Summer 2020 news & updates
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Steve Sartori, MD, ACC
Director, CMDA Center for Well-being
I love helping Christian healthcare professionals align with God, optimize well-being and maximize influence. I love serving with my team, working together to achieve more together than we ever could individually. And, I love CMDA, and its vision of “bringing the hope and healing of Christ to the world through healthcare professionals.”
I hope you were able to attend the webinar "Going to the Rock From a Hard Place" at the end of June. We were so encouraged by doc's from literally AROUND THE GLOBE who joined our two-hour focus on wellness. The recording of the CME webinar is now available in the CMDA Learning Center. You may go directly to the course via this link: -Well-being Webinar. If you’re a member, you will be asked to login before you are able to access the content, and if you do not have an account, you will be asked to create an account.
Please join us in our endeavor to help Christian healthcare professionals flourish, so that the vision of CMDA might be realized. Our fervent prayer is that Jesus will enable us, so that His kingdom might come, and His will might be done on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10) We're convinced that your gift of any amount given to CMDA's Center for Well-being will reap eternal dividends.
And thank you so much for your prayer and support!
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CMDA's 501 'Foundations in Coaching'
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On-line, this Fall!
Monday Evenings,
Beginning Sept. 28, 2020
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Don’t miss this great opportunity designed specifically by and for CMDA members and friends! When you take advantage of this unique opportunity, you'll be joining a growing tribe of healthcare professionals who are trained to listen in a new way, and ask powerful questions that can help people move from being ‘stuck’ to a place of confidence and hope.
(And, as an added benefit, this highly interactive course will help you gain some powerful tools to improve your own well-being!)
This course qualifies for 12 CME Category I AMA Credits
16 International Coach Federation (ICF) credits
(Open to all healthcare professionals, students, spouses,
and others who work with healthcare professionals.)
Enrollment is limited, so act now to avoid disappointment.
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How are you doing in these days? If you’re like many physicians in America, you’re getting worn out, burned out, maybe even discouraged and downright weary of these ongoing layers of crises with no clear end in sight. What are you doing with those feelings of sadness, grief, anger, and disappointment? Many of the physicians we coach find themselves thinking they shouldn’t feel these things, or believe they are the only one struggling.
If you look at the book of Psalms, there are countless examples of David (whom God called, “a man after my own heart”) pouring out all of his emotions, complaints and desperate cries to God-without restraint! How do these Psalms of lament usually end? In praise, gratitude and declaration of God’s goodness, power and glory. David certainly didn’t know how things would turn out when he wrote these prayers. Have you tried writing out your own 'psalms of lament' and complaint to God? I have. I was profoundly moved and surprised at the effect it had on me. As I took the risk to express my unedited questions, complaints and fears to God, I found myself gradually compelled to begin praising God, declaring what I know to be true of him and quietly ending my complaint in thanks. I felt heard. I felt comforted by the Spirit, freed from the weight of what is too great for me to bear alone. I was deeply moved. If you find yourself weighed down by the pain of these days, read the Psalms, pray the Psalms and write your own with ruthless honesty. God can take it and He wants to meet you at the very place life is most difficult.
Cultivating rhythms of care and renewal for our bodies and souls like this is vital if we are to sustain our well-being during these challenging times.
A coach can partner with you to help you develop rhythms of care, finding ways to come out of this pandemic better than you went in. Stay tuned for possible group coaching opportunities in the coming months. Share the wellbeing@cmda.org website with your colleagues. There they’ll find resources for dealing with the current crises as well as a “well-being assessment”. Exploratory inquiries are welcomed. Coaching training is a great way to gain skills to support your colleagues as the pandemic leads to more burnout. All our coaching training courses are now online, making training easily accessible. In the coming year, we expect to expand our coaching training program with two additional courses, making it possible to be fully certified as a coach through CMDA’s training program. If this sounds intriguing, join us in September! Space is limited so register soon.
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Ken Jones, PCC
Director of Communications
CMDA Center for Well-being
When I was a kid growing up, I learned the power of story by listening to my dad and my grandpa spin yarns and tell tales about all kinds of experiences they'd had. And in those tellings, life became more understandable, somehow. Learning to observe life … through the window of word pictures is how I would describe the view I came to appreciate. Simple phrases with larger meanings became part of the vocabulary of everyday life for me. Hearing my dad make life-observations using metaphors and similes was such a common thing that I hardly noticed the methodology; only the word pictures. One particular phrase that's stayed with me all my life was an observation my dad made about a particular person. He described the guy as being "lost as a ball in high weeds." Somehow, that provocative phrase called to my mind a word picture that had deep and even profound meaning. If a ball has landed in high weeds, it isn't exactly 'lost.' It's just that the weeds all around make it hard to locate.
I've been a sort of 'collector-of-sayings' throughout my life, I guess. And last week, my friend, Ann Tsen had a great term for what many so people are experiencing today. It rang so true in my head and heart that I made a mental note of its poignancy: 'Living in the land of high needs.' I took note of it because, well … I think it's a short walk from being 'lost as a ball in high weeds' to realizing that we're 'living in the land of high needs.' In many ways, there's not much difference between 'weeds' and 'needs,' I suppose. If we're living in the land of high needs, as long as we are anchored to the person and work of Jesus, we're not lost. It's just that the needs all around us can make balance and meaning and finding a rewarding 'life' hard to locate.
At the CMDA Center for Well-being, we're here to help. If you're living in the land of high needs, and yes, if you feel lost as a ball in high weeds? Coaching can help. I'd encourage you to invest in some personal coaching to help you sort out what matters most. You won't be sorry.
Feel free to give a listen to “The Quiet Zone.” Just 4-5 minutes of time. Hopefully, the investment of time will encourage and refresh your hurried life.
Thanks to all of you who are a part of making what I get to do possible. Your continued support and encouragement means more than you will ever know.
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