There is an educational component to all Gesundheit projects—the books, movies, lectures, clowning, global outreach, the model hospital project. In addition, Gesundheit hosts events focused on education—at the site of the future hospital and elsewhere—in the form of medical student electives, summer institutes, health care system design intensives, and conferences.
FIELDS OF PLAY
April 27-May 3, 2025 | Hillsboro, WV
RECONNECT with the deeper consciousness of self and world. AWAKEN your imagination, empathy, and memory through physical and emotional connection, discovery, creative association, play, and stupid genius.
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CLOWN HEART: Prismatic Clown
June 13-20, 2025 | Hillsboro, WV
In times of tumult, violence, sickness, and distance from nature and our spirits, we need to come back to the trees, waters, grasses, stones, earth and stars, and come back to our caring and playful hearts—our clown hearts— in order to rewrite our personal balance and give back to the world(s) at large.
DESIRE & DESIGN: Construct Your Humanism
July 27-August 3, 2025 | Hillsboro, WV
We invite you to a full week on the land in West Virginia to Construct Your Humanism. We will elicit from each other descriptions of the humanism we wish to see in the world. We’ll offer tools & strategize ways to put our humanism into practice. We’ll share meals, walks in the woods, excursions, stories, festivities; hear guest presenters; create poetry, performance, art, action plans, friendships.
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LAUGHING BODY: the Art of Care
August 17-24, 2025 | Hillsboro, WV
We invite you to spend a week dedicated to reflection, play, and rediscovering the joyful and creative potential of our body and of our inner Nature (our soul), while basking in the wonderful outdoors of the Gesundheit Institute in beautiful West Virginia.
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BETWEEN DREAMS
October 12th-18th, 2025 | Hillsboro, WV
The waning Gibbous moon welcomes us as we reunite, regroup, and rediscover the powerful potential of our collective experiences and shared joy to infect the world with laughter and healing energy.
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