Cultivating Inner Strength and Resilience in Challenging Times: A One-Day Meditation Experience for Physicians and Their Staff
Sponsored by OCMA and Cooperative of American Physicians
We are pleased to announce this is an in-person event.
Description
The past two and a half years, 2020 - 2022, have tested our human resilience in a way unlike any other time. We have been forced to adapt to extraordinary stress, heartbreaking losses, and constant unpredictable change. We have sometimes seen the limits of our medical skills . . . and tested the limits of our inner resources.
Under “normal,” circumstances, our beloved medical profession engenders a level of stress experienced in few - if any - other professions. And - ironically - the field of Medicine allows remarkably little time for rest and personal rejuvenation.
Years ago, Orange County Medical Association made a strong commitment to bring healthy, healing lifestyle options to our members. “Strength and Resilience in Challenging Times” is a day-long workshop led by one of our nation's most revered meditation teachers. Treat yourself to a day of quiet contemplation, meditation, and deep inner peace, while learning how to use these practices to cultivate inner peace and stability in the midst of your often-challenging daily life.
Our workshop will focus on learning and practicing several different mindfulness meditation techniques - including sitting, standing, walking, and lying-down practice. While some of the philosophical, historical, and scientific underpinnings of meditation practice will be explored, our primary focus will be on the actual experience of meditation, and methods for allowing it to become an integral part of one's daily life. Participants complete this workshop feeling deep inner peace, profound relaxation, increased mental clarity, and enhanced physical energy.
Open to beginners and experienced meditators, this workshop offers a wonderful opportunity to begin embarking on the path to a new, more peaceful and fulfilling way of life. Join us for this very unique and precious opportunity.
Please note that a portion of this program will include meditation. Please dress comfortably. Please bring whatever you require to meditate comfortably, such as a pillow, cushion, mat, or blanket. You will be seated for some of the meditation exercises. You will be lying down for other parts of the meditation exercises.
About the Speaker
Ramananda John E. Welshons is a highly respected meditation teacher who lectures and leads workshops throughout North America. He has been a practitioner of Vipassana Meditation (mindfulness) and various forms of yoga for more than fifty years. He is a gifted counselor and teacher who spent many years working with luminaries, Ram Dass and Stephen Levine, and trained - in 1976 - with Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. He holds a B.A. in Comparative Religions from the University of South Florida and an M.A. in History of Religions from Florida State University. He is the author of three critically acclaimed books: One Soul, One Love, One Heart; When Prayers Aren’t Answered; and Awakening From Grief - all published by New World Library. He has been presenting all-day meditation workshops for OCMA twice a year as part of our ongoing Physician Wellness Program for many years. His presentations have always been enthusiastically received and have consistently generated some of the most positive evaluations in the history of our program.