Art of Presence - 14th Annual Healthcare Renewal Retreat

Art of Presence - 14th Annual Healthcare Renewal Retreat is organized by The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) and will be held from Aug 14 - 20, 2019 at Sant'Andrea Monastery, Assisi, Umbria, Italy. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 26.5 Continuing education credits for physicians and nurses.

The target audience for this medical event is designed for clinicians and medical practitioners (Physicians, RNs, NPs, PAs, Chaplains, Social Workers, Psychologists, Physical therapists, Occupational therapists, and others) as well as professionals open to deppening their spiritual lives.

Description:
A 6 day retreat workshop designed to help clinicians develop the professional and personal skills to practice compassionate presence in their clinical settings.

This retreat offers a unique environment and opportunity for health professionals from all faiths, beliefs and cultures to participate in an interdisciplinary retreat designed to experience respite and renewal, reflection and nourishment and ways to re-ignite one’s original call to serve others..

Session themes include awareness of our own spiritual or personal beliefs and values that impact our vocations, responding to suffering, the different levels of compassionate presence, boundaries needed for compassionate practice, communicating communication with patients/families about spiritual distress and suffering, contemplative practices (eg meditation practices including lectio divina,music as a spiritual practice, journaling, breath work, among others) to nurture self-care and support the practice of compassionate presence

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

1 Attending

Howard Nelson