From Overextended to Empowered: Coaching in the Moment for Sustainable Care

OVERVIEW

Healthcare professionals are trained to assess, diagnose, and fix. But some of the most powerful moments in patient care, and in your own wellbeing, happen when you stop gathering information and simply offer presence.

This interactive CEU Lunch & Learn brings together a professional certified coach and a licensed professional counselor to explore the intersection of coaching and counseling in healthcare settings. You'll learn to recognize which approach a moment calls for, understand the legal and ethical distinctions between the two disciplines, and build a practical relational toolkit you can use immediately with patients, colleagues, and yourself.

Burnout among healthcare professionals is not a personal failing. Research by Dr. Christina Maslach identifies three dimensions (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment) that quietly erode even the most committed clinicians over time. This session names those dimensions honestly, invites you to locate yourself within them, and offers coaching-based tools to help you begin moving from overextended to empowered.

Through didactic content, live demonstrations, and low-stakes experiential activities, you'll leave with a felt sense of what genuine presence makes possible and one concrete commitment to your own sustainable care.

You'll walk away with:

• A clear understanding of the coaching/counseling distinction and when to apply each
• A meta-awareness framework for catching your own thoughts, emotions, sensations, and images in real time
• Core relational skills (paraphrasing, summarizing, minimal encouragers) reframed as tools for both patient care and self-care
• Earn 2 contact hours to apply toward continuing education units (CEU) and a personal sustainable care commitment

Lunch is provided. Free parking available. Space is limited.

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Info: Event Kickoff, Facilitator Introductions, Overview of the Day

Info: Burnout, meta-awareness, and the coaching/counseling distinction. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Distinguish between coaching and counseling by identifying the key definitional, ethical, and legal differences between the two disciplines and recognizing which approach a given clinical moment calls for.
2. Identify their current level of burnout across Maslach's three dimensions (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment) using a brief reflective self-assessment.
3. Apply a meta-awareness framework (thoughts, emotions, sensations, and images) as a real-time noticing skill in both clinical interactions and personal self-monitoring.

Info: Lunch is on us. In addition, take an optional tour of the new Integrative Health Hub and register to win a prize!

Info: Relational skills, experiential activities, and sustainable care commitments. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Demonstrate core relational skills (paraphrasing, parroting, summarizing, and minimal encouragers) as tools for creating presence in coaching-informed conversations with patients, colleagues, and themselves.
2. Contrast an information-gathering conversational approach with a presence-based approach, articulating the impact of each on the speaker's experience and the quality of the interaction.
3. Formulate one personal sustainable care commitment rooted in coaching principles that addresses their own identified burnout risk or self-care need.

Info: We will wrap up the day, answer final questions, announce prize winners, provide giveaways for each participant, and conclude!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Indiana Wesleyan University - Fort Wayne Education and Conference Center, 8211 West Jefferson Boulevard, Fort Wayne, United States

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