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Be Good to Yourself, Whoever You Are: a writing workshop in partnership with Southwestern Ontario Military Family Resource Centre
Nov.
22
6:30 p.m.18:30

Be Good to Yourself, Whoever You Are: a writing workshop in partnership with Southwestern Ontario Military Family Resource Centre

Often in work and in life, energy moves quickly towards projects and other people but there’s little left for your own restoration. In this workshop, through the use of poems and prompts, you will be nudged into writing and reflecting on what sustains you, what you love and what you need. Take this time for yourself as a flicker of possibility of how you might take time for yourself in general.  No experience necessary.

This session is open to any CAF member, military family member or veteran. Please register with Andrea Baker in advance.

For more information check out the FB page of the Southwestern Ontario Military Family Resource Centre

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Grief, Gratitude, and Meditative Awareness -- for Health Care Professionals
Apr.
28
5:30 p.m.17:30

Grief, Gratitude, and Meditative Awareness -- for Health Care Professionals

A reflective writing session for Medical Students, Residents, Physicians and other Health Care Professionals

When we talk about being grateful, it sometimes feels like an attempt to override the grief we are also living with. Like telling ourselves to eat our peas because they're good for us, a finger wagging into appreciation. But why is gratitude useful, and how can we experience it while feeling the pain around us and within us? This session uses poetry, conversation, and a meditation practice to tap into the well-being gratitude can sometimes offer, even now.

Register here.

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Postcards from the Edge: Addressing Compassion/Covid Fatigue in Note Form
Dec.
8
6:00 p.m.18:00

Postcards from the Edge: Addressing Compassion/Covid Fatigue in Note Form

A Reflective Writing Workshop for Medical Students, Residents, Physicians and Other Health Professionals

 Perhaps you are too overwhelmed to read this. Let’s be brief: this workshop will address impacts, physical or emotional, personal or professional, of caring for human suffering. Including your own. In notes. A creative writing workshop. With other hesitant people. Using poems as guides. Have a rest, write something. No writing experience necessary.

Register here.

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Compassion Atelier
Jun.
10
to Jun. 11

Compassion Atelier

  • Thunder Bay, Ontario (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A weekend retreat for Educators and Learners focusing on Compassion, Pedagogy and Curriculum. This will be an interdisciplinary group coming from Health Care, Indigenous Studies, Library and more.

I will be presenting the workshop “Awake at Work.”

If you’re interested, there are just a few spots. Contact me. Or email kristen.jones@lakeheadu.ca

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"Have You Seen the Patient?" A Poetry, Writing and Reflection Workshop for Residents, MD Educators and Practitioners
Apr.
10
6:00 p.m.18:00

"Have You Seen the Patient?" A Poetry, Writing and Reflection Workshop for Residents, MD Educators and Practitioners

Using reflective writing as a platform, explore what it is to “see” your patient, as a student, a care provider, team member, as a human being. Have a conversation with yourself and each other about the rich nature of patient-centred collaborative work.

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Speaking to Power with Clarity and Effectiveness: A workshop at the University of Toronto
Mar.
7
11:30 a.m.11:30

Speaking to Power with Clarity and Effectiveness: A workshop at the University of Toronto

Making a request for accommodations or consideration from your professors, teaching assistants or supervisors can be an intimidating process. This workshop will use poetry and writing to explore the areas in which you feel hesitant in asking for what you need. 

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Thinking of You: Letters to Ourselves and Each Other: A Workshop for Health Care
Feb.
13
6:00 p.m.18:00

Thinking of You: Letters to Ourselves and Each Other: A Workshop for Health Care

A workshop for Residents, MD Educators and Health Care Practitioners

In another part of the hospital is a person you know — a patient, a student, a colleague. Or there's a department you’ve never visited on another floor. Or a stranger you’ve seen alone in the halls. During valentine's week, we either cringe, or act loving, or feel privately lonely. This workshop is an opportunity to connect to a person or place through writing, a way to say ‘thinking of you.’ Though you won’t be actually sending the pieces you write, it’s a way to put down a few words of connection to yourselves and each other.

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Narrative Healthcare Atelier Mount Sinai Psychotherapy Institute 
Jun.
1
to Jun. 4

Narrative Healthcare Atelier Mount Sinai Psychotherapy Institute 

  • Mount Sinai Hospital (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Narrative Healthcare Atelier Mount Sinai Psychotherapy Institute 

Visiting Keynote Speaker: Ronald M. Epstein, MD

Course Directors: Allan Peterkin, MD & Michael Roberts, MD

Canada's Only Advanced Training Seminar in Narrative-based Healthcare for Health Practitioners and Educators across Clinical Disciplines

Explore and reflect critically on your clinical practices, challenges, personal and professional growth as health providers using narrative, storytelling and arts-based learning.  This 4 day workshop is designed to help you improve outcomes and to humanize your experiences within complex healthcare contexts. Themes related to relationship-centered care, professionalism, team collaboration and the hidden curriculum will be explored through visual, cinematic and literary texts including fiction, drama and poetry.

This intensive, interactive atelier will apply narrative theory and reflective practice in the contexts of interprofessional patient-centred healthcare, research and education.  It aims to:  enliven your engagement and collaboration as clinicians and educators from all disciplines; support best practices as teachers, clinicians and lifelong learners; transform the paradigm of your daily professional practice with a renewed commitment to the core values of humanistic healthcare.

I will be joining my amazing colleagues to present a workshop at this conference. "Postcards from the Edge: Addressing Compassion Fatigue in Note Form"  will be offered on June 4.

Register here.

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Exploring Spiritual Landscapes though the Arts
Apr.
25
to Apr. 28

Exploring Spiritual Landscapes though the Arts

  • Deerhurst Resort (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Canadian Association for spiritual Care Conference is being held from April 25-28 in Deerhurst, Ontario. Among the robust selection of arts-based workshops presented, I will be offering "Postcards from the Edge: Addressing Compassion Fatigue in Note Form" twice on April 26.  Keynote speakers are Dr. Allan Peterkin and Dr. Luis Fornazarri.

Deerhurst Resort, Deerhurst Ontario

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Be Good to Yourself Whoever You Are: Workshop for Pain Awareness Week
Nov.
10
1:00 p.m.13:00

Be Good to Yourself Whoever You Are: Workshop for Pain Awareness Week

Be Good to Yourself, Whoever You Are

Often in work, and in life, energy moves towards projects and people but there’s little left for your own restoration ­–– especially for those living with chronic pain. In this workshop, through the use of poems and prompts, you will be nudged into writing and reflecting on what sustains you, what you love and what you need. Take this time for yourself as a flicker of possibility of how you might take time for yourself in general.

Note that this workshop does not focus on pain or pain management, rather uses writing as a way to express and support the experiences we have when we're in pain and in life in general. 

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