Integrity Insitutesm
Diversity Training:
This training can be designed according to customer specifications. The focus of this training would be assumptions and prejudices, stereotyping, understanding the range of cultural barriers and expectations, building multicultural work teams and in general managing and embracing diversity. In health care, this training would also include cultural competencies in the clinical setting. The length of this class can be determined based on the customer’s goals in this training. However, the customer needs to be aware that successful changes in the workplace require time for dialogue about these sensitive issues.
Soul Journey for Healing Professionals:
This is a program designed to renew and refresh one’s calling to their profession. In today’s world of high technology and rapid work pace, we find that our health professionals are feeling disappointed in their chosen profession and this is demonstrated in rapid turnover, an exodus from clinical work or the profession all together and frequently customer dissatisfaction. This program is a yearlong program that is one to two days per month. It focuses on callings, the heritage of the particular profession, relationships and getting to know self, creating spiritual environments, diversity, community, different professions within the profession. It challenges the attendee to take hold of their own career and happiness in making decisions to reconnect with their calling in a healthy and joyful way. This program requires the coordinator and speaker for each session. It is rich in experiential exercises, ritual, dialogue and building a sense of community among the participants. Each session can accommodate 30-40 people and can be done simultaneously in varying geographic areas.
Caring Economics:
This course will assist staff nurses in understanding the assumptions that go into creating their budget and provide basic knowledge in creating budgets. It will, also, prepare them to give meaningful input into the creation of a budget. The objectives of this class would be to review the origin of financial assumptions, describe how values affect budget decisions, describe the budget process and discuss how clinical and business practices effect the budget. This is an 8-hour class.
Whole Systems Shared Governance:
This course will provide advanced skills in establishing and maintaining a Whole Systems Shared Governance Practice model. It is appropriate for nursing executives and mangers that want to move beyond a nursing structure for shared governance to a hospital wide model or for those that want to initiate the beginning of a shared governance model. The objectives of this class include reviewing the principles of shared governance, defining the NLRB rules regarding shared governance in the workplace, identifying processes for an interdisciplinary model, and budgeting for shared governance. This is an 8-hour course.
Nursing Leadership:
This course will provide nurses with leadership techniques that will improve relationships with other practitioners in the workplace. It will focus on communication techniques, conflict management and dealing with difficult people. It will assist nurses in advocating for their patients, peers and self through the use of authentic power. It will increase one’s own sense of empowerment and increase satisfaction in the workplace. Objectives include the improvement of listening skills, speaking one’s truths, non-defensive communication techniques, increasing self-awareness in relationships in order to sustain them. This is a two-day course.
The Most Intimate Relationship-Do you know you?
Our relationship with ourselves is the most intimate relationship we form and yet there is little attention paid to this critical friendship. Having a healthy, whole and nourished relationship with self is the basis for happy relationships with others. True joy in life springs from the time we spend finding and speaking our truths, however, this requires an intensive introspective process. This workshop is designed to continue a lifelong process of getting to know yourself in a more intimate way. It utilizes experiential exercises, our relationship to our shadow self and journaling to guide you in this process. This is an energizing retreat that we hope will leave you feeling more in tune with your soul and provide you with tools to continue the discovery of self. This is a two-day retreat.
Release Anger and Feel Peace:
Anger is an emotion we frequently are uncomfortable with and have trouble dealing with in an effective way. Frequently, we establish patterns in a relationship that leave us feeling angry and frustrated. We can sense a feeling of hopelessness in being able to reframe the relationship so that it is more joyful and fulfilling for both individuals. We learn to fear our anger because others may disprove of it or it may signal the necessity for change in our current situation. This workshop is an intensive retreat that will help you to release the energy of anger. You will then learn methods of dealing with anger that will break current patterns existing in your conflicted relationships. Group dialogue, sharing, interactive exercises and rituals will be utilized. This is a two-day course.
Women’s Leadership and Soul Journey:
The intent of the program is to help women find peace and grace in their style of leadership and living. This program currently includes sessions on: women’s special gifts, women’s heroes, being a gatherer, relationships with self and others, expressing creatively, callings and women’s careers, diversity, women’s health issues and alternative care, women’s sexuality, enneagrams and women’s ways of leading. Those who attend this course will have fun with many experiential exercises, rituals and they will find great companionship. This is a yearlong intensive course that will be held one or two days per month.
Scheduling a class and schedule of classes
Please contact Integrity Institute through the e-mail link regarding further information regarding any of these offerings and/or to schedule a retreat, class or training. A few of these classes will be offered routinely through the year and the schedule can be viewed on the web page for class schedules.