Building Resilience for Healthcare Providers
A program designed to help healthcare providers build resilience and manage burnout, incorporating mindfulness, emotional regulation, and meaning-making strategies. This program draws heavily from Dr. MacLean's experience and insights, aiming to translate her wisdom and practical strategies into actionable steps for building resilience.
Program Modules
Understanding Burnout
Explore the definition, drivers, and impact of burnout on healthcare providers. This module aims to ground participants in a clear understanding of burnout as a foundation for building resilience.
Define Burnout
WeeklyLearn the key characteristics of burnout: physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of accomplishment. Define burnout in your own terms and how it manifests in your life.
“Burnout is a negative state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion.”
Explore Drivers of Burnout
WeeklyIdentify the key drivers of burnout in healthcare settings, such as workload, lack of control, and work-life integration. Consider not just the existence of these drivers but also your reactions to them.
“Not feeling control in the workplace.”
Building Resilience Strategies
Learn and practice strategies for building resilience, including mindfulness, positive emotions, and emotional self-regulation. This module provides practical techniques, drawing on Dr. MacLean's recommendations.
Informal Mindful Practice
DailyIncorporate mindful practices into daily routines, such as walking, brushing teeth, or driving. Set a specific, achievable goal for mindful moments each day.
“Take a mindful moment to say okay, it's time to take off the doctor hat and put on the mom hat.”
Cultivate Positive Emotions
DailyPractice smiling, laughing, showing appreciation, and spending time reflecting on gratitude. Actively seek out opportunities to experience joy and share it with others.
“When you smile other people smile.”
Emotional Self-Regulation
WeeklyPractice reappraising situations, building emotional intelligence, and taking care of yourself to regulate emotions. Commit to a specific self-care activity each week.
“Have to own kind of how you react.”
Finding Meaning in Work
Explore ways to find joy and meaning in work, reflecting on your role as a healer and connecting with patients' stories. Apply Dr. MacLean's insights on finding meaning in even the most challenging aspects of your profession.
Reflect on Joy and Meaning
WeeklyIdentify the aspects of your work that bring you the most joy and meaning. Keep a journal of joyful moments and share them with a colleague.
Connect with Patients' Stories
WeeklyPractice being present with patients and listening to their unique stories. Aim to understand not just their medical condition, but their personal narrative.
“Every person has that unique story.”
What You'll Accomplish
- Understand the definition and drivers of burnout.
- Learn and practice strategies for building resilience.
- Incorporate mindful practices into daily routines.
- Cultivate positive emotions and gratitude.
- Practice emotional self-regulation.
- Find joy and meaning in work by connecting with patients.
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