{"id":155,"date":"2025-05-20T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migration.beingalive.earth\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:55:22","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/?page_id=155","title":{"rendered":"about us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This course was designed by three medical doctors who also have background in anthropology, philosophy, ecology, and environmental humanities, and are involved in music, expressive dance, and nature education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lydie Fialov\u00e1, Ph.D., M.D., M.Sc., B.A.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kate\u0159ina Mad\u011bry\u010dov\u00e1, M.D.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Michael van Beinum, MBChB, Ph.D., M. Phil., M. Litt., B.Sc.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1704-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1704-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1704-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1704-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1704-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1704-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The course was offered at the Third Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague in 2024, with the participation of thoughtful and wonderfully creative students from Japan, Nepal, India, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Slovakia, and Czechia: Adam, Anna, Annkatrin, Arushi, Ayaka, Barbora, Bj\u00f8rn, Caroline, Dominik, Emmanuella, Filip, Hana, Jakub, Javier, Jon\u00e1\u0161, Lilla, Lucie, Marek, Marek, Marek, Marie, Mark\u00e9ta, Maty\u00e1\u0161, Mikul\u00e1\u0161, Nina, Odin, Richard, Shuvangini, Tobi\u00e1\u0161.\u00a0For each session, two or three participants presented their questions for discussion, and we have included many of them in the <a href=\"https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/?page_id=24\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">&#8216;reading&#8217; section<\/a> alongside ours. Some of their final works are presented in the <a href=\"https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/?page_id=67\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"67\">&#8216;creating&#8217; section<\/a>. We express our deepest thanks for their contributions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our course was accompanied by three joint weekends of conversations, nature walks, workshops, film screenings, and music sessions late into the night. Special thanks to our friend and colleague Dr. Marie Bourne who joined us for the course and helped to organize the weekends, Dr. Al\u017eb\u011bta Proch\u00e1zkov\u00e1 for her workshop on landscape ecology, Mikul\u00e1\u0161 \u0158\u00edm\u00e1nek on ornithology, Dr. Kate\u0159ina Mad\u011bry\u010dov\u00e1 on embodiment and movement, and Dr. Michael van Beinum on bird listening, foraging, and creating a wildlife garden in Scotland! And finally, thanks to our hosts at \u017delichov farm, Irena and Jan Pe\u0161outovi, who shared with us the beautiful environment they created &#8211; and entrusted us with replanting trees and taking stones out of the fields &#8211; it was a wonderful experience!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1617-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1617-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1617-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1617-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1617-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/beingalive.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1617-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The creation of this website was kindly supported by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pik-potsdam.de\/members\/gabrysch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professor Sabine Gabrysch, M.D., Ph.D.&nbsp;<\/a>from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, and Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, as a resource for teaching of planetary health and ecological humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ownership of the artworks remain solely with the authors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This website was created by Dr. Lydie Fialov\u00e1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We look forward to hearing your thoughts! Our email is being.alive.earth[AT]protonmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course was designed by three medical doctors who also have background in anthropology, philosophy, ecology, and environmental humanities, and are involved in music, expressive dance, and nature education. Lydie Fialov\u00e1, Ph.D., M.D., M.Sc., B.A. Kate\u0159ina Mad\u011bry\u010dov\u00e1, M.D. Michael van Beinum, MBChB, Ph.D., M. Phil., M. Litt., B.Sc. 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