SoulCare in HealthCare (A Claritas Institute Program)

Hospitals and Health CareUnited States2-10 Employees

Our current health-care system is suffering from an internal malaise—a
disconnect between body and soul. The most visible symptoms of this
split are escalating costs and a nation plagued by a rise in chronic
illness, obesity, and depression. A less visible symptom is professional
burnout, loss of heart, and talented professionals leaving their practices.
However, when patients connect with their health-care providers soul-to-soul
(a respectful I–Thou encounter), instead of role-to-role (an I–it
encounter- language that we've adopted from Parker Palmer), the result is healing. Symptoms are reduced and patients become more mindful, skillful, and empowered. The relationship is the
medicine, a transcendent field that embraces both the practitioner and
the person being served. In the process both participants reclaim the vital
quality of wholeness. The Soul Care in Health Care training, led by mind-body pioneer Joan
Borysenko and organizational psychologist Gordon Dveirin is designed to
reclaim the sacred in health care and heal the split between body and
soul in patient care. Its goal is to introduce healing presence, generative
listening, and the evocation of story as core competencies in the practice
of medicine, psychology, nursing, social work and other health
specialties. 
For more information send inquirires to soulcare@joanborysenko.com

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