Women Healthcare Provider Book Club Series
May 9, 2024
Join us for the Women Healthcare Provider Wellness Book Club Series!
Join Dr. Rachel Bishop, Family Physician and Physician Peer Coach, and Annie Barrett, National Board-Certified Wellness Coach and Yoga Instructor for the Women Healthcare Provider Wellness Book Club Series. This activity is designed to provide women healthcare providers an opportunity to discuss personal wellness and wellbeing topics in a welcoming and open environment in the context of a book club while earning education credits.
Rachel and Annie work collaboratively to provide wellness activities, retreats, and coaching services designed to improve the physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing of health care providers.
This book club meets quarterly on Zoom.
Session Dates and Book Selections:
Each session grants one education credit. See details about education credits below.
- Thursday November 9, 2023, 7:30 PM Pacific. Book: Fierce Self Compassion by Dr. Kristen Neff
- Thursday February 8, 2024, 7:30 PM Pacific. Book: Peak Mind. Find Your Focus by Amish P. Jha, PhD
- Thursday May 9, 2024, 7:30 PM Pacific. Book: Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
- Thursday August 8, 2024, 7:30 PM Pacific. Book Selection TBD
When you register, you’ll receive access to the Zoom link and you’ll get an email reminder before the meeting.
Tuition
Participants may sign up for all four sessions or sign up for individual sessions.
Each individual session costs $30.
Sign up for all four sessions for $100.
Accreditation Statement:
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center is accredited by the Washington State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
PeaceHealth St. Joseph designates this live activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. (1 hour = 1 credit).
This activity meets the criteria for up to 4 hours of Category I CME credit to satisfy the relicensure requirements of the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission.
Learning Objectives
After this education activity the participants will:
- Identify the available literature around personal wellness for personal study, support of peers and application to patient care.
- Recognize the role of mindfulness in wellness and performance, and identify specific practices to engage in.
- Recognize the role of self-compassion in wellness and burnout.
Book Club Facilitators
Dr Rachel Bishop and Annie Barrett collectively have over 50 years of professional experience in primary care, teaching and wellness. They have been friends and colleagues for the last 15 years, and came together during the COVID pandemic to recognize the crisis of burnout in healthcare. Their programs and retreats creatively aim to restore health and wellbeing for Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants. They offer one day or multi day retreats, individual and group coaching and are available to speak at meetings and seminars.
Rachel Bishop
MBChB, DTMH, DRCOG, MRCGP
Dr Rachel Bishop is a Family Physician and Physician Peer Coach. Originally from the UK, she has been working in primary care for over 25 years, including 6 years providing cross-cultural care in India and Nepal. For the last 14 years she has been working for Peace Health in the San Juan Islands. She recognizes the importance of the human experience in medicine, is a member of the Peace Health Wellness Committee, the Physician Council at the Beryl Institute and a Vital Worklife advocate.
She balances work as a Primary Care Physician with running a small organic farm on Orcas Island, and teaching Suzuki violin lessons to children in her community.
Dr Bishop completed her medical degree at the University of Leeds, UK. Postgraduate training was in Rural Medicine in West Yorkshire, UK, Family Medicine at Group Health, Seattle, Tropical Medicine and Public Health at the University of Liverpool, and the faculty development fellowship at the University of Washington. She trained as a Physician Peer Coach at the Physician Coaching Academy.
Annie Barrett
MA, NBC-HWC, CAP, E-RYT-500
Annie Barrett is a Bilingual Educator, National Speaker, National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Board-Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, and Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher and Trainer. Annie has worked over 25 years as an educator spanning the fields of K-12, post-secondary and community education, alongside coaching individuals and groups in health and wellness, and training yoga teachers. She educates and empowers groups and individuals to live resilient and vibrant lives with the tools of lifestyle medicine, mindfulness, habit change science and yoga. As a workplace wellness provider, Annie has found success applying her diverse training in helping individuals and teams manage work-related stress, overcome compassion fatigue and burnout and achieve work-life balance.
Annie completed her Masters of Education from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a Board-Certified Health Coach with the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches and holds a certification as an Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coach with YogaMedCo. She earned an Ayurvedic Practitioner diploma with Yoga Veda Institute and is a Board-Certified Practitioner with the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Over the past 27 years, Annie has trained with many teachers and lineages of yoga and is an Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher and Continuing Education Provider with Yoga Alliance.
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