Fulfillment and resilience depend on being able to deploy skillful responses to the challenges of daily life, including using them as opportunities or even play. Work then becomes more sustaining and less draining. Just as athletes, chess players, jazz musicians, or improv actors train themselves to read shifting conditions and quickly respond and gain better results, so can those in the helping professions. Key skills include learning to recognize which work situations are sources of energy and opportunity and to trigger processes that capture those benefits. Then, in reviewing the work just completed, preserving what's been learned by tailoring processes for future performance. The daily work of the helping professions is thus used not as a burden but as a source of energy, creativity, and renewal.How is this done? By seeing and learning how artists use similar conditions. Great writers, musicians, and other artists take the stuff of life, including the seemingly chaotic, and from them create beauty, insight, energy, and perspective, which we get to enjoy. Why shouldn't others do the same?Artists don't just find meaning, they create it. So can others.By exploring select pieces from the humanities, participants see how creators map human experiences, including their joys, challenges, and transitions, and not only cope with them but transform them - and themselves. Using the insights and techniques from the world of creators, workshop participants, including healers and leaders, will learn to use the potential they see in their work and themselves in ways that create greater order, meaning, beauty and enjoyment. In a virtuous cycle, they will continually develop and hone processes that continue to cultivate greater competence and satisfaction and lives of greater enjoyment, beauty, and sustainability. Especially important to healers, they learn how to create and use process and beauty to inform, order, and inspire healthful change in themselves and those they work with.
Listed skills include Hospitals, Healthcare, Medical Education, Medicine, and 11 others.
