Thrive Together: Lead & Live with Health, Hope & Heart

In the U.S. we spend more money on healthcare and our outcomes are the poorest in comparison to other developed countries of the world.

The frontline nurses and other health professionals often bear the brunt of the chaos and overwhelm experienced within US healthcare.

Led by Dr Kimberly Delbo, a 19-year nurse professional, professor of nursing, clinical leader and speaker, alongside Bruce Cryer, Stanford adjunct faculty, cancer survivor and global health care consultant, the THRIVE TOGETHER three week online series will provide powerful insights, practical techniques and a supportive, safe environment to explore how to thrive in such challenging times.

Over three live 1.5 hour Zoom sessions conducted February 13, 20, and 27, participants will gain invaluable tools but more importantly new mindsets and practical actionable techniques to reduce their own stress and overwhelm while refreshing their attitude for what is possible in health care today.

Although we may not be able to heal all that ails US healthcare, we will start with you and give you what you need to make the impact your heart desires, while boosting your own quality of life.

Let's work on this together and truly learn to THRIVE TOGETHER.

Session 1: Lead Yourself with Health, Hope, and Heart -- February 13

Learn how to manage stress, build resilience, and nurture your own well-being in order to show up with energy, strength, clarity, vitality, and balance every day.

Session Objectives:

• Discuss the current challenges in healthcare facing nurses and other interprofessional colleagues.

• Examine the state of health among nurses and healthcare providers.

• Relate the implications and repercussions of chronic workplace stress and burnout.

• Define human flourishing and identify specific practices and behaviors that can promote human flourishing in your personal and professional life.

• Demonstrate a practical understanding of key HeartMath tools for serving with heart coherence, emotional balance, and self-regulation, while increasing energy, vitality and focus.

• Discover and apply straightforward methods to boost your energy levels each day.

• Outline approaches to enhance sleep, strengthen the immune system, and improve exercise and nutrition.

Session 2: Lead Others with Health, Hope, and Heart -- February 20

Discover how to foster empathy, compassion, self-awareness, and collaboration with others within your sphere of influence, personally – with your family and friends, and professionally – with your team and colleagues to create a supportive and thriving work environment.

Session Objectives:

• Exhibit a practical grasp of essential HeartMath techniques that promote heart coherence, enhancing energy, vitality, and concentration.
• Investigate and engage in straightforward methods to boost energy on a daily basis.
• Define the concept of leadership.
• Distinguish among different leadership styles.
• Discuss components of the Caring Leadership Model©, Watson’s Theory for Human Caring, and The Leadership Challenge.
• Outline a framework that enables you to lead others with compassion.
• Analyze the concept of emotional intelligence.
• Conduct a self-evaluation related to leadership and emotional intelligence.
• Explain the significance of psychological safety when leading others and how it impacts innovation.
• Investigate the role of nurturing voice and connection through advocacy, allyship, and mentorship.

Session 3: Lead the Community with Health, Hope, and Heart: Making the Case for a Culture of Holistic Health & Interconnected Communities -- February 27

Understand the importance of cultivating a culture of holistic health and well-being that extends beyond the individual and team to the broader community where your neighbors live, learn, work, play, and pray.

Session Objectives:

• Identify at least three key social determinants of health (e.g., access to education, economic stability, social support) and discuss how they influence individual and community health outcomes.
• Explore Healthy People 2030 five domains of health.
• Discuss the impact of social determinants on health disparities and propose interventions or programs that can mitigate these effects in your own community.

• Define health equity and demonstrate an understanding of how systemic factors contribute to health disparities among different populations, and propose solutions for promoting health equity within your community.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB).

• Describe the four pillars of health and describe how each pillar contributes to the overall well-being of individuals and the broader community.
• Explore how you can apply the four pillars of health in designing community programs or initiatives that promote collective well-being, building resilience, and fostering connectedness, using the Neighborhood Human Flourishing Model©.
• Collaboratively engage in action planning to implement innovative programs that support holistic health, focusing on the intersection of physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual, and financial health to create thriving communities.

Program Highlights:

• Practical Techniques for Stress Reduction & Self-Care
• Mindset Shifts for Effective Leadership
• Building Resilience in Challenging Times
• Harnessing Compassion, Empathy, and Love to Transform Healthcare
• Creating a Supportive, Collaborative Team Culture
• Making the Case for a Culture of Health in Healthcare Systems and across the Community

Dates:

• Session 1: February 13, 2025
• Session 2: February 20, 2025
• Session 3: February 27, 2025
  Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EST)

Why Attend?

• Recharge your personal well-being and strengthen your leadership skills.
• Gain tools for reducing burnout and stress while increasing your energy and resilience.
• Reignite your sense of purpose and hope for healthcare system reinvention.
• Empower yourself to create positive change in your team, your workplace, and the healthcare system and community at large.
• Be part of a supportive community that values health, compassion, and transformation.

Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for nurses and other interprofessional healthcare providers, including doctors, administrators, and anyone who seeks to foster a culture of well-being, resilience, and innovation in healthcare.

Bruce Cryer brings more than four decades of experience in business innovation, optimal performance, health care management, and artistic expression to everything he does.

Through roles as diverse as actor, singer, dancer, writer, photographer, educator, mentor, business developer, marketing strategist, leadership coach and executive, Bruce has developed valuable tools and lessons to help any health care leader in any phase of growth both professionally and personally.
His passion for the intersection between optimal health, human performance and the heart-brain-breath connection found a home when he became a founding director of the acclaimed HeartMath Institute and later CEO of HeartMath for 11 years.

Principles he developed around the connection between coherence, health, performance, and leadership have been taught to nurse leaders of dozens of Kaiser hospitals, Mayo Clinic, Duke Health, dozens of rural and Catholic health systems, as well as the NHS in the UK. He has taught executives these life-affirming principles at the business schools of Stanford, Columbia, University of California Berkeley, and Nanyang Polytechnic University in Singapore.

His non-health care clients include Stanford University, NASA, The World Bank, Unilever, Cathay Pacific Airways, Mandarin Oriental Hotels, and Yosemite National Park.

Bruce is now 15 years cancer-free, and 14 years dancing and hiking on titanium hips.

Dr. Kimberly Delbo, PhD, RN, is a visionary and innovative healthcare leader with over 19 years of experience serving as a trailblazer in diverse settings across the healthcare continuum, ranging from bedside to boardroom, and the classroom.

Dr. Delbo is dedicated to transforming healthcare through empathetic, human centered design, innovation, and the creation of loving, positive, professional, healthy work and learning environments.

Kimberly serves as a subject matter expert when designing, developing, and delivering an array of interactive, innovative healthcare leadership and related courses, seminars, trainings and bootcamps to healthcare leaders across the nation.

She holds degrees from Thomas Jefferson University, Slippery Rock University, Bloomsburg University, and Liberty University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Breiner School of Nursing, a former co-founder of Radiant & Resilient Leadership, LLC, and Nurses Lead with Heart initiative.

Recognized as a Change Maker by the National Academy of Medicine, she is dedicated to advancing nurse-led healthcare transformation and leadership while promoting the Quadruple Aim at the micor, meso, and macro system levels.

Event Venue

Online