Healing, Mindfulness & Compassion: A Balint Retreat Weekend 2025

Healing, Mindfulness & Compassion: A Balint Retreat Weekend 2025 is organized by The American Balint Society (ABS) and will be held from May 02 - 04, 2025 at Ratna Ling Retreat Center, Cazadero, California, United States of America.

Description:
Health care professionals are invited to attend the Healing, Mindfulness and Compassion Retreat at the beautiful and tranquil Ratna Ling Conference Center in the Redwoods of Sonoma County, California. The weekend conference combines Eastern and Western approaches to healing: Tibetan Yoga and Meditation as well as Balint sessions that address the complex emotional landscape of the clinician-patient relationship. The Balint group format is an empathy-enhancing practice to strengthen treatment alliances, improve care delivery, increase practitioner resilience and decrease professional isolation. Further context on the neuroscience of compassion and its importance in the provision of effective service will increase understanding of the connection between practitioners’ self-care and the care they are able to offer others. The accommodations and architecture are exquisite and the weekend is educational, restful, and rejuvenating.

Program Learning Objectives:

• Identify aspects of challenging practitioner/client relationships which affect your practice.
• Discuss the impact of provider reflection and self-care on clinical practice.
• Explain the importance of compassion for the resilience of practitioners. 
• Formulate different options for handling challenging patient encounters. 
• Describe the usefulness of the group process for members as well as case presenters. 
• Differentiate Balint group work from conventional case consultation. 
• Identify your own responses to language related to diversity and the "otherness" of patients.