Wednesday, January 24 – February 28, 2024
6-week webinar series every Wednesday @ 7 – 8:00 pm EST
Veterinary Mindfulness and Resilience Training Webinar Series
Provides 6 CE Credit Hours
Led by Laura Smallwood, DVM, DACVIM-SAIM, RYT-200
The Course provides experiential training in mindfulness with an emphasis on applying what is learned to coping with and recovering from stressful experiences in the workplace.
Training Structure:
- Participants meet weekly for one hour for a total of six sessions.
- In each session, participants will be introduced to a formal mindfulness practice. Practices taught include body scan meditation, sitting meditation, walking meditation and mindful movement.
- You will learn about stress, explore habitual behavioral, physical, emotional, and cognitive patterns, and investigate more effective and skillful responses to the challenges and demands in the workplace. Other areas of exploration include self-care, how to relate to oneself and others more effectively, and the cultivation of behaviors that enhance wellbeing.
- Each session will include a period of discussion during which participants will explore the application of what they are learning in class to veterinary work.
- By the end of this training, participants will have learned a variety of formal and informal methods for cultivating attentional skills that support stress resilience and recovery.
- Participants will be given access to a webpage where class materials, program notes, recorded audio guidance for all practices introduced in the program, and additional resources will be posted.
REGISTRATION
| Member Status | Rate |
|---|---|
| GVMA Member | $75 |
| Nonmember | $250 |
Registration deadline is January 23rd!
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Laura Smallwood, DVM, DACVIM-SAIM, RYT-200
Dr. Laura Smallwood’s veterinary experience includes 36 years in the practice of veterinary medicine, the majority of that as a small animal internal medicine specialist and practice owner. She began her training to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School and has continued training under the mentorship of former CFM teachers and East Coast Mindfulness founders Rebecca Eldridge and Margaret Fletcher. Dr. Smallwood is qualified to teach MBSR both in-person and online. In addition to teaching MBSR, Laura teaches mindfulness courses adapted to the workplace.
Dr. Smallwood has lectured and taught workshops on mindfulness for the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association, the Alabama Veterinary Medical Association, the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Thrive Veterinary Health, Royal Canin, and Emerald Coast Veterinary Conference, and she is a regular guest on the Cairn Veterinary Podcast. She is the owner of Atlanta Mindfulness and on faculty at East Coast Mindfulness . She is also a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. She currently serves as the chair of the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association Wellness Committee, as the veterinary representative to the Georgia Professional Health Program board, and on the Atlanta Insight Meditation Community board of directors.
For more information about Dr. Smallwood and her work, visit LauraJeanSmallwood.com
Register by 4PM on January 24th!
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