Thinking Outside the Box: Re-design Our Health Care System!

Health Care System Design Intensives

These five-day conferences are for those people, like ourselves, who feel that the current medical system is undesirable, and who want time, tools, and new ideas to figure out "what next?" Anyone with a stake in health care is welcome to participate.

The aim of this working conference is to seed designs of a variety of local projects that move health care away from the corporate-business context into models of compassion and service. Along with speaker presentations, there will be teaching sessions and small work groups.

Past intensives have taken place at the Independent Media Center in Urbana, Illinois, at a retreat center in Manassas, Virginia, and on the site of the future hospital of the Gesundheit! Institute in West Virginia. The schedule is designed so that participants can take advantage of the setting. Thus the five days are both a 'retreat' and a 'forward': we'll re-charge our batteries in nature and in play, then move forward on our designs of desirable health care systems.

Health Care Intensive at the Visionary Museum in Baltimore, Feb 2-5, 2009
Read traces from the 2008 intensive
Read about the 2007 intensive
Read participant responses to the 2005 intensive

Application Process

There are two stages to the application process.

First, apply by responding to the questions written below. We will read your responses, and then let you know if your application is accepted.

Second, when your application is accepted, please make a $200 non-refundable deposit to reserve your spot in the intensive. We accept checks written to "School for Designing a Society", mailed to:

School for Designing a Society
122 Franklin Street
Urbana, IL 61801

Registration will be considered complete only when we have received your application responses and the deposit.

As only 20 participants will be accepted, we recommend applying as early as possible.

Application Questions:

In 500 words or less, please tell us:

• Who are you? How do we contact you? (hard mail and e mail address, telephone number)
• Why are you interested in attending the intensive?
• What do you do? What would you DESIRE to do?
• Which roadblocks that prevent you from doing what you desire would you LIKE to tackle?

Email healthintensive@yahoo.com, or phone 217-344-1439.