Cultivating Mindful-Compassion and Resilience
This workshop is specifically for health professionals with busy and demanding, personal and work lives who aspire to: cultivate mental and emotional balance and excellence. Heal and harmonize relationships with ourselves and others, prevent burnout and flourish with appreciative joy and wellbeing.
Workshop Outline
This workshop is specifically for health professionals with busy and demanding, personal and work lives who aspire to: cultivate mental and emotional balance and excellence. Heal and harmonize relationships with ourselves and others, prevent burnout and flourish with appreciative joy and wellbeing.
Program will involve presentations, interactive discussion, movement, experiential exercises, guidance and practice as well as strategies for every day application in:
- mindfulness and serenity meditation,
- equanimity (centered, balanced resilience) and
- relationship qualities of warm friendliness, appreciation and compassion.
Where
Casuarina Steiner School Hall, Gentle Street, Coffs Harbour
The Casuarina School Hall is a peaceful setting, in a natural environment. The space is well suited to learning, calming practices for rest and restoration.
When
Saturday & Sunday 2nd and 3rd November
Option to attend both days or one day only. Lunches and refreshments provided.
Who
Health Professionals
This is an opportunity for Health Professionals to spend time with colleagues learning skills of resilience, stress reduction and self care to prevent burnout.
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Causes of Stress
The three most common causes of stress and distress among GPs:
- Emotional workload: the work invested and required in managing and responding to the psychosocial component of GPs’ work and dealing with abusive or confrontational patients
- Practice culture: practice dynamics and collegial conflict, bullying, isolation and lack of support
- Work role and demands: fear of making mistakes, complaints and inquests, revalidation, appraisal, inspections and financial worries
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mal Huxter
Mal Huxter is a teacher of Buddhist meditation and a clinical psychologist in private practice. He is the author of “Healing the Heart and Mind with Mindfulness.” A practicing psychologist for 28 years, he has been teaching mindfulness and the four heart qualities since 1991. He began training in Buddhist meditation practices in 1975, living in Thailand as a Buddhist monk for two years in the late 1970’s. As well as Theravada he has trained in other Buddhist and spiritual traditions. For more info about Mal go to: www.malhuxter.com
Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is a Psychologist, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) facilitator and yoga teacher. She currently works in private practice in Bellingen and Coffs Harbour and facilitates Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction groups and Trauma Sensitive Yoga classes. For more info about Lisa go to: http://mindfulnesspsychologywellbeing.com
