SoulCare in HealthCare (A Claritas Institute Program)
Hospital & Health Care - Boulder, Colorado, United States
SoulCare in HealthCare (A Claritas Institute Program) Employees
SoulCare in HealthCare (A Claritas Institute Program) Details
Our current health-care system is suffering from an internal malaise—adisconnect between body and soul. The most visible symptoms of thissplit are escalating costs and a nation plagued by a rise in chronicillness, obesity, and depression. A less visible symptom is professionalburnout, loss of heart, and talented professionals leaving their practices.However, when patients connect with their health-care providers soul-to-soul(a respectful I–Thou encounter), instead of role-to-role (an I–itencounter- language that we've adopted from Parker Palmer), the result is healing. Symptoms are reduced and patients become more mindful, skillful, and empowered. The relationship is themedicine, a transcendent field that embraces both the practitioner andthe person being served. In the process both participants reclaim the vitalquality of wholeness. The Soul Care in Health Care training, led by mind-body pioneer JoanBorysenko and organizational psychologist Gordon Dveirin is designed toreclaim the sacred in health care and heal the split between body andsoul in patient care. Its goal is to introduce healing presence, generativelistening, and the evocation of story as core competencies in the practiceof medicine, psychology, nursing, social work and other healthspecialties. For more information send inquirires to soulcare@joanborysenko.com
