
Mindful Practice: Enhancing Quality of Care, Quality of Caring, and Resilience
A retreat-like online workshop designed to improve the quality of care that clinicians provide while promoting their own resilience and well-being.
Content
A retreat-like online workshop designed to improve the quality of care that clinicians provide while promoting their own resilience and well-being. It offers a participatory experiential learning environment, with a focus on developing the capacity for self-awareness in stressful and demanding situations.
Session themes include cultivating attentiveness and presence, communicating with patients, families and colleagues, responding to suffering, responding to errors and bad outcomes, managing conflicts with patients and colleagues, cultivating compassion, addressing burnout and distress, and promoting self-care, resilience, and flourishing.
Despite the “virtual” nature of this online program, the actual experience is far from virtual. Rather, the program is dynamic and interactive and participants’ engagement is very tangible and present. We create a learning community using asynchronous multimedia presentations and reflective activities and live (synchronous) interactive large group presentations, paired dialogues, contemplative practices, and small group discussions to provide a fully embodied experience. The online format offers new possibilities for engagement educational and practice settings, time zones and continents, including opportunities for connections with one another beyond the confines of the course.
Program
State of the art online workshop
Mindful Practice enters its 12th year of offering transformative programs, building resilience and promoting flourishing for health professionals. We now provide this program in a live online format using state-of-the-art educational technology, where this retreat-like workshop can be experienced without the need for travel. Participants in the online program have described the online experience to be just as intimate, connecting, and life-changing as it has been for the more than 800 physicians, nurses, psychologists and other health professionals who have experienced the program in person.
Learning objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Increase clinician self–awareness and self-monitoring during clinical work and teaching
- Increase clinicians’ ability to attend to patient’s needs, reduce and respond to errors, practice with greater effectiveness and compassion, and attend to their own well-being
Session schedule
All scheduled activities occur between 9:00am and 5:30pm Eastern Time (6:00am-2:30pm Pacific Time, 3:00pm – 11:30pm Central European Time). In addition, there are 45-90 minutes of required asynchronous activities each day. This is a fully immersive full-time retreat-like workshop.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
- 9:00 am - 12:30 pm: Session 1
- 12:30 - 2:30 pm: Break
- 2:30 - 3:00 pm: Affinity Groups
- 3:00 - 5:30 pm: Session 2
Thursday, April 29, 2021
- 9:00 - 9:30 am: Morning Meditation Practice
- 9:30 - 10:00 am: Affinity Groups
- 10:00 - 10:30 am: Break
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Session 3
- 12:30 - 2:30 pm: Break
- 2:30 - 3:00 pm: Affinity Groups
- 3:00 - 5:30 pm: Session 4
Friday, April 30, 2021
- 9:30 - 10:00 am: Morning Meditation Practice
- 10:00 am - 12:30 pm: Session 5
- 12:30 - 2:30 pm: Break
- 2:30 - 3:00 pm: Affinity Groups
- 3:00 - 5:30 pm: Session 6
Saturday, May 1, 2021
- 9:00 - 9:30 am: Morning Meditation Practice
- 9:30 - 10:00 am: Affinity Groups
- 10:00 - 10:30 am: Break
- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Session 7
- 12:30 - 1:30 pm: Break
- 1:30 - 2:00 pm: Affinity Groups
- 2:00 - 4:30 pm Session 8
For whom
Designed for medical practitioners (physicians, NPs, PAs) and others involved in medical practice and education. No prior experience is required, however, familiarity with meditation or other contemplative practices is desirable.
Starting dates
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online
- Session date(s):
- 28 April - 1 May 2021
- Location:
- CVM Online