Interactive Events
Speaking, Training, and Workshops
Kickoff a culture shift, tackle the ‘pebbles in their shoes,’ or take a deep dive with an organizational cohort into Stress Management and Resilience Training with these interactive events. Contact now to co-design what your organization needs.
Dr. Ellison’s Speaker One Sheet
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Discovering quick solutions that will impact team well-being
This is a 60-minute workshop designed for a work unit to discover solutions to drivers of burnout that can be implemented within 8-10 weeks. It is interactive and fun! At the end, a rank list will be shared so that leadership and key stakeholders can work out the details of chosen solutions and implement them within 10 weeks.
Story: The Power and the Peril
The audience will learn about the role of stories in our interactions with others. They will learn to manage the stories others tell about them and how story can bring us closer.
Leadership engagement is crucial to bolstering trust within any organization.
What does it mean to engage physicians and APP’s?
This is an interactive hour where the importance of voice and relationships is revealed. The leadership audience will participate in engaging methods they can use at work. Methods of decision making are taught which, when utilized correctly, increase trust, voice, and collaboration.
There are positive ways to decrease and cope with stressors. Learn more in our SMART curriculum.
Stress management and resilience training series
As a certified resilience trainer, I will customize training for your group. Entice them to learn on their own with a teaser lecture or engage them in an eight-week-long learning journey with a cohort through the entire SMART curriculum.
Crafting the right questions is the key to unlocking more meaningful conversations.
Powerful questions to inspire dialogue.
“If I had 60 minutes to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the right question.”
- A. Einstein.
Learn to craft wicked questions for the desired purpose and experience more meaningful conversations. Use check-ins and check-outs to focus your work, build the team and encourage participation.
Armor is meant to protect us from vulnerability, but it can also hinder us from healing.
How do we crack the armor that protects us from healing?
Physicians don’t reach out for help. This is an introduction to the importance of feeling known and cared for. Participants explore together how they can get to know their colleagues and create a culture that appreciates, not just acknowledges. Expressing care supports trust in others and builds a collaborative culture that can more effectively make wise decisions and attend to the well-being of all.
There is no shortage of healthy activities, learn how to build positive habits to keep you on track.
You know what is ‘healthy’; do you know how to start new habits?
Interactive and fun! You will learn how to make new habits easier to start and join with an accountability partner to come up with a plan for a healthier life.
Connection is a basic human need, but it takes practice and planning to develop it.
Connect with work, community, and self.
Discover new ways to make connections that will enhance your life. Vivek Murthy said that, “human connections is as important as ventilators and vaccine to the recovery from the pandemic”. How can you connect?
Learning how to talk about difficult things is a necessary step toward mutual understanding.
How to have the tough conversations.
A one-hour introduction to Crucial Conversations, a book you will want to highlight! This will inspire you to read the book and do the workshop to have these tools at your fingertips. Learn to tell more generous, compassionate stories and create the space to have conversations that encourage mutual understanding and collective wisdom.
Feedback is an asset. Make sure your decision-making process includes all voices
A fair and inclusive process.
A consultative Decision-making process that should be your organization’s default and is leadership 101. I have not seen this done well and you can learn to do it. Build trust and engage your employees for better decisions.
Don’t let perfection stand in the way of progress. Set your team up for success by creating an environment that’s safe to try new ideas.
Generative decision making
Learn a consent-based decision-making method that encourages all voices are heard and results in decisions that are ‘good enough for now and safe enough to try’.
A healthy staff nurtures a more balanced and fulfilling work environment.
Nine strategies for a healthy work staff.
Using Shanafelt’s 2017 recommendations for healthcare organizations we will explore options to improve the well-being for staff.
Frontline workers are exhausted. Learn how to apply what we’ve learned through the pandemic.
What did we learn about taking care of healthcare workers during the pandemic?
Learn about the highlights in the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement Playbook, “Supporting the Mental Health of Healthcare workers during the pandemic”. Make a plan for how your organization can follow through.
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