9th Annual Conference

With underserved populations and beyond, a foundational tenet of integrative healthcare directs a shift to patient-centered considerations and priorities in the context of their lives and communities. In order to accommodate that shift, there needs to be a corresponding shift in empowerment and self-responsibility for one’s own wellness. Adopting requisite self-responsibility is demonstrated in self-care, and the universal need for sound self-care is shared by patients and practitioners alike. The myriad results of neglecting self-care are reflected in escalating direct medical costs, indirect costs of lost productivity and professional contributions, and the personal costs of unactualized human potential.

This need is equally great for practitioners. Recent attention to stress, professional burnout, and workplace wellness program have produced increased options for self-care practices and the training to support them. Yet the individual seeking better self-care often lacks a framework with which they can assess, select, and monitor the activities, attitudes, and services they secure on behalf of their personal wellness.

This 90 minute workshop introduces an original model for wellness self-evaluation that can direct selection and monitoring of one’s individual self-care plan that is based on theoretical and empirical evidence. Participants will learn an overarching system that can guide choices about self-care programs and practices within a conceptually based rubric. In addition, participants will explore how they can introduce this model to their professional setting or clinical practice to implement the model with underserved communities.

Extensive presentation experience in small and large groups
Research credentials
Clinical experience and credentials as integrative practitioners
Developers of this evidence-based model
Experienced bringing self-care programs to underserved groups

self-assessment, evidence based model, self-care skills, experiential learning, wellness

Skill-based training or Experiential workshop: provide an opportunity to acquire and practice a new skill and to observe and refine teaching techniques for this skill

Discussion and collaboration, self-assessment

This session is appropriate for all audiences and skill levels