History
1989
TO
PREHISTORY
OF THE CENTER FOR SALUTOGENESIS
In 1989, several therapists from Bad Gandersheim met for the first time to search for the essence of healing and to exchange ideas about healing. They formed the "Institute for Life and Healing," a precursor to the "Gandersheim Health Network," founded in 1999, which at one point brought together a good 20 health activists from the Bad Gandersheim area. This health network (later the Association for Lifestyle and Health Promotion) published the Gandersheim Health Guide and held health taster days for four years. From this network, plans were made to create a seminar and health center. When the Alte Mühle seminar hotel near Ackenhausen was acquired at a favorable price at a foreclosure auction in 2002, a quick decision was made to use this property as a health project. A limited liability company (GGmbH) was established to operate it. The first group to meet here was the German Health Parliament, which met in the summer of 2002. Since 2003, training in autonomy training has been conducted here with Ronald Grossarth-Maticek. In 2004, an interdisciplinary working group developed "Salutogenic Communication." In 2005, we founded an interdisciplinary quality circle for salutogenically oriented work. In 2007, TD Petzold integrated autonomy training into "Salutogenic Communication SalKom®," which regularly offers basic and advanced training courses.
2004
renaming
the gGmbH
in center/
Foundation
for salutogenesis
In 2004, the gGmbH was renamed Center/Foundation for Salutogenesis because it had become clear that, under Antonovsky's broad questioning and the new term 'salutogenesis', all our previous practical and theoretical work (see Petzold (2000): Healing is evolution in miniature. Health is contagious!) should be given an attractive umbrella that was still open to development.
2005
1st Symposium on Salutogenesis
For example, we organized the first Salutogenesis Symposium in 2005 and then annually until 2019; from 2012 onward, alternating with the umbrella organization for salutogenesis, and previously with APAM. We have published books on most of the symposia.
2007
Collaboration magazine
The human being
In 2007, the Foundation for Salutogenesis gGmbH was able to hand over the seminar operations of the Alte Mühle to a newly founded inclusive company and concentrate entirely on the content-related work.
We were then asked to reactivate the Academy for Patient-Centered Medicine (APAM) (an umbrella organization). This led to collaboration on publishing the journal for salutogenesis and anthropological medicine, DER MENSCH, and then to a restructuring of APAM into the umbrella organization for salutogenesis, DachS.
2010
Training TSF is created
In 2010, the TSF self-healing skills training program “All-round harmonious and healthy” was developed.
Since 2023, symposia on salutogenesis have been held sporadically and in cooperation.
Over the years, we have occasionally participated in research calls from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) together with other institutions – unfortunately without success. Now we have our own research projects on salutogenic communication.
