Our connection to Deep Health

We are a group of doctors, therapists, clinicians, researchers, botanists, ecologists, farmers, health administrators and entrepreneurs. We work in many different countries and cultures and our connection to each other has been forged over decades. We have worked on health projects together, helped to build and support each other's ventures and become bound together by a different vision of what health really is. We are connected to Le Vivant, the organisation that incubated Deep Health and has managed projects in integrative medicine, a medicinal plant laboratory and touch therapy research.

We started by trying to find a concept that expressed what we meant - and found it in Deep Health. Humans and the planet are indivisible, integrated and on a co-journey. Deep Health is transdisciplinary - if we can integrate our thinking, then perhaps we can integrate our actions.This is a small start, but we are fans of Nobel Prize winning chemist, Ilya Prigogine. We love his concept of small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos having the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order. So that's what we aspire to.

We found ourselves asking fundamental questions. Why is health always about our physical bodies, igoring our emotional and spiritual selves? Why do we continue to view the health of planet as something outside of us? How can we possibly see ourselves as separate to nature? Surely, we thought, these things need to be integrated, not separated? We believe Deep Health is the lens through which they can be integrated.