Many times I hear people ask me, "How did you come up with this program?"
I acknowledge the importance of highly functioning and efficient physicians in today's time. When patients come to a physician, they want to build trust, they want to feel heard, they want to feel that they are in safe hands.
At the same time I recognize that physicians have to do more and more work and if they were able to, they could easily work 24 hours a day and still not get everything done. That is a lot of pressure!
With this program I want physicians to recognize that the key to greater success is not necessarily another seminar on clinical skills but their personal development and their ability to effectively communicate with their staff, the hospital administration and the patients. Personal growth is fundamental for their professional success.
Physicians enjoy the coach approach.
Many hospitals / health care organizations required their physicians to attend an anger management seminar, psychiatric assessments or counseling. Nobody can blame physicians who resisted this approach coming from a place of "scolding" or "lets find out what is wrong with you and fix it."
In the coach approach physicians are not made wrong or broken or disruptive but rather we encourage physicians to explore new and more effective ways of doing and living. We give them the space to explore different options and how they could impact them. It is not about making someone wrong or putting them down but to help them realize that they have so much more potential for success and well-being if they are open to explore it in this safe environment.
Everything can be improved.
Medicine is in constant evolution and so is life. If we are not in the flow of evolution, we will fall behind. Adopting the mindset that "everything can be improved" opens us up to new opportunities, revelations and success.
Awareness is the first key to positive transformation.
Awareness is the key to improving your life, whether that improvement is spiritual, emotional, or practical. To the degree that we are unaware, we respond automatically, based on certain beliefs, premises, habits, and so forth, most of which we developed as children.
The well-being and performance of physicians has a ripple effect on patients and staff.
Physicians are in contact with a lot of people. Most of them respect physicians for their work and their dedication. They admire them for their intelligence and mental strength.
As a result, the way a physician carries herself, the energy (or lack of energy) she brings to each consultation, her personal well-being and the way she communicates with her staff and patients have an impact on the patients' healing process as well as on the staff members' well-being.
Work "on" the practice / life instead of "in".
With the busy-ness of medicine picking up pace, physicians are in a place where they stop thinking many things through and just get on with doing them. Work becomes all about processing, churning through the work that needs to get done, punching out patient charts that clog the desk.
Participating in the Balanced Physician program is as a pause button from this hectic pace, a way of stopping for a moment to get a new perspective on what's really happening. One thing this "pause button" helps to do is to reconnect with yourself, puts each situation in perspective and allows to look at it from a different point of view which will often result in solutions and opportunities never seen before.
If this approach resonates with you, we invited you to an exploratory consultation.
