Houston IANDS June Meeting:
Healthcare After an NDE:
Avoiding Harm and Providing Help to Near-Death and Related Experiencers
with Dr. Jan Holden
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 6:30-8:00 PM CST
Held online via Zoom
Free of Charge | Donations Appreciated
Research indicates that nearly one out of every five near-death experiencers (NDErs) who disclosed their NDE to a healthcare provider—medical, mental, or spiritual/religious—felt harmed by the way the provider responded. In this presentation, Jan will relate what these experiencers described as harmful and helpful responses, and she will make recommendations to healthcare providers that enable them not only to fulfill their ethical obligation to “do no harm” in response to NDE disclosure but also to actually fulfill their potential to be of substantial help to experiencers. She will conclude with resources that providers can use in being of service to NDErs and patients/clients with other transpersonal experiences—those in which the experiencer has transcended the usual personal limits of space, time, identity, or influence.
OUR SPEAKER:
Janice Miner Holden, EdD, LPC-S, ACMHP
After 31 years on the University of North Texas (UNT) Counseling Program faculty, Jan Holden retired in 2019 as Professor Emerita of Counseling. Beginning in 1988 with her doctoral dissertation, her primary research focus has been counseling implications of near-death and related experiences. In this research area she has over 50 refereed journal publications; several chapter and book publications, including lead editorship of the 2009 Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation; and over 100 national and international presentations. Among Jan’s numerous recognitions is the 2019 UNT Eminent Faculty Award, one of the university’s highest honors. Since 2008 she has served as editor-in-chief of the International Association for Near-Death Studies’s scholarly Journal of Near-Death Studies, and she serves currently as that association’s President. Her website is www.janholden.com.
Houston IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies) at the Texas Medical Center serves as a safe space to support those who have had a near-death experience as they integrate their experience into their lives. Houston IANDS also serves to inform the public about NDEs and the lessons and messages that experiencers bring back, and to educate the medical community to recognize and appropriately treat people who have had an NDE.