2021-05-08 Mindfulness Skill Training in Medicine (MSTM)

This course begins officially on Saturday, May 8, 2021, at 01:00 PM. 

For the May 2021 MSTM program, we'll switch formats slightly. We'll host the MSTM live interactive webinars from 1-5 PM Saturday, May 8, and May 15. Each segment is still 1.75 hours in length, but we'll take a 30-minute break in between sessions to interact with Drs. Kristi and Werner to more closely resemble a retreat experience.

The back-to-back MSTM sessions allow us to create two Saturday afternoon mini-online retreats. We definitely will engage in dialogue to discuss the evidence. Together we'll unpack how mindfulness practice might benefit healthcare professionals in increasing self-care, awareness, compassion, and other focused concerns and how that relates to distress burnout.

However, the focus will also be on the experiential component, which grounds the practice. Dr. Werner will guide you through the experiential activities, giving you a chance to immerse yourself in mindfulness practice.

In combination, these two mini-retreats introduce The Mindfulness Skill Training in Medicine (MSTM) program to clinicians and healthcare professionals who are new or have minimal mindfulness training experience.

For healthcare professionals more experienced in mindfulness training, the MSTM program can help strengthen a practice that has already begun.

Led by Doctors Kristi Artz and Werner Absenger, the live interactive Mindfulness Skill Training in Medicine (MSTM) webinar experience can work within most living situations. 

All you need to bring is a commitment to create a distraction-free environment and to engage with the material. Then, together, we'll be able to deepen the understanding of self-care tools you can apply right away to establish and sustain a regular contemplative practice that may enhance your self-care, health, and wellbeing.

The 2021-05-08 Mindfulness Skill Training in Medicine (MSTM): 

To earn all available *CMEs/** CEs, we meet the following days and times synchronously:

• Saturday, May 8, 2021:
  • 01:00 PM (10:00 AM PT): 1.75 hours Module 1.
  • 02:45 PM (11:45 AM PT): 30-minute break/or Q&A with Drs. Kristi and Werner
  • 03:15 PM (12:15 PM PT): 1.75 hours Module 2.
• Saturday, May 15, 2021:
  • 01:00 PM (10:00 AM PT): 1.75 hours Module 3.
  • 02:45 PM (11:45 AM PT): 30-minute break/or Q&A with Drs. Kristi and Werner
  • 03:15 PM (12:15 PM PT): 1.75 hours Module 4.

CMEs/CEs

• 7 C.E. Hours available for Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists, Chemical Dependency Counselors, Educators, and Nurses (Co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402).
• 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ are available to Spectrum Health Employees and affiliated institutions.
  • Spectrum Health Hospitals CME is accredited by the Michigan State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Spectrum Health Hospitals CME designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s).™ Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with their participation in the activity.

Rooted in evidence obtained from the field of contemplative neuroscience, we aim to bring mindfulness practice into mainstream medicine to increase clinicians' and healthcare professionals' self-care, potentially reducing the risks of distress and burnout.

This course is regularly $225!

But because of the possible benefits to healthcare providers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we offer the MSTM program for a limited time for ONLY $199.