What's New on WHR (June 2007)

NETWORKING AS HEALING
Daniel J. Benor, MD, ABHM

Networking is often seen to be an activity that promotes the sharing of ideas, activities and sales of products and services. Looking at the concept of networking as energy, networking is an energy exchange. It may be conducted with altruistic or business motives. The altruistic or business perspectives are ours. The benefits can be either or neither.

Networking can be a natural accompaniment to any gathering where participants come together and exchange ideas, share their feelings and experiences, and provide mutual support. This discussion focuses primarily on the deliberate networking that can be a specific motive for initiating the gathering of people with kindred spirits, shared interests and common goals.

Mary Ann Wallace, MD, suggests, “Networking has an added dynamic – a forward intentionality.  That is, we tend to network en route to someplace – for a reason in the future – creating a loosely defined structure with directionality that is unique and beyond ‘just’ a gathering. Networking, in and of itself as a dynamic, provides a healing forum by creating ‘the space’ within which a healing energy is generated.  In that space, issues for healing can surface, and the greater energy generated – with intention – can serve as a healing ‘medium’ as it were.  Every interaction we have provides this opportunity - but networking, because it has the energetic of intention around an issue or commonality to start with, can be particularly powerful.”

In the spectrum of wholistic healing – addressing spirit, relationships (with other people and the environment), mind, emotions and body – networking can be a deliberately healing activity…

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Published as Benor, Daniel J. Networking as healing, Network Review: J. of the Scientific and Medical Network, 2007, 93, 19-22.