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SCHOOL OF NURSING & HEALTH PROFESSIONS

Professional Health Immersion Program

Leading with Balance

This immersive retreat creates intentional space for healthcare leaders to slow down, reconnect with their purpose, and strengthen their capacity to lead with clarity, compassion, and courage. Through guided reflection, storytelling, creative expression, and grounded leadership practices, participants rediscover their authentic voice and build sustainable ways of leading in today’s complex healthcare environment. Each day offers thematic experiences that move leaders from listening inward, to finding their voice, to owning their practice and path forward.

Key Focus Areas

Reflective Practice & Storytelling - Spend time uncovering the stories that have shaped you through journaling, open conversation, and creative expression to reconnect with what matters most in your work.
Authentic & Courageous Leadership - Recognize the strengths you already bring to the table, explore your leadership style, and learn how to speak and act from a place of clarity and integrity.
Compassion & Creative Healing - Practice simple, meaningful tools like mindful reflection, gratitude, and artistic exercises that help you manage stress, stay grounded, and lead with empathy.
Sustainable, Values-Driven Leadership - Create a realistic, values-aligned plan for leading with purpose and sustaining your well-being over the long term, even in demanding healthcare environments.
Community & Supportive Networks - Grow alongside peers who understand the challenges of care-focused work. Build relationships that continue to offer encouragement, accountability, and shared learning long after the retreat concludes.

Why Join?

Healthcare leaders are being asked to deliver excellence while navigating complexity, uncertainty, and emotional strain. This retreat offers a rare chance to pause, reconnect with your purpose, and cultivate leadership grounded in authenticity and wholeness. Through guided reflection, creative expression, storytelling, and community dialogue.

Three-day Immersive Experience

Organized around clear themes, listening to our own stories, strengthening our voice, and applying what we learn to how we work and live.

Reflective Learning Practices

Guided journaling, meaningful dialogue, narrative sharing, and simple mindfulness activities that help participants slow down and reconnect with purpose.

Creative and Arts-based Activities

Includes poetry, symbolic exercises, and gentle expressive work to help process stress, deepen compassion, and explore personal and professional identity.

Exploration of Individual Strengths and “Core Gifts”

Offers space to name what each person brings to healthcare and how those contributions can be honored in daily practice.

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Development of a Personal Sustainability Plan

Uses practical habits of pause, presence, purpose, and values alignment to support long-term well-being and meaningful work.

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Supportive Peer Dialogue and Coaching Practices

Builds community, encourage shared reflection, and provide tools for continued growth beyond the retreat.

Who Should Attend?

This program is designed for healthcare professionals seeking to cultivate resilience, reconnect with purpose, and build sustainable practices that support personal well-being and meaningful work. Ideal participants include:

Clinical Providers – Nurses, physicians, advanced practice clinicians, allied health professionals, and care team members supporting patients directly.
Healthcare Staff & Administrators – Individuals contributing to patient care and operations across departments and care settings.
Educators, Preceptors & Clinical Instructors – Professionals supporting workforce development, student learning, and mentoring.
Anyone in Healthcare Experiencing Burnout, Transition, or Professional Strain - People who seek restored clarity, purpose, and personal sustainability.

Program Details & Customization

This immersive, three-day experience is designed for healthcare professionals seeking renewed purpose, sustainable practice, and personal well-being. Participants engage in reflective inquiry, arts-integrated exploration, and community dialogue to cultivate meaning, resilience, and authentic expression in their work.

Program Themes & Daily Focus

Day	Theme	Focus of Learning and Practice
1	Narrative Inquiry: Tell Your Story	Guided reflection, values clarification, shared storytelling, inner teacher exploration, and meaning-making through creative expression.
2	Authentic Voice & Purpose: Find Your Voice	Strengths identification, core gifts exploration, contemplative and arts-integrated practices, personal mantra development, purpose alignment.
3	Sustainable Practice & Application: Own Your Path	Personalized sustainability planning, values-based action steps, peer collaboration, community of practice building, and strategies for continued growth.