Professional Development
Tending Your NEST and Making SPACE for What Matters Most:
Wellness, Mindfulness and Meaning-Making in Leadership — a social-psychological intervention designed to mitigate physician burnout and promote wellness.
Cohort 1
January - September 2017
Cohort 2
January – September 2018
Cohort 3
January – September 2019
Cohort 4
January – September 2020
Cohort 5
January – September 2021
Cohort 6
January – September 2022
APPLY HERE by November 12, 2021
Sponsored by:
Robert A. Harrington, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Program Design and Lead Coach:
Rebecca Merrill at rebecca@merrillleadership.com
For questions about joining this program contact:
Helena McCombie at helena.mccombie@stanford.edu
N-E-S-T
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Nutrition
Exercise
Sleep
Time Management
S-P-A-C-E
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Stillness
Presence
Appreciation
Compassion
Equanimity
| • | Start a Wellness Journal. |
| • | Choose one small, manageable behavioral change in each area of NEST: Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep, Time Management and make a commitment of change to an accountability partner over the next nine months. |
| • | How are you practicing presence with patients, family members and yourself? |
| • | Keep a gratitude journal for the next 30 days. Write down three moments of joy every day. Watch Shawn Achor’s TED Talk on Happiness. |
| • | Choose one self-compassion activity you are not currently doing and practice it for the next 30 days. |
| • | Write a memoir-story that illuminates what you learned in group and how the experience has positively changed your life, added meaning, purpose, belonging and focus to your leadership activities. |
| • | Describe a personal redemption story with a high point, low point and turning point as well as central themes of learning and meaning making. |
SUGGESTED READING, TED TALKS, AND YOUTUBE
· A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose – Eckhart Tolle
· Authentic Leadership – Bill George
· Before Happiness – Shawn Achor
· Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters Most in the End – Atul Gawande, MD (TED Talk)
· Better Than Before – Gretchen Rubin
· Creative Confidence – David and Tim Kelly
· Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese, MD
· Decisive – Chip and Dan Heath
· Designing Your Life – Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
· Drive – Dan Pink
· Emotional Agility – Susan David
· Finding Your Own North Star – Martha Beck
· Give and Take – Adam Grant
· Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – Angela Duckworth
· Healthy at 100 – John Robbins
· Healthy Aging – Cameron Diaz
· If Life is a Game, These Are the Rules – Cherie Carter-Scott
· Into the Magic Shop – James Doty, MD
· Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg
· Linchpin – Seth Godin
· Loving What Is – Byron Katie
· Me, Myself and Us – Brian Little
· Mindset – Carol Dweck
· My Own Country - Abraham Verghese
· Optimal Healing – Andrew Weil
· Option B – Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
· Originals – Adam Grant
· Presence – Amy Cuddy
· Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society – Peter Senge
· Quiet – Susan Cain
· Rising Strong – Brene Brown
· Self-Compassion - Kristen Neff, PhD
· The Art of Possibility – Rosamund and Ben Zander
· The Art of Stillness: Adventure in Going Nowhere – Pico Iyer
· The Happiness Hypothesis – Jonathan Haidt
· The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters – Sarah Susanka
· The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters – Emily Esfahani Smith
· The Sleep Revolution – Arianna Huffington
· The Speed of Trust – Stephen Covey, Jr.
· There Is No Good Card for This – Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell
· Thrive: The Third Metric to Redifining Success and Creating a Life of Well–Being, Wisdom and Wonder – Arianna Huffington
· Triggers – Marshall Goldsmith
· When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
· Wherever You Go, There You Are – Jon Kabat–Zinn
· Who’s Got Your Back – Keith Ferrazzi
· Why We Get Fat – Gary Taub
MINDFULNESS AND SELF-CARE PRACTICES
| 1. | Meditation (Calm.com) Challenge: See if you can listen daily for 9 months |
| 2. | Journaling Challenge: See if you can write daily for 9 months |
| 3. | Walking Challenge: See if you can walk daily for 9 months |
| 4. | Baths Challenge: See if you can bathe nightly with candles and music for 9 months |
| 5. | Massage Challenge: See if you can get a weekly massage |
| 6. | Yoga Challenge: See if you can go to a Yoga practice twice per week |
| 7. | Learning Challenge: Find a partner to share learning with each month and do one of the previous activities together |
| 8. | Innovation Challenge: Come up with your own mindfulness practice |