For Healthcare Organizations
Bring Flourishing in Medicine programs to your healthcare organization to help clinicians and trainees thrive, find satisfaction and meaning in their work, provide compassionate patient-centered care, and address the challenges of professional isolation, burnout, and moral distress.
Trusted by Healthcare Organizations Globally
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Grand Blanc, Michigan, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Fribourg, Switzerland
Empowering Professionals, Elevating Care
Whether your setting is a health professions school, clinic, hospital, healthcare system, or other setting – our evidence-based programs are proven to help health professionals flourish and better serve patients while enhancing joy, well-being, and engagement in practice.
What a Flourishing In Medicine Program Can Do For Your Organization
Focusing on the most important things
Clinicians, staff, researchers, and educators will practice at their best, be better able to navigate chaos and distractions, and feel a sense of engagement, meaning and purpose in their work.
A learning community
Create a sense of connectedness and sustainability within the organization, reducing professional isolation and building peer support.
When individuals thrive, so does the organization
By working with leadership and on-the-ground healthcare professionals and staff, the sense of community created will energize the organization as a whole, reduce turnover, improve quality of care, and enhance patient safety.
What We Offer
Customized On-Site and Online Live Workshops
We offer half-day, full-day and multi-day immersive workshops for clinicians, researchers, educators, staff, and leaders, as well as longitudinal programs over consecutive weeks. We work with institutional and departmental leaders to tailor programs to individual and institutional needs.
Consultations
Designed to offer health care organizations recommendations regarding integrating programs to improve well-being and quality of care, address health professional burnout, and improve work satisfaction and performance.
Teacher Training
We offer workshops and mentoring to train a handful of motivated individuals to become teachers of Flourishing in Medicine programs.
Hear From Leaders at Healthcare Organizations
The University of Calgary's Centre for Mindfulness has had the great privilege of having Ron & Mick offer their MPIM - CORE workshop up here in Banff Alberta for the past 2 years. The enthusiastically positive responses to these workshops have resulted in Ron & Mick returning to train 14 of our faculty towards become facilitators of MPIM, and have engaged our leadership in supporting our vision for a more compassionate healthcare community.
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Todd Hill
PhD, R. Psych Senior Instructor at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine |
Meeting Ron and Mick and using their Mindful Practice in Medicine (MPIM) program they built, studied (published) and taught to thousands, was a game changer in our journey. It was obvious after the first workshop they put on for us in Banff, Alberta, what a profound impact MPIM could have for physicians struggling with burnout. Ron and Mick’s deep knowledge, experience, and authenticity, together with their decades old MPIM program, have helped to shape the CSM’s senior leaders’ attitudes about mindfulness, for which we will be forever grateful.
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Ward Flemons Professor of Medicine at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine |
Firefighters are trained to extinguish fires and protect themselves from flames. The second aspect is significantly lacking in our undergraduate medical training. MPiM gave me a whole new understanding of what is needed to prepare our students to survive, live and thrive in their future clinical activities. Starting from my personal experience gained during the course, I’m finding ways to progressively incorporate the different facets of MPiM into our undergraduate program and assessment system. The very clinical approach of MPiM has shown to be effective and well-perceived.
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Raphael Bonvin, MD, MME Vice-Dean of Medical Education at Université de Fribourg |
The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine has been enormously successful in the introduction of a Mindful Practice in Medicine Scholars Program with the support and collaboration of the University of Rochester’s Mindful Practice in Medicine Program. We feel our training and collaboration have put us in an unique position to foster flourishing of our trainees and faculty.
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Jodi Jackson, MD Professor of Pediatrics University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why should my medical or nursing school consider holding a Flourishing in Medicine program?
Flourishing in Medicine workshops are evidence-based programs that offer skills for clinicians and leaders to respond more effectively to stresses in clinical practice, form better connections with their patients and colleagues, and be more attentive and thoughtful in their clinical practice.
What are the benefits?
Flourishing in Medicine Programs have been associated with lower clinician burnout and psychological distress, greater clinician well-being, more empathic and effective patient-clinician relationships, improved patient safety, lower implicit racial bias, fewer diagnostic errors, fewer medication errors, and better teamwork.
Are continuing education credits available?
Yes, continuing education credits are available for physicians, nurse-practitioners, physician assistants and psychologists. Please see registration information for details.
Is a Flourishing in Medicine program suitable for a healthcare leadership team?
Absolutely. The same practices that promote clear intention, focused attention, critical curiosity, beginner’s mind and presence can promote effective leadership and teamwork, enhanced ability to deal with conflict and adversity, and lower rates of burnout, distress, and attrition.
What size group is ideal?
We offer workshops for as few as 10 and as many as 150 participants. For larger groups, we break out into smaller sub-groups for some of the exercises and discussion, each with a facilitator.
Who should attend such a workshop?
Flourishing in Medicine Workshops can be helpful for anyone in healthcare: clinicians, trainees, non-clinician staff, leadership. They can encompass academic medical centers, hospitals, clinics, and corporate settings. We alter the curricula to adapt to the needs of each group. Mixed groups are fine for many of the exercises; other have to be adapted because clinical contexts might be different. For example, errors, moral distress and conflicts may manifest differently for students, nurses, physicians and administrators. While entire work teams can participate, including leadership, we try to avoid pairing those in hierarchical and reporting relationships in exercises that might bring up personal information or bad outcomes.
How long is a typical workshop?
We offer short programs (1-3 hours), day-long programs, and multi-day workshops in-person and online, as well as series of shorter programs. Shorter programs are designed to orient participants to our approach and provide practical skills that they can bring to their work settings; these can accommodate to large groups and institution-wide deployment. Daylong programs offer greater depth and more sustainable skills; these can reinforce content and foster a supportive professional community. We also offer 2-day and 3-day immersion programs, some of which are residential, to create a critical mass of leaders, ambassadors, and teachers who can help transform institutional culture and tailor programs to the needs of their teams, departments and organizations. These longer retreat-like workshops provide a depth of experience that cannot be achieved by shorter workshops.
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