• Professional education provides specialized skill development, training, and technical coordination within an area of critical concern to individuals, professional provider groups, and/or community programs.
• Performs training and education needs assessments for individual community constituencies, as appropriate to the objectives of the program.
• Designs, develops, and delivers training programs and workshops to educators and health care professionals working within community programs.
• Assesses local and state educational resources within area of professional expertise, and designs and develops special programs for resources development as appropriate.
• Develops and produces special educational literature and information packages for dissemination to community programs, in accordance with need.
• Participates in committees and advisory boards, and contributes to the development of policies and program initiatives related to statewide education within area of professional specialty.

Existing Programs

Mindfulness – 8 week course:

This introductory course is designed to give you a sense of mindfulness. For each of the eight weeks, videos, readings and practices help you build a base of both knowledge and experience.

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment.

Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment. When we practice mindfulness, our thoughts tune into what we’re sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining the future.

Mind-Body Skills course – 8 week course:

The Mind-Body Skills Group (MBSG) is an 8-week educational program that encompasses a meditative group process, and is one among a variety of programs worldwide involving Mind Body Medicine theory based scientific evidence, and practice. MBSG is grounded on principles identified in Dr. Jim Gordon’s book, Manifesto for a New Medicine. According to Dr. Gordon, a psychiatrist and founder of the Center for Mind- Body Medicine in Washington DC, “self care is the true primary care” and “health promotion is a way of life”. Dr. Gordon advises health care professionals and patients to embrace a holistic, individualized approach to health and draw upon the wisdom of ancient medical traditions.

The Mind-Body Skills Group was designed to help healthcare professionals, students, and persons with health problems, and others to embrace a practical approach to health and wellness and adopt new attitudes about health and healing. In a small group setting, which becomes a private, safe community where each participant may question, explore and heal, all have the opportunity to learn and practice a variety of mind-body medicine techniques such as:

• Meditation (concentrative, mindfulness, and dynamic
• Guided Imagery
• Breath Work
• Expressive drawing and writing
• Autogenic Training (self-hypnosis)
• Biofeedback

Scenerio Role Play (SRP) –1 day group workshop, can be repeated.

This experiential learning workshop, based on the work of Dr. Robert Blees and Dr. David Abbot, uses Scenarios: (fictitious life situations) in which you and others play roles to examine the effectiveness of interpersonal problem-solving and relationship-building techniques. In a non-judgmental, structured environment, you determine how well your goals were met.

As the Scenarios are replayed, you will acquire skills to improve relationships using actions and responses which provide more rewarding outcomes.

Encounter Scenario Role Play (SRP) as a tool for personal growth, teaching, training, and other positions of leadership, helping, and instructing.Find new, more productive ways to meet interpersonal, emotional, and behavioral needs.

• Incorporate more effective behavior when in stressful situations.
• Improve Interpersonal Relationships & Examine and explore the effects your behavior has on others without the usual risks.
• Develop & Verify Group-work Skills

The following program topics are readily available for 1 hour presentation –to- multi-week programming, scaled to fit client need (additional individual and/or group coaching can be added to these)

• Professional Burn-out – scale of problem (specific to industry), signs, prevention, Treatment Options
• Self-Care
• Holistic Health / Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) –
• Cannabis Medicine and Science – Cannabinoid Education –
• Chronic Pain, Associated Conditions, and Treatment Options –Living with Chronic Illness (Patient & Caregiver)
• Chronic Health Conditions