You will learn how to:

  • Recover

    Learn to heal from chronic stress. Discover ways to net more energy at the end of the day, make more time for yourself and cultivate nourishing relationships at home and work.

  • Reconnect

    Rediscover your purpose in clinical work. Develop essential skills for a sustainable and meaningful practice, even in a challenging, chaotic environment.

  • Renew

    Cultivate emotional flexibility. Grow your capacity to fully embrace your life outside of work. Learn to recognize your needs and give yourself the gift of time and space to be human.

Course Curriculum

This course integrates a thorough research review with evidence-based strategies to maintain well-being in a healthcare context. Chapters include:

  • The Hard Truths and the Way Through: Review the data on clinician well-being and begin to explore tools to access more meaning in your work.

  • Organizational Lens: Learn about the long-term and recent healthcare trends impacting clinicians and evidence-based recommendations for organizational change.

  • Looking Within: Begin to explore the struggles for clinicians emerging from challenges in training and medical culture. Gain a new perspective on the path taken and empowerment to choose another way for yourself.

  • Cultivating Steadiness: Review the physiological impact of stress, including on executive functioning. Learn and apply skills to counteract the corrosive effects of stress.

  • Clearing the Mind: Explore the ways thinking, learning, and language can contribute to stress for clinicians. Learn evidence based skills to reorient the mind in times of stress.

  • Opening the Heart: Develop greater awareness of empathy and compassion in relation to patients' suffering. Learn skills to reduce the negative toll of empathy ("empathic distress") and maintain compassion as a mainstay of medical practice.

  • Living Into the Practice: Take a big picture view of all you have learned and integrate findings from research on the experiences of "resilient" clinicians.

Discover your path, starting today

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Course Instructor

Sandra Shallcross, PhD, LP

Founder and Lead Psychologist

As a Counseling Psychologist, I have dedicated much of my career to the understanding two things: 1) how individuals can recover and even grow after experiencing stress and trauma and 2) how people discover meaning and purpose in their lives. Since 2015, I have developed many modes of training for healthcare practitioners, from individual services to classes, talks and workshops. After witnessing the pandemic leave its mark on the hearts of so many clinicians, I realized it is time for a new way to support change, and I am committed to evidence-based innovation to improve training and empower practitioners. I can’t say enough about how meaningful this work has become to me. I am so grateful to the healthcare professionals I have met for their inspiring examples of compassion and resilience. My work is grounded in the emerging gold-standard approaches for clinician well-being, including cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based approaches. My teaching is also rooted in over two decades of personal practice with meditation and yoga.

Continuing Education

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