THE HEALER’S ART ™

The Healer’s Art is an innovative discovery model course in values clarification and professional community for first- and second-year medical students now offered annually at 90 + U.S. medical schools as well as medical schools around the world. Designed in 1991 by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., the course offers a safe learning environment for a personal in-depth exploration of the time-honored values of service, healing relationship, reverence for life, and compassionate care. The Healer’s Art course utilizes principles of adult education, contemplative studies, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, cognitive psychology, formation education, creative arts, and storytelling to present, explore and strengthen human dimensions of medicine rarely discussed in medical training. Topics covered include deep listening, presence, acceptance, loss, grief, healing relationship, encounters with awe and mystery, and self-care practices. The curriculum enables students to uncover and strengthen the altruistic values, sense of calling, and intention to serve that have led them to medicine, creating a firm foundation for meeting the challenging demands of contemporary medical training and practice. To bring this curriculum to your medical school, contact Dr. Evangeline Andarsio at EMAIL: eandarsio@purehealthcare.org


TENDING THE FLAME™ Strengthening the Workforce

Burnout affects nearly half of all residents, and practicing physicians in the United States. Research documents that compassion fatigue among front-line healthcare professionals is now at epidemic levels and that greater resiliency is a function of the ability to find personal meaning in daily work. This 6 session Tending the Flame curriculum offers the opportunity for practicing clinicians, residents, and nurses at all levels of training to develop an authentic and supportive professional community in the workplace, refresh their calling and service intention, take personal ownership of the meaning of their practice of healthcare and learn effective self-care tools to enhance resiliency in their professional and personal lives. Research indicates these approaches strengthen the workforce against compassion fatigue and burnout. To bring this curriculum to your hospital or professional school, contact Dr. Evangeline Andarsio at eandarsio@purehealthcare.org


THE POWER OF NURSING ™

The Power of Nursing curriculum created in 2012, provides a unique opportunity for nursing students and faculty, staff nurses, nurse managers, and nurse leaders to explore and ensure a close personal relationship with the meaning of their work as nurses and healers. The Power of Nursing course offers undergraduates and advanced practice students self-care tools for professional longevity and resilience. This affective domain course builds professional community and connects nurses and nursing students with their calling, personal power and collective nursing values. The Power of Nursing workshops supports nurses at all levels of training in connecting with the meaning of their work and clarifies their sense of professional identity as healers. To bring this curriculum to your training program or professional school, contact Dr. Evangeline Andarsio: eandarsio@purehealthcare.org


FINDING MEANING IN HEALTH CARE DISCUSSION GROUPS 

At present, front line health professionals of all sorts are looking for ways to connect with one another and find their place of strength in the rapidly changing work of Health Care. Recent research has demonstrated that discovering a personal sense of meaning in professional work is a powerful antidote to the widespread burnout affecting all health professionals. 

For more than 30 years, RISHI’S FINDING MEANING PROGRAMS have been helping doctors, nurses and other health professionals initiate self led discussion groups to uncover, explore and deepen the meaning of their work. These meetings are either in person or virtual.

Finding professional meaning discussion groups are circles of discovery and community. FMM Groups for nurses, physicians, residents and medical students have been operating throughout the country and around the world for the past 30 years. These ongoing, no-cost monthly meetings are a place where colleagues share stories and enter into meaningful dialogue on the experience of doctoring, nursing, and health care through the discussion of chosen topics such as grief, grace, healing, courage, mystery, intimacy, and service. Participants share stories drawn from their own practice or read poems or pieces from the world literature relevant to the issues that face them daily. Over time, such dialogue within a supportive community of colleagues can have the positive effect of deepening each person’s heart connection to their day-to-day work and to their patients, as well as to the lineage of medicine and healing. For more information on this self-help program contact Dr. Evangeline Andarsio at eandarsio@purehealthcare.org


CONVERSATIONS ON DEATH: A YEAR-LONG PROGRAM FOR HOSPICE WORKERS

Our culture does not process death well. Unconscious personal beliefs and attitudes about death often prevent hospice and palliative care workers’ from being fully present for the care of dying patients and their families and Healthcare training offers limited education in how to heal from the deaths of our patients. Conversations on Death offers Hospice professionals the experience of reflection, conversation and community and creates a psychologically and emotionally safe space for exploring personal and professional experiences. Designed to be accessible during the workday in a repetitive annual cycle “Conversations on Death” is an opportunity for healing led by experienced on-site facilitators trained by RISHI. Facilitator training is available upon request. To bring this curriculum to your hospice program contact Dr. Evangeline Andarsio: eandarsio@purehealthcare.org