A Summer Retreat for Healthcare Professionals

This retreat aims to recharge our inner batteries and to provide time out from our usual roles and responsibilities. The sessions will be facilitated by experienced Values in HealthCare Facilitators, and will balance time for discussion with time for silent reflection. The Values in Healthcare Programme provides a variety of modules, and this day will be based on the ‘Positivity in Healthcare’ module. This will cover skills such as valuing oneself, standing back, saying STOP, and appreciating others at work.

Both facilitators leading the sessions have experience in delivering Values in Healthcare sessions in many NHS, charitable and independent healthcare settings, helping staff become aware of, and reconnecting with their own resources.

Venue: ‘The Quiet View’ is a registered ‘Quiet Garden’ with retreat facilities, featured on Songs of Praise, A Centre for Contemplative Spirituality. For more info: http://www.quietview.co.uk/index.html

Programme:

10.00am Arrivals/Refreshments

10.25am Introduction -­ Dr Julia Ronder

10.30am Valuing the self; Inspired to be me
– facilitators Lizzie Hopthrow and Nannette Jackson

12.30pm Lunch, with time to walk in the gardens

1.45pm Positive interaction at work
– facilitators Lizzie Hopthrow and Nannette Jackson

3.45pm Session close

All are welcome to stay for tea and refreshments

Facilitators & Presenters :

Rev Lizzie Hopthrow, Former Hospice Chaplain, and Retreat Director, Quiet View

Nannette Jackson, Former Counsellor, Pilgrims Hospices

Dr Julia Ronder, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and Retreat Co-ordinator

This retreat has been organised by the Kent Values in Healthcare Group, one of the regional groups of The Janki Foundation for Global Health Care. It consists of a multidisciplinary group of volunteers from a variety of different professional backgrounds.

There will be a charge of £20 for the day to cover the costs of expenses, lunch, and refreshments (£20 will not be payable until the day).