The Philippine College of Lifestyle Medicine warmly invites you to a transformative and deeply restorative gathering:

WHY ATTEND?

In today’s clinical practice, pain is not only physical—it is emotional, relational, and deeply human. This retreat invites you to explore healing at its roots by integrating evidence-based lifestyle medicine with compassionate, person-centered care. This is more than a conference—it is a space to pause, reflect, and restore, so you can better guide your patients toward sustainable healing.

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN?

• Evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine approaches to pain management beyond pharmacologic care

• A deeper understanding of emotional pain and its impact on chronic disease and behavior

• Practical tools for addressing stress, trauma, and psychosocial contributors to pain

• Strategies to enhance interpersonal care, empathy, and therapeutic relationships

• Approaches to support self-regulation, resilience, and patient-centered healing

• Integration of mind–body interventions, nutrition, movement, sleep, and social connection in pain care

CORE TOPICS:

• Emotional Pain and the Healing Process

• Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Chronic Pain Management

• Interpersonal and Relational Care in Clinical Practice

• Mind–Body Medicine and Stress Regulation

• Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Sleep in Pain Modulation

• Behavioral Change and Patient Empowerment

The Goal

• Deepen understanding of healing as both an internal and relational process by exploring the evidence behind self-healing mechanisms, interpersonal connection, and their impact on health outcomes.

• Examine lifestyle medicine–based strategies for pain management, including nutrition, physical activity, stress regulation, sleep, and psychosocial interventions that address chronic pain beyond pharmacologic approaches.

• Highlight the role of therapeutic relationships in healing, emphasizing communication, empathy, social connection, and trust as essential components of effective patient care.

• Equip healthcare professionals with practical tools to support self-regulation, resilience, and behavior change in patients experiencing pain, trauma, or chronic illness.

• Integrate mind–body and lifestyle-based interventions into clinical and community practice, promoting safe, evidence-informed, and culturally responsive care.

• Foster reflective practice and clinician self-care, recognizing that the well-being of healthcare providers is foundational to compassionate, sustainable, and effective healing work.

• Promote interdisciplinary collaboration among physicians, allied health professionals, educators, and health coaches to strengthen holistic pain and healing models within the Philippine healthcare setting.

Collaboration

Registration Rate

PCLM Members: P7000

Non-Members: P8000

REGISTRATION RATE

LIMITED TO 120 REGISTRANTS ONLY

REFUND POLICY

Speakers

Finding a continuing education experience that engages you and enhances your daily practice can be a challenge. This is the premiere Lifestyle Medicine continuing education experience that engages you while enhancing your practice and personal health. This is the event where participants learn about the latest research, explore implementation models, and see best practices and traiblazing advancements in the field.

Wayne Dysinger, MD

past president, american college of lifestyle medicine

Mary Ann Joy Aguadera, MD

child & adolescent psychiatrist

Joy Gayares, MD

child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist

Blecenda Varona, RND, DrPH

president, asian institute of lifestyle medicine

Linda Lim Varona, MD

chair, dept of lifestyle medicine, adventist medical center, bacolod

Mechelle Acero Palma, MD

president, philippine college of lifestyle medicine

Bysshe Fernan, MD

executive secretary, PHILIPPINE COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

Serafin Lalas, MD

PSYCHIATRIST, LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH

Jeimylou De Castro, MD

mEDICAL DIRECTOR/CEO, SMARTMD PHILIPPINES