Accepted Type
Workshop
Code
WB1-3
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Workshop
Sub Type
Affiliation
Title
Work-Life Harmony: Utilizing practical tools to harmonise time, emotions, energy, and purpose while practicing medicine
Length of Presentation
Rationale/Background
In a profession that is dedicated to healing others, many health care professionals feel torn as they attempt to balance work demands with their personal lives. The internal struggles between work, life, and self is a significant driver of burnout. While other Wellness Champions focus on moral injury and workload as drivers of burnout, this workshop will explore how a focus on individual core values can shape the management of time and energy, simultaneously empowering the physician to juggle the demands of work, life, and self in a harmonious way. We will offer ideas to consider for transformation of time management that simultaneously encourage personal fulfillment and social responsiveness.
Instructional Methods
This interactive workshop will alternate between brief didactic sessions and active, interactive, experiential learning. Participants will build tools that enhance management of their most important, but severely limited resources: time and energy. With a deliberate exploration into specific domains of wellness, including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, the participant will feel empowered to prioritize competing obligations in a way that constructively utilizes time and energy. Following a brief overview of key concepts, the participants will engage in paired, small group, and large group exercises to explore personal application of the principles and behaviours to their own lives. Employing gratitude, meditation, and joy as additional tools to further fortify emotional strength, the session will encourage the participant to reflect positively on how they dedicate their time and energy. Finally, the session will end with a personal reflection and continuing goal to strive for harmony in juggling the demands of work, life, and self.
Target audience
Postgraduate Residents; content is applicable to all levels of training and practice.
Learning Objective
After this session, participants will feel empowered to:
1. Apply practical strategies to harmonizing time, emotions, and energy while juggling demands from both external sources and self.
2. Further develop and utilize methods for consciously preserving and lifting energy.
3. Describe and apply adaptive self-reflection to ensure a consciously orchestrated, purposefully driven life.
4. Restore focus on the self-identified tenants that provide meaning and purpose to practicing medicine.
Keyword 1
Time-Management
Keyword 2
Harmony
Keyword 3
Wellness
Level of Training
Post Graduate
Abstract Themes
Physician & Medical Student Health and Well-being
Additional Theme (First choice)
Leadership
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Continuing Medical Education
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Postgraduate
Authors
Presenter
Seyara Shwetz
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Virtual Presentation Option
yes
