The Giving and Receiving Training is a 24-hour program designed for health care professionals to enhance resilience, prevent burnout, strengthen the therapeutic relationship and improve quality of care.
New series: Saturdays from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm in Graton, CA.
Workshops have been cancelled until further notice
due to the Shelter in Place Order.
July 18, 2020, September 19, 2020 and November 14, 2020?
Attend either one, two, three, or all four day-long workshops.
Taught by Edmee Danan, MD and Ilka de Gast, PsyD
Up to 24 CE Credits available for mental health professionals and nurses (6 CE Credits for each day-long workshop).
Up to 22 CME available for physicians, PA and FNP (5.50 CME for each day-long workshop).
(Please see below for details)
The Giving and Receiving Training Provides:
The goal of the Giving and Receiving Training is to teach various applications of Mindfulness and Qigong techniques in a clinical setting to improve resilience and quality of care.
Mindfulness is a meditation practice of being present and observing what is in a non-judgmental manner.
Wisdom Healing Qigong is an ancient system of mindful movements, healing sounds and guided meditations that increases the capacity for self-awareness and presence. (Refer to "About" Wisdom Healing Qigong for information about practices)
You will learn specific Mindfulness and Qigong techniques to:
- Improve well-being and inner resilience: Mindfulness meditation and Qigong quiet the mind, re-focus energy and promote well-being.
- Strengthen the therapeutic relationship (Giving): Applying techniques to monitor self-awareness when interacting with patients increases the capacity for active listening.
- Transform the challenges of complex clinical situations into a deep source of inspiration (Receiving): Observing our experience in a non-judgmental manner when interacting with patients improves the ability to tolerate uncertainty (and anxiety provoking situations), enhances empathy for others and nurtures self-compassion.
Rather than adding to your workload, Mindfulness and Qigong techniques taught in the training work by creating a cognitive shift that counteracts stress and exhaustion and balances your energy.
Why Attend the Giving and Receiving Training?
- Our compassion is manifested in the therapeutic alliance.
- The increasing pace and complexity of our medical system contribute to the disruption of the therapeutic relationship. The "Giving" becomes overwhelming, the "Receiving" is blocked.
- Professional dissatisfaction, disconnection with patients, colleagues and ourselves may occur. This is when we can experience compassion fatigue.
Taking care of patients is both inherently demanding and deeply inspiring.The therapeutic relationship, whether brief or long-term, is a uniquely rewarding dynamic of Giving and Receiving that brings meaning to our work and is essential for successful therapeutic outcomes.
- Practitioners give clinical expertise, and patients receive treatment/therapy
- Practitioners give patients their full attention, and patients give their trust
- Practitioners give unwavering support, and receive a patient's unexpected pearl of wisdom
The increasing pace and complexity of our health care system combined with heavy patient load and daily witness of patients' suffering add to the pressures of providing good care. Professional dissatisfaction, fatigue and sometimes burnout may result. While we cannot alter the challenges of practicing good medicine and/or therapy, we can learn techniques that prevent burnout and improve our inner resilience by staying connected to our patients and to ourselves.
Giving and Receiving Training Format and Options:
Attend either one, two, three, or all four day-long workshops (9:30 am - 5:00 pm)
Training schedule can be modified to meet the needs of your organization
Note: Support staff also welcome to workshop A.
Each workshop includes:
- An explanation of specific applications of Mindfulness and Qigong techniques in a clinical setting (tools to use at work).
- An experiential practice of Mindfulness and Qigong techniques (well-being and self-care).
- A didactic presentation on workshop selected topics (clinical review).
- A small group discussion of patient cases focused on the clinician's inner experience (connecting to peers).
Day-long Workshops
A. From Burn-Out to Resilience and Self-Compassion
Saturday, May 30, 2020, 9:30am - 5:00pm
Learn to recognize the early signs of burn-out and how to use Mindfulness and Qigong techniques to counteract the impact of
difficult patient interactions on clinicians' well-being.
B. From Chronic Pain to Increased Compassion
Saturday, July 18, 2020, 9:30pm - 5:00pm
Learn and discuss how to use Mindfulness and Qigong techniques to understand the difference between pain and suffering and enhance compassion when patients experience chronic pain.
C. From Trauma to Deepening Trust
Saturday, September 19, 2020, 9:30am - 5:00pm
Learn and discuss how to use Mindfulness and Qigong techniques to strengthen the therapeutic relationship when trauma impairs the patient's ability to build trust.
D. From Grief and Loss to Renewing Meaning
Saturday, November 14, 2020, 9:30am - 5:00pm
Learn and discuss how to use Mindfulness and Qigong techniques to enhance presence and active listening when accompanying patients through the difficult process of loss.
Fee for the Giving and Receiving Training
Individual workshop Full training 20% discount (all 4 workshops)
Health Care Professionals - $125 Health Care Professionals - $384
Physicians, PA and FNP - $155 Physicians, PA and FNP - $480
Interns, Students, Residents - $60 Interns, Students, Residents - $192
Note: Partial scholarships are available
Advanced Practice
Practice sessions open to participants who have attended at least one day-long workshop.
