Building Moral Courage for Health Professionals

Despite institutional efforts to support health professionals in recognizing and mitigating social and structural determinants of health, many health professionals carry a profound sense of fear and powerlessness around engaging in advocacy within their profession that leaves them overwhelmed and contributes to burnout.

Building Moral Courage for Health Professionals is a workshop designed for health professionals (care providers, students and trainees, medical and research support staff, administrative personnel, or other healthcare system workers) who are interested in advocating for positive social change within their profession. This workshop will give participants a greater understanding of change making strategies and offers tools that support interprofessional health workers in shifting out of a perception of powerlessness to become activated and empowered agents of change.

Integrating multiple styles of learning, this interactive half-day workshop will incorporate elements of experiential learning, narrative exercise, small group activity, discussion, and somatic experiencing. in order to explore the ways institutions form and sustain traditional models of power. Ultimately, participants will be provided practical tools to build moral courage for individual and collective leadership. Building Moral Courage for Health Professionals offers a shared language for changemaking, and provides experiential space for participants to

• consider conflicting models of power
• explore the cognitive process of powerlessness
• examine their own complex barriers to social activism

Participants in this workshop will take away…

• strategies for building and sustaining moral courage
• a tactical understanding of social theories of power within a liberatory context
• entry-level organizing concepts / tools and tips for engaging in advocacy
• an embodied experience/understanding of empowered changemaking
• self-protective strategies to support resilience, stability, and sustainable advocacy
• resources for solidarity and opportunities for engagement

This training is priced on a sliding scale, please refer to our to determine your costs.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center, 788 East 7th Street, Saint Paul, United States