Inner Life Renewal Program - Day Retreat, Center for Spirituality and Healing, Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota

2007 Retreats	April 20, 2007 - Cancelled
Cost for 2006	$165, covers all materials, continental breakfast and lunch

About the Day Retreat
Who Benefits from this Program?
Faculty
Continuing Education Credits
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While academic formation of health professionals is at the center of health sciences education, few courses prepare us for the many challenging aspects of human care-giving that test our inner strength, spirit, life's passion and resilience.

The Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota is pleased to offer The Inner Life Renewal Program; a groundbreaking growth and renewal program designed to help health professionals from all walks of life better prepare for and continue their life's work.

The Inner Life Renwal Program offers an array of didactic and experiential learning opportunities within a daylong retreat. This program provides opportunity for respite and reflection in a natural setting at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Health professionals learn principles and skills of renewal and resiliency - and discover how to nurture the passion that initially led to a health care career. The programs address such life skill themes as:

Cultivation of presence and listening
Self-care and life balance
Resilience and innate health
Compassion for others and self

About the Day Retreat Back to Top
This daylong retreat provides insight into how we - as health professionals - can survive and thrive in today's changing health care environment. You will learn to tap the invisible yet powerful ingredients of patience, compassion, presence, deep listening, hope and joy.

A combination of new learnings, understandings and skills will help to rejuvenate and reconnect you with the original inspiration and passion that led to your vocation. You'll learn ways to keep the passion alive through self-care and community support, and how to better control stress in the context of today's health care system.

Through this seminar, participants will be able to:

Demonstrate the capacity of greater self-awareness and self-reflection.
Understand how deep listening leads to more effective communication with patients, families and colleagues.
Express values that stustain and strengthen your work as a healer.
Renew your commitment to vocation.
Learn to create a greater healing environment in your workplace.
Foster ways to sustain one's self through a lifetime of service.

Who Benefits from this Program? Back to Top
The program is appropriate for health professionals who are seeking answers to such questions as:

How do I survive the explosion of demands on my time, energy and relationships?
How do I create the time to listen to my patients and their loved ones so that they truly feel cared for and heard?
Can I sustain the joy of serving others?
How can I learn to deal with my stress and calm down internally in a fast-paced environment?
How do I deal with the tension and anxiety of those around me?
When do I integrate my clinical skills and knowledge with my intuition and wisdom?
What are ways to stay connected to the values and ideals that brought me to a health care career?

The Inner Life Renewal Program Faculty Back to Top

Henry Emmons, M.D.
Psychiatrist Henry Emmons uses mind-body techniques and alternative therapies in his clinical practice, and is a program leader for The Inner Life Renewal Program Weekend and Day Retreats. He is a recognized lecturer on such topics as psychopharmacology, natural therapies for depression, mindfulness meditation and health realization in medicine, resilience training and the evolution from clinician to healer.

Henry earned his medical degree at the University of Iowa in 1985, and completed a Bush Fellowship in the integration of natural and alternative therapies in psychiatry and training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. He serves as consultant to organizations in the Twin Cities and is a faculty member at the Center for Spirituality and Healing.

Continuing Education Units Back to Top
The University of Minnesota is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Minnesota designates the seminar for a maximum of 6.0 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits actually spent in the educational activity.

This activity offers 7.2 contact hours of continuing education for nurses and is designed to meet the MN Board of Nursing criteria for mandatory continuing education for licensure renewal.

All participants receive a certificate of attendance. The University of Minnesota keeps permanent records of all continuing education programs.

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