Dear Physician Friends,
Are you missing regular connection with like-minded people?
Do you have patients or clients that sometimes frustrate you?
Would you like some support as you start a new venture such as a new practice or a new role in your organization?
Are you ready for pandemic life to transition to endemic life?
Would you like to re-connect with the meaning you used to find in medicine?
Joining a Heart & Soul of Medicine Mastermind may be just what is needed to the support you need.
This mastermind is structured to help you make positive changes in your work, your personal health, your relationships with patients/clients, and to reconnect with the meaning of why you are doing all of this. It is intended for physicians bordering on burnout in whatever type of practice and want to focus on changing things to inject more meaning into their lives. It is also for those newly certified in Lifestyle Medicine, those in small DPC practices, those who are new in practice, and those in the second half of their careers, wanting to adjust they way they practice.
Benefits
Weekly Zoom Calls (with recordings provided if you cannot make the session).
CME available (one hour for each hour spent in active learning, including coaching).
Individual one hour coaching session with Sharon to review your Enneagram findings
We will meet between February 2024 and May 2024, with the highlight being in-person retreat in Napa! Retreat dates in spring 2024 are April 24-26, 2024.
Each week of the month we have a different topic to focus on (and this repeats each month with breaks for vacation/holidays). Most include CME credit.
We will use the Zoom platform for the sessions, and most will be recorded for future listening if you are unable to attend live. Or you can just attend the ones you want. No stress, no pressure, just group and individual support.
Monthly Topics
Week 1: Your Relationship with Work
Bringing together the diverse and experienced minds in the group to focus on your ideal work. Each person will have time for the group to focus on your and the changes you want to make to your work life (whether it's surviving the pandemic, adding Lifestyle Medicine, etc. to your current practice, starting a new practice, shifting to non-clinical work like coaching or consulting, or changing your current practice to have more personal and family time). Time for individual coaching in a group setting.
Week 2: Your Personal Health
The Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine as they relate to your own life. After years of Covid and quarantine, on top of already stressful work with long hours, most physicians would benefit from focusing on their own health.
Adopting a nutrient-dense, plant-predominate eating pattern.
Optimizing and individualizing physical activity plans.
Improving sleep.
Managing stress with healthy coping strategies.
Forming and maintaining personal relationships.
Cessation of tobacco use and other unhealthy habits.
The Enneagram and how using different aspects of yourself can help make life easier.
Discover your own Enneagram Type and some ways that you can use your understanding of the types to make it easier to understand how you function.
Week 3: Coaching.
Group coaching on whatever you need/desire. This call will include alumni of prior masterminds, so additional minds on your questions and a wider community to grow.
Week 4: Your Relationship with Meaning
Micro-Dosing of Mindfulness = Awe (What I Loved Most About Today)
Incorporating Meditation into your day
The Bhutan Way to Happiness
Meditation part 2. Hand washing as meditation other non-sitting meditations that can be incorporated into your work day without adding time.
Time management and meaning of time
Plus there is always time for individual check-in’s and sharing.
To register: https://www.heartsoulmed.com/mastermind-registration
Why Sharon: Dr. Sharon McCoy George is a triple board certified physician in Napa, CA (Family Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine). She is a national leader in the growing area of direct primary care practice and physician wellbeing. Her education includes a Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Social Policy (concentration in Public Health) from Northwestern University in 1985 and a Masters degree in Pastoral Studies (focus in Health Care Ethics) from Loyola University of Chicago in 1989, followed by medical training at two of the leading primary care programs in the country: her M.D. is from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and she completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dr. McCoy George has practiced in a variety of primary care settings, ranging from a medium-sized primary care practice in Seattle, to a large multi-specialty group in Orange County, California, to the faculty practice at University of California, Irvine. She regularly delivered guest lectures to the medical students at UC Irvine, and has also supervised residents at the UC Irvine Family Health Center Santa Ana and at UC Davis. In 2006, she opened Renaissance Family Medicine, a solo, direct primary care practice which has allowed her to deepen the bonds with her patients and explore the more personal side of health care.
Passionate about restoring the scared trust between patients and their doctors, Dr. McCoy George co-founded the non-profit Ideal Medical Practices, Inc. in 2007, with the goal of supporting physicians who want to practice in high quality, sustainable medical practices. She successfully directed the organization’s annual conferences for five consecutive years. She took this quest further with the founding of Heart & Soul of Medicine, physicians who want to create their own ideal practices and providing support for physicians who want to get back in touch with the heart and soul of their calling in medicine. Dr. McCoy George also speaks at local and national conferences on the topics of professional self-care and direct primary care practice.
Since moving to Napa, she is focusing on building small communities of physicians in Mastermind groups, helping physicians to be as healthy as possible by changing the structure of medical practices and sharing meditation and mindfulness. She is certified as a coach with WellCoaches does group and individual coaching. She is thrilled to resume in-person retreats!
Foundations of Heart & Soul of Medicine:
Heart & Soul of Medicine: Healthy Doctors lead to Healthy Patients which lead to a Healthier World
Design Thinking: Building your way into the life you want.
Coaching : Removing blocks that keep you from making the changes you want.
Fee: $1795 Includes in-person retreat with on-site private room, delicious healthy food, and lots of time to build friendships, celebrate, and develop the life you dream of.
Mastermind only option $895.
I would love to answer any questions or help you figure out if this Mastermind is for you. Please reply with questions, wonderings, reactions, and I will be happy to answer anything.
When we get together, we can change healthcare, heal ourselves, and have a bit of fun. Please consider joining us. Also, please share with physicians you care about.
Mastermind Group size is limited, so register early.
Keep breathing.
You are enough,
Sharon
Sharon George MD
Heart & Soul of Medicine
Napa, CA