2025

Mindfulness retreat for physicians

All Clinicians and their Partners Welcome!

Mindfulness Retreat For Physicians, clinicians, and healers

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Sunday, June 1, 2024

Full Day 9:00am - 4:30pm

Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center 1601 Shoreline Highway, Muir Beach, CA 94965

CME 4.0 Credits

Partners/Spouses, friends, family welcome!

You don't have to be a physician to come to the retreat, any kind of healer is welcome as are spouses, partners, kids, friends.

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$250 per participant (Paypal: Physician Wellness at DrHusen@gmail.com, or Venmo: Lenny Husen 925-482-7893, or Check Payable to Lenny Husen, Physician Wellness Retreat Organizer, 1080 Brown Avenue, Lafayette, CA 94549-3149 and be sure to comment your name(s) to reserve your spot(s))

When you sign up, please email DrHusen@gmail.com your name, your profession and field of medicine or healing, and the names and professions of anyone who is coming with you.

The payment is Non-Refundable

However, if you pay and then are unable to come for ANY reason, you are entitled to go to a future retreat or you can have another person go to the Retreat in your stead.

You are responsible for reminding Lenny that you paid previously and didn't get to go if you decide to go to a future retreat.

The payment is Due on April 15, 2025.

To reserve a spot, payment must be received.

Presenters

John Mouratoff, MD, East Bay Nephrology

Scott Roberts, PhD, Professor of Biological Psychology

Lenny Husen, MD Internal Medicine, Sutter Hospitalist

Retreat Highlights

This retreat will provide teaching of forms of meditation shown by meta-analytic research to have the most benefits. Attendees will be able to teach Mindfulness techniques to others such as colleagues and patients. Attendees will directly experience the benefits of Meditation during the retreat and be able to employ stress-reduction techniques daily at work. There will be group discussions on what makes being a Healer challenging and the ways to develop self-compassion so that we may continue to have empathy for others in our care.

This FUN retreat will be held at Green Gulch Farm, a gorgeous locale in Marin County adjacent to Muir Beach.

Retreat Highlights

• Proven techniques based in Positive Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Meditation

• Practice of sitting and walking meditation, mindful yoga, and body scan

• Tools to incorporate daily mindfulness and joy into the Clinic and Hospital setting

• Vegan lunch, and built-in hour for hiking at Muir Beach (or a nap under a tree if you prefer!)

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Sample Retreat Agenda

Agenda Annual Evidence-Based Mindfulness Retreat for Physicians and Healers

Sunday June 9, 2024 at Stillwater Hall, Green Gulch

MORNING SCHEDULE

8:45-9:00: meet at Stillwater Hall (no shoes or food allowed inside) and get coffee or tea, get a cushion, blanket, yoga mat, Information for the Day regarding Green Gulch Policies

9:00am-9:30am: Introductions (Name, Occupation, Where you Work, What Brought you here), Experience with Meditation or Mindfulness

9:30am-10:15: Sitting Meditation with research evidence for effectiveness to reduce work stress, implicit bias and compassion fatigue, Dr. John Mouratoff

10:20am-10:50am: Body Scan Meditation Scott Roberts, MA, ABD Psychology

10:55- 11:30 Empathetic Listening Exercise in Pairs: Objective: to show that time spent deeply listening to and connecting with patients leads to better outcomes for patients and Health Care Providers, Presenter Lenny Husen

11:40 -12:25p : Yoga led by Dr. Kimberly Washington, MD, DC, Certified Yoga Instructor

AFTERNOON SCHEDULE

12:30-2:15pm

Mindful Joyful Vegan Lunch Mindful eating and chatting

followed by exploring Green Gulch and/or Muir Beach Hike, napping, free time

2:15pm-2:40pm Walking Meditation Scott Roberts, MA, ABD

Group Photo

2:45-2:55 : Forgiveness Micro-Meditation -Lenny, for Self-Compassion

2:55-3:05 Tonglen Micro-Meditation --Lenny, for grief and powerlessness over pain

3:10 to 3:20 Just This Breath Micro-Meditation, Scott

3:20pm-4:15 pm Practicing Mindfulness during The Busy Stressful Workday Exercises and Discussion of Barriers and Ways to Overcome Them

4:20-4:50 Metta Loving Kindness Meditation John Mouratoff

4:51 -5pm wrap up Exercise "Word of the Day",put away mats and equipment

2025

Mindfulness retreat for physicians