Finding Balance seminars

" If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."  — Maya Angelou

"Balance surely is the key to a fulfilling professional and personal life, especially in medicine, which is as much a calling as a career. The process begins with awareness and the weekend helped boost awareness, examine priorities and have fun while doing it. Lee is a rare personality, one who can draw individuals out in a large group setting, while making everyone feel included and supported." — TM, MD

"As a physician's spouse, I was curious to see how, if at all, the Finding Balance weekend would apply to me. And it surely did. In fact, with little tweaking, this would be a useful process for everyone –it could be called "Finding Balance in Life." — Participating Spouse

"Before this program I had to justify every minute I spent not doing something for something else."  — Tish K, MD

Two Day Seminars Program Outline
Day One
Finding Balance: The genesis of imbalance

• Our stresses from the inside and out
• Our personalities and how they affect our stress levels
• Type A personalities and perfectionism
• The effect of training and career development on our personality
• Care and work addiction
• Stress, burnout and performance

Evaluating your needs and tools to enhance balance

• How you can impact your performance
• Learning tools to shift perspective

Skills to manage stress and difficult situations

• Cognitive relearning of responses
• Perfectionism and it's impact
• Creating boundaries
• Learning how to ask for what you need
• Managing expectation
• Re-thinking responses to stress

The neuro-physiology of stress

• The effect of stress on health
• The effect of stress on performance and cognition

Emotional shifting

• Stress management to enhance performance
• Managing difficult people
• Learning new responses to stress inducing situations
• Problem solving

Day Two

• The science of connection
• The effect of relationships on health
• How we interact at home and work

Communication and connection

• The effect of communication on outcomes
• Learning more effective communication
• Communicating with difficult people
• Empathetic listening
• Intuitive listening

Understanding your personality structure

• Evaluation of the physician personality before, during and after training
• The effect of this personality in mid life
• Identifying core areas for change in your personality structure

Psychosynthesis: Becoming whole & moving forward

• Understanding the 'dark' side of your personality
• Identifying the genesis of your personality
• Personality restructuring
• Creating a more effective way of being moving forward in your life

Moving forward

• Identifying goals
• Understanding the will to make change
• Creating an action plan for change