Are you looking for a restorative & enjoyable break with time to complete your CPD in a meaningful way? Join a relaxing & reviving retreat of CPD and self-care designed for doctors by doctors.

With attendance to all CPD activities, you will complete 12 hours of CPD with 2 hours of education, 5 hours of reviewing performance, including a professional conversation & Professional Development Plan, and 5 hours of Measuring Outcomes. Make completing your CPD requirement easy and learn new methods of self-care for a sustainable career in medicine. Gift yourself professionally coached and protected time to complete your CPD, connect, laugh, make friends, rest, relax, reflect, & grow. Expertly facilitated sessions will inspire & empower you, bringing your mandatory CPD requirements to life.

Inclusions

• Friday afternoon group CPD mindfulness workshop for self-care as a doctor.
• 2 gentle morning flow yoga classes.
• 1 Saturday afternoon relaxation yoga class.
• A Saturday afternoon group CPD reflection session on values and priorities for reviewing performance as a doctor.
• All meals (except breakfast): Friday afternoon tea and dinner; Saturday morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea; and Sunday morning tea and lunch.
• All morning and afternoon teas, and lunches come with a complimentary barista coffee order or one non-alcoholic beverage.
• A house welcome drink on Friday before dinner. Enjoy a glass of bubbles or wine or a non-alcoholic house beverage of your choice.
• Group CPD sessions with talks & workshops on well-being skills, self-care, goal setting, professional sharing and active listening, and other CPD activities.
• Up to 12 hours of CPD completed after full retreat attendance and a 1-hour re-audit. Cultural safety and professional behaviours are embedded into all CPD activities.
• 2 hours of pre-reading CPD education on cultural safety, well-being skills and professional behaviours.
• Professionally coached group CPD sessions for a professional conversation and a professional development plan as part of your mandatory CPD hours for reviewing performance.
• Supported group CPD workshop to complete a meaningful and useful self-care audit as part of your mandatory CPD hours for measuring outcomes.
• Daily access to Bell’s pool, bar, bakery, gardens and restaurant.
• Free onsite parking.

CPD

• 2 hours of CPD & well-being education (pre-reading and talks) incorporating cultural safety and professional behaviours.
• 5 hours of reviewing performance, including a professional conversation and professional development plan.
• 5 hours of Measuring Outcomes with a self-care audit and re-audit.
• With total attendance to all CPD activities, you can complete 12 hours of CPD, including a mandatory professional development plan.
• All CPD activities cover elements of cultural safety and professional behaviours.

Hosts

Dr Susannah Ward is a Specialist Physician of Rehabilitation Medicine in Newcastle, NSW. She is the Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Member Health & Well-being Committee and Chair of the Well-being Advocates Webinars. She was a College Director on the board and Deputy Chair of the College and Faculty Trainee Committees as a trainee. She is a Director of Mood Active, a charity that supports exercise programs for people with mental illness. She is passionate about holistic health and lifestyle and behavioural and psychological rehabilitation. She incorporates evidence-based wellness tools like mindfulness, psychological tools, nutrition, movement and social/lifestyle prescription into her practice. She is a qualified yoga and mindfulness teacher, and founder of Ataraxia Collective, hosting well-being and CPD retreats for doctors. She has a research background, having piloted hospital mindfulness and intern wellness sessions. She has several publications to her name on medical culture change and doctor well-being and is the author of the self-help book Mastering Real Wellness.

Dr Sarah Dalton is a Paediatric Emergency Physician and previous President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She has worked in different clinical and leadership roles across NSW over the last 25 years, from regional centres to specialist tertiary units and from community care to acute care retrieval services. She completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Clinical Leadership and has held executive leadership roles in several NSW Health entities. Sarah’s leadership strengths see her apply coaching conversations to support individuals to unlock their own solutions, enabling them to optimise individual performance and outcomes. Sarah completed the INSEAD Coaching Certificate and she offers performance, leadership and wellbeing coaching to healthcare professionals.  She is the co-founder of Capstan Coaching for Doctors.

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