The Patient Empowerment Workshop
Why We are Here for You
Preview our Workshops
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OUR WORKSHOPS
Finding Strength in Stressful Times
You Can Learn to Push Forward and Find Peace of Mind
Understanding the biopsychosocial model of medicine, giving permission to feel, creating priorities and expectations of self and others, building good habits, and building resiliency through reframing.
Making Decisions In The Dark
How to Make the Right Choice When You Don’t Have all the Facts
Understanding why decision making is difficult, instilling confidence to ask questions, decision theory, practical questions to ask, and using gut checks to verify if the decision is correct.
Getting the Full Picture
Engage Your Providers So You Consider All the Options & Know What to Expect
Building an expectations map, understanding goals of studies and tests, engaging in "what ifs" and "then whats", using deliberate pauses, and setting financial expectations.
Create a Listening Space
How to Help Your Doctor See You and Your Needs Fully
Giving a history clearly in a way that will be well received, expressing concerns to get attention & balance assertiveness with respect, and addressing concerns that a provider may be biased or isn't hearing what you are trying to communicate.
Staying Safe Through Chaos
Learn How to Stay Safe and Respond to Mistakes
Signs of a safe environment, how hospitals maintain safety, bias and sources of medical error, giving reminders, when to escalate care, and responding to medical errors.
ROCK Your World
Research, Organize, Connect and Kindle Conversation so You Can be the Power Broker Your Doctor Needs and Respects
How to organize a medical journal, how to conduct a medical literature review, how to interpret medical reports in the media, how to discuss new ideas with your doctor, and how to find others in a similar position than you.