Monthly Conversations Advancing Whole-Person Healing
Kick-off event: Tuesday, January 27th | 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Please join the Center for Comprehensive Healing’s monthly Speaker Series, where leading experts in metabolic health, biofield science and whole-person healing will share compelling research and clinical practices. Presentations and demonstrations will be delivered by leaders in their fields. The evening is open to healthcare providers and healers, supporters of the field, and anyone interested in the evolving science of healing.
Join us for networking, live presentations, light bites, and Q&A.
Spring 2026 Speaker Lineup
Tuesday, January 27th
5:30pm-7:30pm
Energy Medicine in Theory and Practice
Dr. Leskowitz is a psychiatrist, retired Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital clinician, and Harvard Medical School Osher Institute faculty member, as well as author of The Mystery of Life Energy: Biofield Healing, Phantom Limbs, Group Energetics and Gaia Consciousness. He will kick off the Speaker Series, sharing his experiences with energy medicine, and his thoughts on the future of healthcare. Drawing on decades of experience integrating meditation, hypnosis, and energy psychology into pain management, Dr. Leskowitz will help us understand the emerging science of the biofield and its potential to transform clinical care.
Tuesday, February 24th
5:30pm-7:30pm
Can GLP1s + Nutrition and Exercise shift the Metabolic Disease Curve?
Dr. David Eisenberg, Director of Culinary Nutrition and Adjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and founder of both the Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives educational conferences as well as the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, joins Dr. Jonathan Bonnet, a board-certified family, sports, obesity, and lifestyle medicine physician, and Chief Medical Officer of Ardmore Institute of Health, who is a nationally recognized GLP-1 medication and lifestyle medicine expert, to examine how medications, nutrition, movement and teaching kitchen educational interventions can work synergistically to alter the trajectory of metabolic disease and improve health.
Drawing on decades of research, clinical leadership, and frontline patient care, Eisenberg and Bonnet will move beyond headlines to explore what it actually takes to improve and optimize health. They’ll tackle questions that clinicians and health leaders are wrestling with right now, including:
Can GLP-1 medications when used separately or in combination with teaching kitchens and other lifestyle medicine related strategies support long-term behavior change?
How do we preserve muscle and bone health in the setting of GLP-1 prescription?
How might we rethink national strategies to optimize health and wellbeing in the 21st Century?
Tuesday, March 31st
5:30pm-7:30pm
How does Energy Healing impact Trauma? A conversation Between Healer and Trauma Expert.
In this deeply human and thought-provoking session, Mary Beth Toran, MD - board-certified neurologist, Tufts University School of Medicine faculty member, and Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at Newton-Wellesley Hospital - joins Laurie Nealon, a respected energy healer and educator with more than 15 years of experience, for an honest conversation at the intersection of neuroscience, trauma, and biofield healing.
This session will explore how lived experience can challenge conventional frameworks of trauma care. Laurie and Dr. Toran will discuss the paradigms of healing all facets of trauma, and its impacts on the physical, spiritual and emotional body.
Together, they reflect on what it means to integrate medical expertise, self-awareness, and non-traditional healing approaches.
Tuesday, April 28th
5:30pm-7:30pm
Mitochondria, Energy, and Healthspan
In this forward-looking session, Martin Picard, PhD, Columbia University scientist and co-director of the Science of Health program, invites participants to see health and healing through the radically different lens of energy and mitochondria. Drawing on his pioneering work in mitochondrial biology, bioenergetics, and psychosocial science, Picard reframes our mitochondria as more than cellular powerhouses. They are the body’s early warning system, signaling imbalance long before symptoms or disease take hold.
Picard explains how mitochondria respond first to stress, trauma, environment, and lifestyle. His research offers a new view for understanding healthcare and medicine to challenge how we define disease, treatment, prevention, and healing, especially with chronic conditions.
This session explores how a shift to viewing human health through an energetic lens might fundamentally change healthcare: shifting focus from late-stage intervention to early detection, resilience, and sustained vitality. Participants will gain insight into an emerging scientific framework - Mitochondrial Psychobiology - that connects energy regulation to aging, stress, mental health, and whole-person wellbeing.
Wednesday, May 13th
5:30pm-7:30pm
Flower Essences: Bridging Subtle Energy and Modern Medicine
Join us for a rare opportunity to learn directly from David Dalton, one of the leaders of modern flower essence research. With over 35 years of clinical practice and global fieldwork across seven countries, David brings unparalleled depth to the art and science of flower essences. In this session, he will explain how these subtle vibrational remedies work on emotional and energetic patterns at the root of stress, trauma, anxiety, and chronic imbalances, and how they can be applied in today’s high-stress world. Through stories from decades of practice, research insights, and practical guidance, this talk offers a powerful introduction for the curious and a rich expansion for experienced practitioners. If you’re interested in the frontier where nature, emotion, and healing meet, this is a session you won’t want to miss.
Join us for:
5:30–6:00pm - Cocktails, Hors d'oeuvres, Networking
6:00-7:00pm - Speaker Presentation
7:00-7:30pm - Audience Q&A
Each talk will be uploaded to the CCH Website as well as our YouTube Channel.