Stress Resilience and Burnout Prevention Programs
for Healthcare Teams
How are your healthcare providers holding up?
Those who dedicate themselves to caring for others shouldn’t have to suffer from burnout and anxiety.
Support your team with proven mindfulness practices.
How can healthcare providers cope in the age of “continuous partial attention” and the demands of strained systems and global pandemics? Answers may lie in the emerging field of neuroscience. Research shows that mindfulness training is one of the best ways to alter the brain for improved attention, clarity, and compassion towards self and others.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
What would happen if your providers felt more supported, resilient, and engaged in their work rather than stretched too thin and on the edge of burnout?
Our healthcare system is facing huge challenges. The stress of COVID-19, the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare, high employee turnover, and frustrations with electronic medical records are among the factors placing monumental burdens on healthcare providers.
Add in that, the urgency of caring for others in pain, the pressure to be perfect, persistent distractions, and expectations for multi-tasking, and it’s a recipe for anxiety and an increase in error rates.
Opportunity to earn Continuing Education Credits
*Psychologists: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The American Psychological Association approves the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 27.0 hours of credit.
*California-licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and LCSWs: The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness provides continuing education credit for this program. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. 27.0 contact hours may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if APA accreditation meets their requirements.
*Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 32.0 contact hours.
Learning Level: Introductory
Course Type: Live Program, to be puchased from Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is intentionally paying attention to our moment-to-moment experience with an attitude of curiosity and acceptance. This capacity to be aware of our thoughts, emotions, and body sensations with kind awareness allows us to be more responsive to ourselves and others as we move through our days.
“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” - Jon Kabat Zinn
Carol earned her certification from the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has completed extensive training in mindfulness, self-compassion, and mindful leadership with some of the most well-respected teachers in these fields.
A certified yoga teacher for more than 19 years, Carol founded Expressions of Grace yoga studio and served as its director from 2003 to 2012. Before her current career as an instructor and executive director for Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness, Carol spent 20 years in business management.
Carol began her journey into mindfulness more than 35 years ago to help with her stress and anxiety. She has since become a passionate advocate for mindfulness as an effective means of improving health and well-being. Carol’s classes emphasize safety and self-honoring as she guides students to build resilience and strengthen their mindfulness skills.
Carol Hendershot,
Certified MBSR Instructor
Co-Founder GR Center for Mindfulness
Carol is the co-founder and owner of the Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness and has been teaching the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course in the Greater Grand Rapids Area since 2008. She brings a wealth of experience and training to her work with individuals and corporations.
What Healthcare Professionals have to say about the program.
“I am so thankful for the mindfulness course I took as the pandemic was beginning, because not only was I able to utilize the practices to help me when I became scared and overwhelmed, but I was able to teach it to the patients that I was working with! The mindfulness practices I learned in the class were so helpful, and I know that without them, I would not have been half as present for myself, my family, and my patients!”
- Patti Mulder, LMSW
“Enhancing resiliency is key to combating physician burnout. I’m grateful to Carol for teaching me these mindfulness practices, and I am also grateful to have carved out time to practice them.”
- Tyler Murphy, MD, MS
“Since taking this wonderful Mindfulness course through Holland Hospital, I’ve used my mindfulness training regularly before stressful situations. I find a quiet place, meditate for at least one minute, and do the breathing exercises. I try doing some of the Yoga exercises in the early morning.mI’m grateful to have received a non-medication way of coping with stress. Everyone should take this course to cope with stress—the sooner, the better.”
- Dr. Ulf (Ulli) Hierlwimmer, D.O.
Retired Physician; Retired Captain USNR Medical Corps
Online Mindfulness Programs for Healthcare Employees
We’ve developed a menu of online presentations and courses specifically for healthcare providers. These programs are available in both live Zoom and self-guided formats that can fit into the busy lives of providers.
No prior experience with mindfulness is necessary. If your responsibilities in your organization include talent management, workplace wellness, or employee retention, we'd love to hear more about your goals and how we might support you in achieving them.
Reduces stress and anxiety
Provides greater employee engagement
Improves morale
Improves productivity
Lowers turnover
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