Respite for the Courageous
Respite for the Courageous is a 3-day equine-supported retreat for healthcare workers. This pandemic has changed your lives, your world, and you. Take this time to be compassionate, gracious, and proud of yourself.
Participants will experience:
- Time and space in nature
- Tools that will support the body’s ability to self-regulate during times of intense stress
- Skills to rebuild and restore a sense of community and purpose
- A retrieval of hope
Participants will partner with a horse, become part of a herd, and ease into a natural way of being. Alongside horses, we are held in a safe, nonjudgmental space. During horse-supported exercises, we can drop expectations, assumptions, judgments and learn to listen in a new way. This place of solace, confidentiality, and respite nurtures our capacity to regroup and heal.
No horse experience necessary.
Supporting the Courageous
Supporting the Courageous is a 3-day equine-supported retreat for health care managers and administrators. The COVID pandemic has turned systems upside down and inside out, urgently calling for health care organizations to address the burnout of their doctors and nurses.
Spearheaded by the Dr. Lorna Breen Foundation, a group of experts in collaboration with the National Academy of Medicine identified the top five actions leaders should take to support team members now. These evidence-based actions will build a new foundation for a long-term system well-being strategy.
1. These are non-normal times; adjust expectations
2. Get Rid of Stupid Stuff
3. Get radical to shore up staffing
4. Designate a well-being executive
5. EAP is not enough - do more
Through experiential exercises, learn how to reframe the workplace setting for healthcare professionals and take back practical tools to implement. Now, more than ever, there needs to be a focus on the well-being of doctors and nurses – they need compassion to be compassionate.
No horse experience necessary.