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Coming Home to Yourself: Flourishing in the Field of Medicine | A Free Contemplative Medicine Conversation
Monday, December 4, 2023 from 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm ET
with Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, Chodo Campbell Sensei, and Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei
Each day, you pour love and care into the lives of those you support. Yet, amidst this extraordinary dedication, it’s all too easy to forget to care for yourself.
What if, however, the practice of medicine itself—attending to the well-being of others—could become a powerful practice of caring for yourself as you care for others?
Join acclaimed psychiatrist, neuroscientist, bestselling author, and NYZC Contemplative Medicine Fellowship faculty member Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, for a conversation on shifting from emotional exhaustion to resourced compassion in this free webinar.
Dr. Brewer and Fellowship guiding teachers Koshin Sensei and Chodo Sensei want to personally invite you to Coming Home To Yourself: Flourishing In The Field of Medicine.
What you will learn:
- Coming Home to Yourself: Together, we’ll define and discover what ‘home’ truly means for you, and how it can be a source of solace, strength, and renewal—even amidst your daily personal and professional responsibilities.
- Working Through Challenges of Practicing Medicine: You are not alone in this. Gain invaluable insights and practical strategies to navigate the unique challenges that come with the practice of medicine.
- Tools for Mental Well-being: Anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and burnout are the common storms we face. Learn techniques to not only navigate through these challenges, but to thrive amidst life’s uncertainties.
- Identifying Subtle Everyday Addictions: It’s not just substances, but the routines, behaviors, and thoughts that can unknowingly ensnare us. Learn to recognize and liberate yourself from these chains that keep you from embracing your full potential.
- Contemplative Practices: Ground yourself in foundational contemplative practices that support your journey.
This webinar is not just an invitation; it’s an opportunity for you to rediscover the passion within, to come home to yourself. Your well-being is not a luxury; it’s an essential foundation for the care and support you provide.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jud Brewer MD PhD (“Dr. Jud”) is a New York Times best-selling author and thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 25 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry at the Schools of Public Health & Medicine at Brown University. He is also the executive medical director of behavioral health at Sharecare Inc. and a research affiliate at MIT. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI and EEG neurofeedback. He has trained US Olympic athletes and coaches, foreign government ministers, and his work has been featured on 60 Minutes, TED (4th most viewed talk of 2016, with 17+ Million views), the New York Times, Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera (documentary about his research), Businessweek and others. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, among others. Dr. Brewer founded MindSciences (which merged with Sharecare Inc. in 2020) to move his discoveries of clinical evidence behind mindfulness for anxiety, eating, smoking and other behavior change into the hands of consumers (see www.drjud.com for more information). He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017) and the New York Times best-seller, Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind (Avery/Penguin Random House, 2021). Follow him on twitter @judbrewer.
Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and ACPE Certified Chaplaincy Educator. Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care where he is President and Guiding Teacher. He is the author of Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion (Balance/Hachette, 2022); Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications, 2019); and the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016).
Chodo Robert Campbell is a co-founder and co-Guiding Teacher of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Chodo is a dynamic, grounded, and visionary leader and teacher: he has traveled extensively throughout the U.S instructing in various institutions. Sixty-thousand people listen to his podcasts each year. His passion lies in bereavement counseling and advocating for change in the way our healthcare institutions work with the dying.
