illness.

Founded in 1996 by Washington D.C. artist and benefactor Barbara Smith Coleman,^[6][7] together with Michael Lerner,^[8][9] Smith Center is located in Washington DC's U Street Corridor.

In May 2008, the organization opened the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts gallery to promote the understanding and utilization of the arts for healing. The gallery is open to the public and exhibits works that focus on individual, community and global issues.

Awards

• 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2009 Environmental Health Hero Award CleanMed ^[10]

Works

• "Surviving the Great Dying", Yes!, Mar 31, 2003
• "The Age of Extinction and The Emerging Environmental Health Movement", Commonweal
• Michael Lerner, PhD. Medicine and the environment. Interview by Bonnie Horrigan.^[11][12]
• Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 9780262621045

References

1. ^ http://www.commonweal.org/about/
2. ^ http://www.shiftinaction.com/discover/luminaries/dr_michael_lerner
3. ^ Dance, Betsy; Williams, Kitty (2000). First aid yourself: essential breast cancer websites. Essential Websites. Hope Springs Press. p. 56. ISBN 0963953184. 
4. ^ Guenther, Robin; Vittori, Gail (2008). Sustainable healthcare architecture. John Wiley and Sons. p. 419. ISBN 0471784044. 
5. ^ http://www.bigspeak.com/michael-lerner.html
6. ^ John-Manuel Andriote (November 14, 2000). "GROWING THROUGH CANCER; All cancer patients want to get better. At Smith Center, they seek to become better people". Washington Post: p. Z.16. 
7. ^ "Barbara Smith-Coleman, Artist and Healer, Dies". Washington Post: p. B.3. March 28, 2003. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/318980651.html?dids=318980651:318980651&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+28%2C+2003&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Barbara+Smith-Coleman%2C+Artist+and+Healer%2C+Dies&pqatl=google. 
8. ^ Dance, Betsy; Williams, Kitty (2000). First aid yourself: essential breast cancer websites. Essential Websites. Hope Springs Press. p. 56. ISBN 0963953184. 
9. ^ Guenther, Robin; Vittori, Gail (2008). Sustainable healthcare architecture. John Wiley and Sons. p. 419. ISBN 0471784044. 
10. ^ http://www.cleanmed.org/2009/awards/ehha.htm
11. ^ http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/index.php?mode2=detail&origin=ibids_references&therow=730699
12. ^ . PMID 12652887. 

External links

• Website
• Statement by Michael Lerner
• Distinction Between Curing and Healing -Michael Lerner, PhD
• Keynote: Michael Lerner
• The New School at Commonweal: Ecology, Culture, Inner Life, podcast