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November 20, 2023 12:49 pm

Personal Agency is Key to Individual Wellbeing and to Organisational Change

by Sharee Johnson

According to the Stanford WellMD model of healthcare, healthcare worker well being1 is achieved from 20% personal resilience and 80% organisational responsibility (changing systems and structures in the workplace). The Stanford research is impressive and guides a great deal of our work. It’s impact in helping healthcare organisations to get serious about their responsibilities to […]

September 30, 2023 4:28 pm

Medicine is an inexact science.

by Sharee Johnson

Researchers and clinicians work hard to bring evidence to the table, to notice and measure patterns, to share information in the service of everyone. And medicine has done an extraordinary job of this. For example:   🌱Average global life expectancy has more than doubled   🌱Child mortality and maternal mortality rates are lower  🌱We are […]

September 26, 2023 11:19 am

Why doctors and coaches need to retreat for balance

by Sharee Johnson

In retreat, in the quiet, we can listen for our true selves and reconnect to our own meaning. The world is incredibly noisy. There is so much junk to sift through. I find it tricky to work out what to attend to, what to read, listen to, watch. Is it just me? Doctors in the […]

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September 14, 2023 2:53 pm

Compassionate Care Competencies need our attention

by Sharee Johnson

Bedside manner and communication skills are the ‘tip of the compassion iceberg’ according to Dominic O. Vachon. In the big machine that is modern day healthcare, we have prioritised throughput, technical wizardry and the financial bottom line. In other words, we still talk a lot about compassion, but we are not walking the talk often […]

August 31, 2023 7:46 am

I see you, tell me what you truly need

by Sharee Johnson

  Being seen is the foundation of wellbeing AND therefore the foundation of high performance. Before 2011 I said things like ‘as long as the surgeon is skilled and competent, we don’t care about the rest’. Let me be clear I was talking about his technical, surgical skills. I was wrong in two important ways. […]

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June 13, 2023 2:04 pm

It’s the system you say…

by Sharee Johnson

Systemic and structural changes are required within healthcare.   It’s the system you say. I agree there are systemic and structural changes required within healthcare. Who is in charge of these systems? Who can orchestrate the changes? Who has the power and capacity to change them so that doctors’ lives can be enhanced by their […]

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May 29, 2023 3:29 pm

Coaching is often described as counter-cutural

by Sharee Johnson

It is designed to create new thinking, to widen the field of vision we are working in. The work I do in medicine coaching, facilitating workshops and speaking, is sometimes described as counter-cultural. I am curious about the doctor’s experience of our conversation or what they are hearing from me. I often ask medics to […]

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April 1, 2023 11:15 am

It’s meaningful because I choose it

by Sharee Johnson

The Joy of missing out… Recently I was in the slow lane, immersed in nature and gentle silence for five days – such luxury!There is no accident in such an arrangement. I chose to prioritise and organise so that I could step out of my habituated life, out of the hustle and bustle. In order […]

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February 27, 2023 11:37 am

An Integrated Life

by Sharee Johnson

Finding the right balance. An integrated life is one that finds the right balance, that includes the right amounts of all the things that are important to you.  Even better if all of those parts nourish and feed each other.  I have been working since I was 12 years old. First in my parent’s orchard sorting and packing fruit […]

February 1, 2023 9:48 am

Being your best selves

by Sharee Johnson

Do you have the right people around you to help be your definition of fulfilled? We hope 2023 has been good to you so far. We are really excited about 2023 here at Coaching for Doctors, as we lean into working with more healthcare organisations in more systemic ways.  As you know our primary work […]

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September 6, 2022 9:00 am

Interpreter, facilitator, coach

by Sharee Johnson

Learning the skills of wellbeing takes more than a one hour workshop. For healthcare to find a way to take better care of the workers, we need radical change not tweaks at the edges.

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November 25, 2021 2:08 pm

How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working in medicine.

by Sharee Johnson

The Thriving Doctor – How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working in medicine. It’s no secret that doctors are under pressure. COVID-19 has amplified their workplace stress, threatened their own wellbeing and demanded they work in conditions few others have to consider. When doctors are well, patient health outcomes and experience improve according to […]