Healing, Mindfulness & Compassion: A Balint Retreat Weekend 2023

Healing, Mindfulness & Compassion: A Balint Retreat Weekend 2023 is organized by The American Balint Society (ABS) and will be held from Apr 13 - 16, 2023 at Ratna Ling Retreat Center, Cazadero, California, United States of America.

Description:
The weekend conference combines Eastern and Western healing philosophies with courses on Tibetan yoga, meditation, and Balint that deal with the difficult emotional terrain of the doctor-patient relationship. The Balint group format is a method that strengthens treatment alliances, enhances care delivery, boosts practitioner resilience, and reduces isolation in the workplace. Understanding the relationship between practitioners' self-care and the care they can provide others will become clearer with more background on the neurobiology of compassion and its significance in delivering effective service. The weekend is instructive, pleasant, and revitalizing, and the accommodations and architecture are magnificent.

Program Learning Objectives:
• Find the causes of the challenging client/practice relationships that could impact your practice.
• Discuss the effect of self-care and reflection by the provider on the practice of clinical medicine.
• Discuss why compassion plays a crucial role in the strength of the practitioners.
• Formulate a variety of options to handle difficult patient encounters.
• Discuss the benefits of the process group for the members and the case presenters. It is important to distinguish Balint group work from traditional case consultation. 
• Recognize your responses to language related to patients' diversity and “otherness”.