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Customized Programs

We create customized programs with collaborative partners to achieve these goals.

We collaborate with:

  • employers
  • patient and caregiver support groups
  • health care institutions
  • community groups

By impacting key institutions in our society, we hope to create a culture of compassion and resiliency. If you are interested in learning about how we can customize a group for your program, please contact us.

Here are examples of some of the programs we have implemented:

Corporate Programs

  • Conflict Resolution in an Urban Environment – Department of Public Safety, University of Pennsylvania – The Director of Public Safety at the University of Pennsylvania invited us to teach our basic techniques to all of its police officers, dispatchers and administrators to help them manage the stress of keeping a large, diverse community safe.
  • Executive Education, Wharton School of Management – As part of a team of instructors, we taught executive coaches how to help stressed-out executives manage stress, focus and difficult relationships and situations.
  • GlaxoSmithKline – This overview program introduced our techniques to executives and researchers.
 

Health Care Patients, Caregivers and Professionals

  • Healing the Heart and Mind – Tailored to the specific needs of doctors, nurses and other health professionals, Healing the Heart and Mind has helped hundreds of health professionals find rest, relaxation and a renewed passion for healing.
  • In Care of Hospice – This program has helped hospice staff and the family caregivers of grieving families to better understand and endure the grieving process. The 111 graduates of this program unanimously endorse it.
  • Mindfulness in Practice – Created for all the nurses working in the Women's Health unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Mindfulness in Practice taught stress management an antidote to burnout, stress and distraction.
 

Community Groups

  • Relief for Grieving Family and Friends Currently underway, this program is help friends and loved who have lost someone close to better manage their grief.
  • Stop and Breathe We regularly partner with community organizations in Philadelphia neighborhoods to teach birth parents, grandparents, and foster parents how to manage the stress of parenting. This is one of most successful programs.
  • Mindful Recovery We partnered with a drug and alcohol treatment center and the Veterans' Hospital to teach our techniques to recovering addicts.
  • Re-Energizing Our School Communities Created for one school district, this teacher-focused stress management program has been taught in city and suburban schools to teachers needing to managing stressful relationships with administrators, parents and students.
  • Breathing Lessons In this series, social workers learn how to manage the stressful thoughts, emotions and sensations associated with supporting families in crisis.

 


Need an appointment? Request one online 24 hours/day, 7 days/week or call 800-789-PENN (7366) to speak to a referral counselor.

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