EDUCATIONAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Module One: Meaning, Medicine & Resiliency – 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

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

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

FINDING MEANING TOPICS MAY INCLUDE:

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: