Fall Rejuvenation Mind-Body Skills Group to Enhance Self-Care
Online 8 week Program to Support Health Care Providers-in-Training
Are you:
…looking to improve your health and wellbeing, but have limited time and don’t know where to start?
…experiencing burnout and are looking to experience everyday life from a new perspective and learn more ways of stress relief?
…looking for ways to enhance your own motivation and inner strength to continue caring for yourself and your families?
…looking for community, connection and hope?
…coping with a serious illness or loss - either yours or that of a loved one?
Empower yourself by joining Dr. Singh’s Fall Rejuvenation Online Mind-body Skills Group.
Program Description
Mind-body skills groups are educational, supportive groups that offer participants an opportunity to learn strategies of self-care and experience evidence-based techniques to enhance well-being and resilience.
““Mind-body approaches use the conscious mind to directly affect the workings of the brain and the rest of the body.”
Group Details
Mondays, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST
September 25 - November 13, 2023
Program Includes
15 minute pre-group one-on-one meet and greet with each participant
2-hour weekly small group sessions conducted over the course of 8 consecutive weeks (delivered online through Zoom)
Weekly emails to participants with session summaries, meditation recordings, suggestions for home practice, suggested readings, and inspirational quotes
1 hour reunion session approximately 4-6 weeks after the group finishes
Each participant will receive:
Dr. Gordon’s book The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma
A mind-body skills workbook (PDF)
A pulse oximeter for the biofeedback activity
In addition, participants will have the ability to take the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Areas of Worklife Assessment both before and after the group finishes.
This group is open to the public and is being offered at a promotional cost to support the well-being of health-care providers in training.
Mind-Body Skills Group Program Cost: $475
Scholarship Program Cost for Physicians-in-Training - Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows: $275*
*Scholarship Participants will be asked to write an article (750-1200 words) on a mind-body medicine related topic. See details below!
Give the Gift of Self-Care: Scroll down (to the bottom of the page) to learn more about purchasing this program as a gift for someone or to find out more information to sponsor this group for a medical student or physician-in-training (resident or fellow).
Weekly Schedule
Week 1: Overview of Mind-Body Medicine
“What if I told you that caring for your body is the least important part of your health... that for you to be truly ital other factors are more important?...
What if you have the power to heal your body just by changing how your mind thinks, how your heart feels, and your life force flows?””
Learning Objectives
To establish the integrity of the group
To describe mind-body medicine
To use drawings for self-exploration, expression, and understanding
Week 2: Biological Underpinnings of Mind-Body Medicine
“The natural healing force within us is the greatest force in getting well.” ”
Learning Objectives
To understand the basic biology of mind-body medicine
To demonstrate the use of autogenics and biofeedback
Check out this article published in AAMC Aspiring Doc Diaries by Peter Tamura, a medical student who published his experience experimenting with biofeedback after participating in the mind-body skills group: Experimenting with Biofeedback: Reconnecting with Breath to Manage Stress
Week 3: Meditation
“The practice of meditation has been found to affect clinical outcomes for most every clinical condition defined by science.””
Learning Objectives
To understand and experience meditation in the roles of mind-body medicine and of self-care
To practice an expressive meditation
Week 4: Imagery
“Imagery allows you to communicate with your mind in its native tongue.””
Learning Objectives
To understand the beneficial effects of and experience guided imagery
Week 5: Emotions - Dialogue
“As you write about your suppressed emotions... you will soon realize an important truth: ‘This happened to me it’s not happening now.’... Over time, you’ll grow. more comfortable bring your emotions up and out and onto the page. You’ll likely find... that one insight leads to another.””
Learning Objectives
To mobilize and transform emotions and understand how they impact us
To understand the use of dialogue
To dialogue with a symptom, problem, or issue
Week 6: Nutrition and Mindful Eating
“When practiced at it’s fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal’s creation as well as a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and the planet’s health.””
Learning Objectives
To discuss the concept of food as medicine
To review healthy nutrition guidelines
To experience mindful eating
Week 7: Spirituality
“Our sense of purpose, our connection to that which is larger than ourselves, keeps us fulfilled and living longer. In other words, our will to live keeps us living.””
Learning Objectives
To understand basic concepts of spirituality in relation to mind-body medicine
To experience possibility and forgiveness and healing
Week 8: Ceremony & Ritual
““We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings... We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn’t have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising...”
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Learning Objectives
To discuss the use of ceremony and ritual
Closing ceremony
About the Facilitator
These groups will be facilitated by Dr. Jessica Singh, MD, NBC-HWC, ACC, the founder of Sukhayu Wellness and the Center for Health and Wellness Coaches, whose health and wellness journey began years ago when she was an emergency medicine physician in training learning how to enhance her own well-being and recover from burnout. Now as a national-board certified health and wellness coach, yoga instructor and practitioner, Ayurvedic wellness counselor, interactive guided imagery guide, mind-body skills practitioner, author (first book in progress on how to enhance fulfillment and well-being as a physician!) and healthcare provider wellness consultant, she is excited and grateful to facilitate this group, in which she expands upon the mind-body skills group model developed by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
Additional Details
No prior experience necessary. This mind-body skills group is open to everyone.
Space is limited. This group will have a minimum of 7 and maximum of 10 participants. Participants will be enrolled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Note: Please allow 1-2 weeks flexibility in the start dates listed to ensure that there are enough participants enrolled in the group.
Each participant is an important part of the group. Therefore, participants must be able to attend the entire 8-week program.
This is not a therapy group. This is a supportive educational group with a facilitator who is also an equal participator in the group.
Learn more about mind-body skills groups.
Requirements & Recommendations
This mind-body skills group is offered live through Zoom webinar.
Viewing Device: Desktop or laptop computer will provide the best experience, although you can also connect via a tablet or smartphone.
Internet connection: High-speed broadband-wired or wireless is best.
Video participation is necessary. Download Zoom to your computer or install the Zoom app to your device.
Audio: The use of headphones is encouraged.
Registration
To join, please complete the interest form, and I will contact you within 24-72 hours to schedule a brief virtual meet and greet. To ensure that you have the best experience, it is important for me to speak with you and understand your interest in joining the mind-body skills group. After speaking with you, you will be able to register for the program.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
Sponsor Mind-Body Skills Groups for Medical Students and Physicians-in- Training (Residents and Fellows)
Given the high prevalence of burnout and the extraordinary educational debt that many physicians incur, Dr. Jessica Singh has provided full scholarship positions (free tuition) for medical students and physicians-in-training (residents and fellows) ever since she started facilitating mind-body skills groups. In order to sustain this effort giving the growing popularity and interest in these groups, she is excited to implement this sponsorship program.
By becoming a sponsor, you give the ultimate gift of self-care and well-being to medical student or physician in training by supporting their education in mind-body medicine, with this validated model that has been proven to mitigate burnout, heal trauma, enhance stress management, and improve quality of life. Participants from all over the country and all throughout the globe are welcome!
Given the immense effort that goes into providing this effort for medical students and physicians-in-training, in order to quality to participate in the mind-body skills group, they must:
Submit an interest form
Attend a 1:1 15 minute interview meeting with Dr. Jessica Singh
Make the commitment to join and actively participate in all 8 sessions
Complete the required weekly reading from Dr. James Gordon’s book The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma (syllabus is given before the start of the program)
Write brief weekly reflections after each session
Complete a scholarly activity within 6 months of the program start date
Participants will be asked to write an article (750-1200 words) on a mind-body medicine related topic. Dr. Singh will provide up to 1 hour of editorial support to students for selected articles for publication on the platform of their choosing.
Articles written by previous participants:
Breaths to Calm - co-written with medical student Raya Iqbal, published in AAMC Aspiring Doc Diaries
Experimenting with the Breath: Reconnecting with Breath to Manage Stress - by Peter Tamura, medical student, published in AAMC Aspiring Doc Diaries
Let’s Meet in Child’s Pose and Welcome the Day - by Steven Meas, MD-PhD student, published in KevinMD
Levels of sponsorship:
Silver sponsor: Any contribution will be allocated towards a partial scholarship for a medical student or physician-in-training.
Gold sponsor: $275 (full tuition).
Diamond sponsor: $1375 - full tuition for 5 medical students/physicians-in-training
Nurturing Hearts sponsor: $2750 - full tuition for 10 medical students/physicians in training (this would be used to support one full mind-body skills group solely for medical students and physicians-in-training (residents and fellows) throughout the globe
In appreciation of your generosity, all gold, diamond, and nurturing heart sponsors will receive a letter from the medical student or physician in training that they sponsor describing their reflection of the group after they complete the program. In addition, sponsors will have the opportunity to meet the medical student and/or physician-in-training that they sponsor via a zoom video group meeting after the completion of the program.
In addition, all nurturing hearts’ sponsors will receive an $275 credit. As a nurturing hearts’ sponsor, you can apply this credit towards any wellness initiative, including your own participation in a mind-body skills group, or a 1:1 holistic coaching session ($275/hour).
If you would like to sponsor this program as a gift for a medical student or physician-in-training, please complete the sponsor interest form.
Any contribution will help support this initiative. I currently have a waitlist of medical students from throughout the country who are interested in participating in these groups!
Thank you for your consideration.
Gift the Gift of Self-Care
If you would like to gift the gift of a mind-body skills group to someone you know, please email wellness@sukhayu.life with the following information:
The amount that you would like to gift.
You can support this invaluable opportunity by partially or fully contributing to their tuition.
The name(s) and email addresses of those who you would like to gift.
Given the nature of the mind-body skills group, your gift recipient will have to complete an interest form, briefly meet with Dr. Jessica Singh via a 15 minute zoom/phone call, and commit to participating in the group before the gift can be made.
