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What Do We Provide?
Our courses have both experiential and didactic components, and directly address critical physician concerns, including burnout, lawsuits and professional relationships. Lessons are drawn extensively from the peer reviewed literature to provide healthcare professionals with the resources to increase their resilience, restore their own mental and physical health, and build interpersonal skills. Learnings are supported with high quality feedback, so that students can comfortably apply what they have learned in their personal lives & medical practices.
- Experiential & didactic
- High quality feedback
- Improve work & life
- Earn CME / RM / ANCC Credits
- Backed by the peer reviewed literature
- Sharpen critical thinking
Target Audience
Designed for Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Nurses
Our Courses
Foundational Course Recharge Your Batteries: Evidence Based Practices to End Burnout
- Provides 32 CME / RM/ ANCC credits
- Online “Self Paced”
- Manage Stress – Improve Communication – Improve Work Satisfaction – Improve Lives
- Measure Success – Burnout Evaluation Pre & Post Course
- High Quality Live Feedback
- Become a Mentor Post-Course
Lawsuit Survival Training: Six Step Program for Self-Preservation with a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit.
- Earn 18 CME / RM / ANCC credits
- Online & Live Virtual Format
- Support Team
Out of Burnout: A Path to Flourishing
- 9 CME / RM / ANCC credits
- Online / On Demand
- Find your Path to a Flourishing life
Stress, The Relaxation Response & Resilience
- 3 CME / RM / ANCC credits
- Online / On Demand
- Learn how Stress arises and how to Overcome
Life Balance: A Strategy for Well Being & Resilience
- 2 CME / RM / ANCC credits
- Online / On Demand
- Learn to use Life Balance for a better life
Cultivating Positivity Through Gratitude & Forgiveness
- 2 CME / RM / ANCC credits
- Online / On Demand
- Learn to use Positivity to build Resilience
Narrative Healing: A Method for Diminishing Suffering & Burnout
- 8 CME / RM / ANCC credits
- Online / On Demand
- Learn how to build Resilience by Changing your Life Narrative
A Course in Leadership: Building a Generative Healthcare Community
- 6 CME / RM / ANCC credits
- Online / On Demand
- Become and effective leader
Recharge Your Batteries: Evidence Based Practices to End Burnout
This course directly addresses the causes and consequences of professional burnout, and includes a process of change. It is a 32 hour commitment for those that are serious about improving their well-being. An overview of the physiology and genetics of stress related disease is presented, as well as the mind/body interventions that relieve stress, build resilience and improve health. You will have the opportunity to experience numerous techniques based on mindfulness practices from several traditions, and skills will be developed, so that you will be comfortable enough with your new learnings to continue to practice on your own. IIH also has coaches available to support the training should a learner request.
Objectives
- Be familiar with the characteristics of a complex system.
- Understand that models are reflections that change as understanding evolves.
- Appraise the physical foundation of the body’s ability to heal.
- Evaluate the research in the developing field of mind/body medicine.
- Summarize the key features of burnout.
- Develop strategies for avoiding or ameliorating burnout & dealing with extreme life challenges.
- Be able to elicit the relaxation response and teach others.
- Recognize outside messaging and employ processes for changing limiting beliefs.
- Use mindfulness techniques to manage emotions and improve communication.
- Recognize & utilize strengths of human character to achieve a desired outcome.
- Clarify a future vision and utilize lifestyle choices as a strategy for avoiding or ameliorating burnout and achieving life balance.
- Demonstrate optimistic story telling style in the telling of your own story.
Lawsuit Survival Training
This 18-hour program is designed to lift the cloud that hangs over individuals who have experienced traumatic stress, especially healthcare providers who have been accused of medical malpractice. During the training you will have the opportunity to transform and enhance the way you see yourself by gaining personal insight, identifying resources, engaging in practices to manage stress & increase resilience, rebuilding self-esteem, improving relationships and restoring a sense of mastery. You will learn to access a focused state of mind imbued with calm self-assurance, and you will practice techniques for recovering calm and focus, when confused, triggered, or distracted.
Objectives
- Identify the challenges of an individual facing an allegation of medical malpractice.
- Understand PTSD as a problem in living.
