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Performing Medicine is a charitable organisation delivering creative training programmes for healthcare professionals and students. We address staff wellbeing, compassionate care, effective communication, leadership and teamwork.Our practical, hands-on workshops are delivered by expert facilitators who draw on techniques from the arts to help healthcare professionals to use their bodies and voices for effective communication, and to better look after themselves and each other.With 15+ years of experience, our courses are accessible to all who work within healthcare.Our training focuses on the human side of care, addressing the sector’s most pressing issues.

Performing Medicine

Explore positive ways to revitalise life at work, build resilience and begin to create a more supportive working environment.

GSTT Education Centre

This training course is free to attend for all GSTT staff.This one-day course explores positive ways to revitalise life at work, build resilience and begin to create a more supportive working environment where self-care is prioritised. Drawing on the innovative Circle of Care model, participants will explore a range of exercises to look after themselves and each other, helping them to cope well with the physical demands of working in healthcare, including relaxation techniques to help prepare for, respond to, and wind down from busy and stressful schedules. Participants will learn how to restore energy, identify and release tension and therefore allow their bodies to perform at their best, building stamina and resilience to cope with long hours. Focusing on non-verbal communication, participants’ will build physical awareness, and an understanding of the impact of their own physicality on that of their patients, including the ways that they move and touch. 
Objectives
<ul><li>To develop practical techniques to respond well to the physical and emotional demands of working in healthcare 
</li><li>To develop strategies to better manage stressful situations, through preparation before, during, and after work 
</li><li>To explore ways to build a supportive working environment which prioritises self-care
</li><li>Understand how awareness of posture and body language improves effective communication
</li></ul>

Target Audience:
Medical / Nursing / AHP / Nursing Assistants / Clerical Staff
If you have any questions please email admin@performingmedicine.com or call 020 7749 0555.

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