A live, online summit for healthcare workers, leaders, and supporters.
September 18-21, 2023
The COVID pandemic exposed the deep underbelly of an already aching American healthcare system.
Frontline healthcare workers were already experiencing some of the highest rates of mental illness among all professions, and the pandemic pushed them to the brink.
One in five healthcare workers left the profession since the pandemic hit, and the rest are left grappling with burnout, moral distress, and collective trauma.
When healthcare workers are unwell, patient outcomes suffer, too. And health systems across the country are struggling to address these issues in meaningful ways.
Join us for this four-part series with a psychologist, a chaplain, and a public health professional for paradigm-shifting conversations that will change how you understand the seemingly intractable challenges plaguing the U.S. healthcare system.
Your view will broaden to understand why this trauma-organized system operates the way it does and what is necessary to bring about whole-systems transformation and healing. Beyond solutions that target (and isolate) individuals, you will learn how to facilitate a co-regulatory experience among staff on your team and optimize a sense of safety between providers and patients.
You will gain radical new insights on how social engagement, spiritual care, compassion cultivation, and connecting to purpose and meaning can help heal the healthcare system from within – even within current operational constraints of a profit-oriented model of care.
Whether you are a nurse or C-suite executive, skeptic or optimist, you will leave being able to envision new ways forward, with practical starting places within your team/department and ways to connect those efforts with broader systems levers of change.
How to humanize the workforce
Cultivate social engagement, optimize sense of safety, compassion promotes the co-regulatory experience
Strengthening the vagal tone of the health care system
We’re not going to tell you how to cope - explain the mechanisms and we can work with you to develop a context-specific plan
CONTEXTUALIZE & REPEAT this process for each incident/dept.
Communal care
Video of Mitch doing a reenactment of the East Lake Clinic consultation?
How to soothe/calm/regulate at the systems level (health system is like a disconnected individual; need to reconnect executives with the daily realities & lived experiences of HCWs – somatic experiencing)
How does the system slow down enough to regulate – move from reactivity to intention
Post-traumatic growth
Emotional donning/doffing @ shift change
Engaging the social/spiritual care of the medical system
Chaplaincy not only for patients but also for HCWs
What might spiritual care at the systems level look like?
Compassion cultivation
Collective grief recognition/group witnessing
Developing compassion for self – from there, you can cultivate compassion for others (me to we)
What is compassion cultivation? Why does it work? How is it embodied somatically? What practices help to cultivate this?
Systems-based awareness mapping
Embodied leadership
Cultivate relationality (so-called “soft skills” are actually the most difficult to develop – necessary for strong leadership)
Mitchell Radin, PsyD, LP
David Hottinger, M.Div
Heather Buesseler, MPH