ALIVE Program for Health Care Leaders

Anima Leading with Integrity, Vision and Effectiveness (ALIVE) Program:

• Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the stresses and considerable changes in today’s healthcare system? That your personal health and well-being often gets sacrificed?
• Do you find conflict with managers, co-workers and other colleagues takes up too much valuable time and energy?
• Are you tired of working in a female-dominant environment where gossip, judgment and competition seem to dominate relationships?
• Are you frequently exhausted, conflicted or seeking renewal in your professional or personal life?
• Are you looking for a program that integrates both personal and professional development, helping you explore your unique abilities as well as strengthen your leadership skills and potential?

If you can relate to any of these statements, then this program may be of interest to you.

This program is an attempt to transform some of the deeply dysfunctional dynamics that are impacting the quality of healthcare services as well as the relationships and personal health of those working in this system. This program offers an innovative and emerging vision of leadership: a leadership of interdependence that is based on building strong relationships – to ourselves, to others and to the organizations we are part of. Current leading-edge research indicates that our EQ, our emotional intelligence, is the single most important factor in effective leadership and staff teams: the ability to be aware of one’s own emotional reactions; to empathize with others; to speak the truth even in difficult situations; to dialogue about differences and to transform conflicts into opportunities. The potential for both individual and systemic change by adapting and offering these skills is enormous.

This relational training approach draws on emotional intelligence research, neuroscience, quantum physics, psychology, social justice, adult education and eastern spirituality. Using a unique, holistic leadership model and through experiential activities, this transformational program will:

• Tap into innate wisdom, power and capacity to enact change as the foundation for effective leadership;
• Develop skills in the key leadership areas of self-awareness and empathy necessary for working in diverse healthcare and union environments;
• Understand more about your own leadership style and how to expand past existing limitations to adopt ways of being, giving you more choice in how to respond to challenges that arise;
• Explore essential strategies in dealing with difficult people through personal boundary setting, assertiveness and conflict resolution training;
• Utilize approaches that will assist you in overcoming personal and external barriers to exercising leadership;
• Examine the shifting role of leader from ‘expert’ to ‘guide’ in healthcare environments facing escalating workloads, privatization forces and efforts to weaken unions.

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