Speaking and media
A clinician, a scholar and a Zen teacher, in one talk.
Peter speaks to clinical conferences, recovery communities, leadership gatherings and spiritual audiences, with the same simple message in the language each room needs.
Topics
What Peter speaks about
The Theory of Awakening
What his doctoral research found about how people actually change, and why nobody wakes up only once.
Mindfulness in recovery
Soul Silence and the Eleventh Step: meditation as a practical core of addiction treatment, for people of every faith and none.
Integrative medicine
A national model for whole-person care, from his work with Dr. Andrew Weil on the National Integrative Medicine Council.
Conscious leadership
Cultivating peace through wisdom and change, the theme of his address to the International Leadership Association’s 10th annual conference.
Stress and the mind
How the mind manufactures most of what weighs on us, and fifteen-minute practices that quiet it.
Food as medicine
Nutrition as part of whole-person health and recovery, drawing on his clinical work and published research.
Selected presentations
On the record
- 2013Mindfulness as core practice in drug and alcohol treatment. 11th Annual International Scientific Conference on Mindfulness, Norwood, MA.
- 2012Soul Silence: a unique approach to mastering the 11th Step. Tuerk Conference on Addiction Treatment, Baltimore, MD.
- 2010The Inner Harmony approach to optimum health and enlightened living. U.S. Journal Training 24th National Conference on the Self and Family, Santa Fe, NM.
- 2008The Inner Harmony approach to extraordinary leadership. 10th Annual International Leadership Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2006The Inner Harmony approach to healthcare transformation. American Holistic Medical Association 29th Annual Scientific Conference, St. Paul, MN.
- 2003Integrative medicine in North America: a national model. Plenary address, Global Holistic Health Summit, Bangalore, India.
In the media
Interviews and features
- Interview“Nourishing Knowledge: Dr. Peter Amato of Inner Harmony Wellness Centers on the Power of Food as Medicine.”
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