- Outline strategies for regaining a positive self-image and sense of mastery & efficacy after a lawsuit.
- Utilize mindfulness techniques to manage emotions under duress.
- Identify ways to set appropriate boundaries, including how and when to say no.
Out of Burnout: A Path to Flourishing
This educational experience is designed to relieve the angst experienced by many healthcare providers. It is a condensed version of our 32-hour foundational course. An overview of the physiology and genetics of stress related disease is presented, as well as the mind/body interventions that relieve stress, build resilience and improve health. The training provides the opportunity to gain personal insight, identify resources, engage in practices to manage stress, increase resilience, and achieve life balance.
Objectives
- Be aware of the consequences of burnout.
- Develop strategies for avoiding or ameliorating burnout & achieving life balance
- Appreciate the correlation of optimism with positive health outcomes and a flourishing life.
Stress, The Relaxation Response & Resilience
The course provides an overview of the physiology and genetics of stress-related disease, as well as the mind/body interventions that relieve stress, and improve health. You will have the opportunity to assess your own life with the intention of identifying areas that support your resilience or contribute to stress vulnerability, and you will learn techniques to activate the relaxation response.
Objectives
- Understand the stress response, the role of NF-kappaB, and inflammation in stress-related disease.
- Learn the impact of the relaxation response on the parasympathetic nervous system, gene activation and inflammation.
- Learn how to elicit the relaxation response in self and be comfortable teaching others.
- Understand the importance of optimism in avoiding stress related illness and burnout.
- Identify limiting beliefs contributing to stress and vulnerability to burnout.
- Align with life’s purpose as a strategy for flourishing.
- Discuss the importance of connection with family/friends/community in avoiding stress related illness and burnout.
- Learn how to use time management, lifestyle choices and mindfulness to relieve stress.
Life Balance: A Strategy for Well Being & Resilience
This course focuses on life balance and methods to achieve balance as a key strategy for well-being and resilience. It includes self-assessments and other tools for making change.
Objectives
- Understand the concept of allostasis and the health impact of stress.
- Identify barriers to achieving balance.
- Understand the importance of relationships in supporting resilience.
- Incorporate goal setting as a strategy for satisfying basic needs and achieving life balance.
- Develop a future vision
Cultivating Positivity Through Gratitude & Forgiveness
The course addresses the special importance of positivity for a flourishing healthy life. It includes self-assessments and guided practices for overcoming negativity bias and cultivating positive emotions.
Objectives
- Learn ways of overcoming the negativity bias.
- Learn how cultivating positive emotions can increase resilience and life satisfaction.
- Utilize reframing as a means of benefiting from difficult life experiences.
- Recognize the health benefits of practicing gratitude.
- Learn the meaning of forgiveness.
- Outline the health benefits of forgiveness after emotional abuse.
- Reflect on spirituality as a constellation of positive emotions.
Narrative Healing: A Method for Diminishing Suffering & Burnout
This 8-hour course is a learning experience that includes a program for change based on evidence-based practices to improve well-being and resilience. The course will guide you through a process of narrative restructuring to transform the meaning of your life experiences in an authentic manner that supports your health and success.
Objectives
- Learn to flourish.
- Identify the key elements of the “Hero’s Journey”.
- Become familiar with the core concept of autobiographical memory.
- Identify and incorporate your signature strengths into your personal history.
- Learn to recover resource memories.
- Utilize reframing as a means of benefiting from difficult life experiences.
- Identify and change limiting beliefs.
- Align with your life’s purpose to avoid or ameliorate burnout.
- Demonstrate optimistic story telling style in the telling of your own story.
- Develop a future vision.
A Course in Leadership: Building a Generative Healthcare Community
This 6 hour training is designed for leaders and future leaders in healthcare, regardless of your job title.
Objectives
- Recognize the importance of effective leadership in developing a generative healthcare community.
- Define compassionate leadership & outline ways to demonstrate compassionate leadership.
- Explain the importance of aligning leadership behaviors with core values.
- Learn to incorporate mindful listening and harness motivation.
- Learn to integrate optimism and compassionate mindset into negotiation
- Utilize the Disney strategy to organize creative teams.
- Be able to use your personal leadership style in a real-life setting and much, much more.
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