Saturday afternoon from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
"Meditation and Qigong Practice for Self-Care"
Continued Practice
One to one meditation coaching with Edmee Danan, MD
One to one Qigong coaching with Ilka de Gast, PsyD
For information email: info@givingandreceivinginhealthcare.com
CME and CE credits
CME are available to Physicians, PA and FNP
CE credits are available to: Nurses, Psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCC and LEPs
Cost of CME and CE credits
Individual day-long workshop - 5.50 CME - $35
Full training discount (all 4 workshops) - 22 CME - $100
Individual day-long workshop - 6 CE credits - $35
Full training discount (all 4 workshops) - 24 CE credits - $100
CE credit information:
* CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
* The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
* LCSWs, MFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
* SCRC is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California.
* For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact Ilka de Gast, PsyD at info@givingandreceivinginhealthcare.com. For questions about CE, visit www.spiritualcompetency.com or contact David Lukoff, PhD at CE@spiritualcompetency.com.
CME information:
Each live activity as a daylong workshop, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 5.50 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AMA/AAFP Equivalency:
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.
About the Teachers
Edmee Danan, MD is a psychiatrist - psychotherapist
with over 25 years experience. Edmee has worked at
Sonoma County Psychiatric Emergency Services, had
a private practice and is currently a consulting psychiatrist
with West County Health Centers and teaches meditation to
patients. Edmee has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1981
and is a practice leader at the Stone Creek Zen Center.
with over 25 years experience. Edmee has worked at
Sonoma County Psychiatric Emergency Services, had
a private practice and is currently a consulting psychiatrist
with West County Health Centers and teaches meditation to
patients. Edmee has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1981
and is a practice leader at the Stone Creek Zen Center.
Ilka de Gast, PsyD is a psychologist who specializes in
body-centered therapy and mindfulness. Ilka has worked
at Santa Rosa Community Health as a psychologist for
eight years. She is a Certified Level Two Wisdom
Healing Qigong instructor and teaches Qigong to medical
health providers and patients.
body-centered therapy and mindfulness. Ilka has worked
at Santa Rosa Community Health as a psychologist for
eight years. She is a Certified Level Two Wisdom
Healing Qigong instructor and teaches Qigong to medical
health providers and patients.
Learning Objectives for the Giving and Receiving Training
Workshop A
From Burn-Out to Resilience and Self-Compassion:
Transforming Difficult Patient Interactions
You will learn to:
- Identify the warning signs of burnout in yourselves and your colleagues.
- Explain the contribution of predisposing factors to burnout.
- Describe the effectiveness of the Mindfulness technique of being centered when used as an antidote to the frantic pace of multitasking contributing to burnout.
- Apply Qigong practices to deepen the mind-body connection in order to improve emotional self-regulation and prevent emotional exhaustion and burnout in a clinical.
- Explain the basis of the therapeutic relationship and the concepts of negative/positive transference and counter transference.
- Explain and discuss how to apply the skills of mindfulness techniques: attentive observation, curiosity, informed flexibility, and presence to monitor and manage the complexity of the therapeutic relationship.
- Utilize Qigong practices to awaken the mind-body connection to enhance presence and strengthen the therapeutic relationship.
Workshop B
From Chronic Pain to Increasing Compassion:
Transforming Complex Clinical Situations
You will learn to:
- Explain the difference between acute pain vs chronic pain.
- Discuss the impact of chronic pain on patient’s health, work ability, social functioning, family life and sense of self.
- Explain how Mindfulness practice helps to differentiate physical pain from suffering.
- Utilize Qigong practices to deepen mind-body connection, enhance presence in clinical work, meet stress and pain with kindness and compassion.
- Explain and discuss the complex impact of comorbid personality disorder and/or SUD on the therapeutic alliance.
- Utilize the Giving and Receiving meditation practice to improve active/empathic listening skills.
- Utilize Qigong practices to reduce the impact of stress and anxiety around difficult clinical interactions and improve patient care.
From Trauma to Deepening Trust:
Transforming Complex Clinical Situations
You will learn to:
- Explain the complex impact of early trauma on physical and mental health.
- Discuss Attachment theory.
- Discuss the impact of early trauma on the therapeutic relationship.
- Discuss and explain how Mindfulness techniques: attentive observation, curiosity, informed flexibility and presence help to not withdraw, but rather go toward anxiety provoking clinical situations and tolerate uncertainty.
- Apply Qigong practices to increase emotional resilience and help tolerate the distress of difficult clinical situations.
Workshop D
From Grief and Loss to Renewing Meaning:
Transforming Complex Clinical Situations
You will learn to:
- Explain the difference between Bereavement and Major Depression.
- Differentiate existential issues from clinical depression.
- Discuss end of life related issues.
- Discuss and explain how Mindfulness techniques: attentive observation, curiosity, informed flexibility and presence help to not withdraw, but rather go toward anxiety provoking clinical situations and tolerate uncertainty.
- Utilize Qigong practices to increase emotional resilience and help tolerate the distress of difficult clinical situations.