An opportunity to pause, connect and reflect in community
A Two-Day Non-Residential Retreat
RETREAT CONTENT
In these two days, you’ll have the chance to reconnect with yourself and other health care providers in a nourishing space. Health care providers include physicians, nurses (RN, NP), mental health providers, doulas, midwives, physician assistants, medical assistants, social workers, EMTs - essentially anyone who identifies as being a frontline health provider. We will begin by reflecting on what it means to be an “embodied healer” and how you can support your healing practice by first supporting yourself. We will learn about trauma-informed care, and the influence of early childhood trauma on health and disease. The intention is for you to acquire a toolkit of skills to increase your capacity for resilience. Through a review of the latest scientific research, we will explore the most effective evidence-based tools to prevent “compassion” fatigue, empathy fatigue, and burn-out. Throughout the two days, we will practice different mindfulness tools that help you cope with the everyday stressors of the healthcare system. We’ll also have the opportunity to practice yoga (suitable for all abilities and bodies), which can foster an embodied sense of agency, empowerment, awareness, and balance within.
Topics of discussion and practice will include:
The Art of Embodied Healing
The Neurobiology of Trauma and Burn-Out
The Neurobiology of Compassion and Self-Compassion
Mindfulness and Meditation
Trauma-Conscious Yoga
Resiliency and Self-Care
INVESTING IN YOU
COST: $450
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Cost includes catered lunch and snacks on both days.
Limited parking is available in front of the school. Ample street parking also available. Overnight accommodations are not included, but a list of nearby hotels can be provided upon request. The closest airport to the venue is Long Beach (LGB). LAX is accessible via FlyAway bus or taxi.
Cancellation policy: Total amount less $50 processing fee refunded for any cancellation prior to 30 days before the retreat. Total amount less $100 processing fee refunded for any cancellation between 11-29 days before the retreat. Total amount forfeited within 10 days of retreat.
FACILITATOR
Chia-Ti Chiu has over 16 years experience teaching yoga, mindfulness and meditation. In New York City, she teaches elders, adults in community settings, and teens in public high schools and detention centers. She leads international retreats as well as provides mindfulness consulting to individuals and companies nation-wide. She is on faculty with the Garrison Institute's Contemplative-Based Resilience Project, which trains humanitarian aid workers, doctors, and human rights lawyers around the world to cope with burnout and vicarious trauma. Chia-Ti also leads trainings for the Lineage Project, which provides participants with mindfulness practices through a trauma-conscious, anti-oppression, and social justice lens. Chia-Ti runs an annual yoga and arts program at a hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and established an educational fund program that supports Haitian children to attend school. She is certified through the Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana in Bangalore, India, the Trauma Conscious Yoga Method, and has extensive training in trauma-informed care and resiliency theory. You can find out more information about Chia-Ti at onelovewellness.com.
FACILITATOR
Juliet Hwang, MD (she/her/hers) graduated medical school from the Humanities in Medicine Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Afterwards, she trained in pediatrics at Long Island Jewish-North Shore Hospitals in New York. During residency, she encountered meditation at the first people of color retreat at Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California. She then moved to Los Angeles to start a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. It was a life-changing experience and she learned to value each moment we have alive. After her clinical year, she decided to return to general pediatrics and focus on preventing illness. Simultaneously, Juliet devoted more time to cultivating a spiritual practice to respond to suffering and hardship, experienced both personally and by her patients. She has been practicing meditation for over 15 years and was ordained in the Order of Interbeing, in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism. She has taught meditation to physicians, nurses, hospitals staff, medical students, family practice residents, ALS caregivers, university administrators, and homeless men and women going through addiction recovery. She now facilitates a mindfulness meditation group for families in Long Beach with her husband and two children. You may reach her at embodiedhealer@gmail.com.