The Way ISHI Works
A Tradecraft Training in Transformative Education
for Physicians and Other Health Professionals
This workshop will not be offered in 2005. We hope to offer it again in 2006.
Workshop Description
The Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (ISHI) at Commonweal is offering a training retreat for those interested in helping physicians and other health professionals reclaim the heart, soul and meaning of their work.  In nearly 80 workshops over the past 12 years, ISHI has helped hundreds of professionals throughout the United States and Canada recover a sense of personal meaning and purpose in their work. The innovative methods used in ISHI's retreats for professionals and the 12 year old Healer's Art course at UCSF School of Medicine interweave experiential, didactic and contemplative work in a discovery model useful to those designing retreats, support groups and day-long programs for physicians and other health professionals. This Tradecraft workshop will enable educational leaders to apply ISHI's proven strategies to the unique needs of their own postgraduate or undergraduate groups.
The Way ISHI Works is a four day training consisting of eight, three-hour sessions. Each session is a presentation on the philosophy and techniques of transformative education for physicians and other health professionals. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss in detail the relevance of this material to their own educational site and target group as well as  benefiting from the collective wisdom of the workshop group. This is an experiential workshop and the participants will have the opportunity to directly experience many of the exercises used in ISHI's CME workshops. Participants will also have the opportunity to personally experience approaches such as yoga, contemplation and reflection, group sand tray, journal keeping, poetry writing, and reflection.
The Way ISHI Works is facilitated by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, ISHI's founder and director, and assisted by the ISHI staff (see Who's Who at ISHI).
This training covers the following areas:
- Theoretical principles of the discovery model in health professional education
- Theoretical principles of transformational curriculum design
- Confronting Shadow in medicine through educational means
- Program coordination and administration
- Experiential and contemplative practices for professionals
- Techniques for recovering and strengthening meaning and commitment
- Forming a community of inquiry among professionals
- Organizing Finding Meaning in Medicine (FMM) self-help groups for professionals
- Designing transformative curricula for undergraduates and those in training
Educational Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Compare the transformational potential of the Discovery Model to the traditional cognitive/intellectual educational model
- Discuss the shadow of health care education and two strategies to detoxify it
- Name the parameters of an interactional space of "Harmlessness and its importance in transformational learning for professionals"
- List the characteristics of a Community of Inquiry approach to professional education
- Discuss the difference between a health team and a healing community
- Design an exercise for strengthening professional commitment
- Design an exercise for uncovering professional meaning
- Design an exercise for grieving professional mistakes
- Discuss the difference between healing curriculum and curing curriculum
- Design an exercise for discovering healing responses to the losses of others
- Design an exercise to prevent burnout
- Discuss the relationship between meaning, commitment and burnout
- Discuss grief and its importance in preventing burnout
- Discuss grief's impact on the ability to find meaning in professional work
- Design an experiential exercise for learning/ listening
- Run an FMM group for professionals
- Share the meaning of their work with peer professionals
- Design a CME one day curriculum and a student day course experience
- Identify the assets of their work place and the barriers of their workplace to the development of transformational professional curriculum
- Define ritual
- Design professionally relevant ritual
- Discuss the power of story to heal the wounds of professional training
- Discuss the antecedents to establishing a level playing field between teacher and student
- Discuss the importance of silence in transformational professional education
- Design an experiential curriculum
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