Events for 2024-Nov-Fri - 2024-Nov-Fri

Reflect, Reset + Recharge: Practitioner's Retreat to Cultivate Self-Compassion, Address Burnout + Enhance Patient Self-Care Through Therapeutic Yoga “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete” ~Buddha Practitioner burnout exists in over 50% of physical therapists in America. Burnout and compassion fatigue can negatively influence your job performance, quality of patient care, patient outcomes, and your personal life. Join Shelly Prosko, Physical Therapist and Professional Yoga Therapist, in this special two day yoga infused ‘getaway’ in a relaxing, small-group, retreat setting where you will learn and experience self-care methods for yourself, and ultimately how to teach effective self-care to your patients. Learning self-care principles can help cultivate self-compassion, prevent practitioner burnout, promote longevity and vitality in work-life balance. Learn how to empower your patients with self-care techniques resulting in enhanced quality of care, and help create overall balanced health and well being both for yourself and your patients. You will learn a variety of techniques and practical tips to immediately integrate into your daily routine at your workplace and at home. You will participate in yoga practices including meditation and mindfulness techniques, pranayama (breath practices), asana (physical poses), and other movement integrated with yoga philosophy to address components of self-care and compassion that can help inspire you on your path to restore balance, vitality, peace, and reconnection to your authentic self and purpose. Retreat Intentions: Define self-compassion and the difference between indulgence and self-esteem and why self-compassion is a key component of overall health and wellness for yourself and your patients. Learn the heuristic model of compassion and understand how it can be used to enhance quality of care in the clinical setting. Learn alternative paths to prime, cultivate and enhance compassion towards ourselves and others. Define burnout (BO) and compassion fatigue (CF), particularly as it relates to the health care practitioner. Outline 2 models of burnout including risk factors, warning signs, stages and characteristics. Compare compassion satisfaction vs compassion fatigue. Learn how integrating yoga into your professional practice and your personal life may help improve compassion satisfaction, prevent practitioner BO + CF, and optimize quality of care for patients. Learn a variety of self-care techniques and practical tips that you can share with your patients and also immediately integrate into your own daily home and workplace routine. Valuable resources will be included. Participate in yoga practices including a variety of meditation and mindfulness techniques, pranayama (breath practices), asana (physical poses), and other movement practices integrated with yoga philosophy to help cultivate compassion towards yourself, others, and to inspire and empower yourself and your patients to reconnect to peace, purpose, and a sense of joy for life. TO REGISTER: CLICK HERE Limited to 14 registrants – please email [email protected] to reserve your spot prior to mailing your registration form *Payment due at time of registration / Payment is non-refundable* Included in cost: Course tuition, lodging, food and the Scandinave Spa Audience: This course is open to all health care professionals – physiotherapists, physiotherapy students, physiotherapy assistants, occupational therapists, chiropractors, naturopathic doctors, massage therapists, registered kinesiologists, medical doctors, nurses and midwives.

Reflect, Reset + Recharge: Practitioner's Retreat to Cultivate Self-Compassion, Address Burnout + Enhance Patient Self-Care Through Therapeutic Yoga “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete” ~Buddha Practitioner burnout exists in over 50% of physical therapists in America. Burnout and compassion fatigue can negatively influence your job performance, quality of patient care, patient outcomes, and your personal life. Join Shelly Prosko, Physical Therapist and Professional Yoga Therapist, in this special two day yoga infused ‘getaway’ in a relaxing, small-group, retreat setting where you will learn and experience self-care methods for yourself, and ultimately how to teach effective self-care to your patients. Learning self-care principles can help cultivate self-compassion, prevent practitioner burnout, promote longevity and vitality in work-life balance. Learn how to empower your patients with self-care techniques resulting in enhanced quality of care, and help create overall balanced health and well being both for yourself and your patients. You will learn a variety of techniques and practical tips to immediately integrate into your daily routine at your workplace and at home. You will participate in yoga practices including meditation and mindfulness techniques, pranayama (breath practices), asana (physical poses), and other movement integrated with yoga philosophy to address components of self-care and compassion that can help inspire you on your path to restore balance, vitality, peace, and reconnection to your authentic self and purpose. Retreat Intentions: Define self-compassion and the difference between indulgence and self-esteem and why self-compassion is a key component of overall health and wellness for yourself and your patients. Learn the heuristic model of compassion and understand how it can be used to enhance quality of care in the clinical setting. Learn alternative paths to prime, cultivate and enhance compassion towards ourselves and others. Define burnout (BO) and compassion fatigue (CF), particularly as it relates to the health care practitioner. Outline 2 models of burnout including risk factors, warning signs, stages and characteristics. Compare compassion satisfaction vs compassion fatigue. Learn how integrating yoga into your professional practice and your personal life may help improve compassion satisfaction, prevent practitioner BO + CF, and optimize quality of care for patients. Learn a variety of self-care techniques and practical tips that you can share with your patients and also immediately integrate into your own daily home and workplace routine. Valuable resources will be included. Participate in yoga practices including a variety of meditation and mindfulness techniques, pranayama (breath practices), asana (physical poses), and other movement practices integrated with yoga philosophy to help cultivate compassion towards yourself, others, and to inspire and empower yourself and your patients to reconnect to peace, purpose, and a sense of joy for life. TO REGISTER: CLICK HERE Limited to 14 registrants – please email [email protected] to reserve your spot prior to mailing your registration form *Payment due at time of registration / Payment is non-refundable* Included in cost: Course tuition, lodging, food and the Scandinave Spa Audience: This course is open to all health care professionals – physiotherapists, physiotherapy students, physiotherapy assistants, occupational therapists, chiropractors, naturopathic doctors, massage therapists, registered kinesiologists, medical doctors, nurses and midwives.