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This is an online event.Change Agents LAN - The Compassionate Connection
Join us on June 4, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. MT for The Compassionate Connection webinar featuring Dr. David Rakel.
Participants in this webinar will:
- Explore health within ourselves to prepare us to facilitate health in others.
- Understand key research on how your therapeutic relationship can enhance any therapy prescribed.
- Learn how a circular-compassionate-health approach can bring more value to health care delivery compared to traditional-linear-disease approaches. One waits for the body to break the other engages life.
- Understand how compassion can increase energy and resiliency, reducing the risk of burn out.
- Learn to change the conversation towards healthy outcomes by asking different questions.
Participants will learn through self-reflection and engagement. By exploring health for ourselves, we understand the power of shared-decision making, empowering healthy behaviors. Health is much more about what we do than what we take. We will have fun in exploring this together.
Our Speaker:
David Rakel, MD, is a physician, professor and department chair of family and community medicine at the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Medicine. He is also the author of The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening. Dr. Rakel started his career near the Teton Mountains in Driggs, Idaho, where he was in rural private practice for five years before completing a two-year residential fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. He was the founder and director of the University of Wisconsin (UW) Integrative Medicine Program and a tenured professor in the department of family medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health before coming to UNM.
