Providers Thriving Together — Medical Magical Thinking, and Why the System Wants you to Keep Doing It
May 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us for the Providers Thriving Together series, part of the Thriving Project initiative. These free virtual drop-in sessions provide a facilitated space to experience camaraderie and peer support in the service of activating our collective resilience. At the sessions, presenters – usually rural peers from around the province—will share practices, frameworks or ideas they’ve found useful. Sessions will prioritize time for exploring these themes in both small and large groups.
Speakers:
Presenters: Dr. Cecile Andreas
Facilitator: Dr. Shireen Mansouri
Topic: Medical Magical Thinking
During this session with Dr. Cecile Andreas, we will:
- Recognize systemic and individual patterns and pressures that lead to overwork and burnout
- Identify areas of personal choice and agency in our response
- Define action steps to respond to systemic demands that overtax our systems
Register:
Fill out the registration form. We’ll send you a calendar invite, along with monthly reminders of session dates.
About Dr. Cecile Andreas
Cecile is an executive coach, facilitator, educator, entrepreneur and family physician. She brings her deep experience as a leader and service provider to her coaching work, with a focus on unlocking the potential in people, teams and organizations.
Cecile holds a medical degree from the University of Stellenbosch, a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching, and Advanced Certificates in Group and Team Coaching, Professional Mentor Coaching and Coaching Psychology from Royal Roads University. She is an Integrative Enneagram practitioner and lives in Cranbrook, BC.
About Dr. Shireen Mansouri
Shireen Mansouri is a family physician who lives in Calgary and works in Yellowknife, NWT, as a family physician and GP Oncologist. She came to Compassion Cultivation in 2014 and found it transformative in her practice. She is now a certified Compassion Cultivation Teacher and passionate about ensuring physicians have the skills to thrive in medicine