Living the Medicine: becoming a skilled lifestyle medicine facilitator
February 28-30 - May 29-31, 2020
February 28-30 - May 29-31, 2020
Are you inspired by the principles of naturopathic medicine, but feel stifled by the one-on-one office visit model? Are you looking for ways to embody the medicine more fully, for yourself and for your patients?
Join us in a deep dive into experiential medicine: the how-to guide for creating community-based medicine as part of your practice. Develop experience and confidence in group workshop and retreat hosting. Expand your practice beyond the one-on-one patient visit model. Enjoy your CEs by spending time in nature and creating the workshop you’ve been wanting to host.
This immersive course is designed to give you the specific tools and models for creating effective and fun events. You will learn to host unique workshops or unforgettable retreats that build your practice beyond the one-on-one patient visit model.
The course guides participants through the stages of experience→learn→do. Participants will experience one weekend retreat in the fall, then over the course of 5 months they will learn the facilitation, organization, and leadership skills to run a successful event through online course work. The course culminates with a second weekend retreat in the spring collaboratively facilitated by the course participants, with structured evaluation and feedback given by the instructors and other participants.
You’ll earn CEs (CONO Category A pending) while experiencing a wellness retreat (doing mindful walking in the forest, stretching your body with morning qi gong, and sharing nourishing meals with like-minded practitioners in a beautiful retreat-style setting away from the city), and you’ll also gain the confidence and skills to deliver your own creative event!
Intrigued? Read on!
We kick off with one weekend together as a group, exploring the pillars of health through experiential modules in a rural retreat-style setting in Southern Ontario. Participants will participate in self-care and learning as strategies of interactive education is modelled by the facilitators. The weekend is divided into workshops focusing on the pillars of health: diet, sleep, movement, stress management, relationships, and nature. Join us for nourishing meals by the fire, morning yoga and movement exercises, deep introspective walks in the forest, and mindful exploration of our values.
This is followed by 3 online course modules that explore specific facilitation and organization skills for creating effective events. Material is delivered through videos, readings, and interactive materials, with each module having a short evaluation. Participants use this time and material to create a workshop module of their own that is facilitated as part of a final weekend retreat in the spring.
Program objectives:
By the completion of this program, participants will be able to:
To register:
The cost for this program is $1000 per participant. A 50% non-refundable deposit is required to confirm your registration; the balance is due one month prior to the start of the program (January 28, 2020). Please use the form before to contact us and register!
Join us in a deep dive into experiential medicine: the how-to guide for creating community-based medicine as part of your practice. Develop experience and confidence in group workshop and retreat hosting. Expand your practice beyond the one-on-one patient visit model. Enjoy your CEs by spending time in nature and creating the workshop you’ve been wanting to host.
This immersive course is designed to give you the specific tools and models for creating effective and fun events. You will learn to host unique workshops or unforgettable retreats that build your practice beyond the one-on-one patient visit model.
The course guides participants through the stages of experience→learn→do. Participants will experience one weekend retreat in the fall, then over the course of 5 months they will learn the facilitation, organization, and leadership skills to run a successful event through online course work. The course culminates with a second weekend retreat in the spring collaboratively facilitated by the course participants, with structured evaluation and feedback given by the instructors and other participants.
You’ll earn CEs (CONO Category A pending) while experiencing a wellness retreat (doing mindful walking in the forest, stretching your body with morning qi gong, and sharing nourishing meals with like-minded practitioners in a beautiful retreat-style setting away from the city), and you’ll also gain the confidence and skills to deliver your own creative event!
Intrigued? Read on!
We kick off with one weekend together as a group, exploring the pillars of health through experiential modules in a rural retreat-style setting in Southern Ontario. Participants will participate in self-care and learning as strategies of interactive education is modelled by the facilitators. The weekend is divided into workshops focusing on the pillars of health: diet, sleep, movement, stress management, relationships, and nature. Join us for nourishing meals by the fire, morning yoga and movement exercises, deep introspective walks in the forest, and mindful exploration of our values.
This is followed by 3 online course modules that explore specific facilitation and organization skills for creating effective events. Material is delivered through videos, readings, and interactive materials, with each module having a short evaluation. Participants use this time and material to create a workshop module of their own that is facilitated as part of a final weekend retreat in the spring.
Program objectives:
By the completion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Practically apply strategies of lifestyle change for wellness to personal routines; reconnect to the “basics” as a therapeutic tool
- Describe the role of healthy lifestyle behaviours in the promotion of health and prevention of disease
- Develop a library of lifestyle resources useful to their future work with clients
- Work with another person or independently to plan, design, deliver and evaluate an experiential workshop for wellness promotion to a group of participants
- Troubleshoot common challenges delivering group-based education
To register:
The cost for this program is $1000 per participant. A 50% non-refundable deposit is required to confirm your registration; the balance is due one month prior to the start of the program (January 28, 2020). Please use the form before to contact us and register!
