Self-Care for Caregivers

Wellness for all - Achieve Optimal Health Series

Description:  This is your time...  Come and experience simple interventions that will help you de-stress, chill out and go back to work refershed.  The demands on you in caring for your patients can take a toll on you, your energy, and well-being.  Your patient's crisis can become your crisis if you are not careful and take time to clear yourself from the demands on you in sharing difficult news during difficult times.

Goal:  Become balanced and revitalized.  Learn strategies to drain away sad stories, emotional pain and suffering as well as physical demanding experience.  Go home refreshed and ready to be present for your family and friends.

Objectives:  Participants will be able to:

1.  Explore a sampling of related theory and research supporting energy therapies.

2.  Define your current work stress level through a simple, non-invative story telling process.

3.  Identify the impact on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self.

4.  Practice holistic interventions to release stress, balance your energy and revitalize you both at work and before going home.

5.  Examine ways to present difficult news to patients and their families.

6.  Explore strategies to debrief the dynamics of a demanding work life.

Format: The Wellness For All - Achieve Optimal Health Series draws on material from the following leading edge energetic based training programs: Transform Your Life through Energy Medicine (TYLEM), Healing Touch (HT), Energy Psychology (EP) and Touch For Health (TFH).

Instructors:                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Dr. Mary Jo Bulbrook, RN, CEMP/S/I, CHTP, HTCP

Dr. Bulbrook is a medical / spiritual intuitive with 35 years experience teaching the work worldwide alongside her university position as a professor in nursing.  She has pioneered this advanced work in several countries and provided an opportunity for healers to advance their knowledge base with this profound work that complements any traditional practice base.  As a pioneer and keynote speaker at many international conferences she brings clarity, vision and insight to set a new course for health and healing.

Gayla Wood, RN, EMP/I, HTP, Duke Oncology CNIV Nurses - Retired

Gayla has over 41 years of hospital nursing experience.  The last 22 years at Duke University Medical Center as a CNIV Oncology Nurse.  She began Energy Healing 21 years ago and served on a committee at Duke that adopted the policy for nurses to work with patients using energy techniques for control of pain, nausea and other oncology related symptoms.  Her recent retirement spue resurgence of her energy work and her awareness of the need for nurses to better care for themselves.

Schedule:

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 and repeated on Thursday, August 23, 2012

9 - 5 pm

Fees  

Workshop Held at Duke Medicine Center: Room TBD

Call Kim Slusser, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the oncology nurses to register.  All other participants register with Energy Medicine Partnerships 1.919.381.4198 or Gayla Wood 434.770.2931 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Headquarters for the Wellness Program:

Wellness for All Intl 4917 Waters Edge Drive, Suite 239, #1 Raleigh, NC 27606  

Contact - More Information

  Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 919 381 4198 or 919 923 2409