We believe that improving the workplace environment, especially in those organizations committed to caring for others, is the place to start. As a diverse, multigenerational network of leaders, artists, thinkers, healers, designers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and advocates, our aim is to use experience and wisdom gained along our own journeys to help others hurt less, thrive more, and lead transformational change in their organizations and their communities.
With our belief in the innate value of all human beings and by encouraging diverse perspectives, empathy and compassion, we can envision, design, and create a better future together, as caring for one another is the foundation for all good things.
Our Offerings
We are generating a movement towards a Healing Ecosystem where one can work and live in positive space. To that end, we are developing education and training that encourages people to start their Journey to Healing.
Why?
Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, several longstanding trends such as a high degree of staff trauma, moral injury and burnout have revealed our thinking, behaviors, and strategic efforts are counterproductive to workforce thriving; thus, impacting organizational performance and strength. While the most important focus of our work is on healing and health, it is time to rethink our concept of healthcare organizations. The world has changed, but our organizational structure and policy were codified by foundational conditions that may no longer exist or be as relevant. We need to ask whether they support or constrain positive work experience and high performance.
WHAT?
Engagement, trust, and other aspects of workforce well-being in healthcare are at all-time lows as leaders continue to navigate the lasting impacts of the burnout crisis, the trauma of the pandemic, and ongoing challenges with staffing and retention. Rather than focusing on the crisis of the moment, sustainable performance and workforce well-being requires a paradigm shift that solves for root causes of organizational distress and emphasizes a holistic approach to turning our places of work into healing ecosystems.
HOW?
Our trainings will introduce the healing ecosystem model, its core components, and demonstrate how using the model can address burnout, trauma, and moral injury and create sustainable change that improves organizational performance and workforce well-being at the same time.
This will be accomplished through a 90-day change approach:
30 days to orient to concepts and assess root cause.
30 days to plan what specifically is to be addressed for the outcome & establish sensitive performance indicators.
30 days to implement and measure.
These trainings are currently being offered in collaboration with ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives), and as we develop these trainings will expand into state hospital associations, larger healthcare systems, and healthcare professional organizations.
Primary Objectives of our Trainings
Participants will be able to describe the components of the healing ecosystem model and how these address root causes of burnout, low engagement, and challenges with organizational performance.
Participants will understand the necessity of trauma-informed leadership and will be able to apply adaptive leadership principles in creating a healing healthcare ecosystem.
Participants will be able to assess impact of and prioritize specific organizational structural components on climate quality.
Participants will be able to apply approaches learned and tools provided in their own units to identify and solve issues that are limiting performance.
