Date: Tuesday, April 26 2022
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Please join us for another WMVMA webinar entitled Healthy People, Healthy Practice, focused on setting boundaries and self care for veterinarians.
Here are the quick details:
- This meeting is limited to member technicians and member veterinarians only.
- After registration with the WMVMA, you will receive an email with a link to register with Zoom. You must register with Zoom to get the email invitation to the webinar.
More information about the topic:
Veterinary professionals are highly committed and dedicated individuals who work hard to care for their patients, clients, colleagues, and communities. For those who devote their lives to the service of others, the physical, emotional, and spiritual demands can lead to exhaustion.
Day to day work expectations and pressures can at times feel overwhelming and isolating and have detrimental effects on personal and professional well-being. The natural response may be to work harder, to give more, until there is nothing left to give.
As we continue to navigate the ever-changing waves of Covid-19 we find ourselves fatigued, disappointed, grieving and concerned. The initial responses of action, planning, engaging and problem solving have shifted to the reality of daily life in the Covid storm with some light shining through, and continued uncertainty for the future.
The good news is that as caring individuals you have the capacity to focus that care on yourself. With development of healthy practices, you can continue to effectively provide comprehensive and compassionate care for others, while taking care of yourself.
This interactive webinar will address the impact of challenges personally and in our teams. It will offer tools for setting healthy boundaries, strategies for minimizing anxiety, working within the whole person model, dealing with depleted emotional, physical, and intellectual energy and ways to support oneself, colleagues and clients during this time.
About our speaker:
Dr. Fonken has been a counselor and consultant in the area of health and well-being for the past 35 years. In that time, she has worked with private and public institutions, in government and higher education and for non-profit organizations.
The owner of Whole Vets LLC, she offers educational training, workshops, presentations and consultation to veterinary professionals in the area of strengthening well-being through the practice of healthy resilience, engagement and compassion satisfaction. Over the past 7 years she has worked with National and State Veterinary Associations, Professional Veterinary Organizations and Corporate and Private Practices. She has offered individual, small group and practice related consultation and services across the country and internationally.
Dr. Fonken was the Director of Counseling and Wellness Programs for the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University for 12 years where she provided support and counseling services to students, interns, and residents and oversaw the wellness curriculum for the college.
For the past 5 years Dr. Fonken has served as the Director for the Veterinary Healer’s Art program through the Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness where she supports veterinary schools and professionals in training and implementation of the Healer’s Art Course at their schools and the Tending the Flame course at their institutions.
A native of Colorado she enjoys nature and spends her free time outdoors hiking, trail running, amateur bird watching, skiing and being with her two grown sons.
