CURRICULUM: TENDING THE FLAME RESILIENCY PROGRAM
- Module One: Meaning & Medicine – 1.5 – 2 hour session
- Module Two: A Professional Community Building Discovery Model – Finding Meaning in Medicine Groups – 8 Monthly Sessions (Each session – 1.5 – 2 hours)
- Module Three: Service as a Way of Life – 1.5 – 2 hour session
MODULE ONE: MEANING, MEDICINE, and RESILIENCY
Educational goals and objectives:
Goals:
Clinicians will be enabled to:
- Recognize meaning of their work as an aspect of their professional lives
- Access the deeper collective meaning that underlies the practice of medicine
- Witness the commonality of meaning that underlies a diversity of medical expertise
- Form an authentic community of shared meaning among colleagues
- Identify themselves as embodying the lineage values of medicine
- Legitimize openness and dialogue with colleagues in the area of meaning
- Explore non-cognitive language and communication
- Recognize the importance of continually enlivening their sense of meaning in their professional work
- Experience the power of symbolic language to elicit an awareness of meaning
- Discuss the relationship between meaning and expertise
- Discuss the connection between meaning and professional satisfaction
Objectives:
Clinicians will be able to:
- Become proficient in the skill of generous listening to uncover deeper meaning in daily work
- Become proficient in the habits of interaction which build authentic professional community
- Learn two personal self-care tools to articulate and refresh their sense of meaning in their work
- Use symbols to strengthen themselves and refresh personal and professional meaning in the workplace
- Use symbolic language to build a sense of professional community
- Openly share the personal meaning of their work with their colleagues
- Listen respectfully and generously to their colleagues speak of the personal meaning of their own work
Learning Methods employed:
- Large group instruction
- Small group experiential exercises
- Reflection and contemplation
- Personal exploration through symbols
- Large group discussion and sharing in a discovery format
- Formation of community through the discovery of shared meaning, values, and vulnerabilities
- Journal writing
MODULE TWO: A PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY BUILDING DISCOVERY MODEL
FINDING MEANING IN MEDICINE/NURSING/RESIDENT GROUPS: Total of 8 Monthly Sessions (Each session 2 hours)
Educational Goals and Objectives:
Goals:
Clinicians will be enabled to:
- Recognize meaning as an aspect of their own professional lives
- Access the deeper meaning that underlies their practice of medicine
- Explore a personal relationship to the core meaning of their profession
- Witness the commonality of meaning that underlies a diversity of medical expertise
- Form a sense of community of shared meaning among colleagues
- Identify themselves as part of a lineage of shared meaning
- Legitimize openness and dialogue with colleagues in the area of meaning
- Explore non-cognitive language and communication
- Recognize the importance of continually enlivening their sense of meaning in their professional work
Objectives:
Clinicians will be able to:
- Use story-telling from their professional or personal lives to articulate and refresh their sense of meaning in their work
- Use of world literature or poetry to deepen their personal and professional satisfaction in their work
- Create a safe, non-judgmental, non-competitive interactions among colleagues
- Be able to deepen the level of meaningful dialogue among colleagues
- Discuss the meaning of their work with their colleagues
- Listen respectfully and generously to their colleagues speak of the meaning of their own work
- Discuss the connection between meaning and professional satisfaction
- Develop and maintain a personal sense of covenant and service
- Support and valid the interactional values of the lineage of medicine that give meaning to the clinician’s work and strengthen the clinician’s commitment
- Activate more of these values in patient relationships
- Strengthen their individual capacity to see meaning in the stories of their patients
FMM/FMN/FMR TOPICS MAY INCLUDE:
- Service/Covenant
- Compassion
- Suffering
- Forgiveness and Mistakes
- Grief and Loss
- Mystery and Awe
- Humility
- Integrity
- Collaboration
- Gratitude
MODULE THREE: SERVICE AS A WAY OF LIFE
Scheduled after the 8 monthly FMM/FMN/FMR sessions
Educational goals and objectives:
Goals:
Clinicians will be enabled to:
- Discover and share the commitment to service that underlies their work
- Formulate a personal commitment to their practice
- Make a personal commitment to their practice visible among professional peers
- Legitimize openness and dialogue with colleagues in the area of service, calling and mission
- Recognize calling as an aspect of their own professional lives
- Explore a personal relationship to the core values of compassion, service, harmlessness, courage, love and reverence for life
- Experience belonging to a community of service
- Understand the importance of actively preserving their professional commitment, calling and sense of meaning in their work.
Objectives:
Clinicians will be able to:
- Discuss their experience of Service, Mission, and Lineage with colleagues
- Write a personal statement of their professional mission
- Read their personal Mission Statement aloud to their colleagues
- Hear their colleagues read their own personal Mission Statement aloud
- Discover and discuss the commonality of commitment to service that lies beneath the diversity of expertise and experience.
- Learn a journal technique to preserve and strengthen the experience of service in their week
- Learn a simple powerful tool of stress reduction (Rachel this is the breathing meditation)
- Discuss the relationship between calling, commitment, and professional satisfaction
- Define calling in personal terms.
Learning Methods employed:
- Large group instruction
- Experiential and discovery model learning
- Reflection and contemplation
- Expressive techniques: writing
- Small group interaction
- Peer mentoring
- Establishment of a community of inquiry